One of the neat things about Windows Phone 7 is that the games, some of them anyway, can do stuff via Xbox Live, and that means achievements. It seems like such a stupid thing, but I love that you can get some kind of score for doing stuff. I love that my profile has stuff from the Xbox as well as the phone.
So far, I've got some points from both the free puzzle game, ilomilo, as well as some points from Game Chest Solitaire. I'm not sure which other games I'll get, although the one strategy game that uses real maps looks pretty interesting (if I could remember what the name of it was, or if it's even out).
At home, on the TV, I just got Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii. Truth be told, the last time we turned on the Wii was when I got Toy Story Mania last Christmas for Diana, and we never played it again. I had high hopes for it after the fun at Disney World. DK is fun though, even if you die constantly. What can I say, I was a huge fan of the original SNES versions. Stephanie and I played those cartridges to death during Christmas break of my senior year.
Hopefully though, that will be a game that I actually finish. There are way too many games in my collection that are still not complete. Against all odds, I still haven't finished Halo Reach, and I'm into that game. I didn't finish ODST either, but that one was kind of boring. We finally fired up Kinect Adventures yesterday, which is about time seeing as how I didn't even have to pay for it. Even then, Joe scored my first few achievements! I'm a few percentage points away from finishing Lego Harry Potter at 100%, but I don't remember what I'm missing. Then there are the games I've barely gotten anywhere in, like PGR4 (I bought the damn steering wheel!), Splosion Man, the first Gears of War... yikes. I didn't finish Ghost Busters either. I picked up Fallout 3 in the spring, and it hasn't even been in the console yet!
I think that, perhaps tomorrow, I'm going to try and lose myself in video games for the day. I haven't done that in a very long time, and I think I need it. I spend too much time kicking myself for not working on projects in my free time. I need to let go a little and just do stuff that is the reward.
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