- Metropolis King (20) - Complete Metropolis level in single player on serious difficulty without loading. (Serious Sam: TFE)

- Serious Sam (30) - Complete the game in single player on serious difficulty. (Serious Sam: TFE)

- 7 Day Survivor (20) - TYPE: 1 Play REQ: Survive for at least 7 days. (Dead Rising)

- Picon Presidential Commendation (50) - 5,000 kills total - Online Ranked (Battlestar Galactica... Actually, this achievement should be in my Hall of Shame)

- Peggle Professor (25) - Complete every level in Challenge Mode and even the Peggle Masters will be impressed. (Peggle)

I put a significant but reasonable amount of effort into getting 100% on any game I'm playing, but I move on if something is ridiculously difficult. There are too many good games waiting to be played. For instance, I have all but one achievement on Call of Duty 4, and I imagine it won't take much guesswork to figure out which one that is. After about 50 attempts, it becomes a matter of "life's too short for this."

As for family games, the previously-mentioned Monsters vs. Aliens is one of the best I've played, along with the 2 Viva Pinata games. Madagascar 2 was so-so but better than average (lots of fun minigames), and any of the Lego games are pretty good (currently working on and loving Lego Rock Band). Kung Fu Panda is a really good game as well.

If you have questions about any specific ones that I've played, just ask and I'll be glad to share my opinion.

I figured you'd toss out Dead Rising's 7 Day Survivor as well as the RB2 Bladder of Steel achievement.

As for me it comes down to all the single player Burnout Revenge achievements. Specifically:

- Perfect Burnout Revenge! (get all 5 star in all 169 events)

the one I want most though is:
- Zuma: Awarded for earning 2,000,000 scores.

I forgot about Bladder of Steel! To be fair, I only did that on Medium one loooong afternoon why the wife and kids were at her grandma's birthday party

Fucking Visions

Visions is why I haven't bothered with that one. I don't think I could make it 6 hours on medium. I'd fall asleep with the guitar in my hand.

About 2.5 years here, and I only have 3k in achievements, if that.

Still, I really liked the paint the fence achievement in Geometry Wars 2, the one where you had to touch all corners of the wall in pacifism mode. That's one of the few achievements I actively went after.

Good one. That one was so aggravating and fun at the same time. I wish you could re-enable that mode after getting the achievement. It would be fun just to try again.

My personal accomplishments:

- Beating Rock Band 1 on Expert guitar for me. Green Grass and High Tides was so difficult.
- Mile High Club in COD4
- Win 10 Xbox Live ranked matches in MK3 (seriously I suck at fighting games)
- Beating Mega Man 9

I am fucking kidding you.

- Criterion Elite
Got your Elite License, won every event, found all discoverables and beat every Road Rule

- Complete all Scenarios
Completed all the Challenges in Global Challenge - a 500 point achievement that was deserving of 500 points. This was hard.

And my hardest achievement...



One with Combat
Achieve a Hit Counter of 50

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I didn't grab the code, but I did get this theme the other day. It's a lot more DrP than it is Iron Man. I quickly changed my theme back.

I'm proud of the ones i earned in DoA4 since those were some hard fought battles to earn the rankings. I am also proud i don't have the 0 point "achievements" the game stings you with for dropping to a D or an F rating.

PlayOn is going subscription only May 20th. Get your license now if you want the current version for life.

Use the code LIFETIMEto pick it up for $19.99 though the end of April.

Here is the announcement:

http://www.playon.tv/blog/playon-premium-coming

Kind of sucks though that all new development will only be accessible to those who pay the subscription (basically cutting off improvements from us early adopters).

wait, so us who paid a while back don't get all the new goods?

We will continue to honor the lifetime licenses for those that purchased PlayOn prior to May 20, 2010 (which we are now calling PlayOn Basic). Your PlayOn Basic will continue to work with the existing non-beta content (Hulu, Netflix, CBS.com, ESPN.com, CNN.com, YouTube, MyMedia and Plugins) as well as Amazon VOD, MLB.tv, and Pandora. After July 15th, 2010, The Daily Show and the Colbert Report will no longer be supported in PlayOn Basic as these are being launched out of beta as part of the full Comedy Central integration in PlayOn Premium. PlayOn Base will continue to receive new features and development support, but no new content will be added into the core (though you can always add more plugins).

Sounds like a no.

However, to be honest, the folks doing plug-ins have been adding a ton of streams so maybe it won't be a big deal.

Also, i may even upgrade (at least for a year). Basically if you are a bran new subscriber it costs 40$ the first year and 20$ each year after that. If you are a current owner of PlayOn "Basic" you only pay 5$ the first year and then 20$ each subsequent year.

I may pay that 5 and see how much it improves to see if it even merits the expense. I am suspicious though because when you upgrade to Premium they give you a new registration code and say that if you ever want to go back to basic you need to save that old original code somewhere. Seems a weird way to handle it.

Question: Is there any way to change your default profile?

I created a local profile for my gf for when we play Halo 3 together, so she has someone to sign in as, but now every time I turn on my 360, it signs in as her, and I have to switch to my profile. Pain in the ass.

Is any of that content really worth it? Netflix and Hulu are the only two services worth paying for, IMO. And Netflix is already integrated into the 360. Plus there was news today about Xbox getting a TV service. I don't think I'd commit to Playon other than the $20 basic package. I will not pay a subscription fee to them.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907708?sd=xbox

I would be willing to toss 5$ and see how the first year shakes out. They add several killer sites i might be convinced to drop 20$ a year. I also don't have a cable bill so any TV i watch comes from the net, Netflix, or TV on DVD.

But you are correct, the items named as being in the pipeline aren't that impressive.

Yeah, I only use Playon to stream Hulu to my Xbox 360 and watch it in my TV or projector.

I only have about 1250 nerd points. I just got the Mad God achievement in Oblivion. I am now up to 160 hours and have pretty much only played that game since getting my 360 in December.

Is it possible to create a UK Live account with access from your US console? I know the PS3's really good at this, but am interested in trying it on my 360.

I'm in the exact same boat and may do the same. We dropped cable to save $700 a year so I definitely feel like giving it a try and paying the $5.