Achivement Points...

And why they are both the greatest thing since sliced bread and the biggest load of shite i've seen.

Well i now have xbox live, and despite only having played halo, i can confidently say that it is fantastic fun. Apart from when some twelve year old kid tells me what i should be doing but i can't understand him due to his accent. ANYWAY, i have now become aware of my gamerscore (is that the term?) and how bloody low it is; especially when compared to a couple of friends.

There are obviously advantages and disadvantages to this; i guess there are bragging rights for if you're good enough - and i'm not - but more importantly it really gives you motivation to actually finish games. I have a nasty habit of giving up on games halfway though, and i probably would have stopped assassin's creed before finishing it if it weren't for the prospect of getting some more achievement points. It would seem that they will be the things to really start me properly playing games again. If only nintendo could get it in gear and set up a system like this.

On the other hand though, the ease of unlocking them seems to vary way too much. 50 or summat for finishing simple levels of halo, 10 or summat for say, getting a killing frenzy online. Then there are games which partly seem to hand them out for doing squat; avatar, ea games and the like. People seem to buy games just for the points... the day i do that is the day i smash my 360 to pieces. And lastly its annoying cause sometimes theres just no time to be playing games; a gamerscore pretty much correlates with how long you play games for, rather than actually how good you are. Partly cos they're so random; yesterday i got on from dead rising for knocking over summat like 30 zombies with a parasol.

And heres another classic bit of yahtzee... Galaxy review at last. I still ain't finished it. I expect i would if i got achievements...



And also i have wireless, and im typing this from macbook on my bed. w00t its great!

Happy new year to my 3 readers, have a good 2008

Woo lets steal some links!!!

Stolen from other blogs... (Im far to lazy to find stuff myself)

the Excellent Thule Trail

http://www.thuleroadtrip.com/thule_trail/thuleTrail.html

Basically a road trip simulator, which is way more fun than it sounds. Use names of people you know for extra amusement. I got 2495 final score...
(thanks to www.screwyouhippy.com for finding that)

And a Brilliant survey - How many Five year olds could you take in a fight?

http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/

This short survey will tell you approximately how many five year old children you could fight at once. Results are based on physical prowess, training, swarm-combatting experience, and the flexibility of your moral compass. Here are the ground rules:

You are in an enclosed area roughly the size of a basketball court
There are no weapons or foreign objects
Everyone is wearing a cup (so no kicks to the groin)
The children are merciless and will show no fear
If a child is knocked unconscious, he is "out." The same goes for you.

I can apparently take only 19. I think i could take way more than that.... gee...

Which leads me to talk about the excellent Dead Rising, which is practically Dawn of the Dead: the game. I picked it up cheap today, as part of the huge backcatalogue of 360 games i need to get, and from the moment i picked up a bench and tore through hundreds of zombies, i knew it was brilliant. Plantpots, Kitchen knives, coat hangers and teddy bears can all be used for comic amusement to make this a great game.


Aaahhh yeaah