Yeah, I know. You would not think that a GamerScore Whore would be avoiding games. Well get this, I have been. There have been a lot of things I have been doing recently between taking on new projects to just going to work. These new projects have been keeping me quite busy as well.
There hasn't really been much gaming but I have gotten into a couple of games and I just must give you my personal opinion:
Resident Evil 5 (8.5/10): Game is great and as always a wonderful storyline to it, but does the AI always have to be stupid when she is an ally? It is definitely something you have to play more with a co-op partner.
Eat Lead The Return of Matt Hazzard (5/10): WTF!!!!! Really!!! Whats the point of this game? The only reason it got a 5 in my book is because of the easy to attain gamerscore.
Peggle (20/10): OMG!!! an awesome game indeed. I have not played a game this addicting since that helicopter game I found online one day. This game is so much fun just by yourself, doing a score duel with a buddy or even doing the party play with 3 others. Game is so much fun in so many levels and is definitely worth the 10 dollar price. GET IT NOW!!!!
Thats pretty much it. I also want to give a little plug to some up and coming sites since my last post. I would like everyone to check out LaGtv.com and UFraGtv.com as they just launched again a couple of weeks ago. They are a broadcasting site that do their own webshow Tuesdays and Thursdays nights at 8PM Pacific. Great content and great interviews. One thing I always loved about them is that they are there for the community and always give out cool prizes. Check em out and let me know what you think.
UFraGtv will also be the home of 360 GamerScore live webshow when it launches as well... This project is taking a little longer since I need to pay for a couple of things to get it started but I will let you guys know when it comes up!!!!!
Mar 22, 2009
Mar 5, 2009
Back to Normal
So thankfully I am back to normal and am successfully dual booting XP and Vista due to compatibility of certain programs. With that said, I am also back into gaming.
Disney's Sing It
I have taken myself into the dreaded Disney world... well maybe I just felt like singing. I was actually very surprised at how easy they made this game to adapt to those non-singers and most of the songs are very easy to follow, especially if you know them from watching the Disney movies. I think I will try to pick up the High School Musical 3 Sing it next. Unfortunately for me, I only have one mic so I am trying to get a hold of a 2nd mic so I can finish off the last 5 achievements.
The Bourne Conspiracy is my next game to tackle to get achievement points off of. Although not the best game in the world it is still a little entertaining. We shall see how difficult it holds up to getting the full 1000 points off of it.
Achievement Tip of the Day
Disney's Sing It
I have taken myself into the dreaded Disney world... well maybe I just felt like singing. I was actually very surprised at how easy they made this game to adapt to those non-singers and most of the songs are very easy to follow, especially if you know them from watching the Disney movies. I think I will try to pick up the High School Musical 3 Sing it next. Unfortunately for me, I only have one mic so I am trying to get a hold of a 2nd mic so I can finish off the last 5 achievements.
The Bourne Conspiracy is my next game to tackle to get achievement points off of. Although not the best game in the world it is still a little entertaining. We shall see how difficult it holds up to getting the full 1000 points off of it.
Achievement Tip of the Day
So I know I havent dont one of these in a while but here is a small tip for you. Since I have been playing Disney's Sing It, I will share some of the little tips I have gained. First of all, you will need 2 mics momentarily to get ALL the achievements but as far as Duet Mode goes, you can still just sing by yourself on only one mic. Now one of the hardest achievements in this game is the one where you must score 750,000 points on a song in "On your Own" Mode. To do this, I am offering 2 ways to do it:
1)Sing a song in solo mode, and record yourself on your PC (Every Windows OS has a voice recorder and yes you will need a PC mic as well) so you can look at the pitches and play it back while in the mode you are suppose to be in and put the Xbox mic up to your speakers. For some of you that might be painful to hear.
2) The old fashioned way. Learn a song, get good at it and Memorize, Memorize, Memorize. Thats how I did it, but Im also a fan of Camp Rock and High School Musical (Don't judge me!!!)
1)Sing a song in solo mode, and record yourself on your PC (Every Windows OS has a voice recorder and yes you will need a PC mic as well) so you can look at the pitches and play it back while in the mode you are suppose to be in and put the Xbox mic up to your speakers. For some of you that might be painful to hear.
2) The old fashioned way. Learn a song, get good at it and Memorize, Memorize, Memorize. Thats how I did it, but Im also a fan of Camp Rock and High School Musical (Don't judge me!!!)
Feb 26, 2009
Woes with XP and so forth
Today I am writing a special blog as I actually write this from my hardly used laptop instead of my desktop PC. Since last night I have been installing Windows XP (to dual boot with Vista x64)and in the process of formatting I ended up falling asleep. Come to find out that I wake up at 6am and it has finished formatting of course and is now asking for my serial number... get this... I lost it :-(.... I spent most of my morning today trying to find it and luckily I did find it but only after restarting my computer hoping I could still use vista... no luck whats-so-ever. No I am once again waiting for XP to install and let me use my computer.
But THATS NOT ALL. I was boosting my Left 4 Dead game over night, (You know the one where you rack up your kills with melee pressed down while a boomer vomits on you) well turns out I did not leave my character in a safe position and well through the time, well I died... no big deal right? WRONG!!!!! since it restarted the level the melee button was cancelled out and did not give activity to my controller so it resetted me to the title menu and ERASED all my kill... When I went to sleep I had already racked up 10,000 kills and now I have to regain them back.
Now on a side note, I have been reading some of the blogs I follow and have noticed some of them doing a GSL competition. I looked around to see what it was and have become very intrigued. I tried finding a team for me to join but no avail. I even tried making a team and no avail. Now I am blogging about it hoping someone will read this and point me in the right direction now. So I leave with this:
If anyone is looking for a hardcore gamerscore teammate for GSL please contact me via this blog or my email at Xylofreak@gmail.com.
