2013-12-04 - The Wheel Man

Today played mostly Wheelman, and attempted to get closer to 100% in Lego Star Wars II with no success at all.

In Wheelman got whopping 4 achievements. One for finishing one contract side mission. 2 for completing 2 story missions and one after I had driven in all of the districts in Barcelona. Total gain - 75G.

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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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2013-12-02 - Lego and Wheelman... Again

Another day with those 2 games. Got achievements in both games.

Cloud Cover in Lego Star Wars TCS was another very easy one - after consulting all knowing Internet found out that I do not have to finish level with playing all way till level ends wearing helmet, it is enough to "save and exit" while wearing helmet. So ... super easy achievement actually.

Collecting all the mini-kits just took time and revisiting levels.

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Also played a bit Wheelman. Got some easy achievements there.

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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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2013-11-30 - Last day of November

This November was sent out in style. Played 4 games, got achievements in 3 of them, 125G in total.

Lego Star Wars TCS - as the end is near, the G-s from game are growing. Got 3 achievements total worth 100G

The Disco achievement come unexpectedly when I was re-playing missions and hunting for the unclaimed mini-kits and red bricks. The last Disco was in some hidden room, where I was not able to go during normal gameplay. Harmless achievement was another one that was easy to do with 2 controllers and selecting R2D2 for one player and Droidikas for second player. Last but not least, the 60G Red Brick Master - this is quite easy just a time consuming one.

Also managed to see a bug in the game, at one point of gaming it claimed I have found 11 mini-kits out of possible 10 in one level. :) :) :)

One mini-kit too many?

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Then I played little bit Wheelman again, and managed to get one easy achievement in that one:

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In end of the day played a game that I have not touched for couple of months - AC3

Played couple of rounds in multiplayer and got one achievement in it. Did not have to much to get it - just had to be in the winning team. :)

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2013-11-29 - 70G in Lego Star Wars TCS

Today I was busy studying, running errands and at the evening visiting a comedy club - never the less, managed to do some gaming in-between and get 2 achievements in Lego Star Wars TCS.

You can probably already guess how I got the easy 10G achievement (just check my earlier TCS posts).

The "Collector" achievement was bit more tricky. Basically what the problem was ... I had all characters unlocked and bought besides one. Last character was hidden and unknown to me. The missing one was unlocked by following: go to the extras room (where you can build 6 golden gates from the bricks you unlock / buy during the game). That has room has a doorway labelled "Trailers". Enter and watch the Indiana Jones trailer, when done Indy he becomes available to buy at the character shop. After buying Indiana Jones - I got the 60G achievement.

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