I still haven't got all 1000 points from King Kong yet, but the reason for that is that I got TMNT on Monday, and have now got the 1000 from that instead.

It's nowhere near as boring as King Kong can get, and I didn't think that it was that bad a game.

Infact, it's probably even the kind of game that I'd play again after completing it and getting all 1000 points.

Not like certain other games that I own.

But I'll try and talk about those later. Not now.

I plan on having a good rant about those games.

TMNT only has single player, and all of the achievements were very easy to get.

I used to really like the Turtles when I was younger. I considered getting this when it was first released, but I can remember seeing pretty poor reviews, so I dismissed it.

Having played it and found it roughly a low 7 out of 10 game, I wanted to have a look at those reviews again to see if what they were saying was true.

I was pretty shocked.

Some of them absolutely slated the game. They tore into it like a hungry dog into a box of burgers.

Now, the game has its big flaws, and even some A class bugs (at one point some of the scenery didn't load so I was unable to proceed, and I didn't know this until I restarted the level because I couldn't get any further) but it's not as awful a game as some reviewers were painting it.

Just makes you wonder exactly how many reviews are paid for these days and whether or not this is an example of a game that didn't pay its dues.

Anyway, TMNT is out of the way, so it's back to King Kong.

I'm now on 6040 points, so just a shade less than 4000 to go.

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I finished the single player game on Rainbow Six Vegas today and have now managed to get 420 points out of the game without too much difficulty.

It's taken me a long time, because having pre-ordered the game, I got it a few weeks after Gears of War, which I was much more interested in playing at the time.

In fact, up until I got my wireless wheel, I hardly played anything but Gears of War on my 360.

Gears of War is probably my favourite multiplayer game over LIVE, even with the problems that I have with it.

Living in the UK means that I'm usually playing people on US servers, so most of the time I get 'bullet lag' and trying to host can mean having to sit and wait for around half an hour just for one match.

Even with these faults though, I've probably played this on LIVE more than any of my other 360 games.

Anyway, now I have these 420 from Vegas, I need 80 more out of the game to keep to my plan of getting at least 500 gamerpoints per game.

Having checked all of the achievements, however, it looks as though the next easiest and quickest points for me to get are with coop play, so I think that I'll wait until I see someone on my friends list with the game and try and get them that way.

I'm not in any rush for these 80 gamerpoints, so all of that means that it's time to change games!

I've decided to go for King Kong, the supposedly easiest 1000 gamerpoints that there are.

This definitely seems to be the case so far though, as after about 25 minutes of charging forward without really caring for what was going on in the game, I managed to get the first 100.

The game just seems a bit boring at the moment. I wasn't all that inpressed with the film, and even though first/third person shooters are my favourite genre, there isn't much for me to enjoy here.

Anyway, I'll go for the full 1000 from this game before moving on.

According to what I've read it shouldn't take that long or be that difficult anyway.

Another achievement and another 30 points yesterday for finishing the penultimate chapter in Rainbow Six Vegas.

I had to go through some pretty tricky scenes, but did it without too much difficulty in the end.

I then proceeded to steam through the last chapter with relative ease until I hit a really annoyingly stupid point.

Bad

Game

Design

!

It's moments like these that make me forget every other part of the game that I might have enjoyed.

It's moments like these that make me want to finish the game as quickly as possible and never pick it up again.

They are infuriating moments where the 'AI' would more befittingly be called 'AS' (artificial stupidity).

If you've completed the game, you'll probably know the exact point that I'm refering to. There is one scene to go after this, and I have to say that this scene is completely out of keeping with the rest of the game so far.

What happens?

I won't go through the details, but I get confronted with about 10-15 grenade lobbing enemies from one side and two from the other side.

I'm quite confident that I'll get it done very soon, but it's not enjoyable at all.

It's frustrating.

Anyway, I don't think that I'm far away from getting the points that I want from this game, then I don't think that I'll bother touching it again.

That reminds me, I must remember to write about difficulty in games.

I have a lot to say about that.

How do things stand at the moment?

As I write this I have 17 disc based games, 4 XBLA games and 4660 gamerpoints.

It's taken me quite a while to get this many points, but I think that I must have managed to get around 2000 in the last couple of weeks or so, so I seem to be getting better at racking them up.

Now I know that 4660 gamerpoints isn't that much of a total, but I'm quite busy most of the time, so whilst I might be trying to build up my score, I'm not someone who can sit down playing games all day and all night.

I do have other things to do you know!

Anyway, I've kind of set myself a total of 10,000 for now.

That seems like a decent enough number.

I've been trying to figure out the average score is for gamers on LIVE, and at the moment, from what I've seen there are a lot of people between 0-2000, about half as much between 2-6000, even less than that with 6-10,000 and a significant minority who have more than 10,000.

I do have someone on my friends list with 19,987 points, but he has more time to play games than I do.

What's all the fuss with these points??

I suppose that's what you're asking...

...if you're not a gamer, that is.

Gamers know why gamers collect points.

Gamers collect points because they're competitive. They like winning and letting other gamers know it. I'll probably visit this subject again, but that's my theory right now.

At the moment I'm playing Rainbow Six Vegas. I have 240 points and am quite close to another 180, which would put me on 420. Then I need to find another 80 or so from somewhere before I move on to another game.

That's my current plan to hit 10,000 quite quickly.

I think that if I can get at least 500 points for each disc based game, then it should'nt take that long, since I don't think that I'll have to worry about getting the online achievements of most games, which is probably what takes the most time.

So anyway, that's a brief outline of the way that things stand, as far as my gamerpoints go, at the moment.

5340 to go.