Achievement

So I was playing a little known game called Psychology Assessment 423 on Monday and being the gamerscore whore that I am, I racked up a few achievements:

 

Netting me a total of 1250G’s for completion of the game and it’s expansion!

Filed under: Gameology, Jocose, Life, xbox 360

Anticipation

Another thousand five hundred more words to go.

Yes I wrote that out word for word.

Makes me feel better that after writing approximately eight thousand and five hundred words I still have words stored in my written speech bank.

I cannot wait to finish this.

Has been one heck of a journey.

Only got a little bit of my discussion and conclusion to write about and tidy up my literature review and method section!

Actually I don’t think I’ll make it to the lofty ten thousand word mark, but I think the conciseness of my dissertation, couple with my extremely well-structured and seamless flow will get me my elusive HD.

Well, I was just talking with Jess who claimed I have a healthy ego, and that’s because I like to exercise it like this.

But it’s not quite done when I finish this dissertation, I still have to write another thousand five hundred words on a group review/journal in the context of group theory.

Maybe I’ll write it in my blog since I seem to have an affinity towards lengthy post.

That may make that little assignment more conducive.

Oh I’m losing track of what the title originally purported.

I cannot say how much I want to play Dead Space.

Everyday, I’m just so tempted to unseal the plastic wrapping and inhale the smell of a new disc and slot it in my 360 and start gaming.

But assignment calls.

And unless I finish my assignment tonight, I probably won’t play Dead Space until next week when I should be studying for exams…. HAHA

But that is because I’m flying off to Sydney this weekend for the Hillsong Men’s Conference!

Should be a great time even though I do not like Sydney.

Actually it’s more of the company that I’m going to enjoy, having the opportunity to engage someone (Hocks) in deep discussion about Christianity for a few days would be extremely refreshing for my spirit.

I hope for my sake at least, anticipation breeds motivation.

Filed under: Dead Space, Gameology, Life, Procastination, planning

Dead Space

Even though Dead Space has pretty much been released all over the world, the official release for Australia is tomorrow and I secured myself a copy one day ahead because I’m a special video game reviewer for the Australian market. Okay I lie, haha, it’s only because I pre-ordered it from Harvey Norman and the guy in charge of the games department was so excited he called me yesterday to tell me that I could pick it up already. I don’t normally pre-order games because there isn’t much incentive too unless it’s a behemoth like Halo 3 and might run out, but this time it comes with an artbook (of which I’m still waiting on) that might make some good coffee table reading if the pre-release images of the game are anything to go by. But sadly here I am stuck in uni ploughing away at my dissertation and probably won’t get to capitalise on the earlier than normal reception of this game.

I don’t really know too much about this game because I don’t want to spoil the storyline etc for myself and just in case I’ll get let down (unlikely if the scores on reviews are anything to go by and it’s already being touted as the best game experience of 2009). But put simply it’s a survival sci-fi horror game, pretty much silent hill or resident evil set in space. Can’t say I have played those games in the series, but I do really enjoy playing a good single player game, e.g. Bioshock last year. But with that said, I hope my playing of Dead Space won’t follow the path of Bioshock where I pretty much never got further than chapter two because I didn’t have the time to sit down to be immerse in the whole expereince in pretty much one continuos sitting. And that’s how I like to play my games.

So because of that, even though I got this game sitting in my bag, I’m at uni trudging away at my dissertation which I had every intention to finish a few days ago. But now a reschedule should hopefully see me finish the huge majority of it by tonight, and just leaving some editing and stuff for tomorrow. And then it’ll be pretty much studying for exams. And once exams finish I can begin my quest to start and finish these games again!

So my to-play list after exams would be:

1. Bioshock
2. Dead Space
3. Gears of War2 (If I got the cash ahaha)

And all these will be interspersed with Guitar Hero: World Tour. Party times at my house!

Goodness me my Xbox360 is going to be my best friend post-exam…

who needs a relationship!

Actually I’ll make special exception if said person has an awesome tv, and surround sound system. Simply because I want the full immersion of experience only possible by a surround sound system that I lack.

Oh well, here’s hoping that dead space left in my dissertation will be filled.

Filed under: Dead Space, Gameology, Procastination, planning, xbox 360