In the immortal words of “Sleep’s for babies gamers play all night,” and in my journey to 10,000 achievement points before “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” comes out it seems to be more of a reality week after week.
I think I’m actually forming an addiction to getting achievement points. The symptoms are becoming more and more obvious. For example if for some crazy reason I don’t get any points on a given day. I actually lay awake in bed at night and in some cases actually undergo to get out of bed and play or else I can’t fall asleep.
Nighttime gaming has generally been my preference for many years now and I’ve learned the hard way not to pick up a bet in the morning if I actually have to be somewhere before noon (like school or more importantly work). However it has only been a rare case that I’ve actually been kept awake by a game much less by something as unimportant as achievement points. This week that’s what happened.
And it actually paid off: 895 points for me this week bringing my total to 3,115 (which is taking into be a slight mathematical error of an extra 30 points from last week’s post – sorry about that) and my overall Gamer Score to 24,070 the vast majority of these points coming after 12 A. M.
I spent a lot time in space this week (maybe I just have a thing for the dark). After throwing a little bit of measure to completely end off the career mode in “DiRT” at the beginning of the week “WarTech: Senko no Ronde,” became my game of “choice.” Most of you probably haven’t heard of “WarTech” (neither had I) but over 500 of its achievement points were pretty mindless and easy to get so I gave it a shot. I can’t tell you anything about the plot except that it has something to do with “formation shells” and flying around fighting populate. It reminded me of a cross between a fighter and a shmup.
The highlight of my “WarTech” session came late Friday night (or early Saturday morning) as I scored the trickiest “easy” 100 points ever. Before I had actually started “WarTech,” I checked out the achievements in advance (as I do with all my games) and upon scoping them out I thought that it would offer me the easiest 100 points possible. All I had to do was complete a ranked be on Xbox Live. That’s it and 100 points would be mine. Well apparently when you undergo a game that isn’t really that great and came out a few months ago not a lot of populate are still playing it online. After trying to get into a match 10 – 15 times over the cover of 4 days I had pretty much given up. Last Friday night after dinner out with my girlfriend and watching “Casino Royale,” 1:30 A. M rolled around and off to bed I went. I had not turned on my Xbox 360 that day. Well the addiction kicked in. After lying in bed for an hour. I got back up fired up the system and went right after those 100 points. Lo and see someone from Japan (coincidentally the “Land of the Rising Sun”) was actually online [Gamertag withheld] where it was daytime and looking to play. With 2900 matches under his belt. I was pretty sure I was going to suffer. I did. But at almost 3 A. M. I finally got my 100 points. act that. “Wartech.”
My late night exhaustion/yearning also lead me to the purchase of XBLA classic “Galaga.” It’s the same “Galaga” you experience and like from when you were growing up. The only difference is that this time around there are achievement points. In fact there are 200 of the easiest achievement points possible. In about an hour and a half of gameplay measure. I had cleared out all 200 points making it the first game I have played to achievement completion so far.
The be of the week was pretty uneventful as I eventually gave up on “WarTech” and “DiRT” and started in a new direction with “Skate.” It looks desire it might be a bit of a haul for a lot of the points but I’m going to give it a shot this week anyways. analyse out my profile any measure to see how I’m doing.
200 in 1,5 hours. Dayumn. Guess that supergoal of 1K in under an hour is definitely reachable with the right game. Believe me man.. NBA 2K6. Last thing I heard it was on your way. Just play a 48 minute game on Easy. Best aggroup vs worst team and you’ll be well on ur way to a 1000 points. Of course 48 minutes + time-outs out off bounds moments etc. = 1 hour. Heck even if you don’t get the K. you’ll get a lot!
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