Worst Voice Over.....EVER

Started playing Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. I had high hopes for this game, it looked like it had a somewhat interesting story. Truth is, if you've played any Spider-Man game since the Spider-Man 2 movie game, you've basically played this one. On top of that, spidey has the WORST voice over I have ever heard for the character. You just want to punch him in the face whenever he opens his mouth. This is particularly hard for me since Spider-Man is my favorite comic book character and to see him brought down to the level of a whinner just hurts. And on top of that, I've been playing for a few hours now and there is hardly anything about the whole symbiote invasion that the story is supposed to be centered around. I'm guessing it's just thrown in at some point. We'll see how it goes, i'm not that far into it yet, it might get better.

Now to talk about a good comic book video game, Marvel Ultimate Alliance. This game has been as my next game to grind for the full 1250 gamerscore. It's going to take a while, so be patient. Keep an eye out for the achievements, they'll be popping up on this blog every once and a while.

50 Hit Combo - Spider Silk - 10G - 50 Hit Combo "Spider Silk" executed

Ground Combo Skill - 15G - 50 Enemies defeated using only Ground Combos

Air Combo Skill - 15G - 50 Enemies defeated using only Air Combos

These combos are easier then they sound. As long as you keep hitting something, the combo keep going and you have a lot of time available between hits.

Complet Story, Act One- 50G - Act One completed

Defeat Venom, Round One - 15G - Defeated Venom once

Bad Kitty - 15G - Black Cat defeated

Winged - 15G - Vulture defeated

These last few were all story related achievements you get for either beating a boss or an act in the story

Defeat 100 Enemies - 20G - 100 Enemies defeated

There's low life scum everywhere to beat up, feels more like Detroit then New York

Great Power - 10G - 25 City Crimes thwarted
Apparently crime never sleeps either

First One Hundred - 15G - 100 Collectibles found

There's these Spider-Man symbols all around town that are supposed to level up your speed, but I have yet to see any change

Bowling Ball - 5G - 5 Enemies Web Swing-Kicked in a single pass

I want to go bowling again soon

Virtue - 5G - First Red Suit Choice

At certain points during the game you can choose to be good or bad. So far i've been good

Super-ego - 5G - Black Cat Spurned
At one point Black Cat makes a very tempting offer, but being a good boyfriend I turned her down

The Bigger They Come... - 5G - First Tech Mech defeated

Eviction - 5G - Tech Mech Pilot pulled from his seat

For some reason I never liked it when Spidey found robots, it just didn't feel right and kind of below him. Anyway at one point the story turns into some ridiculous thing with robots attacking a courthouse. I threw some cars at the Mechs, pulled the driver out and destroyed them.

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Total this post: 205 G

New Gamerscore: 41 725 G

To go: 8 275 G

Scene It Box Office Smash : COMPLETED

After months upon months upon months of playing game after game, I can finally proudly say that I have finally finished Scene It BOS. I don't think I've ever played a game that has taken this long and I feared this day would never come, but here we finally are. The longest achievements were the 10 online and wins and the pop quiz oscar questions. I got the 10 online wins this summer and just now i've unlocked the pop quiz oscar questions. I couldn't wait, I had to post right away. Plus, I have a busy school week so I don't know if I'll even be able to play many more games. In the end, Scene It is a really fun party game and I recommend it to anyone who can get a group of friends together to play this. It's not so great alone since there is no sense of urgency.

And the Winner Is... - 30G - Successfully answer 60 Pop Quiz questions about Oscar Best Picture winning movies.



Not enough can be said about gaining this achievement. It took a very long time but now it's here and I can breathe a sigh of relief

Now that the quest to finish Scene it is complete, I must find a new game to finish off. I'll be going through the options this week and have an answer on the next post.

Total this post: 30 G
New Gamerscore: 41 520 G
To Go: 8 480 G

Fight Night Round 3 : COMPLETED

Another game finished, 1000/1000 gamerscore! At first I tried to play this legit but I just couldn't get into the total fight controls, something about it was just weird for me. So, just like all early EA sports games, the achievements are badly programmed. I changed the setting to easy and did constant low blows. It's cheap but it works and it's their fault. A few hours of punching guys in the nuts gives you 1000 gamerscore.

