The Iceman's Game Journal

After seeing Tim's Game Diary, I started this blog to give me some incentive to actually finish some of the 461+ video games I have (of which I have finished 41.) Hope it works.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Chris Jericho's Road To Wrestlemania--Smackdown VS Raw 2009

Was kind of nice to see Y2J competing as a face again. Made Jeff Hardy tap out of the Walls of Jericho to become part of a fatal fourway next week to see who will be #1 contender to the Heavyweight Title at the Royal Rumble. After the match, the lights went out, the Code footage aired, but it changed to something about terminating Jericho.

Before the big fatal fourway, I went after Finley, who apparently was poking around the production area. After making him tap during a Locker Room Brawl, he admit ed to [playing the code, but says he didn't make the video.

the Fatal Fourway was an elimination match. I eliminated Mr Kennedy about 4 minutes into the match. Shawn Micheal's and I worked together to eliminate Randy Orton, with me connecting with the Code Breaker and him following it up with Sweet Chin Music and getting the pin to eliminate Orton. That left Jericho and Micheal's. Busted Micheal's open with the Code Breaker and then made him tap out of the Walls Of Jericho for a chance to face Cena for the title at the Royal Rumble.

Teamed up with Jeff Hardy to take on Finley and Snitsky. after a tough match I busted Finley open with the Code Breaker and got the pin. For pinning Finley, I also unlocked the WCW Roster edit brand and the WCW Belt for exhibition matches.

Beat Shawn Micheal's rather easily after 2 quick Code Breakers. After the match the code returned, saying that a virus had been deployed and that I would be terminated at the Royal Rumble.

The match against Cena was going pretty good until a masked man entered the ring and attacked him, causing a DQ. he then attacked Cena and Jericho before leaving the ring. (I'm thinking it's Tony, Cena's friend from his Road To Wrestlemania.)

Shane McMahon booked me in a no DQ match against JBL. I decided to take out some frustrations on Bradshaw. Most of the match was outside of the ring, where I used a chair and sledge hammer, plus numerous Cosde Breakers and a DDT to bust him open before getting the pin.

Time to question some suspects. Shane was hiding something, but claimed it wasn't him. Finley said it wasn't him either and I believe him. Jeff Hardy claimed to be watching the match and then Shane booked me in a match against him. during the match the masked man walked out of the crowd and watched at ring side. I beat Jeff after a Superplex and chased after him but he got away. at least I know it's not Jeff. for beating him with out using a finisher, I unlocked Y2J's alt costume, from before he cut his hair.

Another week, another group to question. Shawn Micheal's said he was busy getting ready for the rumble (love the fact that they mention him lasting 42 minutes and losing to Undertaker, which is what happened in one off the greatest rumble moment's I've ever seen) went to question Randy Orton, but Shane walked in and said he had found someone without an alibi and that he was in the ring. Turns out it was Umaga, who is too big to be the masked man. went a little old school on Umaga, connecting with the Code Breaker outside of the ring and then the Lionsault to get the pin.

Week 3 of the investigation. Went to talk to Mr. Kennedy, who had a face mask with him. He claimed it was because he was from Green Bay and that it is cold there (He is actually from Minneapolis, even colder) and that he had a match against Jericho tonight. The match was Y2J and HBK teaming up against Kennedy and Orton in a tornado tag match. Spent most of the match beating the tar out of Kennedy outside of the ring, busting him open with the Code Breaker before rolling him into the pin and connecting with a second Code Breaker to get the pin.

At no way out I called out Orton, accusing him of being the masked man. The masked man walked down to the ring and I beat the snot out of him before removing his mask. before I could, Shane came out and sicced Snitsky and Umaga on me.

Interfered in Orton's match against Cena the next night, causing him to win by DQ, but got some good shots in so who cares.

The next week opened with the masked man attacking Cena backstage. He turned to run away but he ran right into Jericho. Busted a garbage can and a lead pipe over his head before connecting with the Code Breaker and pulling his mask off. I was right! The Masked man is Orton!.

Cena defended the title the next week on Raw against Orton. He asked for Jericho's help, which, except for helping him to the ring, was pointless because I couldn't do anything but watch as Orton won the title.

