Lately, I have developed a healthy obsession with my gamerscore.  There’s an extraordinary feeling of fulfillment I get when I’ve achieved all the gamer points in any game.  After hours and hours of critical thinking, patience and endurance, I feel good about knowing that a game is complete and there’s nothing more I can achieve. It’s almost like I’m the mother of the game, and it’s my tiny baby rabbit.  I’ve worked hard, taken care of the game and helped it on its way to becoming completed.  Now that it’s all grown up and I’ve acquired all 1000 gamer points, I can finally set it free in the forest (by reselling it back to GameStop).

I played hard the past couple months and released 5 little rabbit games into the wild: Ninety-Nine Nights (FINALLY!), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Viva Piñata, King Kong and Surfs Up.  Of the four, Viva Piñata is the one I think I’ll miss the most. It’s a colorful utopia with delightful music and cute little pretend animals (I named my dragonache Albi). It was amusing setting my Tafflies on fire, whacking the Ruffians over the head with my shovel and feeding the piñatas to each other.  It’s almost soothing. 

Of the other completed games, Ninety-Nine Nights is the one I’m most proud of myself for beating.  I know that since I had the endurance and mental stamina to put up with that game, I can do ANYTHING I set my mind to.  Next goal: WORLD DOMINATION.  I’m going to start out by getting the essential world domination tools—mind-ray gun, a robot, duct tape, etc.

As for TMNT – it flew by!  There are not very many ninja games out there so I have to appreciate one when I play it.  TMNT was pretty, and pretty fun, and pretty easy.  Hmmm, it’s 3AM and I’m tired and Halo starved and I keep getting distracted; I think my writing skills are suffering as a result.  Argggh, and there’s no chocolate in the house… I think I could stab someone in the face with a sowing needle right now if that would get me chocolate.  I’m getting off topic.  Where was I?  TMNT!  Yes.  It was fun and easy.  I think I said that. 

King Kong was a cinematic experience.  It was just like playing a movie – a whole game with no HUD.  Best parts of the game were the times I played as King Kong.  I really enjoyed climbing all over the place, beating my chest and punching up dinosaurs.  Good times.

For Christmas Ubisoft let us pick out any 5 Ubisoft games we wanted.  Because of my recent obsession with my gamerscore, 4 of the 5 games I picked were Xbox 360 games - Surfs Up, Open Season, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja, and Assassins Creed.  Surfs Up was a blast!  Probably the easiest gamer points I’ve earned, but still a lot of fun. 

Microsoft is genius for having a gamer point system.  It’s just one more thing for me to obsess about.  I wish Nintendo and Sony would follow suit and have a similar system to track your gamerness.