When as many cool things happen as they did with me these past few days, I feel the need to share my experiences with others. I was debating on how to list them, whether it be ranked by coolness or in chronological order. Eventually I decided to throw order aside and just go with what comes to mind first.

Over the weekend I had a friend come over who has been helping me Co-Op thru Halo 3 Legendary. We only had the very last level left to do so we decided to knock it out between killing terrorists in R6V and G.R.A.W. Took about 40 minutes to complete the last level for us but I got some cool SS’s, one of which is below.



Upon completing the final level on legendary I was awarded the achievement for doing so, which brought my gamerscore above 7k. =) The icing on the cake was that the achievement for beating the game on legendary was the last achievement I needed in order to get 1000/1000. This is the first game I have gotten all 1000/1000 points, which also unlocked the cool Katana armor that you can see below on my character.



I’ve been playing Halo 3 MP more recently, maybe just to show off the sword, but after taking a break from it since like last November I am a little rusty and seem to get killed a lot more often now then I did back then; I blame the sword for drawing to much attention… yeah that’s it.

Also over the weekend I decided I was gonna go reserve GTA 4 at my local game store. Along with my decision to go pre-order, I also decided to trade in one of my rarely played games and put the credit towards my reservation. Which game got traded in towards the purchase of GTA4?

Lost Odyssey.



Yeah I know. I am the first one to admit when I am wrong. I know I made a post about my first impressions for LO. Let me explain my decision to part ways with LO. First let me say that I never actually beat the game, which is horrible I know. After purchasing LO I couldn’t turn it off, I burned thru 3 discs and loved every minute of it. But then eventually I started playing other games with a friend on XBL and when I went back to try and play LO, it felt like a chore. I can’t really explain it any better than that, I couldn’t bring myself to start playing it again. Anyone else every have this happen with a game??

Anyways, while I was shopping that day I also finally was able to find a copy of Professor Layton and the Curious Village. So I got it, and let me tell you, for as annoying as having to solve a puzzle just to take a piss can get, I cant seem to put the game down. I find myself constantly saying, ok ill solve this puzzle then do something else, then 10 puzzles later I am still at it.



Lets see, anything else? Oh! After watching the Zero Punctuation Review of Zach and Wiki, or Wank and Sticky as Yahtzee put it, and hearing how he thought Roberta Williams adventure games like Kings Quest were shit, I decided to try out some of the other adventure games of ‘ole that other people rave about. First one on my list is Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle, by Lucas arts, which oddly makes like every other adventure game I got over the weekend to go back and play. So far the game is loads of fun, quirky characters and subdued humor are all things I enjoy in games so I look forward to playing more.



So the past week has been pretty cool as far as gaming goes, hopefully I will enjoy the weeks to come.

Thoughts? Comments?