I don't want to say that one of the worst weeks I have had since I began my Achievement quest was Gamefly's fault, but it wasn't not their fault.
In all likelihood it was the fault of the person that rented "Cabela's Trophy Bucks" before me. Whoever that was, I fear they may have drastically thrown off my quest. With only a few weeks left, my ability to play "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" when it is released, hangs delicately in the balance.
This past week, I only added 370 Achievement points toward my 25,000-point GameScore goal. A minimum of 1,000 P.P.W. (Points Per Week) has been my overall goal, and I have been able to hit that fairly consistently for the past month, as I have needed to ramp up my point production after the holiday slowdown. Instead, this week I drastically dropped off my pace. In weeks three and four of this quest, these may have been acceptable numbers. Now I'm playing with fire.
It's not like I didn’t intend to get a whole heap of points this week. It's just the disc I received from GameFly for this week's 1000 point hopeful ("Cabela's Trophy Bucks") was kicking back a dirty disc error over and over again. After trying it on our Xbox at work I was able to whittle away a small handful of the Achievements from the game. But I was still getting the same error periodically. After notifying GameFly about the problem, they sent me another copy of the game. That's great, but I got it yesterday, and wasn't able to run through almost the entire game last night. This contributed to my meager score for the week, consisting of mostly XBLA games, my completion of the medium setting in "Guitar Hero 3," and my attempt to finally start "Dead Rising." I'm hoping that I'll be telling you a different story next week.
On a related note, I'd like of offer you a friendly reminder that (for the second time) you and I should be playing "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" by now. This week (February 10 to be exact) marks the second "official" release date for the game that Nintendo missed. On the plus side, it also marks the second time that I would have surpassed my goal. I was supposed to have 20,000 points by now, and I do. But I'm stuck suffering through another month of waiting, as well as avoiding the spoilers (which is getting harder and harder every day). As the song goes, "I will survive." At least I hope I will.
If you'd like to follow along with my quest check out my Xbox Live profile: jaded cynic, and let me know if you think I'm going to get the rest of the 2,925 points that I need in order to complete my quest by March 9.
On a side note, I finally changed my Gamer Pic this week to something I can be proud of, one of my heroes, ScrewAttack's Angry Video Game Nerd. I just wanted to make it clear that even though I generally have a similar scowl on my face, that image is, in fact not of me.
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