XBOX 360 Weekender (2) Day 2

Day 2 of the Weekender and I began at 9.45am on Red Dead Redemption but despite spending four hours playing with 10 minute breaks every hour, not a single achievement popped meaning the game will take a lot of effort to gain a reward.

At 2.30, I moved on to Need For Speed Hot Pursuit and scored a nice haul of eight unlocks for a total of 170G which began with Share The Dream (10G) for sharing a Dreamshot to the Wall and was soon followed by Wet in the Vette (25G) for driving a Corvette in the wet.

Shaken, Not Stirred (25G) unlocked for winning a Hot Pursuit in an Aston Martin while Flight of the Bumblebee (25G) popped up for winning 'Muscle Reflex' in a Bee Yellow Chevrolet Camaro SS.

Share the Joy (25G) unlocked for Dreamshotting a BMW and sharing it and soon Midnight Cowboy (25G) popped up for Dreamshotting a Midnight Blue Metallic Ford GT at night in the desert.

Offender (10G) unlocked for reaching wanted level eight as a racer and just before moving on Snakebite in Black (25G) popped up for spiking a cop while driving a Black Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR or Ford Shelby GT500 Supersnake.

Next up was Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection which saw five hours of gaming with the required hourly breaks but still hit a superb haul of nine achievements resulting in 290G. The haul began with Don't Die (25G) for reaching mission three without losing a life on Alien Storm while Blast Processing (50G) popped up for playing all Mega Drive titles.

Garden Gnomes (20G) unlocked for collecting 20 magic power-ups on Golden Axe and soon No Life (50G) popped up for watching every video.

Can You Dig It? (45G) unlocked for reaching Scene 11 on Vectorman 2 and swiftly followed by Super Charged (45G) which popped up for collecting 500 Photons on Vectorman. 

Get to the Chopper (15G) unlocked for scoring over 1,500,000 points on the first level of Super Thunder Blade while Hardly a Hero (20G) unlocked for completing episode one of Comix Zone. 

The night was brought to a close with Taste Like Tuna (20G) for eating 200 fish on Ecco: The Tides of Time and what a good day it was with the early unlock failure aside as 17 achievements were unlocked for 460G and accrued 672 TA points putting today at  5th in the list of overall Best Days.

 

XBOX 360 Weekender (2) Day 1

Day One began late with due to problems with my computer but got started at 3pm on London 2012 but after playing until 4.40  - no achievements were unlocked so onto Tiger Woods 13 and again a long playtime but only one unlock in Swing and a Miss (10G) for whiffing the ball.

Knights Contract next up but no unlocks so onto Halo Reach and saw five good unlocks before the night's end beginning with KEEP IT CLEAN (5G) for killing seven Moa on the second mission followed by They've Always Been Faster (25G) for clearing the second mission without entering a drivable vehicle.

Lucky Me (25G) unlocked for scoring a Triple Kill while Jetpacking during a Firefight and swiftly followed by I See You Favor a .45 (10G) for killing ten enemies during a Firefight with the pistol.

Finally, An Elegant Weapon... (10G) popped up for killing ten enemies in a Firefight with the DMR.

Need For Speed Most Wanted Causes Trouble

Another night on NFS Most Wanted and got three unlocks beginning with How Do You Like Me Now? (15G) for beating a friend's Autolog Recommendation while Troublemaker (30G) popped up for taking down 50 cops.

Gladiator (25G) unlocked for taking down every racer in a single race and in doing so put my total completion to 36%.

Need For Speed Most Wanted Drives In

After spending so long on Forza Horizon, the passion for racing has hit me and as such I have chose the next game to be NFS Most Wanted and scored two quick unlocks beginning with In Your Face (20G) for smashing a friend’s face on a billboard and beating their jump distance while Blackout (20G) popped up for shutting down Most Wanted car number 8: Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG.

Forza Horizon Rallies On

Due to spending a lot of time on Forza Horizon over the last few weeks, I decided it was time to get onto the DLC and get to at least 50 of the 70 total achievements to make all my effort worth it.

 It's Just Money (20G) unlocked for earning a medal while in 14 different cars worth 1 million credits while Swings and Roundabouts (20G) popped up for completing three instances of each playground game. 

OMGWT*BBQ!? (20G) unlocked for winning five cars online after leveling up and was swiftly followed by Take her for a Power Slide (20G) for obtaining my first Horizon Rally car. 

 

Now that's a Special Stage (20G) unlocked for completing my first Horizon Rally stage while Mile High Club (10G) popped up for attaining 1609 metres of air across Horizon Rally stages. 

Covered in Mud and Glory (20G) unlocked for winning my first Horizon Rally and was later joined by Horizon Rally Champion (75G) for becoming Horizon Rally Champion. 

 As the night drew to a close, High Five (20G) unlocked for purchasing all five rally cars and capped off a great day with nine achievements for a total of 225G and 423 TA points. 

 

Forza Horizon Goes Online

Having reached 100,000 TA last night the next push is for 75,000G and 4000 achievements and as such I continued Forza Horizon and scored seven unlocks beginning with Notorious (30G) for becoming the most popular driver at Horizon. Exhibitionist (20G) popped up for completing every Showcase event. 

All Your Race Are Belong to Us (30G) unlocked for winning every Festival Race, Street Race, Showcase and Showdown event and swiftly followed by OMG (5G) for winning my first car online.

Playground Games (5G) unlocked for completing a game of Infected, King, and Cat and Mouse while Ding! (5G) popped up for reaching level five online.

To end the day, ZOMG! (10G) unlocked for winning three cars online and took me to 41/70 achievements and 845G overall.

Forza Horizon Pushes Over 100k TA

Another day on Forza Horizon and and early unlock in Win Diesel (30G) for winning all 30 Street races swiftly followed by Gettin' It Done (30G) for winning all Festival races.

Black Friday (20G) unlocked for the hard work done in finding and collecting all 100 discount signs and Killer Skills (25G) popped up for reaching 10th place on the Popularity Chart.

On a side note, I hit the massive milestone of 100,000 TA which has taken just shy of six years to reach but I am delighted that it has finally happened.

Forza Horizon Tidies Up Events

A quick go on Forza Horizon and two unlocks beginning with Close Encounters (20G) for challenging and beating ten Festival Racers successfully and swiftly followed by Almost Famous (20G) for reaching 50th place on the Popularity chart.

June Summary

June has done massively well in catching up on the shortfall from March-May and saw the unlocking of the 300th achievement and the accolades of 5000G and 7000 TA near.


June 2013 (2012 in brackets)

104 Achievements unlocked (42)
22 Games played (5)
2807 TA points* (1401)
1810 Gamerscore (805)
 
*includes DLC recalculation from March and is the total earned so losses not included.


A truly terrific month and has been the pull back needed from last month to put be back in contention for good results at the end of the year

Forza Horizon Challenges For the Championship

Forza Horizon continued into Sunday and saw three quick unlocks which began with Road Trip (25G) for driving on every road on the map and soon joined by The Next Big Thing (15G) for reaching 100th position on the Popularity chart.

Golden Boy (50G) unlocked for receiving the Gold wristband and then I went off for a break and on my return and after a lot of effort, Darius Who? (100G) unlocked for becoming the Horizon Festival champion.

After winning the final race which was a showdown against Darius in a lap around the whole map up popped Domination (10G) for winning every Star Showdown race.