10,000 g's

So - I passed 10,000 gamerscore points on my beloved xbox. That's a pretty decent return I think. Of course, looking at my achievements, I've got around 2,000 of those from Oblivion and Fallout 3 combined...

Don't tend to get many achievements in sporting games, as I tend to play one team, for a whole season - case in point Madden 09, my Steelers team need one more win to make the playoffs, but it means I haven't mined all the achievements for 'running 200 yds in one game with McGahee', as I never play as the Ravens. Same for FIFA 08, I've no interest in playing the same game over and over again in order to complete 15 tackles without conceding a corner. I'd rather guide the Saints* to European Glory.

Mostly, I get achievements for finishing games, my favourites, Oblivion, Fallout 3 (just downloaded the Pitt - going to see what happened to Heinz Field), Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4 and Viva Pinata.

Here is me and my xbox...

* Don't laugh!

Fallout 3 (or, as expected, OCD in disk form)

I'm addicted again. Along with the 150plus hours I spent playing Oblivion, a fair few of which was spent arranging my magical swords and armour in my castle, I've got the collecting bug again. Fallout 3 is simply brilliant (also broken in many ways, but we'll ignore most of that) and has me traipsing around another online world collecting things.

(spoilers ahead - maybe)

I've played through once, saved the world and all that, so now starts the serious business of finding things, unique items, sets of armour and so on. Luckily (or perhaps not) the game is full of easter eggs, like the Rube Goldberg machine, the crashed alien spaceship and the dog to keep me going.

Having played through as goody two shoes (no really, someone in the game called me that), it seems to be much easier to just kill everyone and steal all the cool stuff, so that is what I am doing currently.

Still, I wince occasionally when I make it back to my flat in Tenpenny tower and look at all the loot I've accumulated (I've arranged it on the shelves...).

Ah well.

My xbox is not happy...

Speaking of green - I guess this is what I get for going away for a while and ignoring it!


As long as it leaves the axe alone, I suppose I'll be happy. Should probably get round to playing Braid though.

Lego Indy

Is out this weekend, but I managed to get a sneaky go last night up in Nottingham.

As definitely expected it looks like it's going to be bags (definitely satchel man bags a la Indy) of fun.

First impressions were good I played through most of the Well of Souls level and there is definitely more emphasis on team play than in the Lego Star Wars titles.

For example Indy has a whip to swing across gaps, but can't jump half as high as Marion can (but then as I've explained before - Indy was never the most athletic of action heroes...)

As ever the humour is pretty irreverrent, as you might expect Indy is pretty terrified of snakes, and in the section I played - naturally titled 'Why does it always have to be snakes?' the game gets a lot of mileage out of it, and not just in the cut scenes, Indy's fear of snakes gets into the gameplay as well, needing more of that co-operation stuff to get by the scary things.

Will have to wait though - off to France tomorrow, so any more Indy gaming is postponed till next week.

Image: Lego Indiana Jones from Flickr User Dunechaser

Wail!

Wail!
Originally uploaded by spacmonster

Deader than a dead thing what is very dead. In warranty though. Hopefully Microsoft's wonderful customer service will see me right.*

Ah well, at least I still have my gamecube - Wind Waker anyone?

* What? - they might be monitoring the interweb for references to RROD...

Sensible World of Soccer

Aah - memories. Winning the European Cup with Stenhousemuir in their awesome purple shirts, signing Matt Le Tissier who could score from literally everywhere, Signing the same five cheap, speedy players for every club you manage (Valentine? Thomas Lagerlof anyone?)



Yep - I got Sensible Soccer off of XBLA and it feels like I'm twelve again, when footie games only used one button and were slightly more interesting than girls.*

Happy days.

* Alright - that last bit isn't true - more easily accessible than girls is probably more likely. In fact, just plain accessible is more likely, being that girls didn't like talking to me when I was twelve - probably because I talked about Sensible Soccer all the time...

Three - One!

Won my first game of football on the t'internet...

3-1, against some French bloke.

Still ranked 100 millionth worst Pro Evo player in the world.

Its a start though.

Happy!

I'm a very happy bunny this morning...



Not only is Mudhsuden Singh Panesar tearing the Aussies apart but I also won an Xbox last night.

Been playing Viva Pinata...



But my fox keeps eating my rabbitses...

Found Another Video of Mike...

Different Mike this time though.

Had almost forgotten this...



Download as well! Is destined for the Ipod I think...