Forza Horizon is Annoying

Ok, so I have been playing Forza Horizon recently.  Some of the events are pretty easy and hard to lose.  Lately, I have been doing some of the stupid street races.   I hate Late Night @ Highway 29.

I don't know if my wired controller will survive the game (I doubt it will, but the left bumper was already broke - if store only sold the wired controller anymore, I dislike the battery bump on the wireless controller).  I've already spiked it hard at least twice. 

This game is annoying.  It takes the worst of Forza 4 (perpetually starting you in the back of the race and upgrading the opponent's cars - I wish it wouldn't).  Easy should be just that - easy (a cakewalk)

It is really annoying how much the cars over-react to everything and try to go into drifting without any provocation.  Any little bump is over exaggerated.   

Then they decided to use horrific lighting in night and early daytime races (I wish they would block out the sun).  I also dislike the focus on "stunts" in this game - it wouldn't be as bad if you wouldn't lose any progress on runs if you hit something (or more annoyingly something hits you).   It is so nice to have to deal with idiot non-racing traffic too. 

Video Game Resolution #1 Complete, 50K

Well, I finally got my Gamerscore up to 50K on my new current primary account.  My old has 37K.  I think I had about 46.6K before new years.  If you are wondering, I got it on Viva Piñata (got about 800 Gamerscore in the last 2 days on that game).  If I were adventurous, I might go for 100K between the two this year (but that would be about 13K more)

Game Room: 2 Years Later

It has been a loooong two years since Game Room graced the world with Game Pack 013 (sadly, the last one released).  Games like Midway Arcade Origins make me miss Game Room more.  i would have preferred those games in Game Room format.  So, what is the current state of leaderboards.  If you are lucky, maybe i'll even eventually add graphs/charts - later, much later. 

As of December 27, 2012, Game Room has some of the following stats.
* Total Leaderboard Number (Ranked Games): 495,388 (pretty safe bet to say overall it did 500K)
* Estimated Sales (at 87.5% of Leaderboard): 433,464
* Estimated Sales By Publisher (Ranked Games):
     - Atari: 168,177
     - Activision: 50,644
     - Intellivision: 28,334
     - Konami: 186,220
* Estimated Sales By Platform (Ranked Games)
     - Arcade: 326,200
     - Atari 2600: 78,841
     - Intellivision: 28,334
* Predicted Gross Revenue For Game Room (Range - Ranked Games):
     - $1.3 to $1.48.  I guess it would be a fairly safe bet to say Game Room did $1.5 million in sales. 

Year to Year Changes in Leaderboards:
- Apparently I only used charts, not data tables - that is unfortunate


Linkage to my SkyDrive Numbers: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=c67fdccca0fc034e#!/edit.aspx?cid=C67FDCCCA0FC034E&resid=C67FDCCCA0FC034E%21683&app=Excel

Video Game Resolution #2 Complete, 20 games

Well, I finally completed my #2 video game resolution for 2013 (the first one is 50K cumulative Gamerscore)

Yes, I currently have 20 games on the list of my Xbox 360.  The games with "*" will turn into uncompleted games the next time I run them (new DLC).  All of these were completed in 2011 or later.  They are (in reverse order of completion):

Video Game Resolutions 2013

2013, it still seems awkward saying it (i'm sure it would be more awkward writing it for a while).

So, what are my gaming related resolutions this year?  I may have set my sights pretty low, but there is currently only one 2013 release (South Park: The Stick of Truth) that currently interests me. 

My End of the Year Games Presents

Well, 2012 is coming to a close.  Allegedly, the next generation will start towards the end of 2013 (no the WiiU doesn't really count for me).  The only currently announced 2013 game I am interested in is the South Park: The Stick of Truth.

So what did I get for Xmas/the end of the year metropolitan policy.  I guess these games have to last me a while, since I currently don't intend to go "next gen".  Many of these were Black Friday deals (or online - I did take advantage of some Xmas XBLA points and Xbox Live sales), a few were presents.

Karaoke (Xbox 360 Apps): Impressions

Yesterday saw the release of an app on the Xbox 360 (i think you find it in the app section) titled "Karaoke".  This seems to be an iNiS game (they did Lips on the 360) and a Karaoke Channel license.  It is free to download and currently has 5 free songs per day.

So how is the app?  Well, i would say middling.