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Hello again everybody!! Hope all is going well on your end. I've been trying to get into a monthly blog routine but I'm bored so I thought I'd write a lil something a few days earlier than I planned :)

June was a pretty good month for me gaming-wise. I completed three games which is kind of a record for me, especially with them all being finished within about a week of each other.

I finally finished my first Guitar Hero game which was very exciting for me. I thought that damned Sampler Plate achievement was never going to pop but about midway through our second playthrough of the game modes, there it was. Huge thanks to Spartan MRC178 and Buckswana for their help, I couldn't have done it without you both :)

Battlefield 3 was next on the completion list. I was finally able to get that bastard achievement Bullseye with the help of Dark Resis7ance (thanks again, you rock!!) That was the last disc achievement I had left so I just had to wait for the dlc, which wasn't a very long wait after all lol. We ended up getting the Premium deal so we had early access to the Close Quarters dlc and finished it rather quickly. I liked the dlc for the most part, I'm just not used to the new maps yet. I get lost during Conquest Domination, there's always one objective I ignore since I'm too stubborn to try to find a way to it. The assignments didn't seem to be too bad either, although I admit I haven't finished all of them yet but I will eventually. I'm just nervous for the next dlc since it's pretty much vehicle driven, and anyone who's ever played online with me knows that vehicles are not my strong point...unless they need to be destroyed with teammates in them ;)

Last in my triple-play was Party Animals. I had rented this game about a year ago and got 80% of the achievements within the first 2 days, but this was around the time when my box was being a total bitch and at times wouldn't read games so I wasn't able to complete it then. When I saw that it was on sale for 400msp last week, I had to get it to finish it off. Thanks again to Buckswana for helping me with the mp stuff I had left.

I set a goal for myself to hit 90% completion by the end of the year. I'm hoping I can do it, I don't really see why not. I was sitting at an 87% until I started Bolt, which was also a 400msp steal. So now, my to do list looks like this:

1. Complete Bolt - Easy peasy, just dreading the collectibles...ugh...

2. Complete Gears of War - Currently working on this. I was in 2 sessions this week and am in another later today. The guys have all been great to chat with and I've already got 2 weapons done. Just have 2 weapons to go, curb stomps, revives, hosting and Seriously...

3. Get to work on GTA 4 - This was one of the first games we bought when we first got our Xbox, way back in the day before the achievement bug bit us. It's currently sitting on my card with 6/65 achievements won so that one is gonna help out my goal once I get motivated enough to get back to it.

4. Finish Red Dead Redemption - Ugh. I loved this game but there's just waaaay too much shit to do to get the 100% completion. But there's still mp I need help with so if anyone's interested, hit me up :)

5. Finish Bad Company 2 - I just have to get silver and gold stars on the Vietnam weapons and I'm halfway through the tank kills. This probably should be higher up on my list but I'm not too concerned about it right now.

I'm sure there's more I can work on but this blog has gone on long enough. Besides, the more I look at what needs to be done, the more I tend to procrastinate dance

Well, I guess I should wrap this up. Take care and thanks for reading!! Hope to game with you all soon!! toast
Posted by Ess Rod on 28 June 12 at 18:45

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Deranged Asylum Your welcome, if you have any other annoying achievements just shoot me a message :)

I can help with Red Dead I have 1500gs for it and Im close to 100% for GTA just missing 3 achievements
Posted by Deranged Asylum on 28 Jun 12 at 18:50
Das Kuhnen Awesomesaucelburgers! (trademark that shit) Motivation to complete never comes for some people, job well done! toast I'll try to make Gears sessions when I can.. If I keep dragging my ass, I'll be the only one of my friends without it finished.

Way to nail 35k on the nose too! I had tried to hit 99,999 and failed hard.. ended up popping 2 cheevos at once and landed on 100,009... so ugly.. redface
Posted by Das Kuhnen on 28 Jun 12 at 19:38
angelicdevil88 let us know when your doing gears, i need to get the 10,000 kills but will be a bit of a grind
Posted by angelicdevil88 on 28 Jun 12 at 20:02
Big Ell 1st and 3rd commenters. angry. Hey Pumpkin! Rock Band soon? cry 2nd commenter - suck it!
Posted by Big Ell on 28 Jun 12 at 20:13
Ess Rod @Dark - Sounds good :)

@Das - Thank you! I didn't plan on hitting it right at 35k, I knew it was coming up and just happened to fall into a couple achievements that got me exactly to that nice number. And you won't be the only one without Gears finished, I'll be your motivation coach!! "Get your ass in gear, soldier!!!!" lol :P

I'm not sure when the next session(s) are gonna happen, I'm on vacation after tomorrow so I'll have a week to get some sort of progress going but feel free to join when you can. Same goes to you, Angelic. I think you play a lil earlier than I do but I'm sure I can make myself get up early sometime to work on Gears with you as well :)
Posted by Ess Rod on 28 Jun 12 at 20:18
Ess Rod @Ell - We'll play Rock Band sometime when yore not busy. Like I said, I'm on vacation so I'll have nothing but time on my hands for the next week or so :)
Posted by Ess Rod on 28 Jun 12 at 20:20
Deranged Asylum Its no problem I have friends that need the six player and co-op achievements so we'll work something out :)
Posted by Deranged Asylum on 28 Jun 12 at 20:34
Buckswana Glad I could help. Good luck with Gears. At least it gets quicker once people start to finish up and become fodder for everyone else. ;) GTA4 is a looong game, but a lot of fun, and one of the few games that I think the DLC is worth the money.
Posted by Buckswana on 28 Jun 12 at 21:45
SpartanMC78 I'm touched for the acknowledgement. Never been in a blog before. Well a good one that is...lol. We should game sometimes.
Posted by SpartanMC78 on 28 Jun 12 at 21:56
Ess Rod @Buck - Thanks! Yeah, once weapons and the other random achievements are done, it should go by a lil quicker...at least I'm hoping it does lol :)

@Spartan - Aww, well you were a big help in getting some of those career stars, of course you were gonna get acknowledged. And yes we should game again sometime. Hit me up whenever, maybe we can work on horde in Gears 3 or something :)
Posted by Ess Rod on 28 Jun 12 at 22:40
Sanada If you ever need help with anything yo know you just have to ask! Even if I already have it done.
Posted by Sanada on 29 Jun 12 at 00:16
Ess Rod So...I'll be seeing you in some Gears sessions then?? Lol I'm just kidding, but we do need to sink some more boats in BF3 soon :)
Posted by Ess Rod on 29 Jun 12 at 00:26
CDJ 1000 If you need help on GTA 4 or RDR, let me know.
Posted by CDJ 1000 on 16 Jul 12 at 15:29
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