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Feb
24
PermalinkKinect Week and Mortal Kombat Collection update
Eh the blog needed updating...

I am deeming Kinect week a complete success.
I completed 5 "games"

Hulk Hogan's Main Event Which i started in November 2012. Periodically would lose tracking. Ended up needing to walk off screen so it would track properly. Menus could be erratic too so there were probably a half dozen times when i quit out of a fight and didn't want to do so.

izret102's achievements in Deepak Chopra's Leela
Also started in November of 2012. Probably 95% of this game is easy. The exceptions being
Deepak Chopra's LeelaNo Bad VibesThe No Bad Vibes achievement in Deepak Chopra's Leela worth 86 pointsComplete a level without touching any negative energy (level 5 and up).
which is more luck than skill.
The other being
Deepak Chopra's LeelaFrictionlessThe Frictionless achievement in Deepak Chopra's Leela worth 68 pointsFly for 2 minutes without passing through a gate.
which while random is much more generous with the needed blue orbs to keep you moving. That being said i still had several attempts where i ended between 1:50 and 1:57 before finally getting the needed 2 minutes.

Deepak Chopra's LeelaIntuitionThe Intuition achievement in Deepak Chopra's Leela worth 42 pointsFinished all levels of Intuition.
was without a doubt the most difficult part of the game.(For me) Level design was like Frequency where you move around inside of a "tube" difference being in Frequency you had to hit note to make a beat. In this you need to move from track to track to pick up blocks of the same color. More or less the rest of the game is pretty slow paced but this got pretty frantic on some of the later levels.

izret102's achievements in Kinect PlayFit i had actually started in August 2012. At the time the Explorer achievement had glitched on me and popped before meeting the requirements. Initially i was happy about it because the calorie tracking was pretty shoddy. In the end it didn't matter because i met the requirements by WAY more than needed.


izret102's achievements in Freefall Racers i had only started a month ago. I really didn't think i was going to be able to complete it because even with a couple hours of trying to get
Freefall RacersGo Team!The Go Team! achievement in Freefall Racers worth 24 pointsPlay as a team and come 1st and 2nd
with my son (who was hilarious to watch playing) he wasn't getting anywhere near the required skill to complete it. I finally tricked my other half into playing it with me and after 5-6 runs she was good enough to take second place... barely.

izret102's achievements in Self-Defense Training Camp
More or less took me a day to finish. The Balance section gave me the most trouble specifically #7. It was very heavy on foot/leg recognition and seemed to not want to track at all. It took me a couple hours to pass that one and then i passed 8 in 2 attempts and 9/10 on the first try.

The only other thing that might give people who are insanely lacking in flexibility would be the kick attacks. Fairly certain regardless of your height you need to get your foot shoulder high in order for it to track as a high kick. Even so i only had to replay the first level once. And being only 5 levels at 1:30 long it should still be easy enough for almost anyone to complete.

izret102's achievements in Just Dance 3 also had quite a bit in it i was able to finish which i had really assumed would not be the case. If i had spent more time with it i could have probably gotten a few more achievements out of it. I might go back at some point to work on the songs played and getting starts on every track but i'm in no rush.


On the Mortal Kombat front....
I've had a friend keeping an eye out on this for me for a while now
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I ended up importing it from Europe. So yay i got it finally! But boo i need to find a sealed US copy still at some point. Plus with the way Euro games are released(TOO MANY REGIONAL VARIANTS) i might need to track down another European release at some point.

I actually didn't have the money to buy it so i asked my mother to get it for me as a birthday present since every year she complains that i never tell her what to get me and i end up with socks or some random goofy but generally thoughtful gift.

Since i have next to no income i haven't been buying much of anything and have not been browsing eBay but for whatever reason i had the urge to do so today. Came across an auction for this
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with a couple hours left on it and decided to bite the bullet. It was fate :-P

I'll have to get some stuff put up for sale recoup at least what i spent on it. But i've been waiting for one in good condition to show up at a reasonable price for so long i couldn't not buy it. There have been a couple put up for stupid high priced 200-300$s and were in much worse looking shape so i am pretty happy :)

Fingers crossed nothing else i REALLY want shows up until i can afford to get it. There are always MK goodies i don't own and want luckily there isn't anything else on my "must have" radar that i have been hunting down.
Posted by izret102 on 24 February 14 at 01:22 | There is 1 comment on this blog post - Please log in to comment on this blog.
Jan
01
PermalinkNew Year. Old Stats.
Last nights stat post was wrong. I forgot to refresh...

