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Found this yesterday on YouTube..(via a vanity Google search. Sue me.) Kinda scary and funny at the same time. The video is one of those self-promoting gaming videos that Thanks goes out to Whiskey and DjDATZ for the support. On a side note, YouTube's comment system oddly takes a while to thread comment replies, as evidence by my initial screen capture. I apparently am going to need to start playing Gears again.
So, having played the delicious demo of Burnout Paradise out on Marketplace, as well as the recent back compat update including Burnout 2: Point of Impact and IGN's mention of Burnout 3: Takedown coming to Xbox Originals made me crave playing it again. Plus, Stryker is a better Crash FM DJ than Atomika, in my minority opinion. So I popped it in and played through some of the Single Player World Tour (what with EA disabling online play, and all) for about 45 minutes. When I got back to my Dashboard on 360, I checked my games played list to look at some GRAW 2 Achievements and saw this:
What is that doing there? Sure, it doesn't show up on my xbox.com profile, but srsly guyz. Why is that there? Why does it show 0 of 0 Achievements with 0 Gamerscore? And why does it have to use the Xbox icon as placeholder. I mean, unless Microsoft is planning to automagically add Achievements to select Backwards compatible/Xbox Originals titles despite saying it won't happen, I know of no reason why that should clutter my Gamercard, only on my Xbox 360, and think it should forever be forgot.
Oh, and BO3:TD? Still frickin' rad.
While playing Dead Rising on Monday I changed up my wardrobe from the MegaMan Tights and Boots with the Lego head to something more akin to what you'd find on movies involving the 13th of the month that happens to be a Friday (but not the same Friday as one you should see Atonement on):
Yeah, I suppose the Heavy Machine Gun is slight overkill, but it sure looks intimidating. It also tears through psychopaths, so that's useful, but is a pain to lug around when dealing with survivors. I'm digging the outfit, and since it's persistent throughout the cutscenes, it adds extra humor. For example, after dispatching Steven, and saving Isabela, she takes off running. Jessie commented on that by saying "Can't blame her from running from someone with your looks." I personally wouldn't be too keen on entrusting my safety with someone that looks like an iconic mass murderer from a movie series, but maybe that's me.
Oh, and yes, it's early, I know.
So, I've been playing Dead Rising, which I actually stopped playing before I started this blog back in September of 2006, so I picked it up again after a year's absence of decapitating zombies with small cyan chainsaws lifted from the (cold and/or dead) hands of overly enthusiastic clowns with separation anxiety. Obviously, in order to justify such odd behavior, considering I have Rock Band, Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty 4 all just sitting on a pile of games that I'm in the middle of playing, I'm going have to give you some context, and it actually involves the latter on that list.
My buddies over at Roosterteeth, Burnie and Geoff, are both something of Achievement Whores as well. Anyway, they had an interesting internal contest with CoD4 where they both started playing the game at the same time and raced to be first to get the full 1000 Gamerscore, since the game was A.) new and B.) had Campaign only Achievements. The winner got to choose an Achievement that they've previously unlocked that they can have the loser go and get themselves.
In the end, it was a close match, but Burnie came out ahead, nabbing the "Mile Hile Club" Achievement and sealing the deal. Burnie had his side of the story on his journal, including a runthrough of the Airplane 60 seconds found in that last link as well as serving up his penance Achievement. Geoff gave his outlook, and eventually finished off the game, and now is working on getting hte "7 Day Survivor" Achievement on Dead Rising. Ironically, in order to get that Achievement, he's going to have to get like, 6 others. But, on the bright side, it's a fun game, even if the 14 hours of gaming required is a bit of a chore.
Geoff and I have played through games together for Achievements before, like Fuzion Frenzy 2, and more recently joining in on his conquest of GRAW 2. So, having played Dead Rising before then abruptly stopping for other gaming stuff, I decided his punishment would be a good excuse to pick it up again and finish off the Achievements, as he and I both agreed that since he's playing it, he might as well get the last Gamerscore remaining, and I felt that I should do the same, after all company and misery tend to go hand in hand, right?
Anyway, in the past week, I've unlocked 15 Achievements in it, and only have 7 more to go. Notably, over the weekend I got Frank The Pimp, Tour Guide, PP Collector, Gourmet and Clothes Horse. I also did some other extracurricular Achievements along the way, but those were some of the big ones. I also had to do Zombie Genocider again, and finish the playthrough to unlock arguably the best medium-long range weapon in the game. My next playthrough will focus on getting Saint, Full Set and Transmissionary, and by utilizing either of my memory cards, I can save a branching point to pick up Snuff Shots J and B. Then that'll leave me with just the two Surviving Achievements.
We've been looking over various guides, and finding the path of least resistance for the various objectives. The Frank the Pimp guide over at GameFAQs is pretty tight, and there's a photo album for all the PP Stickers, a nice list for all the pieces of clothing. I recommend going from Paradise Plaza down to Wonderland via the shortcut in the ladies restroom, then down through Al Fresca and finishing off at Entrance Plaza. For Gourmet, don't forget to drink all the mixed drinks, and you can eat 98% of the list in Seon's Food & Stuff anyway. I did all of those in one playthrough too, so it doesn't take much time if you've got the Small Chainsaw+3 books, Real Mega Buster, and a nice supply of wine, milk or OJ.
Anyway, Geoff and I are probably going to do our Survivor run simultaneously, which will most likely happen on a weekend, since it's 14 hours straight and all. I may liveblog my experience, and he's got some ideas cooking for his coverage too.
Well, after being pretty much a ghost town after getting picked up by Xbox 360 Fanboy for the majority of 2007, it looks like I'll be doing some clean up around here, and bringing the updates to some form of regularity again. I'll do my best to bring people back up to speed on what's going on in my world as it were, and hopefully we'll have some new developments soon.
Either way, take care, and I've got a new post lined up about my recent gaming down the pipeline, so stay tuned.
