http://www.avforums.com/forums/blogs/codehead-174285/ Home Entertainment and Audio Visual Home Consumer Electronics Forums en Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:49:51 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.avforums.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.avforums.com/forums/blogs/codehead-174285/ http://www.avforums.com/forums/blogs/codehead-174285/1499-gamerscore-completion-challenge-jun-09-final-verdict.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:00:00 GMT Well, put on 1,715pts from games I already had. I managed to get achievements in 31 of the 41 games I still have. That's a gain of 1.8%. However, extra DLC released through the comp knocked my actual percentage down to 63.9%, a gain of 1.4%.

The games that beat me

E4 (140/200) - I could only really get the 5 consecutive beat bonus achieve on this. Doesn't sound too hard, but it takes about an hour and a half to get up to the x100 multiplier, one mistake and it's back to the beginning.

Gears of War (1160/1250) - The only retail title that I couldn't get points from. I've had this game as long as I've had my 360. I've got all the achieves except 'Seriously' and '100 Annex Matches'. I did grind Annex wins for 5 days, but nothing was forthcoming.

Geometry Wars Evolved(40/200) - Hardest game ever! I've have very little score on this and probably won't get any more. My reactions are to slow for the frantic pace of the later stages.

Hexic HD (155/200) - Another ancient game. The remaining achieves require too much thinking, 'Get six black pearls', etc.

Luxor 2 (92/200) - I did try to finish this one off during the challenge, but the last few stages are double tough. Glad I found out about the autosave trick, or I'd be out of lives already.

Peggle (105/200) - Great game, but I'd done all the gettable achieves before the challenge started. I did work on the challenge mode complete achieve, but I have no idea how to score 750K on one level.

Poker Smash (150/200) - Another great little game. I only have the 27x combo and 1 Mil achieves left. I got up to an 8x combo while doing the challenge, that's a new record for me.

Robotron: 2084 (50/200) - Matt Clarkie and I tried to do the MP achieves on this, but the co-op system is very strange and the lag affects it badly.

Texas Hold'em (120/200) - I don't have much left in this old classic. I did leave my 360 running for 3 days with an elastic band round the 'A' button in the hope of getting the 'Luck of the Draw' achieve (one of every hand type), but the Royal Flush still eludes me.

Zuma (80/200) - Another one that I've dried up. I spent a few hours trying for 'Finish the first level in 5 secs', even resorting to photographing the screen and studying the ball order while the game was paused, but the shortest I managed was 8 secs.

All in all I really enjoyed the challenge and going back to some games that I hadn't touched for months.

Thanks to Paul for setting it up, and I'm never doing anything like this again! ]]> Codehead http://www.avforums.com/forums/blogs/codehead-174285/1499-gamerscore-completion-challenge-jun-09-final-verdict.html http://www.avforums.com/forums/blogs/codehead-174285/1474-gamerscore-completion-challenge-jun-09-games.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:26:32 GMT I've decide to see if I can unlock at least one achievement in every game I have during the June 09 Gamerscore/Completion competition.
This page will track which games I have managed to squeeze some more points from.


Here's the list:

