I did it!
I took a week off from work and went on vacation July 24th through the 31st and all I did (pretty much) was sit in the hotel room and play video games. It was great. I got 3 weeks worth of videos recorded in that week and I made my goal of 1,000 gamer score.
I'm not exactly sure which day I got the achievement that pushed me over the edge. It was either Wednesday the 27th or Thursday the 28th. Either way that is a month to get 1,000 gamer score. If I hadn't have gone on vacation I probably wouldn't have done as well as I did. I picked up 570 points just in that week alone. I only needed 140 before I left and I got it.
During that time I played some games just for fun in addition to the ones I've been playing for my YouTube channel. Below is a list of the games that I played while going for that goal and a list of games that I played while on vacation.
I would love to do that again. Get away from the house that needs cleaning, the dog that needs to be taken care of and a roommate that is annoying and just play video games. I've got another week vacation in September but I'm not planning on going anywhere so I'll just have to play games at home.
Even though I played a lot of games (or at least played them for a lot of hours) it really got me excited to play more. And do other things I love to do. Like read. It's been a struggle sometimes to find time to read and I haven't been that in to the books that I was reading. I don't know if it's a combination of the books I've read lately or this new energy to spend time doing the things I love (the bathroom can wait another day before I clean it right?) but I love reading again. I've recently read The Magician's Guild by Trudi Canavan and The Scorch Trails by James Dashner. I'm alternating back and forth between those two series (currently reading The Novice) and once I"m done I think I'll read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and start that series. Now I've just got to find the time to do everything.
Games played to meet goal:
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Xbox One)
Grand Theft Auto V (Xbox One)
Peggle 2 (Xbox One)
Plants vs. Zombies (Xbox One)
Rayman Legend (Xbox One)
Ancients of Ooga (Xbox Arcade)
Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Xbox One)
Gems of War (Xbox One)
Assault Heroes (Xbox Arcade)
Costume Quest 2 (Xbox Arcade)
Additional Games Played While on Vacation:
Red Dead Redemption (Xbox 360)
Rayman Origins (Xbox 360)
I played Assault Heroes because I was in the mood to play a racing game as I was searching through my games and stumbled upon that one. I know it's not a racing game, but it is a driving game and it would do (I was too lazy to look through the rest of my games and they are alphabetically). I was very surprised to get an achievement in that game.
Gems of War is my new Jewel Quest or Puzzle Quest addiction. They're just games that I play and chill out to. They don't stress me out and it's easy to get in a match or two before doing other things. I was playing it on vacation while I was waiting for videos to process and render. It fit the time perfectly.
I play Rayman Legend when I want to remember how fun playing Rayman Origins used to be. I haven't been having a lot of fun in that game for awhile. I'll still make videos in it and finish it, but I can only play a level or two before I start to get really frustrated and want to chuck my controller through the TV.
Ancients of Ooga is a game that I had the trail version for a long time before I bought the full game. I had tried playing it several times but just wasn't getting what I was suppose to do. I still liked the game even if I found it frustrating. I started playing it again for this challenge and for some reason things just clicked this time. I figured things out and I was able to get through a bunch of level . . . and then I got stuck so I moved on to something else.
I keep trying to play Plants vs Zombies with friends but it never seems to work out. They're getting offline just when I get online. I usually end up just messing around in the Backyard stuff before moving on to something else. I would really like to play some PvZ games with my friends.
Now that I'm pretty far ahead with my videos I have some time to really sink my teeth in to a meaty game. I think I'm going to play Red Dead Redemption. I've debated about if I will film the play through or not and I still haven't decided. If I do it will be very light on the commentary because I just want to play the game and enjoy it.
Have you played any of those games? How long would it take you to get 1,000 in gamer score? It took me a month. I think that's pretty good. If I do the same time of thing for trophies on my Playstation 3 what do you think my goal should be? Let me know in the comments.
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Monday, August 8, 2016
Monday, October 15, 2012
I'm still gaming
Just for the record, I'm still gaming. Just not in the place where I use to be for the most part. Since I've had a hard time getting friends to play with me on Xbox360 I've started getting back into my PSP. Specifically Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions.
I've been playing this game on both the PS and PSP but I seemed to be a little further ahead on the PSP so that's where I decided to focus my time into playing the game. I like the game because I can pick it up and play it for a half hour at a time and actually feel like I'm making progress. In that half and hour I can win 2 battles and maybe 3 if I get to strike first with some of my heavy hitters.
One of the things I realized after I picked this game up again was that I had duplicates of some of the Zodiac symbols with some of the characters and not having characters with some of the other symbols. Since I wanted a full and complete and balanced team that meant dismissing some of my characters that I worked hard to level up and learn things and then hiring complete noobies.