The next week, Orton said I could have a title match at Wrestlemania if I won a 6 man Battle Royal against 6 Masked men. Easily beat them. Next stop, Wrestlemania 24.

Time for Wrestlemania. I brutalized Orton in a No DQ Falls Count Anywhere match, attacking him with chairs, sledgehammers, barbed wire 2X4s, the ring steps, and the code breaker before making him trap out ot the Walls Of Jericho to become the new WWE Champion.

In addition the the Chris Jericho Story achievement, I also unlocked the Masked Man for exhibition matches.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

3 Achievements--Hexic HD

Just thought I would pop in and mention that I got the Cluster Buster, Star Gazer, and Flower Child achievements in Hexic HD. Not that big of a deal, but thought I would mention it.

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Saturday, November 15, 2008

United States Championship--Smackdown VS Raw 2009

Sent a message to the Smackdown roster as I beat the snot out of Festus before pinning him following the Ice Device. (1105 points, 5 Stars)

Busted Carlito open with the Evenflow DDT and got the pin after connecting with Sonic Rotation (960 points 4 Stars)

JBL wanted a rematch for the IC title at One Night Stand, but I destroyed him and got the win after connecting with Sonic Rotation twice. Unlocked the Outside Dive ability.

Beat Shelton Benjamin rather easily after connecting with the Ice Device (785 points 3 stars)

The match against Umaga was tough. He kicked out of the Sonic Rotation, when I busted him open with the Ice Device it pissed him off and he got bad. A second Sonic Rotation accidentally knocked out the ref, but a second Ice Device got me the win. (1565 points 5 Stars)

Took on Umaga again to determine the #1 contender to the United States Championship. I had to choose a manager so I chose my twin CM Punk (Inside joke) Umaga came out with Shelton Benjamin. Another decent match but I beat him after one Sonic Rotation. I also unlocked Single w/manager matches in career mode.(1030 Points, 5 Stars)

Time for Vengeance and to take the US title from MVP. Another W/Manager match and I again chose CM Punk as mine. MVP chose Chavo Guerrero. MVP kicked out of the Sonic Rotation on 2, but I finished him off with the Ice Device to become the United States Champion. I also unlocked the Dirty Pin ability. (1060 points, 5 Stars)

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Intercontinential Championship--Smackdown VS Raw 2009

Easily pinned Chuck Plumbo after an Evenflow DDT. (535 points, 3 stars)

Defeated William Regal with the Evenflow DDT after he managed to kick out of both the Ice Device and Sonic Rotation. (1185, 5 Stars) unlocked the 5 Stars achievement

Pinned CM Punk in a No DQ match against CM Pumk after busting him open with the Ice Device. (910 points 4 Stars)

Had a bit of trouble beating JBL (turned up the difficulty to legend. actually took some damage in this match. enough to make my chest go Yellow) but I still beat him after busting him open with the Ice Device to earn #1 contendership for the Intercontinental Championship. (700 points, 3 Stars)

Lost to JBL in a Steel Cage match at Backlash when I hit the wrong button and took off the turn buckle cover instead of pulling him off the cage. (1075 Points, 5 Stars)

Beat JBL the next night in a Steel Cage match to win back my Contendership. (830 Points, 4 Stars)

Went to the motherland to challenge Kane for the IC title at Judgement Day in Dublin Ireland. Busted him open and got the win with the Ice Device to become the Intercontinental Champion.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

John Cena's Road To Wrestlemania--Smackdown VS Raw 2009

Cena pinned Kennedy after 2 FUs and a 5 Knuckle Shuffle after dedicating the match to "Tony"

Easily made MVP tap out of the STFU to get the win. By winning by submission I unlocked the Tribute To The Troops arena. Celebrated with "Tony" after the match.

Ha a bit of trouble beating William Regal, but not much. Busted him open with a Leg Drop from the second rope and the pin after the FU.

Teamed with Jeff Hardy to take on Regal and Umaga. Spent most of the time targetting Umaga and beat him after busting him open with a Face Buster and planting him with the FU.

