Shouldn't I Remember Harvest Instead?

That's right. Limited Edition baby. I got my copy just after midnight on launch night.

I liked the campaign. It was pretty varied. In "Long Night of Solace" you get to pilot a Sabre and enter a space dog fight. In "New Alexandria" you fly in a Falcon and set down on the top of skyscrapers. And in "The Package" you are repairing turrets and it kind of plays like a tower defense game.

This was by far the easiest halo in terms of achievements. I got all but two in under a month. They were all campaign based achievements so I didn't have to worry about multiplayer triple kills.

Update 1: Haven't played Halo in forever. Loved the single player but I kind of fizzled out on multiplayer way too early.

Update 2: The new DLC seems to have multiplayer focused achievements. Not sure if I'll get it right away. I'll definitely get it eventually.

Halo 3: OMFG

I finally finished stopped playing ODST. It's been a while and my memory is a little faulty so this might be kind of short. I remember liking the game. VISR mode was cool. The Audiophile achievement reminded me of ilovebees.

I was holding on to ODST so I could play the Halo: Reach Beta. After that I was trying to get all of the firefight achievements alone cause I have no friends and firefight has no hoppers. After getting 6 of them I decided to quit. I'm just not into it any more. These things take me a while. "Firefight: Windward" took me 3 days. And since you can't stop during a firefight I had to leave the 360 on the entire time. What I forgot was, being on Live times out. So I got over 600000 points and no one will ever know. My achievement isn't even dated. I hate that.

43/47a - 930/1000g

Reach Beta Tester Is Going On My Resume

The Halo: Reach beta is the best video game beta I've ever played. It's also the only beta I've ever played. I didn't get to play it a ton but I did get to try out most of the game modes.

Arena: I like the idea of being able to suck but not completely bring my teammates down. I didn't play enough games to get put in a division.

Stockpile: I think stockpile might be my favorite new game type. It's a little easier for me to play than 1 flag. Four neutral flags. You bring them to territories by your base. at the end of every minute the flags get collected.

Invasion: Probably the most unique new game type. Elites have 3 objectives which unlock new phases. Spartans try to stop them. 6 vs. 6 made of 3 groups of 2 on each side. It's sort of like a one sided territories or king of the hill but with phases. Each phase increases and improves loadouts and gives you more vehicles.

Invasion Slayer: Similar to Slayer but uses the territories idea to drop weapons and vehicles. The phases improve the drops.

Network Test 1: Also known as Generator Defense. Possible new game type. Sort of like Invasion. One team of Spartans protect generators. One team of Elites try to blow them up. Unlike Invasion you switch offense and defense each round. 3 Spartans, 3 Elites, 3 Generators.

Headhunter: Kill someone, a skull pops out. Collect the skull and deposit it in a territory, like Stockpile but the territories move. When you die your skull and all the skulls you had collected fall out. First to 25 or first to deposit 10 skulls at once wins.

They could sell the beta and people would buy it.

I have a snazzy new Halo: Reach gamercard at the right.

0/0g - It's a beta.

Metroid Frustration

Here's the story:
I'm working on completing Insane Difficulty in "Gears of War 2" when "The Ballad of Gay Tony" comes out. I gotta run through that. Then I realize I don't have 100% in "The Lost and Damned." So I finish that first then get 100% in Ballad. I still need 100% in the missions but decide to come back to that later.

Instead of going back to Gears 2 I decide to put in Burnout Paradise. I've been wanting to play it since it came out and I've had it for a month. It's better than I thought it would be. The demo doesn't do it justice. I play it all day long. Next day I fire up the game again but the disc isn't reading. I take it out and it looks fine, not at all like the first Gears 2 I had to send back. Try a few more times, it still doesn't work. I decide to clean it, still nothing. I pop in Gears 2 and it works fine. So I'm like "What the hell? I have to send another game back?"

I start playing Gears for a few hours then I shut it down to do something else. I come back and now Gears isn't reading. Now I'm freaking out. I try Halo 3 ... nothing. Orange Box? No go. So I realize it's not the games. My disc drive is dead. My 360 is past warranty and I can't pay to fix it at the moment. I have these games installed to the hard drive by the way. I just need to read the disc for a second and I can play. But no. And of course it didn't Red Ring so I wouldn't have to pay for it.

So here I am driveless and can't play disc games. Peggle goes on sale. I buy that and have been playing it since. A friend asks me what I'm going to do about Gamefly and I say "I don't know. I can't find any info about freezing the account." His question gets me looking again and I find out you can't freeze Gamefly accounts, only terminate them. So I'm stuck paying $20 a month for games I can't even play.

Which brings me to Metroid Fusion. See, I was getting there. If I'm paying for games I'm playing games. Emulators FTW. Played through Fusion. I found it harder than Super Metroid. There were a few times where I had no idea where to go. I had to watch a speedrun to get through parts. I thought the bosses were easier once you knew how to beat them: Spam Beam or Spam Missles. A good sequel over all. Next up Zero Mission, which should be interesting since I never played original Metroid.

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John (Forge) of Arcadia

Done with Halo Wars. Only got to 790g.

After spending an hour and a half in one online skirmish I could tell online just wasn't for me. At about an hour in my ADD kicked in and I was trying to lose.

I got all of the solo achievements minus beating legendary. Still was a fun game.