This past weekend was a free Xbox Live weekend, meaning that we could play multiplayer over Xbox Live without having to pay for Xbox Live Gold. I didn’t even know it was free, and happened on it while playing around with the options within a game. It wasn’t until I saw an ad on the Sunday that I found out it was free. That’s not good advertising.

I started going through my games and completing the easier achievements that require Live (i.e., play a match online etc). I started playing Aegis Wing again, and it’s actually really fun with 4 players! Once all 4 ships are combined, the specials are amazing, and can take out everything on the screen at once! Along the way, I unlocked a couple of achievements which led me to go OCD on completing the achievements. I had 3 left, complete the game on normal, insane and get 185k points. I played for a long time, with 4 people to complete the game, but ended up dying on the last level. There are a lot of people online who don’t play strategically, they grab all the specials and fire them off right away. In the end, Joe and I finished the game on normal locally.

My goal on Monday (the “weekend” was 10/31 – 11/3) was to finish the game on insane with the help of 3 other people online. It was tough, but finally Pauline and I found another pair that worked as a team. In Insane, you only have one life (although you can rescue your dead teammates), and unfortunately everyone died except Pauline while the final boss was doing its last ditch attacks. Luckily we pulled through!

The 185k points achievement was the hardest, and it took me a few tries to get (now that I was better at the game). I ended up playing “2 players”, but the second ship was attached only for improved health and specials. I completed the game on normal with a score of ~188k and this marked my very first completed game on the Xbox (although it’s only an arcade game).

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: games, obsessivecompulsive, xbox