Marc's Achievements: Wednesday Night Ramblings – August 5 2015 – Aliens: Colonial Marines, Rare RepPllay, RIP Roddy Piper

This week we start we some sad news. Legendary WWE wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper passed away last week. Piper was one of the driving forces of wrestling’s skyrocketing in popularity during the 80s. He spent a lot of time being Hulk Hogan’s arch enemy. He was one of the most entertaining characters and cut fantastic promos. One of the most touching things I read was Bret Hart’s public comments. He spoke about how Piper gave him one of his first big breaks by dropping the Intercontinental Championship to Hart at Wrestlemania VIII. He also said that Roddy Piper was the only wrestler to visit him in hospital when he had a stroke. By all accounts that I’ve read, Piper was a great family man who helped out whenever he could. His episode on the Steve Austin podcast where he spoke of his difficult upbringing is one of the episodes of that show. It’s hard to believe he’s gone at a relatively young age, 61 years old. RIP Hot Rod, you will be remembered for a long time to come.

After much delay I finally started up my video game rental; Aliens: Colonial Marines. I didn’t want to believe the negative hype. There is no way that the game could be that bad. It’s a shooter where you get to take on the Xenomorphs. I’ve seen the videos showing how much work was put in to get the details right. There’s no way this could suck! Sadly, I was wrong. I’ve only played the first level so far but oof, it is not good. The graphics are really bad. For something that was released in 2013, it should look a whole lot better than this. It looks more like an early Playstation 2 game than a late Xbox 360 game. The gameplay itself though does not feel right either. The aliens pop out of nowhere, and not in a good way. Instead of being scary it’s just annoying. One second there’s nothing, next you’ve got 3 in your face. I’ll keep at it, I’ve told myself I’m going to finish it but it is going to be a chore.

It wasn’t all terrible stuff in videogames this week though; I picked up Rare Replay. I’ve been back and forth on this game a few times. When I first heard about it at E3, it was a no brainer. 30 games for 30$, 10 000 gamerscore! How could I say no? Then the news came that the games that came out on Xbox 360 previously were just going to run on an emulator of the 360 version with no new achievements. So if you completed Banjo Tooie then it was still completed, no new achievements for you. This brought down the actual Gamerscore of Rare Replay to 4 000. I felt lied to and was very angry. After some time passed I got over it and finally bought it on release date. So far I’ve only paid Jetpac and it has been fun. There’s still a lot of games to go, I’m going to have many hours of fun with this.

It’s been a good haul for cheevos this week. Please see below;

Batman: Arkham Knight