Xbox 360 Update

Nice to see they are still updating the 360.

My old elite is still going strong and my kids are using it now.

Microsoft gives the Xbox 360 its own preview program http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/03/xbox-360-preview-program/?ncid=rss_truncated

Modern Warfare 3

I've been working on Modern Warfare 3 for the last 3 weeks trying to finish it before the Xbox One comes out.  I finished the campaign and all the achievements in about 1.5 weeks.  I got 1 star on all the Spec Ops Missions and I've been working on getting to wave 15 for all the Survival boards.  I don't think I can get all 3 stars before the Xbox One comes out for the Missions so that's one achievement that I will be leaving undone in this game.  I'm down to 3 boards on Survival mode to get to wave 15 and I'll get 2 achievements on that.  I just need to get to level 50 to buy all the items I can in the supply boxes for 2 more achievements and that will leave me with just 1 achievement left for the original 1000 in the game.  I don't have time for the DLC and any money I have will go towards the Xbox One now.

Batman Arkham City Update 2

Well, finding all of Catwoman's trophies in the game plus finishing off the Museum helped me get over 400 trophies.  I was able to find Riddlers hideout and got my achievement.

I was trying to perform one fighting move that catwoman has for an achievement.  Once I get that, I will try some of the fighting parts but that will be it.  I think I'm pretty much done with this game for all the achievements I'll be able to get in the game.  I'm not going to run through it all over again for 2 more possible achievements.

Batman Arkham City Update

I did finish off the Harley Quinn DLC.  It didn't take too much to finish it off.

So I've been running around the city trying to find all the riddles.  I need 400 in order to unlock The Joker.  My biggest problem was that no ? were showing on my map.  So I've been using this guide from over at Games Radar.  You can bring up each section of the city and below that picture, they show another picture of The Riddlers riddles.  They matched them up by numbers so you can compare to yours to see what you're missing, then look on the map to see where it is on the map.  It is helping me find tons of riddles I've missed.  I've cleared out most of the city and realized I didn't have hardly any in the Museum.  So I almost got done with it last night but I couldn't figure out how to get into the back room from the front side.  I might have to leave, go out and around to the back of the building and come in that way if I can't figure it out tonight.

Once I have those, I'll be with in 10 of having the 400 I need.  Actually, just realized, I have to go get Catwoman and go back into the Museum to get 2 or 3 tropies setting in there for her as well so it'll cut my numbers down some.

After that, I'm still missing quite a few in the Steel Factory.  So I'll go there to finish up getting to 400 riddles.  I'll be glad too as the one screen that I don't have hardly any on is where you have to perform actions in order to get the riddles.  Some are probably doable but I just don't want to have to deal with that.  I'd rather just run around and find riddles.

Once I finish that up, the debate is on for where I want to beat it on New Game + and go for Perfect Knight Day 2 or just be done with the game.  I'm trying to finish up games before the Xbox One comes out and this would let me be done with this game.  I might try some of the fights to see if I can't earn a few of the combat ones but that would be all I would do.  Guess I could go for all the catwoman riddles as well just to add a small 10 point achievement.  I will at least go over 1K with all the achievements I will have gotten.

Would you go for finishing the game all over again or just let it be and move on?

Batman Arkham City

Went back to Batman Arkham City yesterday and finished finding the catwoman trophies.  Also found another Batman trophy as well.  When I got those, hostage #5 appeared and I was able to finish that off.  I still need to find more so that I can unlock The Joker so I can fight him to beat him for an achievement.  I'll work on that next.

I did get the Harley Quinn DLC at some point when it went on sale so I played through the entire DLC but at the end I started working on the achievements to knock them out.  I got all but 3 so I'm running back through the DLC again to finish them.  I found all of Harley's balloons before I went to bed last night.  So knocked out that achievement.  The last 2 I have left are to attach the blast sphere to 4 different types of objects, including people.  If I would have read up on that achievement before just running through I would have knocked out that achievement on my first run as I accomplished some task differently so it never counted for what I needed to do in certain spots.  After that, I have to finish disarming the alarms in under 3 minutes.  Gotta love time based achievement.  8(

So I'll try to finish that up tonight and finish the riddler off.  Then I'll be able to start working on running back through the entire game again if I feel up for getting that achievement.

Assassian's Creed 2 Free on Xbox Live

It's up free today.  Grab it before the month ends.

Alan Wake

I bought this game again as i bought the 2nd DLC like 2 years ago and never could find a copy to borrow.

