March was a productive gaming month!
My gamerscore reached 81,160, an increase of 3,690 from February's total. That's keeping with the 100-points a day average, with a few hundred extra points on top.
I also completed 7 games, bringing me to 39 left towards my year-end goal. Unfortunately, only 2 of those games were ones I had started before this year. So while they're really helping out in my totals, they're dragging down my overall percentage goal. Well, not so much dragging it down, since I'm earning enough points to cover their entrance into the project, but they are slowing down progress as they keep me from increasing existing percentages much. My gamerscore percentage stands at 25% at this time.
Here's the individual games break down:
Dragon Age: Origins - finished with 930 of 1750, for a good 53% completion. I have yet to play the Dragon Age Awakenings add-on, though I am eager to. I'm also eager to replay the whole game, with a different class to see how much it changes.
Dragon Age 2 - 765 out of 1130, a solid two-thirds of available points. I want to replay this game after a second play through of Origins, but I will wait until more dlc comes out and for the first dlc to go on sale.
Homefront - finishing this game game me a pathetic 150 out of 1000, for a lousy 15%. Should I have expected more points for my 3 hour investment? Would have been nice.
Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime - 130 of 200, 65%. Another short game, though slightly longer than Homefront. Too bad the percentages don't average out between them.
Naughty Bear - 500 out of 1250 gamerscore, a decent 40% completion. I'll probably try to find time to squeeze out a few more achievements from this one. It's strangely addictive once you get past the sometimes cheap presentation.
Bulletstorm - 480 of 1000 points, a solid 48%. I want to try this again on a higher difficulty, but I cringe thinking about a couple of chapters that gave me problems on normal.
Crysis 2 - 450 of 1000, a well-enjoyed 45 percent. Even now I'm wondering if I could play through this again on the highest difficulty and still have as much fun with the game.
Another aspect of my goal, the written reviews... I've actually made some progress on that note. I've written up a review of 3 XBLA games (including Bejeweled Blitz and Full House Poker, two games I haven't documented as "completed" because of the lack of a storyline to finish) over at my cheapassgamer.com blog (http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/blog.php?u=51731). I'm preparing to post more reviews, but I'm working to get screen captures... but my capture equipment is old, I'm not sure the picture quality will stand up well.
So, I hope to improve my old game/new game completion ratio for next month. There's not too many new games that look all that compelling coming out this month(besides Portal 2!), but I've got a stack of games I've started this year I want to complete. And new is usually more exciting than old, ya know. We'll see how it turns out. Stay tuned!
