Achieve-Queen: Episode 3

Hello all! Welcome to achieve-queen! Sorry that it has been awhile, but with all of the wonderful joys of moving, I haven't had much time to post. So here I am finally able to do so. So, time to get down to business. Today's Featured games are Gears of War 3 and Dead Island!

Gears of War 3

Award Winning Tactics: You have to earn 1 Onyx Medal in the game. It can be any one. What I did, was while trying to unlock some of the game mods, I maxed out the medal for fortifications in Horde mode.

Come to Poppa!: You have to win a versus multiplayer match as a FULL team of Recruit Clayton Carmines. Easiest way, grab 5 friends, switch to ahve your COG character be Recruit Clayton and play some King of the Hill (KOTH) until you get it. You have to complete an entire match from start to finish it get this achievement.

Achieve-Queen Episode 2

Long time no see everyone. I've had quite a lot of time to play around with my xbox, and Epic just released RAAMs shadow so I kinda went on a Gears marathon. So, all of these are from Gears of War 3 and gotten in the past 2/3 weeks.

Level 25- Pretty basic and straight forward. You have to play GOW3 enough in campaign or multiplayer to reach Level 25. Depending on your skill level and time able to play, you can get this quickly, or it may take awhile.

Xbox: The New Dashboard

As most of you gamer types know or anyone that watches TV regularly, Microsoft has been advertising the new Dashboard for some time. They show in commercials. Here is the video of the E3 preview:

Achieve-Queen Episode 1

Welcome to our first official Achieve-Queen blog!

For those of you that do not play xbox, achievements are little awards you can get from doing various actions in game. Some are done easily by just progressing in the game, some are done by gaining levels, or doing specific random actions in the game.

My intention with this post is to basically get to brag a little, and explain how each one is gotten in the game. Some may be spoilers, so if you don't like spoilers, don't read this on a regular basis.

First game: Gears of War 3

Lambency is earned by killing either an employee of Epic games, or someone that already has this achievement. I earned this on Team Deathmatch, against a guy that was pretty dang good compared to my current skill level. It was kind of awesome getting it. :3

Violent Video Games vs Violent Actions

So I was watching a documentary on a game called Super Columbine Massacre RPG! which recreates the events of the Columbine High School shooting. This games creator was a 10th grade student in Colorado at the time of the shootings and felt that this shooting changed his life because he was a bullied kid, that was a "loner" like the shooters. It hit close to home, and he felt that after finding the RPGMaker2000 he decided to make this game to try to shed light on the situation, not to encourage more shooting. On his website with the game are forums to discuss shootings, and reactions to the game. It was a way to open a discussion about things that most people were afraid to discuss.

As time went on and other shooting popped up, Danny Ledonne the creator of the game made statements on his site reaching out to the

Beating Portal 2: WARNING SPOILER ALERT

First off, if you are reading this, haven't beaten the game and intend to... STOP!! I will be talking about the ending because I found it highly amusing, and I do not want to ruin it for you <3 If you have finished it, or spoilers do not matter to you, read on friends!

So first off, the game itself was AMAZING! I loved it. I liked how it was run, as though you'd been locked away for who knows how long, and you are trying to break out with a little robotic companion, Wheatley. His a friendly robot, with a funny British accent,and is generally helpful. Well, until he has you plug him into an electrical mainframe and you accidentally wake-up GlaDos again. Yeah... No Bueno.

So, as she's waking up, she reveals to Wheatley that you are the human

Xbox Forums- A place that holds my guilty pleasure....

Most people that know me have described me as "awesometastic", "awesome", "lovely", "caring", "dynamic", and "Fandabbydozey"
(Note: these words were taken from actual posts on facebook when I asked my friends to describe me in one word. I had to giggle at some of the response)

Little did they know my guilty pleasure is none of those things! -dramatic music plays- A little background first though.

I have been a member of the Xbox Live community for almost 3 years. Since I first got into gaming I have loved the Xbox Live community and service as a whole. I got to play games with people from around the world, make new friends, and found a community that I felt a part of without having to change who I was. Awesome right? Except one tiny, itsy bitsy thing...

HACKERS/CHEATERS

Hate them. Hate them all so much. I can not stand going into a matchmaking game on Halo:Reach and find out that players are using an aim bot, or using a lag switch to gain an advantage. Sure, it helps THEM play, but it ruins it for everyone else. This is also against the Terms of Use and Code of Conduct for the Xbox Live Gold service that you have to agree to in order to even use the service. So what happens? They get found out, either by the Xbox Live Enforcement Team or by being reported, then they get hit with the ban hammer. Some offenses only get you banned temporarily, some force you into a corner, and give you a perma-ban.