On a more fun note, I played some 1 vs 100 for the first time. This is a pretty fun game, that happens to be free. You can win microsoft points if you're the one or part of the mob. However, I suspect that because I'm in Quebec I can't win anything because every contest seems to be void here for some reason. So stupid!!!

To save time and space, I just put one picture of the achievement tiles for Fight Night since EA was lazy and made them all the same picture. Another reason why I don't feel bad about being cheap.

Under Armour Achievement - 100G - Win the Under Armour sponsored fight

Dodge Achievement - 100G - Win the Dodge sponsored fight.

ESPN WNF Achievement - 150G - Win any ESPN Wednesday Night Fight event.

EA SPORTS Achivement - 150G - Win any EA SPORTS sponsored fight.

Burger King Achievement - 100G - Win the BK Invitational Fight

ESPN FNF Achievement - 150G - Win any ESPN Friday Night Fight event.

ESPN PPV Achievement - 150G - Win any ESPN Pay Per View fight event.

Everlast Achievement - 100G - Win the Everlast sponsored fight.

These achievements are so lame they didn't even bother to give them real names, and they just slapped on corporate names. C'mon, even my cat can come up with better ideas!!!

Group Hug - 10G - Your team of four achieved a simultaneous Streak of three consecutive correct answers.

Got this right away, all you need is four players who know how to play, which should be easy to find

Go Streaking! - 15G - In a single round, achieved a Streak of five consecutive correct answers.

Easy to do, especially on the first few questions.

Speedy Delivery - 20G - In a single round, scored a total of 1300 points through time bonuses.

Gotta be fast!

Quarter Century - 10G - Answered a total of 25 questions correctly.

Self explanatory

Total this post: 1 055G

New Gamerscore: 41 490G

To go: 8 510G

Back to school

It's back to school this week, which means it's going to harder to find time to play games and get achievements :( No worries though, I can guarantee at least one update a week, so that means i'll have at least one achievement per week. Recently I discovered the site trueachievements.com
It's an awesome site and I recommend it to anyone who is in love with achievements. You can track all kinds of stats and even make a to do list, it's amazing. Speaking of amazing, did anyone here watch Dexter season 4? If you havn't, go watch it right away. It's possibly the best season of television I have ever seen and has momments that have actually kept me up many a night, and I thought I was desensitized to everything. Michael C Hall and John Lithgow deserve the golden globes they each won last night. Congrats to them!















TLAD: The Lost Boy - 25G - All hail the leader of The Lost!

Oh Billy you idiot, why did you piss off the cops and get busted?
















Prologue - 25G - Prologue successfully completed

This took like 2 minutes. Looking forward to eventually playing the whole game


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Total this post: 50 G
New Gamerscore: 40 435 G
To Go: 9 565 G

What the?

That's exactly what you'll say when you finish Assassin's Creed II also. It's a messed up ending, send me a comment if you ever want to discuss. I'm still scratching my head about it. In the process I got a whole bunch of achievements and gamerscore to go along with it. I'm kind of sad it's over, it's a great game. I still have to find all the feathers and there's DLC coming soon, so I have that to look forward to.

The Impenetrable Palazzo - 30G - Complete DNA Sequence 8

Masquerade - 30G - Complete DNA Sequence 9

Bianca's Man - 30G - Complete DNA Sequence 10

The Prophet - 30G - Complete DNA Sequence 11

The Vault - 30G - Completed DNA Sequence 14

An Old Friend Returns - 100G - Escape the hideout

These last 6 are all story related achievements so I won't spoil it for you

Hallowed be thy name - 20G - Discover the Assassins's Tomb inside the Basilica di San Marco

Venetian Gladiator - 20G - Discover the Assassin's Tomb inside Santa Maria della Visitazione

The assasssin's tombs are fun platforming levels. They can be pretty challenging and the last few have a timer, so practice your free - running!

Podestà of Monteriggioni - 30G - Reach 80% of your stronghold's total value

Village renovations pay off in the end.

Fly Swatter - 5G - Kick a Guard while using the Flying Machine

Kicking people off buildings is awesome!

