Daily Updates - Part 2


Day 16 - 24th Jun 09
After many failed attempts, I finally beat level 5 of Rez today. I had to watch a YouTube vid to get the sequence of attacks right. Brilliant game, but boss battles are hard work if you don't keep a few overdrives handy.

Day 17 - 25th Jun 09
Managed to squeeze two achievements out of Yaris today, another game I didn't think I'd get any points from. The arcade titles I have left to do are mocking me now. Texas Hold Em, RoboTron and Peggle are all out of reach I think.
Finally got around to finishing the Wasteland Survival Guide to cross Fallout 3 off my list too.

Day 18 - 26th Jun 09
Ground though a bit of Tomb Raider:Anniversary. Tough game, no achievements yet. Managed to get to the first trial achievement in Ninja Gaiden 2. I'm glad I left it for the easy run to do that. I missed the rod on my first run (Warrior) so had no idea how hard the trials were. I must finish my Warrior run sometime, but I'm only using the Dragon Sword on that run and it's getting tiresome.
26/41 games done. getting hard now.

Day 19 - 27th Jun 09
27/41 Games Done.
Found the Magnums in Tomb Raider:Anniversary to get that off my list. While browsing TA I found that I could have got an achievement in the previous level for avoiding the lightning in one of the puzzles, I'll have to go back and do St Francis' Folly again, that's a seriously long and tough level too.
I spent a few hours grinding through Marvel:UA, I'm on my third play through and trying to pick up all the the sim disks to mop up the last few achievements. I also spent a while trying to get the SharpShooter achieve in Zuma. I got the first level of the game down to 7 secs, but I need to get 5 secs or better to unlock that very rare achieve.

Day 20 - 28th Jun 09
Fought with Luxor2, Zuma, GoW and Marvel:UA for ages, but no points were forthcoming. M:UA and Luxor may have some light at the end of the tunnel, but more work required.

Day 21 - 29th Jun 09
Finally unlocked all the sim discs in M:UA. I had to go back for the Daredevil and Black Pather action figures, even though I'd unlocked them in a previous playthrough. Now to actually play the sim missions at get the last few points from the game.

Day 22 - 30th Jun 09
Had a quick blast of Quake4, no points. Played the challenges in Peggle, no points (how the hell are you supposed to get 750K on one level?). Played through a bunch of the sim discs in M:UA and had the box lock up when I hadn't saved for ages, no points.
Finally, in desperation I dragged a few gs from Wolverine as I haven't put any points up for three days.

Day 23 - 1st Jul 09
Did a bunch of sim discs in M:UA. The last few didn't seem to throw many bad guys at me, so it's hard to get the scores need for gold level pass. However, the end is in sight now.

Day 24 - 2nd Jul 09
28/41 Games Done.
Finally got the sim discs done in M:UA. Two acheives, game off the list. I'll be going back for Gold level completion on the discs later and the 100 co-op wins to finsh the game 1250/1250.
Completed the Burnout Island DLC too, there's plenty more to find on the island, but no more points to be had.

Day 25 - 3rd Jul 09
31/41 Games Done.
Got the juggling achieve in Totemball, and bunch in Quake4 and a zero pointer in Tiger Woods 09 to really squeeze myself down to the hard games. I don't expect to cross any more off the list now. The rest are either very old with nothing left to do in them, or super tough and I'm not up to the challenge.

Day 26 - 4th Jul 09
Completed Marvel:UA and ground some Annex wins in GoW1, there's not much else I can do now.

Day 27 - 5th Jul 09
More Gears grinding. Squeezed a few points from Banjo Kazooie and GH:WT.

Day 28 - 6th Jul 09
More Gears grinding. I'm getting worried about this achieve not popping now.

Day 29 - 7th Jul 09
Gears, again. Still no achieve.

Day 30 - 8th Jul 09
Last day! Played Gears for an hour or two, still no achievement. I bet it'll pop after just one game next time I fire it up. Ah well, at least Banjo Kazooie has been generous with the points over the last couple of days.