Game Name	Starting Score	Got Achieve?	Final Score
Aegis Wing	50/200	X	65/200
Banjo Kazooie: N&B	280/1250	X	520/1250
Burnout: Paradise	1000/1250	X	1110/1250
Call Of Duty 3	75/1000	X	95/1000
E4	140/200		140/200
Fallout 3	180/1350	X	200/1450
Gears of War	1160/1250		1160/1250
Gears of War 2	630/1425	X	660/1750
Geometry Wars Evolved	40/200		40/200
GTA IV	195/1250	X	245/1250
Guitar Hero II	760/1000	X	790/1000
Guitar Hero III	295/1000	X	320/1000
Guitar Hero World Tour	30/1000	X	85/1000
Halo 3	495/1750	X	535/1750
Hexic HD	155/200		155/200
Joust	40/200	X	50/200
Lips	935/1000	X	960/1000
Luxor 2	92/200		92/200
Marvel Ult. Alliance	1120/1250	X	1250/1250
Mass Effect	695/1050	X	710/1050
MotoGP 06	105/1000	X	565/1000
NINJA GAIDEN 2	130/1250	X	145/1250
Oblivion	330/1250	X	340/1250
Peggle	105/200		105/200
Poker Smash	150/200		150/200
Quake 4	10/1000	X	50/1000
Rainbow Six Vegas	185/1000	X	215/1000
Rez HD	80/200	X	100/200
Robotron: 2084	50/200		50/200
Rock Band	190/1000	X	290/1000
Saints Row	20/1000	X	70/1000
Shadowrun	485/1000	X	540/1000
Texas Hold'em	120/200		120/200
The Orange Box	290/1000	X	295/1000
Tiger Woods PGATOUR 09	950/1000	X	950/1000 (0pt Achieve)
Tomb Raider: Anniv.	40/1000	X	50/1000
TotemBall	85/200	X	95/200
Undertow	20/200	X	40/200
XMen Origins Wolverine	400/1000	X	450/1000
Yaris	110/200	X	135/200
Zuma	80/200		80/200

]]> Codehead http://www.avforums.com/forums/blogs/codehead-174285/1474-gamerscore-completion-challenge-jun-09-games.html http://www.avforums.com/forums/blogs/codehead-174285/1473-gamerscore-completion-challenge-jun-09-daily-updates-part-1.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:25:18 GMT Daily Updates - Part 1

Day 1 - 9th Jun 09
Off to a flying start. Popped a couple of achievements in MotoGP 06 that I've been hanging onto since the competition was announced. Also grabbed a few in Wolverine and Banjo Kazooie.
I spent a fruitless hour trying to kill three pterodactyls in Joust before moving onto Guitar Hero World Tour and mopping up the 'Create a custom ...' achieves none of which required me to get up and plug the guitar in. :o)

Day 2 - 10th Jun 09
A quiter night. Tackled Undertow as I didn't really have much score in that. I was trying for 'Upgrade all units to level 3', but got '200 depth charge kills' in the process. I may revisit the game as I quite enjoyed playing it.
I also managed to drag myself round the awful flood level in Halo3, I'd given up on the campaign due to the endless wandering round in circles with no ammo that happens on that level. However, I'm now back on 'normal' ground in the game, so I may actually 'finish the fight' soon.

Day 3 - 11th Jun 09
I teamed up with Matt Clarkie to try and squeeze something from Joust and Robotron. We managed to grab the Lvl 5 co-op achievement on Joust, but RoboTron was having none of it. The weird co-op system has one player do the movement while the other shoots. Just when you start to get the hang of it, the roles swap over for the next round. We got to Lvl 5 and even down to one or two bad guys left, but we couldn't get beyond. Good fun though, will try again sometime.
I had a go at getting 15 ranked wins in GH3, but after one loss and one win, I put that on a back burner.

Later, I took a short stumble around Ravenholm and carved up some Headcrab zombies for a cheev in The Orange Box (HL2). Great game, must finish it sometime.
Lastly, fired up my old favorite ShadowRun hoping that I was somewhere near one of the achieves. A couple of games later I got the 100 SmartLink and 100 MiniGun kills. I do tend to use that combo alot, so no surprise that they popped together.

Day 4 - 12th Jun 09
Spent 4 hours playing Bass and singing in Rock Band to creep closer to unlocking the gig completion cheevs, still got a long way to go. :o(
Grabbed a cheeky 10g from Oblivion by advancing in the mages guild.

Day 5 - 13th Jun 09
Bought the Island DLC for Burnout:Paradise, 1000msp well spent, the game feels like new again, with loads to do, grabbed a few cheevs and added it back into my list.