Thanks for reading guys!!!!
But THATS NOT ALL. I was boosting my Left 4 Dead game over night, (You know the one where you rack up your kills with melee pressed down while a boomer vomits on you) well turns out I did not leave my character in a safe position and well through the time, well I died... no big deal right? WRONG!!!!! since it restarted the level the melee button was cancelled out and did not give activity to my controller so it resetted me to the title menu and ERASED all my kill... When I went to sleep I had already racked up 10,000 kills and now I have to regain them back.
Now on a side note, I have been reading some of the blogs I follow and have noticed some of them doing a GSL competition. I looked around to see what it was and have become very intrigued. I tried finding a team for me to join but no avail. I even tried making a team and no avail. Now I am blogging about it hoping someone will read this and point me in the right direction now. So I leave with this:
If anyone is looking for a hardcore gamerscore teammate for GSL please contact me via this blog or my email at Xylofreak@gmail.com.
Thanks for reading guys!!!!
Feb 19, 2009
HUGE UPDATE
Yep, this update is so huge that all the letter even need to be capitalized.
So here is some of the things I am updating you on:
First of all, I have updated my list of achievements at the bottom with the more recent scores, and before you ask, Yes, I did play My Horse and Me 2. Pretty much, I put in about 12,000 gamerscore that has been added over the past 2 weeks.
Secondly, I am please to announce the the Mega Challenge 09 is now officially over. I finished in 5th place out of 221 people. I am very proud as this was my first challenge of many that I participated in. Throughout the whole competition I manages to stay within the top 5 and even taking the #1 spot for a day or 2. I am very proud of the progress I made, especially with a 12,000 GS gain in just 2 weeks. This competition has also made me play some games that I would never have played and found enjoyable including CSI Hard Evidence and MLB series.
Right now my current projects will be to finish 100% all the game I missed one or 2 achievements in, and also finishing Left 4 Dead and FEAR 2 which I just got along with Street Fighter IV.
In reference to the challenge, I would like to thank the amazing support and help from a couple of friends that believed I could do this and kept me going strong through the whole competition.
A VERY BIG THANKS TO:
So here is some of the things I am updating you on:
First of all, I have updated my list of achievements at the bottom with the more recent scores, and before you ask, Yes, I did play My Horse and Me 2. Pretty much, I put in about 12,000 gamerscore that has been added over the past 2 weeks.
Secondly, I am please to announce the the Mega Challenge 09 is now officially over. I finished in 5th place out of 221 people. I am very proud as this was my first challenge of many that I participated in. Throughout the whole competition I manages to stay within the top 5 and even taking the #1 spot for a day or 2. I am very proud of the progress I made, especially with a 12,000 GS gain in just 2 weeks. This competition has also made me play some games that I would never have played and found enjoyable including CSI Hard Evidence and MLB series.
Right now my current projects will be to finish 100% all the game I missed one or 2 achievements in, and also finishing Left 4 Dead and FEAR 2 which I just got along with Street Fighter IV.
In reference to the challenge, I would like to thank the amazing support and help from a couple of friends that believed I could do this and kept me going strong through the whole competition.
A VERY BIG THANKS TO:
Feb 15, 2009
Busy!!!! Work, Challenge and Achievements
So there has been a very good reason as to why I have not updated this blog in a while, most of you already know why. For those who don't, Mega Challenge 09. I have taken part in this challenge which has taken up most of my time along with work and school. As you can see I have been very busy. I have not updated the scores of achievements at the bottom but will as soon as this challenge is over.
Heres a quick run down on the games I have played:
NBA 2k6
MLB2k6
Smackdown vs RAW 2007
Smackdown vs RAW 2008
Prince of Persia
SEGA Superstar Tennis
My Horse and Me 2
Sonics Ultimate Genesis Collection
Jumper
Left 4 Dead
Lost via Domus
Bolt
CSI Hard Evidence
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Yeah it is a long list of games I have played with close to 10,000 gamerscore built off from it. I now hold 4th place in that challenge competition after I could not get on one of those days and fell behind. All in all, I am pleased with the way my standing came out in the competition as I have stayed within the top 5 for most of the way including being in the #1 spot for a day... This is the start of a new chapter for me.
Just to reveal a little tip to all who reads, I am very anxious to get together with a website I hold near and dear, LaGtv Networds, to turn this blog into a weekly show hosted by yours truly. I am still awaiting a descision from the network and hope I will be given the opportunity. Tune in and stay with me while I give out updates.
I need a comment... please comment!!!!
Heres a quick run down on the games I have played:
NBA 2k6
MLB2k6
Smackdown vs RAW 2007
Smackdown vs RAW 2008
Prince of Persia
SEGA Superstar Tennis
My Horse and Me 2
Sonics Ultimate Genesis Collection
Jumper
Left 4 Dead
Lost via Domus
Bolt
CSI Hard Evidence
Avatar
Yeah it is a long list of games I have played with close to 10,000 gamerscore built off from it. I now hold 4th place in that challenge competition after I could not get on one of those days and fell behind. All in all, I am pleased with the way my standing came out in the competition as I have stayed within the top 5 for most of the way including being in the #1 spot for a day... This is the start of a new chapter for me.
Just to reveal a little tip to all who reads, I am very anxious to get together with a website I hold near and dear, LaGtv Networds, to turn this blog into a weekly show hosted by yours truly. I am still awaiting a descision from the network and hope I will be given the opportunity. Tune in and stay with me while I give out updates.
I need a comment... please comment!!!!
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