NHL 08 Compreet-o!!!

In between having enjoyable sessions of learning about the "world of magic" with LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 and the "world of Dracula" with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, I've been able to get a few sessions in of NHL 08 with someone I could actually tolerate boosting with.  Even though our first try was unsuccessful, tonight we happened to hit it just right on our first game and get the Penalty Shot Hero achievement.  That was a great burden off my shoulders, considering that the servers were supposed to go down sometime tomorrow and I wouldn't have been able to do it as easily offline (read: post from Shauna about NHL 08).  So I will probably play a little more Lego HP tonight and then go to bed feeling relatively accomplished.  Also, on a sadder note, it seems that the moderator achievement on Need for Speed: Prostreet might have become unobtainable within the past few days.  If that's the case, I will be sad....

viral month!

Well, for anyone who cares, there's a little site called Trueachievements that is currently promoting viral achievements through the month of February.  To clarify, viral achievements are those that are passed from one person to another, just by playing together, when one of the players has "contracted" the achievement.  So, anyway, Monday, I was able to play Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - Xbox 360 and pick that one up, then Grand Theft Auto IV and lastly Brutal Legend.  Through the last two, I wanted to play the games some more, but as always, I don't have enough time, so I'll have to come back to them later...again.  Additionally, last night, I was able to play Need for Speed: Prostreet, then Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, and lastly, Need for Speed: Undercover.  I ended up playing the last one for about an hour after getting the viral, and then got tired of it, so I went back towards the mandated LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4.  I think I got most of the way through Year Two at Hogwarts, but got tired after being chased by a giant spider, so that was about the time I decided that I should go to bed.  Maybe I will have some more adventures in wizardry tonight.

Monday already?

Well, I feel like I didn't get to fully accomplish anything this weekend, being hamstrung by EA's desire to shut down servers, still, but on the plus side I did get the last online-only achievement for NHL 08 with my Swiss friend.  Around that, I got to play through the first and part of the second year of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 as part of a pseudo-mandate from Shauna.  All in all, it's another enjoyable Lego game and also a tolerable Harry Potter experience, since no one talks and its breadth is riddled with hunts for stud and interactive fixtures to unlock the meta-quests.  To wrap up the evening, I got contacted by one of the guys who took part with me in a horrible abortion of a boost session for NHL 08, where it seemed no one could get on the same page and everyone left frustrated, whether they got the achievement or not.  Unfortunately for me, the guy who I was contacted by was more than likely the one who destroyed that session.  So this new session was also taxed by his inability to focus on the game and add to that the fact that we no longer had control of all the player, unlike the previous session, so I went to bed fully exhausted and ungratified by the whole situation.  Add to that the fact that he invited me to his party while he's trying to boost a few other games and wasting my time, and he sits and complains about other people that he's boosted with while also touting himself as a great booster.  I'll try to remember that I don't ever want to bother with him again.  Where's Shauna?  Maybe I can talk her into trying again, since the first attempt went so well. :-P