I also took advantage of the offer for GoW2 maps and grabbed a few cheevs there.
Finally, I fired up Mass Effect in the hope that casting War and Singularity at random things might finally pop the 75 uses achieve for one of them. While wandering around I got into a firefight at Chora's Den, used first aid popped the '150 first aid uses' cheev. :o)

Day 6 - 14th Jun 09
Managed to squeeze the 400k solo achieve in GH2, I didn't think I'd ever get any more points from that game, another off the list.
Rainbow 6 Vegas is a game I don't play much, but I dragged myself to the end of the first campaign level to get the 'Tough Homre' cheev. It's a good game, but my Leroy Jenkins approach to shooters doesn't really work very well there.

Day 7 - 15th Jun 09
Rock Band has decided to stop me playing on Easy. I had ground out most of the Band World Tour on my own, doing Voxtar (playing bass and singing at the same time) on easy. However, In order to get enough fans to unlock the next stages, I had to do a few songs on medidm. Once I'd stumbled through Still Alive and Fortunate Son a couple of times on 'build a setlist', I got enough fans to unlock the Hall of Fame gig and the remaining sets I needed to get London and a few other cities finished, but now I have to play at medium or harder. Looks like I'll have to call on Mrs Codehead's vocal skills as I can't manage all the songs by myself anymore.
In frustration, I fired up CoD3 and took a backseat through the Saint Lo mission only needing to fire about 10 rounds to get the conservationist achieve and cross another game off the list.

Day 8 - 16th Jun 09
No Live Today, but I did manage to voxtar the 'Hall of Fame' set solo in Rock Band on medium. 8 double tough songs, but I scraped through for 100g and Rock Band off the list. A nice bonus is the rest of the gigs now have easy available again, so I can voxtar my way through the rest of the location achieves.

Day 9 - 17th Jun 09
Took my drums, guitars and HDD round to Spammy's house for a cider fuelled rockout. I managed to pop the 500 note co-op streak in GH3, another off my list. However, it was done offline after we tried to recover my tag to his 360 and gave up after 45 minutes of nothing happening.
When I got home, my gamertag was borked so I had to recover it. That wiped my offline GH3 cheev :(

Day 10 - 18th Jun 09
Finally got Master Gardener in Shadowrun, also took MotoGP up to the brink of winning the 600 Extreme Legend, Seed #1, All rider credits, etc. But was so tired after a crazy day at work that I left it for another time.

Day 11 - 19th Jun 09
Grabbed the MotoGP achieves that I'd queued up yesterday, but wasn't in the mood to try anything new.

Day 12 - 20th Jun 09
Left Texas Hole 'Em playing all day in the hope of getting 'Luck of the Draw' for one of each hand, no joy though. Had a Gangsta evening on GTA4 and Saints Row to cross them off the list.
Saints Row is a great little game. I like the way that it doesn't take itself too seriously, unlike GTA.

Day 13 - 21st Jun 09
Ground out the challenge wins in Lips this morning to get that off the list, only a bajillion stars left to finish it 1000/1000 now. I'll leave that for Mrs Codehead and her drunk mates to do for me.
Managed to grab 'Complete a level without taking any damage' in Aegis Wing, but didn't get 'Complete a level without dying'. Odd, but I guess you need to be in Co-op for thar one.
Later, I spent a very frustrating hour playing Co-op GH3 with randoms and getting all manner of skill levels. I borked the streak up in an early match when I looked up and the note counter, saw it was on 490, and then looked down again, just in time to miss a note. >:o[ Fortunately, a couple of matches later, I teamed up with a good player and we got the 500 and 1000 note streaks. Online this time so no chance of losing it. That's the first achievement I've had to win twice.

Day 14 - 22nd Jun 09
Family visiting, no gaming for me.

Day 15 - 23rd Jun 09
Family visit/Son's Sports Day. Sun + Cider = alseep on the sofa by 7pm. ]]> Codehead http://www.avforums.com/forums/blogs/codehead-174285/1473-gamerscore-completion-challenge-jun-09-daily-updates-part-1.html http://www.avforums.com/forums/blogs/codehead-174285/1386-gamerscore-completion-challenge-jun-09-daily-updates-part-2.html Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:54:14 GMT 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. ]]> Codehead http://www.avforums.com/forums/blogs/codehead-174285/1386-gamerscore-completion-challenge-jun-09-daily-updates-part-2.html