I charted out which characters/symbols I had and which ones I needed and then make the sad choice to let some of them go. I had spent many hours leveling those characters up and learning skills but some of them had to go. I also spent a lot of time looking at all the options in the Warrior's Guild to find just the right Brave/Faith level character with just the right Zodiac symbol to join my team. Once that was done I was left with a big problem.
THEY WERE ALL LEVEL ONE NOOBIES!!!!
It doesn't matter what level the other characters are on your team whenever you hire a new warrior they start out at level 1. That means when you take them into battle you'll be fighting level 22 baddies with level 1 characters. Do you know how many times my characters died. Were revived. Then promptly killed again before they could even take a turn to run away. And if they don't fight they don't level up. I can't tell you how many Phoenix Downs and Potions/Hi-Potions I went through just in one battle alone. And because I had about 6 noobies to level up I had to go through this a lot.
I didn't take them all into battle at the same time (learned that the hard way). I would take 2 noobies, one really good healer and 2 heavy hitters. The heavy hitters would knock the HP down to a reasonable level and the noobies would move in to finish them off (you get an EXP bonus for finishing off a character). If anyone got in trouble my healer would step in and help out (a healer with a long range weapon is wonderful). Even though this method worked it took a lot of grinding away at battle after battle just to get these new characters up to a level where they could hold their own in a battle and not have a healer hold their hand all the time.
I did have to replace one of my noobies because there was something about them that wasn't working. I don't know if it was their power or speed or whatever, but I didn't like it and it wasn't helping me. Because I got rid of them I had to find another Zodiac of the same symbol to replace them. Which meant another level 1 noobie. While this last noobie is now a level 17 and the rest of my characters are in the 30-40 level range at least he can hold his own in battle. He can take a couple of hits before he has to retreat and heal, but that means he can give a couple of hits too. And he's not bad. And a lot better than the wimp I let go to get him.
But during all that grinding I was getting bored. I knew it would be for the better in the long run but fighting battle after battle just to increase the level of one characters didn't seem worth it. So what did I do?
I started a new game.
Just to see if it would be worth it to stock my roster with the perfect team of a variety of Zodiacs right from the outset of the game I started over from the beginning. When you finally get a squad a characters to play with I was disappointed. I don't remember my other game starts to be witch such low Brave/Faith levels for all the characters. Unfortunately in order to hiring better characters I need to win battles and earn money. By winning battles and earning money I was leveling up characters I knew I wasn't going to keep. Once I had the money to buy new and better warriors I had win battles and earn money to buy even more warriors and equipment and potions and such before I could finally get a decent team together. And since it was the beginning of the game there was only one map point where I could get into a battle.
So in order to avoid grinding on my main game to level up characters I started a new game so I could grind and win battles to buy different characters so I could grind and level those up. It made sense to me at the time. Once I figured things out though, I went back to my main game.
So anyway, I'm still gaming. Just not always on the Xbox360. Oh, every now and then I get back on the Xbox360 to play some Borderlands and recently I've been playing some Modern Warfare 3 just for the social aspect (hell, if my friends won't play with me then maybe strangers will). I might even turn it on to play something silly like Peggle or Rock Bank Blitz while I'm eating dinner. Once dinner's done I'll turn it off and pull out the PSP. Who knows, maybe once I'm done with my PSP game I might dust off my Nintendo DS Lite. It's still gaming.
I've been playing this game on both the PS and PSP but I seemed to be a little further ahead on the PSP so that's where I decided to focus my time into playing the game. I like the game because I can pick it up and play it for a half hour at a time and actually feel like I'm making progress. In that half and hour I can win 2 battles and maybe 3 if I get to strike first with some of my heavy hitters.
One of the things I realized after I picked this game up again was that I had duplicates of some of the Zodiac symbols with some of the characters and not having characters with some of the other symbols. Since I wanted a full and complete and balanced team that meant dismissing some of my characters that I worked hard to level up and learn things and then hiring complete noobies.
I charted out which characters/symbols I had and which ones I needed and then make the sad choice to let some of them go. I had spent many hours leveling those characters up and learning skills but some of them had to go. I also spent a lot of time looking at all the options in the Warrior's Guild to find just the right Brave/Faith level character with just the right Zodiac symbol to join my team. Once that was done I was left with a big problem.
THEY WERE ALL LEVEL ONE NOOBIES!!!!
It doesn't matter what level the other characters are on your team whenever you hire a new warrior they start out at level 1. That means when you take them into battle you'll be fighting level 22 baddies with level 1 characters. Do you know how many times my characters died. Were revived. Then promptly killed again before they could even take a turn to run away. And if they don't fight they don't level up. I can't tell you how many Phoenix Downs and Potions/Hi-Potions I went through just in one battle alone. And because I had about 6 noobies to level up I had to go through this a lot.
