I wish I could write a lengthy thought provoking article about the following subject, but I just don't think it is within my literal capacity to achieve. So I will keep this short.

There is a lot of banter between video game fans now about what is and isn't acceptable to play without the attached stigma of it being "for kids". A term which is becoming more and more contradictory of itself, I mean exactly how do you measure the so called childish factor of a game. It is be difficulty, body/blood count, the ability to stab people, the ESRB rating? I'm not sure about you guys but I'm a 23 year old IT tech and my work colleagues don't exactly sit around all day discussing the best way to rip off a human head. What I'm getting at is as much as you may like to think it, that chainsaw wielding, macho dismemberment fest of a game you are playing isn't really considered cultured adult entrainment.

While the 14-18 years olds blow up people and cut off heads talking about how "not for kids this is", their parents are down stairs playing Brain Age and Wii Fit.

To be perfectly honest if video game were ever to become a more acceptable form of entertainment for adults, I would stop playing them. Gamers, all gamers, at heart are just big kids regardless of age. The more seasoned of us started back in the NES and Atari years, were there was no blood or gore or any of the other element that go into making so called adult games. But we still played them, and they were just as enjoyable then as modern games are now.

I guess what I am saying is that next time you try to utter "the Wii is for Kids" or try to decide just how "kiddie" a game is, give yourself a damn good slap in the face, because at the end of the day all games are.

1. Get WoW Rogue to level 80 (done)
2. Get WoW Death Knight to Northrend. (done and way more so)
3. Place pre-order for Killzone 2. Also find out about the CE version (got, played, completed, playing online)
4. Complete Prince of Perisa (done)
5. Complete last setlist in GH:WT (done, apart from satchboogie)
6. Start Condemnd 2
7. Put game discs back in boxes (like 25 of them I took on holiday with me) (done)
8. Order Motorstorm 2 at some point
9. Start doing Northrend instances with 80 Warrior. (done, sorta regearing war to tank now)
10. Play Street FIghter 4! (played completed)
11. Change my profile banner

Got the idea for this from someone on my friends list here. Now most of these are from memory and there is no way I will be able to remember or even have the time to add them all at once.

Edit: OK I have added the first batch. The lists that are complete are Xbox 360 and PS3 since all I have to do is go through my collections for each. The rest I will probably never all of them but it will be fun trying.
PS.The Gamecube collection I think is also complete.
PPS. And PSP.....maybe

NES
Duck Tales (2 times at least), Blades of Steel

Sega Mega Drive

Game Boy

Game Boy Advance
Tekken Advance,

Dreamcast

PSP
Metal Gear Acid, Metal Gear Acid 2, Syphon Filter Dark Mirror, GTA Liberty City Stories, Killzone Liberation, Tony Hawks Underground 2, NFS Underground Rivals, Daxter, Burnout Legends, X-Men Legends 2

Playstation
Metal Gear Solid (22 times roughly, I lost count around number 1, Vigilante 8, Syphon Filter, Final Fantasy 8, WWF Smackdown,

Playstation 2
Psi Ops, Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater (2 times), Shadow of the Colossus, Street Hoops, Devil May Cry 3 (2 times), Onimusha 3, Onimusha 2, Onimusha 1, Killzone,

Playstation 3
Resistance Fall of Man, Guitar Hero 3, Unreal 3, Uncharted (2 times), Ratchet and Clank Future, Heavenly Sword, Rachet and Clank Quest for Booty, Metal Gear Solid 4, Guitar Hero Aerosmith

Xbox 360
Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway, Halo 3 (4 times at least), Call of Duty 4 (2 times), Assassins Creed, Perfect Dark Zero, Devil May Cry 4, Lost Planet, Gears of War (4 complete play throughs at least), Bioshock, Spider-Man 3, Saints Row, Crackdown, Need for Speed Most Wanted (2 times), Dead or Alive 4, Fight Night Round 3, GRAW1 (2 times), GRAW2 (2 times), Turok (2 times), Just Cause, Oblivion, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Splinter Cell Double Agent (2 times), Orange Box (all games once I think), Tomb Raider Legends, Tomb Raider Anniversary, FEAR (3 times), Dark Sector, Timeshift (2 times), Condemed (3 times), NBA Street Homecourt, Dead Rising (2 times), Army of Two (2 times), Call of Duty 2 (2 times), Call of Duty 3 (2 times), The Darkness (2 times), Rockstar Table Tennis, Strangle Hold, King Kong, Burnout Paradise, GTA 4, Guitar Hero 2, Star Wars Force Unleashed, The Godfather, Rockband

Xbox
Halo (3 times), Halo 2 (4 times), Black (2 times), Ninja Gaiden, GTA San Andres, Unreal 2, Munch's Oddesy, Jade Empire, Mercenaries, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Prince of Persia 3 (2 times)

Gamecube
Prince of Persia Sands of Time, Prince of Persia 2, Eternal Darkness, Mario Sunshine, Resident Evil 4 (2 times), Spider-Man 2, Metroid Prime, Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes (2 times), True Crime Streets of LA, SSX 3, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 0, Zelda Wind Waker

PC
Crysis, World of Warcraft (if getting at least 1 level 70 counts), Jedi Knight 2 Jedi Outcast (2 times), Gears of War, Command and Conquer Generals, KOTOR (2 times), Halo

About 14 hours after launch I have hit 200/200 in Aegis Wing the free Arcade game that was released last night, not only that but I am the 9th person worldwide to do so and the only British person to do so. Now that is an Achievement Unlocked moment!

The board still hasn't updated with my score but I will post a picture as soon as it does.

I recently hit 1000/1000 in Marvel Ultimate Alliance, at the time of posting I am 1 of only 271 people to have done this, and I have hit the front page. YES!



The other front page is for Oblivion. If you didn't already know Microsoft has now allowed developers to add an extra 250 points to retail games and Oblivion is the first to use it. At the time of posting I am one of 430 people to have reached the new limit.
I doubt I will stay in front for long though, since it is a relativity easy 250 additional points.