Overall it was fairly easy to beat but getting through it without dieing got a little frustrating.  Mainly the tornado section where you have to jump and land on moving objects to get up.  Once I got by that i was able to finish the rest easily enough without dieing.  Had a couple close calls but as long as u

You run and use your flares, all will work out.

Yet Another Game Released With Servers Down

You would think after Doritos Crash Course that another game directly behind it would come out with you connecting to servers to play be down on the day of launch.

Well it has and Spartacus Legends has come out with servers down.  Why? Why would you put out a game and not have the servers online to connect to?  How idiotic can you be.  Im tempted to just delete it and not ever play it.

If its not on by nighttime for me to connect, I probably will.

Jeremy McGrath's Offroad

This game was on sale last week so I picked it up as it looked like an easy arcade to complete and I was in the mood for some racing.

The game is ok but it's not no top of the line game you just gotta have.  Hit one glitch where I got stuck in a spot that I couldn't get out of.  Luckily they have a reset button for when that happens.  I did flip a couple times but this game does not show any damage and the flip was not impressive.

In about 1 hour and 30 minutes you can unlock all but one of the achievements.  The last achievement you have to drive for 1000 miles in the game.  I tried doing a spin and letting my truck just spin around all night but it kept going wide and it got stuck.  Going to have to get that 360 turn going better or pick a track with a little more so it won't get stuck.  If you want to do it by driving it all, I think I had around 120 miles after the 1.5 hours of playing.  So around 7 to 8 hours to finish it up that way?  Ill stick to rubber banding the controller while its plugged up and earn it that way.

Doritos Crash Course 2

How about that, they put out a Doritos Crash Course 2 today.  Just over 300 megs and when you get into the game, it downloads more content.  What's even better is, it says the store is down and try back in a hour.  You can't even play the game.  What a bunch of crap that is.  So now its linked online and I can't play offline at all if their stuff is down.  Way to go Doritos, you screwed up right off the bat.

Xbox 360 Pizza Hut App

Now we're talking.  I can order a pizza right off the 360 now.

"Pizza Hut app comes to Xbox 360, unstoppable force meets immovable gamer" http://feedly.com/k/ZJtK1w

Gears of War Judgement

How about that, I won a copy of this game from Microsoft Expertzone.  Guess I'll get to play the new GOW sooner than later.

I did start it last night and I was told the controls are different.  At first it seems the same but then I realize it didn't.  Trying to get the hang of the grenade toss now and those subtle differences they made for doing those actions quicker instead of having to select it on the D pad like in the past.

Pinball FX2 - Star Wars Episode 5 Table

I was sent a challenge request from someone beating my score on the Star Wars Episode 5 table on Pinball FX2 so I've been playing it the last 2 days.  I was doing pretty good yesterday but last night I was dropping the balls out constantly.  At least until the last round I played.  While I was playing, I got the achievement on this table so that made my night just getting that.  I lost the ball soon after that but the cool part is, I was around 160,000 short from beating the score of the challenge I was sent.  Well, when I lost the ball, all the bonus points pushed up over that score and beat The Dren's score as well.  Which also gave me first place amongest all my friends that have played the table.  I don't get send Dren a challenge request ever, so to be able to send him one was a treat last night.  It's nice being #1 for a change.  Last time I had that was on the Hulk table and I need to try to reclaim that.  I still want to raise up my Plants vs Zombies score as I'm 2nd on that one but my current score is over 300M.  That's the highest score I have on any table and the person above is ahead by about 20 million.  So I've go to set down and try to get first on that table again one day.

Yu-Gi-Oh! on Xbox 360 is a Plus now

I was happy to see when they brought Yu-Gi-Oh! back to the Xbox 360 again but I never realized they added a Plus to it.  So I'm definitely a little late to the party posting about this but since I just found out, I gotta say something.

I loaded it up just the other day and had a huge update.  Couldn't for the life of me figure out why it was so big.  I haven't played it since they released it back out so I knew it would have an update but didn't think it would be that big.

So it gets done and I go to play.  Win my first match and the cards that popped up, I was like, I don't have that card, I've never seen that card on here before.  I was confused.  Went through a few matches and realized the players decks had changed as well.  I was thrown off for sure.

So jumped online and sure enough, when they released it back out, they put out a bunch of new cards for it.  I might have all the achievements but now I have a reason to play it to earn more cards to make more decks to play with.  So I'm a little excited for that.

