Well my son is sick so I only got to play for a little bit while he was napping. I decided to dust off Just Cause, it has been a while since I played it last and I have plenty of game left to complete. It might have been my lucky night though, because during the 1 hour and 20 minutes I gained 3 achievements.
After that I figured I would give Roboblitz a spin, but not even 10 minutes into the game nap time was over.
I was told about the gamerspeak article this morning about the gears of war all nighter - and to finish off my day I got my prize - complete with Major AND Trixie signatures! Woot, sorry for the picture quality - its not easy to get a good picture of a xbox cover without glare.
Last night I put a couple more hours into Enchanted Arms, only about 8 hours into the game thus far. Which is tracked by the game itself, but also my Live Eye Profile registers about the same amount of time in game. I also gained my third achievement in the game.
Then once again I joined Ymiris for some Gears of War Co-op. We are almost complete with act 3 on insane. I finished insane a bit ago - but nothing beats a good night of co-op, especially with a friend, and an added side benefit I finally found the checkpoint that I was missing for the final achievement I can recieve for non-versus mode.
Finally just found out I made it into Gamer Speak for participating in the Gears of War All Nighter. Thanks Antediluvia for pointing this out!
Well I just got the best email I have recieved in a while.
Hi, you’ve been selected to win a copy of Gears of War signed by Major Nelson
Please reply back with
1. Your real name
2. Your mailing address
3. Your phone number
Thanks for participating in the Xbox All-Nighter, and congratulations!
-TriXie
Now I just sit and wait!
Two new ways to join Halo 3 Beta have just been released.
Gamerscore Blog : Microsoft Announces Two Additional Paths of Entry to Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta
Well with the new baby at home, and me being back to work I would say my gaming has gone down a bit. In any event last night I stayed up for baby duty and squeezed in some xbox time. Nothing extraordinary though. Played about 2 hours of Saints Row, but finally finished the story based missions. Racking up another 2 achievements.
They just happen to be the right amount to make my current gamerscore 18,000 - I couldn’t have done that on purpose if I had tried.
Well as I said before since we have absolutely nothing going on for New Years, and with a new baby in the house - I was happy to see the gears of war all nighter event. I didn’t have a big party or anything like that - but that is the great thing about Xbox Live, you can play with a friend without having anyone in your house to steal your drinks and food =) I showed up a bit later then expected - my wife decided to stay up much later then usual, but then I dove right into the action.
Keep in mind I am by far not the best Gears player out there - in fact I am not very good at all, but its all about fun isnt it? So around 10:30 PM EST I started up my xbox, and fired up Gears of War.
As you can see I started out all ready tired - I am sure its because I rarely get much sleep lately while helping take care of our newborn daughter. Who I have downstairs with me, no sense in having my wife have to wake up and care for the baby if I am going to be up playing xbox for the night.
Not a very good quality picture - but here is my television sitting on the match making screen for my first match of the night. I decided that I would play Xbox Live Ranked games for the period of time that I was online tonight - and maybe even get to unlock some of those versus achievements.
Here is the first of many losses.
Although I did end up getting a bit better and got quite a number of kills over the night, if I didnt know better I would say it was because of the tequila.
Just before the final hour of 2006 my daughter woke up for one of her night time feedings - so time for a break…
Happy New Year Everyone!!!
Ouch my head
Ok we won one! Now time for some sleep
That was quite a bit of gaming, as you can see by my Live Eye Profile I played about 4 hours of straight Gears of War, and then about 2 hours of Saints Row (just to change it up a bit), and I still have quite a long ways to go before I gain any of the versus achievements, but I made more progress then than any other time I played in versus mode towards one or more of these goals.
This was a quick blog to run down the nightly activities for my Gears of War 2006 celebration. Clearly giving you a play by play would not be very interesting to anyone but those that have read every other article the entire internet has to offer and have made it there life mission to read every article, and posting, available on the internet. But in short, I had a blast and met quite a few new friends, and unfortunately a few people that are best to just be avoided (but very few). If you ran into me during this gaming session, and also somehow find and read my blog, leave me some comments =)
Update 11:08 AM EST
I just read this over again and have come to the conclusion that the Tequila got the best of me - I have never been much of a writer - but this was clearly written under the influence of alcohol.
If you want to see more family photos check out my family blog - which contains tons of family pictures and such - if you are into that kind of thing (www.larrabeefamily.com).