Sweeper - 10G - Sweep 5 guards at once by using a Long Weapon

You have to steal the lance from a seeker guard before you can do this

Vitruvian Man - 20G - Unlock all 20 pieces of Subject 16's video

Once you unlock all of these you get to see the video of the naked people running and trust me, it's really messed up!

Victory lies in preparation - 10G - Get all Hidden Blades, Item Pouches and Armor upgrades for Ezio

Buy all the upgrades you can, and get the armor of Altair from your crypt in the basement

Perfect Harmony - 10G - Tint your clothes with these colors: Wetland Ebony and Wetland Ivory

You know the song? Ebony and Ivory, living together in perfect harmony?

Red Light Addict - 10G - Spend 5000 florins on Courtesans

I made it rain on these ho's!!!

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Total for this post: 385 G

New Gamerscore: 40 385 G

To go: 9 615 G

40 000 !!!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, a milestone has been hit! This morning I reached 40 000 gamerscore, woohoo!! And I did it while playing a good game too. I'm a little bit anal when it comes to this since I love to have exact numbers when I hit milestones. I managed to find a couple in Assassin's Creed II that would give me the 15 G I needed.

Myth Maker - 5G - Find the 8 statuettes in Monteriggioni

I initially found the first 6 without much difficulty. I was expecting the worst when looking for the last 2, but got then both in less than a minute.

Kleptomaniac - 10G - Pickpocket 1000 Florins

Not the funnest achievement. I had to run and bump into people until I stole enough money.

Total for this post : 15 G
New Gamerscore : 40 000 G

To go : 10 000 G

In all, I gathered 1 749 achievements to get to this milestone. This is just a step in my goal of 50 000 G for the year. Now i've got to get back to work on the next milestone.

Enter Sandman....

I just got my new game from the online rental service: Guitar Hero Metallica. Now, I don't really know much about Metallica. I know like two songs, that's about it. But it is a Guitar Hero game and I do want to try them all out at some point. I'm pretty much done with it now. All the other achievements are really hard or require other band members to do them, or the dreaded online achievements (shudder).

Some Kind of Monster - 5G - You performed as the guitarist

Self explanatory

Disposable Heroes - 5G - You created a new custom rocker

Eye of the Beholder - 5G - You created a new custom band logo





Blackened - 5G - You created a custom tattoo

Fixxxer - 5G - You created a new custom instrument




These last 4 achievements take 2 seconds. Just change a little thing in customization, save it and voila, achievement unlocked

The House Jack Built - 10G - You completed a song in every In-the-Round venue

I'm still not sure what "In-the-Round" means, but I played a song in every venue I had

Trapped Under Ice - 5G - You completed a song at the Ice Cave venue

The Ice Cave is the last venue you unlock


Kirk Hammett - 25G - You completed the career as the guitarist

I'm guessing Kirk Hammett is the guitarist of Metallica, right?


The Memory Remains - 5G - You viewed a Mettalifacts video

I turned one on a did some dishes for a few minutes. Man these songs are long!


Lemmy - 5G - You rocked out as Lemmy

At first I thought they were talking about Lemminwinks. The idea of a gerbal playing the guitar made me laugh. Sadly, it's just the guy from Motorhead.


King Diamond - 5G - You rocked out as King Diamond

This guy looks just like Baron Samedi from Goldeneye, remember him?


One - 10G - You completed a song on Hard or Expert in local Quickplay or Career

That orange button really messes me up. So I played the entire song while ignoring it and I managed to finish, sweet!


Cure - 5G - You recovered from a poor performance in Quickplay or Career

I got this at the same time as "One". Started the song off really bad but managed to recover.


...And Justice for All - 50G - You earned 100 stars in Band Career or a single instrument Career

The only achievement I got in this game that gives a decent amount of points.



I also managed a couple of other achievements

The Merchant of Venice - 30G - Complete DNA Sequence 7

Story progression. Won't spoil it for those who havn't played yet.

Honor Roll - 20G - Earn at least 1 star in each Special Op mission

Get it? Honor Roll? It's TP with a grade on it!!
Anyway, I thought it would be harder but thanks to exploits a buddy and I were able to get this on co-op. Now I need to get ALL 69 stars in special ops.

Total for this post: 195 G

New Gamerscore: 39 985 G

To go: 10 015 G

Coming Soon: 40 000 G