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 ^^]