Big 'Ol Pile of Wins

Yay, danpsfx and I made it to the 500 wins each! :D

And we talked about cake. 

Dan - I just got given some cake! 

Me - Cool!

Dan - It's quite good cake actually... Though you can't really get bad cake... 

Me - You can, dry cake is bad cake.
Dan - Yeah, this one isn't though...
Me - Oh, is it delicious and moist then? ^^

Whoring ToV

drachemeister's guide on GameFAQs is, like, the most amazing thing ever. It has helped me SO MUCH. I've beaten the final boss, completed all the side-quests (except the 100- and 200- man melees, those are gonna take me no time though) and done virtually everything else.

I am now whoring towards those achievements: 

,which, unsurprisingly, are the highest-ratio achievements in the game. 

They Call Me... I've only got the 200-man-melee titles left, Karol's one for completing the Monster Book, Estelle's one for completing the Item Book, and Repede's one for pissing all over the map. 

Pissing all over the map WTH? I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. My map is complete! It is ALL blue! :@ Well, clearly it isn't, but I can't figure out which bit I'm missing... :(

Monster Nerd These are the ones I'm missing. Gonna get them all done except Zagi, and I can manage that in my next playthrough, can't I? :p

Item Nerd These are the ones I'm missing. And I've got another side of A4 with the weapons. Gonna take aaages synthing them all! 

Once I've done everything I can possibly do in this playthrough, I'm gonna start a new playthrough to complete those, get those 

and hopefully that one

And that'd be the most time-consuming, non-skill-related 1000G on the Xbox done :D

Completed GH WoR

That's it, I've finally completed a game that actually requires skill! (For the record, I'd only 1000Ged Avatar, GH5 and Band Hero, which are all really easy and not really skill-dependant) Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock! :D
It's been good, one of my favorite GHs for sure! (Well, apart from the crappy interface, I don't like it, feels laggy, or doesn't feel as nice as the GH3-GHA one (nicest IMO) or the GHM-GHWT-GHVH-GHSH one (not bad either))

Many thanks go to the people I boosted some of the achievements with, but especially -
MCoreBE for his Chosen One tutorial that helped me a lot, and
danpsfx for boosting a little bit just for me! :)

Update

I don't know how many of you actually read what I write on here, or how many of you actually care... But I'll write something anyway. You might have noticed I haven't written anything for a while... It's cos nothing much's been happening at all! 

I'm carrying on with my achievement whoring on Guitar Heros:

GH2 - Haven't played it in ages. I don't like it - feels too archaic to my taste! 

GH3 - I OWNED that one. Almost literally. Completed expert Career (at last), then completed all the other careers, 5-starred easy, medium and hard, did all of the online achievements (still working on Big Ol' Pile of Wins with danpsfx) and got all of the online co-op achievements (streak, score). Happy! 

GHWT - Nothing much. Been grinding a little towards Bling,Bling

GHWoR - Beaten Black Widow of La Porte, at last. It really isn't that hard... Got Ultimate Answerer and Chosen One left to do. Hopefully sometime soon... I haven't tried them. 

GHVH - Finally completed drums career, netting me the 100G achievement for completing all careers. 

Band Hero - 4 days from 0G to 1000G. Pathetically easy and, frankly, quite boring. The setlist is pants too. 

GH5 and GHM - Haven't played them as have already 1000Ged GH5 and have given up on GHM as only have impossible achievements left. :p

And carrying on with Tales of Vesperia too - awesome game, interminable 1000G! Urgh -_- 710G now, about two thirds of the way through my second game, but the real grinding comes at the very end when you have to grind grind grind kills, items, levels, enemy scans, cooking, etc... 

I also bought DJ Hero 2, and it came with DJH1 as well... :) I'm not adding them to my account quite yet because I wanna get to 75% completion first. Almost there on that one:

Gotta love the Gamescom

That's it, Nintendo have finally given us a release date for Zelda Skyward Sword! 17th November 2011 in Europe. About time! So excited :D
Not gonna pre-order quite yet, I wanna wait to see id they don't make a special edition/ limited edition of some kind - but I'm not getting my hopes up, Nintendo don't really do limited editions :p

Oh and Sony have released screenshots of WipEout 2048 :)

More high-ratio achievements on GHs - Completed GH5 - 10,000G Reached

Lucky me, I was finally able to find people who could FC No Sleep Till Brooklyn on GHWT - Hence the Platinum Rockstars achievement. I also finally got round to doing the A Pair Beats A Pair achievement from GHWT too. 

Later on, I synced my laptop speakers with my mic and got the Mike Checka' achievement in GHWT and the Golden Voice achievement in GHSH. That's a nice and easy 300odd TA points, and those have ridiculously high TA ratios, considering how easy they are to sync (and Stone Cold Crazy from GHM is one of those too).

And then I found a really nice player, Jad7, who wanted to get the Sampler Plate achievement in GH5 - which was the last one I needed to 1000G it. We got it! :D

So that's it, that's the most pain-in-the-ass Guitar Hero completed. You have no idea how good it felt when I deleted it from my 360 HDD :p

Oh and that also took me to 10,000G :)

I then took part in a Guitar Hero Van Halen session, got all the online achievements and had a good laugh with real funny guys :)

Oh and I started playing Forza Motorsport 3 again. God that's a boring game. Driving simulation is not fun. Not even remotely. Argh. 

Productive Weekend

Sunday night, 0:26am my time. Blogging this late at night probably isn't the best idea, really should go to sleep, but I feel I should write a little on what has been a rather productive and enjoyable weekend gaming-wise. Can't say so much about the weather - it's been pissing it down with rain for the past week. FML.

