Bad Timing

I've got a bit of spare time on my hands over the next few days, so along with the many other things that I've been meaning to catch up on, I should be able to work on my gamerscore.

I've managed to get back to adding to it after spending so long on the COD4 multiplayer, and might even be able to get up to the 20,000 points mark over the coming week or so. I'm currently on 17,750, but I have enough games to play through that the 2,250 points to get there should be fairly simple.

I've been playing a wide variety of games recently. I've spent about 70 hours playing Midnight Club LA, for a pretty straightforward 800 points. I went back to Halo 3 and completed the campaign ('finished the fight') on Heroic for a good few hundred too. I've also got a few more points from here and there, including PGR4 and Pure.

At the moment I'm playing through COD:WaW on Veteren. I should be able to get anywhere between 600-800 points just by playing through to the end.

It's been quite an inconsistent experience so far.

It's not what I expected. Some parts have been fun, but other parts have been really, really awful. Having said that, I'd probably put the awful parts more down to the fact that I'm playing it on Veteran, and the AI is just ludicrous at times. If I was playing it on Hardened or a lower difficulty it might be different. I've played the multiplayer a few times and as interesting as I'm sure some of the WWII weapons are, I just don't have the urge to stick with it without my favourite, the P90.

Maybe that's good news for my gamerscore anyway.

One final comment that I wanted to make was on one of the unlockables on Midnight Club.

I like cars, and one of my favourite cars is the Audi R8. For some reaon, Rockstar decided to licence this car and make it practically impossible to get.

I've won pretty much every single race in the entire game, and done almost everything that there is to do and I still haven't done enough to unlock it.

There are 12 different objectives that you have to complete, such as win a certain amount of races and hit a certain number of objects. I've done 10 of the 12. The final 2 are to drive 5000 miles (i've done about 4500) and use something like 2000 'specials'.

The 5000 miles is no problem. I could probably very easily do the 500 more that I need, but the 'specials' is just a stupid idea.

I mean really stupid.

Considering that I had played the game for about 60 hours before discovering that I was only about 60% through completing this particular objective, it doesn't seem likely that I'd be able to do it without having to play the game for 100 hours, unless I spend hours and hours just boosting.

Playing it for 100 hours isn't really the problem here. The problem is that I've already done pretty much everything in the entire single player game, and I still don't have the R8, so what am I going to do when I get it??

The online is ok, but it's not something that I really want to keep playing for a long time, so all I'd probably end up doing with my new R8 is cruising for a while, and that's pretty much it.

Is it really worth playing the game for 100 hours just for that?

No.

So I won't be trying to get it for the time being. Which basically means that I'm not getting to play with one of the main reasons that I bought the game in the first place.

Perhaps it would have been a better idea to make the objectives be the kind of thing that the typical player would get through after playing it for around 40 hours, rather than 100.

If most people would spend around 50 hours playing MCLA, then that would give them a good 10 hours to play with what's probably the best car in the game if they chose to.

That seems like a better idea to me.