Dragon Age is done. 40 hours on this playthrough but over 60 on the game. I had an issue with my EA account right around the time Mass Effect 2 came out where my EA account was pointing to my hotmail instead of my gmail address. I was adding DLC on the EA website through my gmail but on my 360 with my hotmail apparently. When I switched everything over to my gmail account I then had a 20 hour game save that wouldn't load because it was missing DLC that was tied to my hotmail address. That left me kind of bitter and I didn't play the game again for most of a year.
It was a great game so I knew I wanted to get to it early in Operation Backlog. One thing I realized is due to the scope of these types of games they are always going to have some pretty glaring flaws. It's just impossible to make a perfect role playing game and still give it a long epic scope. Dragon Age was a miss on the combat, graphics and the generic fantasy background. Oblivion was a miss on the auto leveling AI enemies and a lackluster main plot. Fable II had a miss with the lackluster story. Not to say I don't enjoy all of these games. It's just that I'm probably a lot more forgiving of this genre now after this realization.
Bring on the next one. Only 27 more games to go!
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The rule of Operation Backlog already took a drunken hit this weekend when I bough Plants vs Zombies on live arcade. The rule is no new games until the backlog is complete. Sometime after midnight a few too drinks this weekend I thought I should buy PvZ for another platform. With that bad decision behind me I'm facing my biggest challenge today with Halo: Reach. I thought I wasn't that into it this time and figured I could wait until OB was complete. I waited months for ODST after all. The buzz has been going at decent clip at work today and I'm tempted to pick it up on the way home. If I just make it through to Saturday I think most people will stop talking about it so much, I hope.
The other part that has me jonsing is the fact that this whole plan is going to take longer than I thought with the number of RPG games I have. I just passed 33 hours on this Dragon Age playthrough and I haven't even started the Landsmeet yet. I've made the decision that in cosideration for time I'm going to have to hold off getting any DLC for any of these games until I'm done with them all. Otherwise I may never finish. I think the longest games I have in the backlog are Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV, Final Fantasy XIV and Oblivion. Sweet jebus that's 150 hours of gaming right there. Ok, one game at a time, one game at a time, one game at a time.
I wrote this post to try to feel better about not getting Reach and now I'm freaking out about the actual hours it'll take to complete the backlog. Thanks, hmph.
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Batman Arkham Asylum is done. I began to like it a lot more as I moved along through the game. It seemed like the story only really kicked in after Harley was locked up which was only in the last 1/3 of the game. The combat kind of got frustrating to me with only like 3 moves. I think if I had gotten better with the gadgets it would have been smoother so I guess that was more my fault. I beat it on normal and got 55% of the Riddler challenges but I don't think I'll be going back for anymore. I'm not sure which should be my next game. I was thinking about one of the longer ones or back to finish out the DLC from Fable 2. Also of note; I'm currently 2nd and about 150 points back in the 360voice points challenge I'm currently in.
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So the Fable II main story is down. I need to finish the two DLC packs still. I finished Shank and Braid. Braid was another game I had just stopped right near the end. I was in world 6 and some of the puzzles were just getting frustrating so I stopped playing it last year. I went back and figured some of them out on my own and hit up youtube for the rest. I think there were only 4 pieces I didn't have. I'm most of the way through Splinter Cell Conviction and Batman: Arkham Asylum. I'm tempted to just send Splinter Cell back though. It's not my kind of game at all. I'm just running through the levels anymore just to get them over with. It's a gamefly rental so anything else in my list has got to be better.
Operation Backlog also works into the achievement contest I'm in with a few friends over at 360voice.com, The September 360 Achievement Points Challenge. I figure working through this backlog should be a good bounty of points that will do me well in the competition. It's day 4 of 30 and I should be moving into the lead tonight. I wish they had achievement challenges here at giantbomb.
On August 23rd my gamerscore was 34035. We'll note that and see what it ends up being after Operation Backlog is complete. I don't know how long it's going to last but here's the mission.
In addtion to the games on that list there will be also the various titles that come in through gamefly. Right now I'm working on Splinter Cell: Conviction from gamefly. The make it work I'm not going to buy any new games until this is complete. I may buy DLC but no new arcade or retail games. Part of the reason for this is to save money but also to bring more respectability to my gaming. I look at all the games lined up underneath my television and more are uncompleted than not.
Alright I've put this in writing now we'll see how this goes.
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It's weird. I seem to always get the itch around 10am. It's that feeling that playing games is probably a better use of my time than whatever I'm doing at the moment. Usually & almost always it's at work. I feel I get that itch the most between 10am and 4 pm. Unfortunately I'm working 9-6p right now though. The iphone has saved me from going crazy at work more than a few times. GeoDefense, Peggle, Doodle Jump & Plants vs Zombies have gotten me through many a lunch time boredom.
I'm not very big late night gamer either. I'd much rather wake up early and play than stay up until 3am. I used to sport this wallpaper quite a bit back in the day.
Really. Every week there's a pretty awesome title out that I want to play on the 360. That doesn't even include the PS3 and the occasional Wii game. The dearth of games has been the only thing keeping me back from buying a PS3 & a Wii. I'm still wrapping it up, but as you can see in the list I made I have no shortage of games still I have yet to beat on the 360. I know a lot of those are 2 years old and all my problem that they haven't been beat but still. Even looking at my list you can see that its missing a lot of the 2010 titles. There just isn't enough time in the day anymore! But i let out a big 'Hell yeah!' when I read over on bitmob this week that it's wasn't all my fault. (Just what anyone in denial wants to hear right?) The Death of the Video Game Expert. The fact is there are just more games out than they used to. But alas here I am posting this when I should be just playing. Off to tackle the list!
In this market I wish I could in invest in gamerscore, it's on the way up. Mine specifically. I busted out almost a grand of more points yesterday through Madden 09 and getting the Halo 3 skulls.
Back on the market and games though; Friday morning NPR ran a small report during the morning news talking about how video games are a booming market in a down economy. They did some street interviews with people that were really exicited about games in the game isle of some Best Buy. That turned out to be way too much cheese to hear at 5:50am on my way to work. Then also listening to the 1up yours podcast the same subject came up over there this week. They were stating a similar trend had happened after 9/11 back in '01. They called it people going into a "nesting" mode. As we're going into the fall big time release season I'm sure this will turn out pretty well for the big game publishers this year.
Oh and that Waves issue in GeoWars 2? Owned. Now up to 4.5 million.
Damnit all to hell! Waves in Geometry Wars 2 has been killing me. I'm going back and forth with a friend on high scores through all the modes in GeoWars2. I own them all, he comes back wins some, I go back, you get it. Well last week he got 3mil in waves. This one level has been my obsession all week now. I hit 2.7 mil twice yesterday but it's a lot of blind luck to get there it seems. I then check out the ol'tube and some dude gets 24 mil in under a minute. Pfft.
So looking back on it again, I'm going across the field of play too much probably... damn back to salt mines.
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