Now if I could just get one of my friends to buy it and start playing it, I know I'll always have someone to play it with.

World of Keflings - Aliens

I finished this game a while ago but I bought the DLC at one point when it was on sale and decided to play it and finish them off.

Starting out on the Aliens one.  I got to the first achievement in the game after getting the lobster built and I upgraded it.  Well, I didn't read the text to well and I needed to make a 2nd lobster before I upgraded it as for the type of resources it was giving out.  So I spent like 20 minutes baffeling my head on a way to fix this without starting over.  Finally gave up, saved it and went to bed.

So of course while I'm laying in bed, I'm always running stuff through my head and the game was stuck in my head.  It finally clicked and I remembered I could destroy it.  Destroying it and rebuilding it should take it back to the original lobster.

So 24 hours later when I got to play it again, sure enough, I did just that and it worked.  Built a 2nd one and have both resources now.  Whew!  Close one.

So when the chicken came up, I built a 2nd one real quick before I did any upgrades.

So working towards finishing off Aliens and I'll move onto whatever the next DLC I got was next.

Dead Island

I bought this game a while ago and was playing through it then I got pulled away by other games.  A friend of mine got it out of the blue so I went back to playing it so I could play with him.  Needless to say I've been playing mostly this and last night I finished the game for the 1000 points.  I'm not buying the DLC to finish it completely so I'm done with the game.

When I first started playing the game, it was really hard.  Everything you do,  you take at a slow pace.  I mean, why wouldn't you, there are zombies showing up everywhere you go.  Actually completeing the game for first time through is going to take you a while to do.  There is an achievement in the game where you have to finish Act 1 with all 4 players.  Which is the last achievement I got.  After replaying that Act 1 for four times now.  I've gotten pretty good at this game.  It doesn't take that long to get through the quests that are given to you.  I even run more and take out the zombies easier.  Mobs are still hard as you just have too many to swing at and can't get them all.  Even so, this game at a fast pace is still fun to run through.

Part of the fun this game has is you get to mod weapons.  You have to find the blue prints in order to be able to make them.  They are scattered around the entire island, so you need to look for them everywhere you go.  Upgrading them changes the look as well so don't just leave them at level 1.  Max out the level of the weapon.  One you will really see change is the Hot Rod mod where your big knife will turn an orange glow like it's on fire.  It does some pretty good damage.

The game does have some glitches but I'm not going to linger on it.  I just wanted to mention to have a 2nd save of your save file as when you connect to someone or they connect to you online, if it freezes up, there is a possiblity that you could lose all your inventory for your character or lose that save file comletely.  So be careful when you start playing online to get your achievements or even with your friends.

There are a few guns in the game that you can make or get from someone who has them that are glitched guns.  I have an assault rifle that never runs out of ammo and kills everything in 1 or 2 shots.  I have shotgun that has lightning bullets that come out and destroys anything it hits.  I also have an unlimited sniper rifle.  So if you want to make the game easy, get your character to level 20 and you'll be able to hold these guns if someone gives them to you.

If you're looking for a good zombie game to play and you like open world, I would recommend picking up this game.  You will definitely enjoy it the more you play it.

Lego Lord of the Rings

I finished up Lego Lord of the Rings last night after being stuck for 3 days trying to figure out if the game had glitched on me or not.  Before I get into that, I'll go into how the game is.

They did an excellent job on this game.  It covers the entire story and they hit the main points with all the cinematic parts.  If you somehow haven't never watched Lord of the Rings, you will get the story pretty good.

They do have the talking like Lego Batman 2 in this one which I think is a great addition to game.  The comedy for this one isn't a much compared to previous titles though.  They do still have them but it just wasn't the full funny effect like I'm use to seeing.

You will run into some glitches in the game.  There seems to be a few, especially looking at some online stuff.  I actually fell into the water and even though I died, I lived and was under the water where I was stuck walking around and couldn't do anything.  The biggest one that I was stuck on for 3 days, which I had hit before but it just never clicked until I did something to make me think of it, is when you pick up the scavenger items.  There are 3 per board.  You need to use someone from the fellowship of the ring to pick them up.  If not and you pick one up with say gollum, you'll see him carrying it around like you got it but it never registers that you got it.  If you can drop it and pick it up with another character from the fellowship, it will register and finally count.  I had done this on mount doom and it was down to me getting that to get 4 achievements in the game from the 1 item I needed to finish off and get all the rest.

