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GoldenSilence87

Monday, Mar 12, 2007
Summer Vaction is almost here. Well, sort of.

Eight weeks until four months of freedom and I figured now is the best time to create my Summer Vacation To-do-List. Half of you are probably wondering why I'd create my to-do list in March and the other half probably dont care. No worries. I'll explain. See, long ago in the hot summer of 2000, my best friend and I made a solemn vow: To beat every game we owned. And we failed. Miserably. This might be partly because we started in July, and because the N64 never tracked your achievements as meticuously as the 360 does, but my original point stands. For the last six summers, various friends and loved ones and I have tried and failed. Last year, I got my 360 so I was understandably distracted. But this summer there are absolutely no excuses. College ends almost insanely early (April 20th) and doesnt start up again till late August so I'll have four months to unlock every Achievement my little 360 has. Every single one. There will be no middle ground: Pass or fail, victory or defeat.

And so the point of this blog starts to come clear. This is not so much a vow as it is a gameplan. See, in order to convince my small brain that it has to do something I need to write that "thing" in stone months beforehand. If I dont, I'll blow it off. So there. Let's get started:

I have 9 XBox 360 games

FIFA 2006 World Cup (500/1000)

FIFA 07 (100/10000)

Gears of War (110/1000)

Splinter Cell Double Agent (260/1000)

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfrighter (530/1000)

Madden 07 (40/1000)

College Hoops 2k7(20/1000)

Gun (560/1000)

So as you can see, I have my work cut out. Yikes. And some of these achievements are darn near implausible. GRAW lists an one as "Being ontop of the world leaderboard." So, hopefully, come mid-June I'll be the only person actually playing GRAW. And I can wrangle an hidden Achievement. Or not. Guess we'll see.

My question to you, my fellow gamers: If you have a 360 how much do you care about Achievements? Are they bragging rights (As they are with me) or just items or personal pride? Or do you not care at all?

Drop me a comment.

Posted by GoldenSilence87, 3:21pm
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zerohour12
zerohour12
I don't really care about acheivements that much, I just play the games' plotline through one time most of the time. If I've bought the game, I may come back to it at a later time (depending on how much I like it) to see how many achievements I can get, but not really If I've rented the game. Good luck with the GRAW achievements...the ones in GRAW 2 seem to be easier to get than the ones in the first one. But, I can't get them myself, since I don't have gold. Ha. Oh well. So, what's up with you?
Posted Mar 18, 2007 8:35 pm PT
GoldenSilence87
GoldenSilence87
I'm doing pretty well, zero, just trying to get through my goddam math class. I just plain out suck at math. How are you?
Posted Mar 18, 2007 8:59 pm PT
zerohour12
zerohour12
Well, that makes me feel a lot better. At least I'm not alone when it comes to math...It's definetely my worst grade right now. Other than that, I've been doing pretty well lately...I saw 300, which was awesome. Except for my friend's girlfriend (yes, the same one i mentioned in my blog), who absolutely hated it and walked out during the first fight scene, which nearly ruined my experience. I got GRAW 2 Friday, and finished the single player campaign yesterday. Insanely short, but insanely fun at the same time. I'm now playing through it on elevated risk, the highest difficulty setting, and it's still fun. Not much else is going on.
Posted Mar 18, 2007 9:33 pm PT
GoldenSilence87
GoldenSilence87
Sweet, I'm thinking about screwing my gas money and buying FEAR for the 360 lol
Posted Mar 19, 2007 6:40 am PT
zerohour12
zerohour12
I'd do that...I'm just taking my Driver's Ed class now, and one part of it was to watch Red Asphalt. *Shudders* I...am never...going...to drive. At all.
Posted Mar 19, 2007 7:28 pm PT
GoldenSilence87
GoldenSilence87
LOL...I remember watching that stuff. We watched a show on getting hit by trains and after that I still get queasy going over the tracks.
Posted Mar 20, 2007 9:27 am PT
zerohour12
zerohour12
......Now I'm staying away from trees and train tracks.....Poor kid. His friend was kind of a dumbass though. Did you see where one teenager slammed on his breaks without warning to scare his friend? It ended up that his friend hit the dashboard and killed himself. The shot was disgusting too...close-up of his head, cracked skull, and brains all over the ground in front of the car.
Posted Mar 20, 2007 5:42 pm PT
GoldenSilence87
GoldenSilence87
Yeah, I saw that. And I just had a salami sandwhich +( lol
Posted Mar 21, 2007 10:06 am PT
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