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Gimme Five’s random questions just keep coming
If I could have just one TV channel and not include anything else in my personalized cable package, it would easily be the Game Show Network. So long as they let me cut out Idiotest and replace that nightly time … Continue reading
Posted in achievements, entertainment, musings, randomness, videogames, xbox one
Tagged Ben Gleib, Divided, Game Show Network, Gimme Five, GSN, Idiotest, puzzles, questions, shuboarder, sports, trivia
Grinding Down’s 2017 gaming resolutions
This is always dangerous, making promises. I’ve done it in the past here on Grinding Down, only to burn myself and those written words when it, for instance, ultimately, took many more years for me to beat Final Fantasy IX. … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, five things make a post, life, lists, musings, playstation 2, playstation 3, randomness, SNES, update, videogames, wii u, wishlist, xbox 360, xbox one
Tagged 108 Stars of Destiny, 2017 resolutions, backlog, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Earthbound, gamerscore, goals, Grinding Down, interactive fiction, resolutions, Steam, Suikoden III, twine
Feverishly swiping away at my phone to Make It Rain
I am a patient man. Perhaps maybe the most patient, but that is a test that anyone claiming such a thing could easily fail. I mean, if someone sits next to me and continues to flick my nose once every … Continue reading
Posted in achievements, entertainment, impressions, life, musings, randomness, videogames
Tagged apps, cell phones, F2P, free, free-to-play, Make It Rain, Make It Rain: Love of Money, microtransactions, OK GO, patience, Space Inch, Windows 8 phone
2016 Game Review Haiku, #48 – Ben-Hur
Take the reins, Ben-Hur Steer this freebie, for glory Easy Gamerscore – Here we go again. Another year of me attempting to produce quality Japanese poetry about the videogames I complete in three syllable-based phases of 5, 7, and 5. I … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 completed games, achievements, entertainment, haiku review, movies, videogames, xbox one
Tagged AOL, Ben-Hur, free, free-to-play, gamerscore, haiku, haikus, Microsoft, movies, poetry
The instructional quest of three tutorials for four Achievements
It all began with doing half of Terraria‘s tutorial, which put me at a perfect Gamerscore of 55,555, which, to number-obsessive nerds like myself, is an amusing triumph. Loyal readers of Grinding Down should already know that I have a … Continue reading
Posted in achievements, entertainment, impressions, musings, randomness, update, videogames, xbox 360, xbox one
Tagged Deus Ex, Deus Ex: The Conspiracy, gamerscore, Gears of War 2, Supreme Commander 2, Terraria, tutorials
Playing co-op the solo way in Lara Croft: Guardian of Light
I keep saying that I’m working at completing games saved on my limited Xbox 360 hard-drive space in hopes of then deleting these finished games and making room for those in my growing download queue too large to acquire until some … Continue reading
Posted in achievements, entertainment, impressions, musings, randomness, videogames, xbox 360
Tagged co-op, Lara Croft, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Totec
Showing off my cultural superiority in Civilization Revolution
Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution is one of the two free games Gold members get this month on the Xbox 360. It’s not particularly shiny or new, releasing back in June 2008 for all the expected systems from that time period, … Continue reading
Posted in achievements, entertainment, musings, videogames, xbox 360
Tagged Age of Empires, Civilization Revolution, Civilization V, gamerscore, Rome, RTS, Sid Meier
The Half-hour Hitbox: August 2013
I realized the other morning that, over the last couple of weeks or so, I’ve dipped my hairy, Hobbit toes into several videogames that I’ve not yet brought up here on Grinding Down, and by that I mean I’ve played … Continue reading
Watching a videogame’s credits is an Achievement like none other
Many, many nights ago, I loaded up Blocks That Matter. It’s a puzzle-based platformer starring a little mechanical fella known as the Tetrobot, which can collect materials from the world and then build shapes out of them. You then use … Continue reading
Posted in achievements, entertainment, videogames
Tagged Blocks That Matter, Borderlands 2, credits, end credits, Steam, Tetrobot
Achievements of the Week – The Taking Sides with the Dragon Cube Hunter Edition
For those paying attention, I did not put together an Achievements of the Week post last Friday. And I totally could have. I unlocked a dino dropping size of them for Jurassic Park: The Game, which I completed rather quickly, … Continue reading
Posted in achievements, achievements of the week, entertainment, lists, musings, RPGs, videogames, xbox 360
Tagged Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fez, Jurassic Park, Skyrim, Stormcloaks