2013
izret102 won 3,497 Achievements in 250 games, for a total of 110,467 TrueAchievement points (64,802 GamerScore). About a 1.7 ratio. Of those 250 games played i completed 122 of them.

List of 2013 beaten games: http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=10939.msg190363#msg190363

Last years stats for comparison:
*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***


This year certainly didn't match up in terms of numbers for me. And i missed my goal of 100k by a pretty substantial amount. But i had also taken most of the year off. Looking back it is hard to see where i took the time off but i swear i did. I actually got texts and messages from people asking if i was OK because i hadn't been online in X days or weeks... kind of made me want to get back into the "real world" even more.

I wanted to write a little bit about each of the games i finished this year and just stick it into a spoiler so this wasn't a miles wrong blog. But i decided against it unless someone actually wants to read that... even so i probably still wouldn't bother lol

My first achievement of 2013 was
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HDManual Masterizret102The Manual Master achievement in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD worth 41 pointsPerform 15 manuals in one combo in School II with Rodney Mullen


My first completion due to DLC was Doritos Crash Course. I finished it Jan2 the same day it was released according to TA.

First non DLC completion was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD 4 days later. I absolutely loved it. I was REALLY hoping for DLC with achievements. Which is not something i say very often....

My last completion of the year was Age of Empires Online (PC). I wanted to try and finish The Bridge but i guess that will make a fitting first completion this year

Last achievement of the year was
Microsoft Solitaire Collection (WP)Classic Speed RunThe Classic Speed Run achievement in Microsoft Solitaire Collection (WP) worth 23 pointsYour fastest win times in Klondike, Spider, and FreeCell add up to 10 minutes or less.


Current highest ratios finished last year:
Win8: izret102's achievements in Monsters Love Candy (Win 8)
GFWL (Arcade): Age of Empires Online (PC)
GFWL (Retail): izret102's achievements in Fable III (PC)
XBLA: http://www.trueachievements.com/Madballs-BaboInvasion/a....htm
Retail: izret102's achievements in Kinect Sesame Street TV
JP: izret102's achievements in Mobile Suit Gundam Operation: Troy
PAL: izret102's achievements in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (ESP Ver) (WP)

Most completed game: izret102's achievements in Wordament (Web) izret102's achievements in http://www.trueachievements.com/Wordament-iPhone/achievements.htm?gamerid=253140 izret102's achievements in Wordament (Android)
Least completed game: CloudBerry Kingdom

Game everyone else seems to HATE but i thought was OK: izret102's achievements in Dark
Game i thought was OK but everyone else seems to LOVE: izret102's achievements in Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons

Game i didn't spend nearly enough time with: Borderlands 2

Game i liked the most and meant to finish but didn't: Sniper Elite V2

Glitchiest POS i gave up on: Flashback

Most injuries sustained while playing: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition

Highest ratio achievement:
Kane & Lynch: Dead MenTrue EliteThe True Elite achievement in Kane & Lynch: Dead Men worth 0 pointsPlay as Kane in Fragile Alliance.


Highest GS achievement:
NHL 2K6Score in Under 1:00 (All-Star)The Score in Under 1:00 (All-Star) achievement in NHL 2K6 worth 371 pointsScore a goal in the first minute of play on All-Star difficulty or higher.


Highest TA achievement:
Rockstar Table TennisThe Hall of FamerThe The Hall of Famer achievement in Rockstar Table Tennis worth 634 pointsHas won 50+ (non-consecutive) Ranked Tournaments.


I can't think of any more creative categories.... Mostly i just needed to get that last blog off the top of my page. ;)

Hope 2014 is better for everyone than 2013.
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