My kids are really enjoying playing this game as well.  They go back and play all the lego games but I see them going back to play this one more and more like Lego Pirates of the Carribean and Indiana Jones.  It's just fun to play.

So now that I've finished this game, which is the first for 2013 for me, I am back to 100% of the Lego games compelete again.  Now I've got to wait to see what they put out next.

Kinect Party

Kinect Party for the Xbox 360 is free until 2013.  Grab it if you want it.

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Kinect-Party/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025841125c?cid=SLink

GOW3 - Finally Boosted to Level 100

Ever since I got the Xbox 360 public beta to test for new desktop, I wasn't able to load up a guest account in GOW3.  Now that the beta is over and I have the full desktop load back, I can once again load a guest account.

Two days ago, I setup my Xbox to boost up some points.  I forgot all about my Hori controller moving and not staying on target.  So I didn't gain any experience at all.

So yesterday I started around 7 pm to try to get it setup right before I let it run through the night.  My first attempt, the controller moved where I was looking and didn't stay on target.  On my second attempt and I actually got it to stick and not move.  However, the guy getting the gun kept pushing it out of range no matter how I set it up.  So every 10 mins, he wasn’t picking up the gun for me to spot.  So around 11 pm I finally redid where the gun was and repositioned him.  It finally lasted more than 10 mins and I went to bed hoping for the best.

So what do I see when I cut the TV on this morning, my guy is dead on the screen.  Unless a friend joined in on my match to kill my guy, I don’t know how my guy picking up the gun could have died.

So I started up another horde round and finished it before I quit out.  I was really happy when I actually got to watch the meter run across the screen.  I started at level 91 so moving past that was great.  Then the meter just didn't stop and it maxed out at 100.  I was ecstatic to see that I made it to level 100.  I guess I’ll get my achievement when I reup since I didn't have time to do that needing to get to work.

Now I get to keep working on it until I can get to level 100 again for the 2nd reup achievement. 

I'll have to go look but there aren't very many achievements left in this game that I'm going to put the time in to get.  So I'll have to check on that this afternoon to see what I have left.

Batman: Arkham City

I've actually stopped playing pinball since I beat a friends score and I've been working on Batman: Arkham City.  I actually finished the story in the game already but that leaves you with just over 300 points in achievements.  That means there are lots more to do in the game.

Well, even though I beat the game for the story line, the other side stories or side missions in the game are still waiting.  So I went and finished all those up except for The Riddlers.  Well, I did rescue 2 hostages but you have rescue like 6 I think.  Well, you don't unlock the hostages until you collect enough of the Riddlers trophies around the map.  So I'm currently running around trying to find all the trophies in the game which I've spent 3 days in one corner and I still have a few I'm trying to find or figure out.  I thought the first Batman was bad, this one has even more.  What really got me last night was I kept seeing these brackets  that look like [] on the map.  I had no clue what they were until now.  They are where the answers to Riddlers riddles are.  You literally have to find what he's talking about, do a scan while in front of the object to complete the riddle.  Luckily the game has guys you'll see in green with the scan mode (forgot what it's called) on.  If you interrogate them, they give you the locations of the riddles on the map.  Without that or using a guide, figure all this out on your own would make this game extremely difficult to finish.

Microsoft had 2 of the 4 DLC's on sale this week.  They were Robin and Nightwing's DLC.  Those DLC's don't have any story  modes in them at all.  They are strictly on the fighting arena which I royally suck at the fighting in this game.  I was horrible at it in the first one and I'm not going to waste my time to do what I'm just not good at.

The other 2 DLC's have stories included with them.  I got Catwoman's as I bought the game new.  Harley Quinn's is the other DLC and I would have liked to have bought that one but not for $10.  If they would have put that on sale I would have bought it.

I'll definitely finish and find all the riddles and Riddlers trophies to finish that story line.  Which after I finish all that there is another mode I have to run through and beat the story again.  Only this time the game doesn't give you any help but you did get to keep all your gadgets.  By the time I finish finding all the Riddlers stuff I'll have maxed out everything on Batman so at least he'll be maxed out with every ability when I run through that mode.

I think I have ran into one glitch in the game though and it's with Catwoman's DLC.  After you beat Two Face, you have to go find and beat up 16 thugs to get your loot back.  Well, I've taken down 12 and there are no more guys to take out with loot.  I've ran through and taken every guy down in this entire part of the city where Two Face is and still nothing.  So unless the game randomly spawns them in at some point, I don't know if I'll be able to finish Catwoman's story line.