2013-12-03 - Lego is driving me nuts

Lego Star Wars II was definitely driving me nuts today. Tried to do the Falcon Flight achievement - one of the remaining "finish level without dying" levels. After attempt 10 or so I gave up ... for now.

Last two "don't die" achievements I got in total with 3 attempts - so I succeeded on one level during my first attempt. I died only once in second level before finishing it also successfully. This time I progressed to middle of the level and died almost at the same time almost in similar way. Not fun at all.

Well, you know how it goes, when stuck in a game, leave it for a while and do something else. So I worked my way little closer to 100% game completion. And then went off to play Wheelman.

Long story short - no achievements in Lego today.

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In Wheelman did few story missions and did one "hot potato" side mission just to get an achievement :)

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2013-12-01 - New month starts with achievements in 3 games

Today got achievements in 3 games. +135G

I got 2 hard ones in Lego Star Wars II. Those are the ones where you have to fly around and you cannot use a "ghost" character to make it super-easy for you. You actually have to do it without getting killed. Hard stuff, took multiple tries.

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Then I went and got 2 relatively easy ones in Lego Star Wars TCS. To get the "Arcade master" I went the easy route - fired up the arcade battle with 2 controllers, and used controller 2 to jump off the ledge 100 times - meaning the controller 1 got 100 "kills" and the achievement unlocked. "Cash in" was also easy when you know, in what mission and where to do it. :)

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In the end of day played Wheelman and got 4 achievements during normal game progression - no grinding involved.

 

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2013-11-25 - 100G in 2 Lego Star Wars games

Today I played 2 Lego Star Wars games and got achievements in both. :)

The "Undefeated Endor" was quite easy to do with a "ghost" character - it cannot be killed and enemies leave you alone. But the Speeder Showdown - it needed concentration. Even when using ghost, you are vulnerable when riding the speeder and can be killed by turrets or just by hitting the walls/trees by accident.

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In Lego Star Wars TCS got some relatively easy achievements.

For "Shoot first" I just needed to fire up second controller, select right characters for both players, launch a random episode, have one specific character kill another, and voila - there it was.

Little similar deal with "Fire in the hole" - just had to use Bobba Fett and throw a thermal detonator into a swarm of storm-troopers. :)

Gopher was also very easy to get ... if you have all the stud multiplayers equipped. :)

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2013-11-18 - Lego Lego Lego

Only had little time today for gaming, spent it again on Lego Star Wars II

Gathered few mini-kits, and red bricks, managed to go through 3 levels as undefeated - thus getting me 3 new achievements worth 60G.

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2013-11-17 - Small progress in LEGO Star Wars II

Busy day, did not play that much - but still managed to get 2 achievements in LEGO Star Wars II.

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2013-11-15 - 3 times undefeated at LEGO Star Wars II

Today went through the 3 levels in the game and got 3 of them "wow, you did not die" achievements. Total gain 60GS.

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2013-11-14 - 2 times undefeated at LEGO Star Wars II

Not much gaming done today, but managed to get done 2 achievements worth 40G.

As I have now unlocked one of the "ghost" characters, the "don't die once" achievements are not that hard at all in free play mode. All enemies ignore the ghost (I presume they cannot see it or figure out they cannot kill it) and focus on their energy on the AI controlled sidekick. So this leaves the main player very safe and only way to fail the achievement is to fall to your death. :)

And if you do manage to get yourself killed by falling off from somewhere, only option is usually to quite the level and restart from the beginning. I had to do it once as one jump to a platform went bit too far and my character fell to his death. :)

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2013-11-13 - Half way there

Another day where I only played one game - this time it was again Lego Star Wars II.

I got only 2 achievements, but they were the heavy ones, score ways ... in total 130G. And as you see from screenshot below, now the score is 500/1000. :)

"Lego city complete" was easy to do - its just an achievement, that you cannot do in beginning of the game. You have to have progressed relatively far in the game to have enough gold bricks to build the door to the Lego city. Once you have it built, it is easy.

"Game 80% complete" - this is just one that comes over time when you have re-played the levels in normal or free mode and collected more and more bricks and mini-kits.

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2013-11-12 - Bounty hunter missions done in LEGO Star Wars II

Busy day, not too much time spent on gaming. Managed to get one more achievement done in LEGO Star Wars II.

It was quite fun one - the bounty hunter missions. Different from main story in a sense that you have only 3 minutes to "solve" a mystery of one character location. Reminds me of the hide-and-seek game - you have to find someone within time limit. If you manage to do it, you get gold brick, if not, the options are to retry or give up.

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2013-11-11 - Slow progress in LEGO Star Wars II

Played few hours and only thing I got was game completion percentage rose from 60,2% yesterday to 64%. Got no GS or no achievements. Maybe tomorrow? :)

2013-11-10 - 60% done in LEGO Star Wars II

After few hours of gaming today I finished going through the main story in story mode. Game completion was around 57%. After spending my hard earned studs on some un-lockable characters I saw that game completion raised to 60,2% and at the same time the attachment popped. :)

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Now "all" I need to do in this game is go through the levels in Free-play mode and find all the mini-kits and power bricks and work my way closer to the 100% completion. And go through the levels without dying... that's the hard part. Wish me luck!

2013-11-09 - I rescued the Princess

Feeling better after my illness, played a little of the old LEGO Star Wars II game. Got one achievement worth 20G in it.

Damn those "without dying once" achievements are hard - it is so easy to slip somewhere or get hit by enemies in this game. Looks like I have to play through the game on my own and then get a friend to help me with the achievements - let him be the one who takes risks and gets killed, while I concentrate on staying alive.

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2013-10-31 - Adera time

Decided to fire up Adera again today. Managed to get couple of achievements in this game. 5 to precise worth 45G.

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Also played with no gain in GS or achievements 2 games: LEGO Star Wars II and Microsoft Flight

2013-10-31 - Time to something really old

Time to play something very old ... Went through my old games and decided to have another go with LEGO Star Wars II.

This game has been unused since summer 2009... more than 4 years. Time sure does fly...

It is one of many games that I have owned for ages, but somehow stopped playing it. As you see from the achievement history - I got last achievement in June 2009 and one before that in April 2008.

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Too bad I have lost the save game for this and have to start all over from very beginning. The things we do for achievements, eh? :)