The match against Umaga at the Royal Rumble ended in a DQ when MVP ran in as I was locking on the STFU. Afterwards, Umaga, MVP, and Regal tried to beat me up, but I was knocking them down left and right. adn yet, when it went to the cut scene I was getting my butt kicked.

Easily pinned Kennedy after the STFU. Turns out Regal, MVP, and Umaga teamed up to form their own country--Better-Then-U-Topia.

Fought all three Utopians after they beat up Jeff Hardy. fight was fairly even until I grabbed a chair and started smashing some heads with it.

Teamed with Jeff again to take on Umaga and Regal again. Easily beat them. Nailed both with the FU for a bonus. During the match, MVP beat up "Tony, who had gotten injured and sent home. He was visiting backstage. I unlocked Tony as a playable character (yay)

Beat Snitsky rather easily. He managed to kick out of the first FU, but no big deal. I wanted to plant him with 3 anyways. One for each other Utopians.

Gauntlet match at No Way Out. Not too hard. Took down Regal with the 5 Knuckle Shuffle, Umaga with the FU, then toyed with MVP for a while, planting him with several FUs and saluting before going for the pin. After the match they all beat me down.

Time for some revenge. Ambushed Regal in his locker room. Wanted to smash a guitar over his head, but couldn't figure out how to pick it up. oh well. FUed him into the cement to bust him open and knock him out.

Next target was Umaga. Attacked him after a match with Tommy Dreamer. After busting him open with a DDT into a table, I catapulted him into another one that I had set up in the corner, taking him out.

Time to take out MVP. Attacked him during his match against Jeff hardy and busted him open, then chased him to the back. He managed to get away, but not before I busted out a few windows of his car and stole his medallion. After that I made short work of his hired help, Snitsky.

Had a match against Mr. Kennedy the next week and beat him in 2 minutes, meaning I got the bonus and unlocked the Gauntlet Match in Exhibition.

Time for Wrestlemania, 24, and a 15 minute Ironman Match against MVP.final score was 5-0. Would have gotten another pin, but I decided to taunt MVP a bit, giving him time to recover. Planted him with the FU just as time ran out. After that, Tony handed me the US flag and we threw the Better-Then-U-Tobipa on on the ground and Tony got some payback on MVP.

Unlocked the Wrestlmania Jeep entrance for create an entrance and got Cena Story achievment as well as the Congrats Are In Order achievement for winning my first Exhibition match while trying out the newest version of The Iceman.

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Escape the Pillar of Autumn --Halo

A fairly decent tutorial level. The tutorial started out as a system check after Master Chief was thawed out, but then the Covenant attacked and from there on, the rest of it was "Pres X to reload" type commands on screen, with out any story explanation other then having to fight a bunch of Grunts and a few Elite. Got to the bridge of the ship, got my orders (and the AI) and fought my way to the escape pod. Only had 3 bullets left for the Assault Rifle when I reached the bod and I escaped with a bunch of marines.

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The 360 Arrived!!!!!!

The 360 was waiting for me when I got home!!!!

I did wait until after eating though. Rae brought supper and I knew that if I didn't wait I wouldn't want to eat. When I fired it up (and deleted the previous owner's profiles) i started exploring. There were a bunch of songs on there (those went because they were crap) some videos he had downloaded that looked good, some game demos (will play those and then most likely delete them) some Arcade game trial, and an entire Arcade game! So in addition to the 4 games I knew I was getting, I also got Arkadian Warriors, a cartoony looking Diablo clone for lack of a better description.

Not only that but there was a bunch of downloadable content. Some, like the Halo 3 Heroic Map Pack was free (as far as I know). Others, like the car pack for Forza 2 or the expansions for Oblivion, cost about $10 each! I don't have Halo 3 or oblivion yet, but it will be nice to have that stuff when I do. There was even some stuff for Prey, which I have but he didn't know that!

Having some trouble connecting to Live, but a call to tech support should take care of them. In the mean time, I've got some gaming to do.


Update: called NuTelecom's tech support after Xbox Tech Support said call them. talked to the guy and got it worked out. Turns out that, since I'm using a hub, I've been stealing from them for a couple of years by using 2 IP addresses. Of course since they have been stealing the same amount from me for the same amount of time by saying that they were giving me long distance service, I think it is ok. and the best part is I can use my Draganta screen name! No gamertags for that name had been registered!