Okaaay, I'm carrying on with my Tales of Vesperia. I'm now on my second playthrough, am scrupulously following this guide from GameFAQs to make damn sure I get the achievements for completing the Item Book, completing the Monster Book, getting all titles and saving at every save point. xbox360achievements says it should take between 110 and 130 hours to 1000G this game, and, as enjoyable as it is, there's no way I'm gonna do more playthroughs than are needed. I've just cleared the Ghasfarost Tower [in a first playthrough, this is where you'd get the 100G achievement, the first of the three main quest achievements], and have got all the Secret Mission achievements I didn't get in my first playthrough: 1 (Zagi: piss), 2 (Goliath: pretty easy), 4 (Zagi: really hard one), 5 (Dreaded Giant: not too bad), 6 (Gigalarva: not too bad either). Hoping to get 8 (Zagi again) tomorrow.

I also played some Guitar Hero. Finally bought the Metallica: Death Magnetic track pack, and then got the achievement for getting a 1000 note streak in Guitar Hero 3 by playing The Unforgiven III (brilliant song) and FCing it on medium. Finally. I then got really annoyed with GH3 and how ridiculously hard the achievements are. Indeed, I have played through the whole of the expert career minus one song (Raining Blood, still can't pass it) and am only on 125/1000. Outrageous. This is when this nice little cheat comes in handy: Unlock everything. Brilliant, netted me 4 achievements for 50G (5+5+10+30). 

More Guitar Hero, World Tour this time. I took part in a session to try and get the Platinum Rockstars achievement for 100%ing a song as a 4-player band on hard or expert. I was doing vocals, so got really bored really quickly... Went over to the kitchen, grabbed the 19" TV from there and hooked the PS3 up to the big one and the 360 to the small one. Still had headset on, so could change song++ with the other guys, but wasn't wasting my time. On the PS3, I played NieR RepliCant, of which I haven't seen Ending B yet. Got a little bit done :) [Sorry about the photo quality, NieR on the big one, GHWT on the small one...] And I got a little bit of money grinding done for the Bling, Bling achievement for getting $1,000,000. I'm now on $125,000. -_-

Also played some GH Smash Hits: I was going for War Apparatus (complete a song on Expert+ drums) and Bloody Feet (complete Raining Blood on Expert+ with 5 stars), using this method - have a look, is really clever and it works! Kept on failing though, and gave up after almost an hour cos was sweating like a pig; went for a shower, and forgot about it... until next time. Played a bit of bass career too. 

So yeah, to sum up, this weekend might not have been the best in terms of GS earned, but it certainly was enjoyable and I made really good progress with Tales of Vesperia and gave the Guitar Heros a really good go. Happy :) [And time to go to bed ^^]

Games I'm expecting

Brilliant french gaming website jeuxvideo.com has polls every day. Today's one is as follows;

Where the title means, "Which 2011 game are you expecting most?"

I have to say it's a tough one for me. I'm really looking forward to a couple... Mario Kart 7 being one of them, because Mario Karts are always awesome, and Zelda Skyward Sword being the other one, because Twilight Princess and Phantom Hourglass were so disappointing, but Ocarina of Time 3D is going back in the right direction... 

Skyrim and Forza Motorsport 4 are also appealing, but I haven't played Oblivion or Forza 3, so can't really say much about those... :p

GH5: Star Cluster

Got it! :D

47 down, 2 to go: Outgoing (Complete 25 Pro Face-Off matches online) and Sampler Plate, the glitchy one for playing in every game mode. Hopefully will be done before the end of the month :)

So what now?

I'm quite unsure as to what I should do now... I guess I have several options:

1. Complete Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom (X360). I started playing that one back in February, (cf. what I wrote back then) and liked it. Only thing is, haven't touched it for almost six months and can't really be bothered to get back into it. 

2. Complete Ending B of NieR RepliCant (PS3). I looove this game so much, gotta do that at some point. 

3. Actually get round to completing Portal 2 on PC. I started this one at the beginning of the month and kinda stopped playing when I started playing more GH - guess I should get back to it. I haven't played it for so long, in fact, that Steam now says I am 'Teh Suck'. Charming. 

4. Play FFXII International... I really want to! Only thing is, I'm not gonna get achievements from it, so I'm not so keen... 

5. Focus on my TrueAchievement Targets: 

It is worth noting that the percentages on the right do not show your percentage relative to the target, but rather your progress since you set yourself the target. For instance, I had 8 achievements to go in GH5, I've done 5 since, so logically I'm five eighths of the way there, and 5/8=62.5%. That's that. So yeah, the gamerscore one and the total of 500 achievements won will come quite quickly, the Completion percentage one will be quite easy as long as I am diligent and stop adding games to my account! :p

5 and a half. Yeah this is about Guitar Heros. I've now done all the easy achievements, now all I've got left are the really hard ones (Creeping Death, The Inhuman Achievement, Hand Mutilator, Chosen One....) and the really tedious and long-winded ones (Hit 250,000 notes, Earn $10,000,000, Complete the careers on every instrument and as a band, Complete the guitar career on Easy AND Medium AND Hard AND Expert...) and I can't be bothered... But I'm gonna have to do them eventually.... 

6. Back to the targets; I loved Tales of Vesperia. It's got achievements, it's awesome, and it's fun. But it would take me about 100 hours to complete it (One playthrough where you get EVERYTHING there is (titles, cooking recipes, enemy info, skits, literally, everything), one speedrun (do it within 15 hours) and one low-level run (get to about 1/3 through the game on Lv14 or under))

7. Start something new. Resonance of Fate (PS3), Oblivion (X360), Okami (Wii) to name but a few of all the games I want to play...

I am so torn! :p