I didn't take them all into battle at the same time (learned that the hard way). I would take 2 noobies, one really good healer and 2 heavy hitters. The heavy hitters would knock the HP down to a reasonable level and the noobies would move in to finish them off (you get an EXP bonus for finishing off a character). If anyone got in trouble my healer would step in and help out (a healer with a long range weapon is wonderful). Even though this method worked it took a lot of grinding away at battle after battle just to get these new characters up to a level where they could hold their own in a battle and not have a healer hold their hand all the time.
I did have to replace one of my noobies because there was something about them that wasn't working. I don't know if it was their power or speed or whatever, but I didn't like it and it wasn't helping me. Because I got rid of them I had to find another Zodiac of the same symbol to replace them. Which meant another level 1 noobie. While this last noobie is now a level 17 and the rest of my characters are in the 30-40 level range at least he can hold his own in battle. He can take a couple of hits before he has to retreat and heal, but that means he can give a couple of hits too. And he's not bad. And a lot better than the wimp I let go to get him.
But during all that grinding I was getting bored. I knew it would be for the better in the long run but fighting battle after battle just to increase the level of one characters didn't seem worth it. So what did I do?
I started a new game.
Just to see if it would be worth it to stock my roster with the perfect team of a variety of Zodiacs right from the outset of the game I started over from the beginning. When you finally get a squad a characters to play with I was disappointed. I don't remember my other game starts to be witch such low Brave/Faith levels for all the characters. Unfortunately in order to hiring better characters I need to win battles and earn money. By winning battles and earning money I was leveling up characters I knew I wasn't going to keep. Once I had the money to buy new and better warriors I had win battles and earn money to buy even more warriors and equipment and potions and such before I could finally get a decent team together. And since it was the beginning of the game there was only one map point where I could get into a battle.
So in order to avoid grinding on my main game to level up characters I started a new game so I could grind and win battles to buy different characters so I could grind and level those up. It made sense to me at the time. Once I figured things out though, I went back to my main game.
So anyway, I'm still gaming. Just not always on the Xbox360. Oh, every now and then I get back on the Xbox360 to play some Borderlands and recently I've been playing some Modern Warfare 3 just for the social aspect (hell, if my friends won't play with me then maybe strangers will). I might even turn it on to play something silly like Peggle or Rock Bank Blitz while I'm eating dinner. Once dinner's done I'll turn it off and pull out the PSP. Who knows, maybe once I'm done with my PSP game I might dust off my Nintendo DS Lite. It's still gaming.
Monday, April 6, 2009
My new addiction
So I've found my new addiction. It use to be Jewel Quest. It got so bad that I'd have to play one board in the morning before I left for work instead of having breakfast or I couldn't think straight the rest of the day. Or, after a long night playing Gears of War I would need a game to help me unwind all that pent up emotion I had so I'd start up Jewel Quest and ease my way into a restful (but very abbreviated) night's sleep. It hasn't gotten that bad yet, but it might.
My new addiction is Peggle. It's such a simple game. It's like pinball, but once the ball goes out of play all the pegs and blocks you've hit go out of play. The object is to get rid of all the orange colored pegs and blocks scattered throughout a bunch of blue ones. Simple and addicting. No matter how carefully you plan your shot and where you think the ball will bounce it will take a different hop and end up somewhere else.
There's lots of different levels and characters to play with. And a different special attack with each one. If you want to use the flippers you pick that character. A fireball? Choose that other character. And there's multiplayer action too.
Every so often I find a game that I just love to play and waste hours doing so. It's usually an arcade game because they're so easy to get in and play really quick without having to worry about save points and such. If it hadn't have been Peggle it would probably be Crystal Defenders. That game is a little harder to describe. But for now, it's Peggle. Simple. Addicting. And just a lot of good fun. And when you find out big, tough, burly men are falling in love with a game filled with rainbows, unicorns, and symphonic music from Beethoven you know it's addicting. But I'm not complaining.
My new addiction is Peggle. It's such a simple game. It's like pinball, but once the ball goes out of play all the pegs and blocks you've hit go out of play. The object is to get rid of all the orange colored pegs and blocks scattered throughout a bunch of blue ones. Simple and addicting. No matter how carefully you plan your shot and where you think the ball will bounce it will take a different hop and end up somewhere else.
There's lots of different levels and characters to play with. And a different special attack with each one. If you want to use the flippers you pick that character. A fireball? Choose that other character. And there's multiplayer action too.
Every so often I find a game that I just love to play and waste hours doing so. It's usually an arcade game because they're so easy to get in and play really quick without having to worry about save points and such. If it hadn't have been Peggle it would probably be Crystal Defenders. That game is a little harder to describe. But for now, it's Peggle. Simple. Addicting. And just a lot of good fun. And when you find out big, tough, burly men are falling in love with a game filled with rainbows, unicorns, and symphonic music from Beethoven you know it's addicting. But I'm not complaining.
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