I finished 8 games this month. 5 were brand new, 1 was a game I rented earlier in the year and got again to finish, and 2 were from last year... both had sequels that were released this month.
Percentage-wise, I am still at 31% overall completion. That's probably because there were five games I started this month that I hardly have any progress in. I was supposed to get better at not doing that, right? That was the whole point of this resolution. Hmm.
Finished Games Summary:
Spider-Man Edge of Time: 555 of 1000 gamerpoints. I don't really understand why this game was put out after last year's much superior entry in the franchise. It cut all the content by half, including the fun. Big disappointment.
Dead Rising 2: 260 out of 1000 achievement points. I don't know why I didn't finish this last year, personal problems, I suppose. I managed to dig it out and finished it rather quickly in anticipation of the new semi-sequel. Didn't do so well on the achievements, though. Most of them require doing "all" of various things. I'm more of a middle of the road kind of guy. I'll try some of everything, but I get sidetracked and forget to keep looking for more.
Rage: 580 of 1000. Looks great, plays great... it just stops. This game seems to just exist to prep the sequel or a bunch of DLC. How can such a short game need so many discs?
Hunted The Demon Forge: 455 out of 1000 achievement points. This could have been really great with another 6 months of polish, but I still enjoyed it a lot. I hope they're able to make a sequel, or even a prequel, to get into the characters relationship and backstory.
Dead Rising 2 Off The Record: 540 out of 1000 gamerpoints. Having just finished the previous game really help me breeze through this "re-imagining". And the sandbox mode is great for just slaughtering tons of zombies... though the respawning bosses are a bit annoying.
Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions: 550 of 1000 achievement points. Another game that came at a bad time for me last year. It's much longer, and much better than this year's game so I'm gald I had this around to wash the bad taste of the new game away.
Disney Universe: Full 1000 gamerscore! This was a decent kiddie brawler, though it's a disappointing that it's not Kingdom Hearts. Actual Disney characters don't appear, you just dress like them (sometimes only vaguely similar). I had to grind a bit to get the full 1000 points, but it wasn't too bad.
Batman Arkham City: 500 out of 1250 achievement points, 40%. This is a great game, it's just weird that it didn't compel me to keep playing it like the first one did. I didn't stop playing the original until I hit 100% in the story mode. But this time, whenever I died I'd go ahead and take a break or play something else. There is still a lot of Riddler tasks and sidequests to finish, yet I haven't picked it back up since the day I finished it. Odd.
So, a decent month... I didn't lose ground, anyway. November pretty much marks the end of this year's new releases. If I can make good progress on all new games I play this month, then December will be the time to polish off tons of old games and get my percentage to where it needs to be. The goal is in sight!
