Switching over to a Video Blog after October 24th

The video blog will include everything that is in this blog but will also include my trips to Six Flags Great Adventure which my last for the season will be on November 1st.

Its been a couple of days

So I have been really busy with school and with other things(family events) also I bowl on Thursday nights with my mom on the team pins-n-needles. Currently in that bowling league my average is 198? or close to it I have not checked but I do know that it is the 4th highest average in the league, ;). So basically the two sports/hobbies that I like to do are bowling and cycling(just getting into it), as for bowling I bowl with 4 different balls but I own 5. I own two plastic balls which are both mirages, a Tornado, a Black Widow Pearl, and a NVD; they all weigh 15 pounds except for one of the plastics that weighs 13. A sport that I have started to give up because of school and lack of a winter job is paintballing, I have a Smartparts Ion for sale with a bunch of other stuff if anybody is interested in buy it.

On the subject of school I currently have straight A's(GO ME!!!!) in all of my classes including Chemistry lab considering I have missed it partially twice due to doctor appointments. My engineering lecture/lab is getting very difficult because the professor give you an electrical schematic and says "here make this you have 20 minutes" and everybody has no clue what to do. As for my gaming for the past 4 days, I have not touched my xbox because of school but I have been trying to complete Batman Arkham Asylum in any open time that I did have on my laptop.

Current Completion %: 83.45% Goal: 92%

P.S.- If anybody is interested I am gathering people to go to Six Flags Great Adventure on October 24th so leave a comment if you wanna go lol.

My Next Bike

This is the new bike that I will be getting around March or April of next year when the prices are released for the 2010 models. The MSRP is $1350(2009 model), it is a Jamis Ventura Race and its an intro road bike that has name brand parts for the price like a Shimano derailer... The best part is the bike does not actually come with any pedals, also for the price it has a carbon front fork which is a nice bonus. I believe it weighs about 21 pounds or so which is on the heavy side for a road bike but for the price there is no way of turning down the bike.

DiRT 2- Game Review

Gameplay: The difference between this DiRT and Codemasters previous release in the series was definitely the physics and how the cars reacted. When switching from dirt/gravel to asphalt while maintaining a slide seemed more realistic in DiRT 2 rather than its previous counterpart. A huge fault in the new game was the amount of vehicles a player could select which in the new release seemed way less than the original, the ratio seemed about 2 to 1 for the amount of cars from the previous release to the new release. The driving seemed tighter and more reactive compared to other racing games released by Codemasters, they also brought more tour events. Rather than just a hill climb or regular time trial, Codemasters added rally cross which in my opinion was best feature of the game. The tour consisted of about 220 races in about 9 different countries and had many different settings depending on your skill set.

Multiplayer/Online: WARNING! Playing any sort of online game session where cars can make contact can be very frustrating. Although many players could just select the time trial game mode it was less exciting and it had no rally cross(best racing style in the game). So I had to tough it out and play the game mode where if you are better than someone they could simply spin you on the last lap and win. After this happened for about 15 straight races it was in my best interest to practice only rally cross and take a break from online play. After some practice on the rally cross tracks it was back to online, where I was completely untouchable after the first turn, so as long as you can out shift every other driver on the first turn that player is guaranteed the win(with some practice of course).

Achievement Stuff and Ratings:
Gameplay 8.3/10
Multiplayer/Online: 7.6/10
Achievement Difficulty: 6/10(Depends on how good you are for the online ones)
Time for full 1000GS: 40+ Hours(Depends on your skill for online xp)
If I could do it would I?? YES!! Since the first release of DiRT I instantly feel in love with the series after all it is the one of the only rally car racing series' on the market currently.

If anybody has any questions about getting a certain achievement leave a comment and I will give you tips on how to obtain the achievement.

Basic Stats and What is on the agenda for today.

So currently I have 116,205 gamerscore with no current goal like reaching 200k or something right now I am worried about getting my completion up to where it was about 4 months ago. My completion was about 92% so I have a long way to go, this blog is also going to be used to vent and give tips for fellow achievement hunters. Also maybe I will adopt what Stallion83 does and show some messages that I get, a list of easy achievement games that I have completed will also be listed. My current gamercard stats will be listed below courtesy of www.mygamercard.net. So I have played 142 games (140 different games) and have completed only 89 of them.

Today I will not be playing much but I assure you I will, the most important thing that has to be done today is this dumb chemistry lab on Identifying substances by their physical properties, ugh talk about did that in high school. I will probably also start my 1000-1200 word narrative essay for english online which is due by 11:59pm on wednesday, hope i do not forget lol.

GamerScore:	116205
Zone:	Pro

Completed XBLA:	9 / 13
Completed Retail:	80 / 129
GS Completion %:	83.29%

Country Rank:	755
World Rank:	1,786
Rank:	615

The Start of the Blog

Many times while playing xbox LIVE people ask "How did you get that much gamerscore?" or they just instantly say "Get a LIFE LOSER!!", "Get a JOB go to SCHOOL", and other things that may be hurtful to others. But to me that goes in one ear and out the other because I can breath(Life, yes I know they mean other things), I work in Ocean City over the summer(Job, seven days a week and average about 40-50 hours a week) and if you read "About Me" I am enrolled in the Drexel co-op program at BCC for computer engineering.

So I have decided to create a blog to show my day to day life, what games I am currently playing, stuff I am learning about in school, current events(Might Vlog??) and discuss anythings people send me a message about. Also I can try to answer questions about anything through some research and my vast knowledge of random stuff that I currently lug around in my brain. Things many people have no clue I do besides gaming are: I know a crap load of things about different roller coasters and how exactly they work, I know a lot about Walt Disney World, and I have a vast knowledge about random things(which somethings amaze people).

So eventually as the ball starts to roll I will begin posting almost everyday but for know it will be about every other day(still recovering from the MS150 bike ride).