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Re: My Summer

One constant in my life these days is college. Over the summer I'll continue attending a few business classes, since I'd quite like to avoid spending too many more years in school. There is no longer time for indecision on a future career in my life.

That alone isn't a very interesting answer. It's intentionally vague, too! I should probably talk about something gaming-related.

Provided collegework doesn't become too menacing (and by all means it shouldn't), I'm looking into going back to play a bunch of older games and rack up achievements I've missed in them. To say Giant Bomb's new achievement ranking system isn't factoring into this decision at all would be an outright lie. I've earned almost 70% of the possible gamerscore I can earn with all the games I've played, and I'd like to get that figure closer to 75% overall. Failing that, I'll settle for a few more S-ranks and a few less C and D-ranks.

What can I say? I like being a completionist and getting as much value as I can out of my games.

Anyways, here's a broad summary of some of the more pressing tasks I'd like to accomplish before a wave of new releases hits:

  • Finish the multiplayer achievements in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, then deal with the DLC. I am not looking forward to having to play Klungo Saves The Universe.
  • Find remnants of humanity that might actually play PGR3 and PGR4, and get multiplayer achievements for both those games. PGR3 will be a tremendous challenge, since its multiplayer makes ghost towns look crowded.
  • Get good or lucky enough at Peggle to finally beat someone by over 100k in a party game. That probably means I need to learn how to score over 100k on a consistent basis!
  • Finally collect all the bloody hidden orbs in Crackdown. Maybe I'll be able to coerce my old teammate in Crackdown to jump into finishing time trials on psychotic with me, too!
  • Find out why I'm so bad at Pac-Man C.E., and fix that matter right proper.
  • Enter Test Drive Unlimited, find the handful of people who still play that, and beg them to let me win in multiplayer and club races. I suppose I could find normal people willing to help with that, too, but that's a lot of effort.
  • Maybe finish GTA IV. Not terribly psyched for that idea. It takes far too long for me to set up for missions.
  • Maybe run through the campaigns of both Gears of War games at higher difficulties. I only touched Gears of War 1 once for a co-op playthrough on the easiest difficulty. It was one crazy six-hour stint. I probably owe the game more attention.
  • Maybe play that Undertow game Microsoft gave out as an apology for downtime? Ehh. Maybe not.


Will I complete this all before I get the urge to buy new games? Of course not. It'll be interesting to try anyways, though, not to mention it'll keep me away from soul-draining addictions like MMOs.
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