40,000!!!

Finally.

After a week of grinding through various games, I hit my secondary goal of 40,000 points on December 28, 2010 with the achievement "Mask-O'-Raider" (Completed all Quests in the game) from Costume Quest. It was worth 25 points.

While it is still a stark contrast from the original goal of 75,000 I'd set for myself, it does feel good to accomplish it. It has been a long and tiring year, full of heartache and pain, but it's over now. An old year ends just so a new one can begin.

Bring it on, 2011!!!

Happy hunting.

Update #51

This is the final proper update of 2010!!

So, here is this week's update:

Starting Gamerscore (on 1/01/10): 24,275
Current Gamerscore (on 12/27/10): 39,910
Increase: +15,635
Weekly Increase: +900
Gamerscore Goal for 2010: 75,000
Distance from Goal: 35,090

It was an eventful week, one of my better earning weeks in recent memory, too!

Anyways, expect one final update on New Year's Eve and that'll be it.

Update #50 - 8 days left

Yeah, yeah. I'm two days late. Sorry about that. I've been sick and haven't even wanted to look at a computer.

Anyways, my update:

Starting Gamerscore (on 1/01/10): 24,275
Current Gamerscore (on 12/22/10): 39,010
Increase: +14,705
Weekly Increase: +525
Gamerscore Goal for 2010: 75,000
Distance from Goal: 36,020

I'm a mere 990 points from my secondary goal of 40,000 points to start 2011 off in style. With 8 days left in 2010, I'll have to earn roughly 123.75 points per day. Time to get to earnin' I guess!

Happy hunting, everyone.

Update #49 - Disappointment

Well, I caved. The reasoning behind the lack of achievement gathering this week was due to joining World of Warcraft. I promise, I'll make it up next week!!!

The update:


Starting Gamerscore (on 1/01/10): 24,275
Current Gamerscore (on 12/13/10): 38,485
Increase: +14,180
Weekly Increase: +50
Gamerscore Goal for 2010: 75,000
Distance from Goal: 36,545

Update #48

Four weeks left of the year, uh? Well, that really sucks.

Oh well.

The last week was spent mopping up achievements in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (though still need to finish the single-player story mode) and trying to clean up some XBox Live Arcade game achievements, most notably Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's: Decade Duel. Needless to say, it was a lack luster week for achievement hunting.

Anyways, the update:

Starting Gamerscore (on 1/01/10): 24,275
Current Gamerscore (on 12/06/10): 38,405
Increase: +14,130
Weekly Increase: +140
Gamerscore Goal for 2010: 75,000
Distance from Goal: 36,595

Correction on the "Increase": Evidently, my math sucks. I was about 600 points off of what my actual yearly increase has been. It has since been corrected.

A lame increase, for sure. However, the 40,000 threshold is still very doable by the end of the year. Right now I am 1,595 points from that goal. With four weeks left, I need to average 398.75 points to get there. We'll round up to 399. Time to update the "Hit List"!

Hit List (12/6/10):

1.) Lego Batman: 665 points
2.) Alan Wake: 500 points
3.) Enslaved: 400 points
4.) Fable III: 275 points
5.) Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions: 220 points


Those five games alone, if I earned all those points, would be a total of 2.060 points. That would be more than enough to put me into the 40K club. Alan Wake and Fable III will, without a doubt, be the most time consuming of the bunch, but all good things are worth the work. Right?

Happy hunting!