Monday, November 03, 2008

Central Railroad--Full Metal Alchemist and the Broken Angel

On the way to Central (for some reason, the game didn't really say) The train that Ed, Al, and Armstrong were on got hijacked. Fought my way towards the engine and ran into an MP named Mudey Nemda. After kicking his butt he said that he was on the run, falsely accused of a crime and that he and several of his men were trying to get to Hiessgart, where apparently Professor Eiselstein is setting up an Alchemist run state. After that I had to fight Genz Blethlow, the ring leader of the operation, who killed Nemda for no apparent reason. After fighting him and proving who the real Full Metal is, he got away, but not before calling Ed short. Ed Transmuted a cannon and fired, but accidentally took out the tunnel the train was about to enter.

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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Freak Show--Red Dead Revolver

got to play as Jack Swift as he went after Professor Perry ($200). Had to fight a bunch of circus freaks before I fought Perry, who was some sort of teleporting Voodoo guy who had potion to restore his health. Took him down and was told about the Quick Draw contest and the $5000 prize.

Had a total Bounty of $1570 and unlocked a Health Increase

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Saturday, November 01, 2008

Carnival Life--Red Dead Revolver

Another stupid level. This time I had to take on a gang of circus freaks. After killing a few of them I had to rescue Jack Swift. He then "Helped me as I fought more freaks with a Gatling Gun (which was useless and I somehow took more damage when using it so I just used the Revolver and Halcon Rifle Rifle.) Then I had to fight Pig Josh ($150). who was hard to beat until I got onto on one of the ruined buildings and stood on the peak of the roof. Then his explosives couldn't get me and I plinked away at him until I beat him.

In the end I got $954 total bounty and unlocked a Dead-eye Increase

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Railroaded--Red Dead Revolver

Not sure if it's an indicator of how bad I am or how bad the game is, but I died a lot.

First, the train taking me and the sheriff to Brimstone was attacked by bandits. fought my way to the back of the train, then had to make my way to the front to find out what happened to the enginieer. rescued him and then had to keep him safe till we got clear.

so what was wrong? On the way to the back there were several times when I had a target dead in my sights, but I aparently missed. Then I got killed once by an aparently super powered Melee attack because apparently I couldn't pull my gun while standing on some wooden crates. Then on the way back to the front the jumping was inconsistant, sometimes allowing me to jump over obsticles, sometimes not even though I was the same distance away each time. Ducking wasn't much better,sometimes not even registering.

And then the guarding mission. Not sure how many times I had a Head Shot on a target, but ether missed of hit an arm. Apparently I had to have the cross hairs pointed at their nose before it was considered a head shot.

Glad that one is done. I got "Hatchet" Schultz, a $100 bounty, a total of $532 bounty collected, and an upgrade to the owl rifle.

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Ugly Streetfight--Red Dead Revolver

Got to Widow's Peak only to find they couldn't give me a bounty because bandits had basically taken over the town. They shot my dog so I killed all of them, including their leaded "Ugly Chris ($40). The sheriff was injured during the fight and I had to take him to Brimstone.

I bought the Revolver and the Shovel, got $662 total bounties, and unlocked "Ugly" Chris in Multi-Player.

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Bounty Hunter--Red Dead Revolver

Fast forward several years and Red is a bounty hunter. Fought off some bandits that had been bugging a merchant, learned some more controls, and killed a bunch of bad guys, including "Bloody" Tom ($30) The merchant told me to take the bodies to Widows Peak to get the rewards.

I bought the Knife, Poncho, and Whiskey Bottle, got a total bounty of $168 and unlocked "Bloody" Tom as a multi player character.

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Bull's Eye--Red Dead Revolver

a good tutorial that actually had something to do with the game. Got Red's dad's old pistol and went to do some target practice. While I was practicing some bad guys showed up so I had to kill them, but it was no use. Red's parents were killed and his hand was burned.

got the reward for killing Smitty ($20) a total Bounty of $182, and a good rating, upgrading the Old Pistol.

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