Update on my ongoing gaming goals for 2011!
by mooseymcman
As you may or may not know, earlier this year I wrote about some gaming related goals I wanted to complete by the end of the year. It's been a while since I posted anything about it, so I figured I'd write up something. I also want to point out that I've decided to abandon (ie, give up on) a couple of them, and add a couple more. I will denote new ones with an asterisk. Play through the entire...
As you may or may not know, earlier this year I wrote about some gaming related goals I wanted to complete by the end of the year. It's been a while since I posted anything about it, so I figured I'd write up something. I also want to point out that I've decided to abandon (ie, give up on) a couple of them, and add a couple more. I will denote new ones with an asterisk.
Play through the entire Mass Effect trilogy.
Progress: Not yet started, as the third one is still a long ways off. I am liking the little bit of info I've seen so far on the third one though.Buy a 3DS.
Progress: Abandoned! After spending some time with a 3DS, and taking a good long look at both the games currently available, and those announced for the rest of the year, I've decided that I don't want to buy a 3DS this year. Unless there's a big price drop, but I doubt that will happen.Upload at least one good LittleBigPlanet 2 level.
Progress: I at least played through all the tutorials, and I have some great ideas for a weird level.Become skilled at Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Progress: Complete! Depending on how you define skilled, anyway.Acquire a copy of ZHP: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman
Progress: Complete! I've actually played it enough to get five or six different endings (note that after one play through, you can get endings at the end of each dungeon, so you can get them pretty quick).S-Rank Deadly Premonition
Progress: I have beaten the game on easy, meaning that all I have left is beating it on hard. It will be done!S-Rank Mass Effect 3
Progress: Not started yet. But I'm pretty sure BioWare has said there won't be multiplayer in the game, which means that (with my refusal to pay for Xbox Live) an S-Rank is attainable for me.Finish Alpha Protocol (with my friend).
Progress: Not much of anything has happened here since last time. Hopefully once this semester ends in a few weeks we'll be able to beat it over the summer.Beat Deus Ex: Human Revolution with zero kills.
Progress: I still intend on doing this.Try once again to beat Dead Rising (and probably not succeed).
Progress: Technically I have done this, because I played a decent chunk of DR earlier this year. But I still kinda want to finish it, especially with the "Westernized" (get it?) version of Dead Rising 2 coming out later this year.*Buy and beat Dead Rising 2: Off the Record.
I'm hoping that it won't take five years of work to beat this one, unlike the first (which as stated above, I haven't beaten yet).
Don't buy this year's Call of Duty.
Progress: I don't think Activision has even officially announced what this game will be yet. But if it's what I think it will be (Modern Warfare 3), then I'm going to have to borrow it from someone like I did with MW2, because that game ended on a huge cliffhanger.Don't buy anything at GameStop.
Progress: Goin' strong! You won't get any of my money this year, GameStop!Buy at least one Wii game.
Progress: Still no word that I've seen about a release date for Skyward Sword (the only Wii game I have any interest in that I don't already have). And with new rumors about the WiiWii (or Wii 2 as normal people call it), who knows. They may end up Twilight Princess-ing it and put it on both.*Beat Yakuza 3, then buy/beat Yakuza 4.
Due to the magic of bargain bins in KMart, I was introduced to the world of the Yakuza games for the low price of $15. And I love it! Haven't beaten it yet, and I intend on doing that and doing the same thing for part 4.
*Buy the new Mortal Kombat game, and memorize some fatalities.
*Resist buying Portal 2 (or any other Valve product) until Valve gives some concrete info on the next Half-Life game.
God damn you Valve. You put out Half-Life 2 in 2004, said you were going to put out shorter episodes to keep the story going whilst keeping the time between games relatively low, and you made good on that...For a while. It was 2007 that Episode 2 came out. And what has happened since then? NOTHING! Argh! They put out two Left 4 Dead games, announced an entirely new thing (remember that DOTA thing they announced?), put out crap-loads of stuff for Team Fortress 2, made a new Portal game (also with crap-loads of DLC already), and still they have said nothing concrete about this game. It makes me angry. Especially since Valve could never put out another Half-Life game and they would still be hugely successful.
*Never give up on the other long rumored games I've been waiting for.
Remember Shenmue III? What about Metroid Dread? THEY WILL BE RELEASED SOME DAY, DAMN IT! THE DREAM WILL NEVER DIE!! AAAH!