So what is my guilty pleasure? Why... It is reading the Xbox Forums section for "Account Suspensions and Bans" and laughing as people try to make excuses for why they had cheated, or trying to lie to the very people that monitored them and witnessed them cheating! Yeah that's right... I'm sorry to all my dear friends that I have lied to and put up the facade of being amazing and caring. I secretly have this little tiny black hole in my heart for people like this:

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Dear Sir or Madam, Cheating to get achievement is lame. They are something you are supposed to ACHIEVE, which is why they are called ACHIEVEMENTS <3 Me

Dear Sir or Madam, So you were just running a contest to sell services over the Xbox Service...Suuuuure you were <3 Me

Dear Sir or Madam, Please understand that asking about your suspension is a great way to work through things. Doing so from an account that is ALSO in violation of the Terms of service and Code of Conduct is just plain stupid. <3 me

Dear Sir or Madam, Your avatar was looking a little green about the gills, so Enforcement took a look and saw you were cheating. Take 2 doses of LEARN THE DAMN RULES and call me in the morning. <3 Me

Dear Sir or Madam, Unless your gamer pic is you IRL and you are actually an alien... good job flaunting that system tampering! <3 Me

Dear Sir or Madam, Although I respect you and tip my hat to you for serving your country, threatening other users is not kosher. Please keep the threats at work, not on the Xbox. <3 Me

Dear Sir or Madam, Good job on insulting the Enforcement team when there was NOTHING WRONG! Also, learn to read a map! <3 Me

Dear Sir or Madam, Since that temp ban was bugging you so much, Here is a perma-ban courtesy of the BANHAMMER for selling modification services. Think twice before putting that on your profile next time =D  <3 Me

Dear Sir or Madam, Fantasy Football... Awesome. Blatant Racism... Bad move <3 Me

Dear Sir or Madam, Selling Modded services on your profile= 1 ban. Posting about why you got banned from your secondary account that is ALSO selling modding service= Priceless laughter for me because that is ANOTHER ban for you. <3 Me

Dear Sir or Madam, So I hear you like to color coordinate? <3 Me

Dear Sir or Madam, Thanks for getting yourself Perma Banned! <3 Me

Okay... So MAYBE I am a little sick and twisted because I get enjoyment out of reading stuff like this. But I have a thing against people who don't follow rules, mod/hack and cheat their way through things. So, Forgive me? I love you all, and I hope you got some laughs too

Gears of War 3 Beta--- Come on 24th!

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Gears of War 3, the final installment in the series, will be released this November, but the multiplayer Beta opens to those with the invite on the 24th of April.... merely 11 days from now. How do you get the invite? By purchasing "Bulletstorm" (the EPIC edition) or by pre-ordering Gears 3 at your local Game Stop. Booyah. I bought Bulletstorm (which is fantastic btw) and I am pre-ordering as well. I need this game, I love the story, and I just need it.

Back in last June/July they annouced that the one of the final Carmine Brother would be in the third game. His other brothers, Anthony and Ben, died previously in games 1 and 2. How they annouced his appearance was great. They opened a vote for if this final Carmine brother would live or die of coarse!

The vote was done by sales of t-shirts and avatar shirts on the xbox. For him to live: you bought the black shirt saying "Save Carmine". For him to die: A red shirt with "Carmine Must die". I of coarse, looked into the character a little before voting. I bought both the avatar shirt and an actual tshirt so I voted twice... both to Save Carmine. (all proceeds also went to charity! How cool is that?!)

Here is my reasoning on why Clayton Carmine should live:

- Clayton has already survived a sniper shot to the head, proving that he is a badass.
- After his brothers Anthony and Ben died, he had them tattooed on his arm in their memory and a reminder on why he fights. A badass with a heart wins my vote on surviving.
- HE STRANGLES A LOCUST DRONE TO DEATH!!!! Seriously!? Those things slaughter people and he just walks in and chokes one.
- He looks like a badass:

Come on, whats not to love? Although you'd think after his brothers deaths that he would think to not wear a helmet. Anthony died of a sniper shot to the head because it restricted his view too much, and Ben died from injuries in battle. If Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago are NOT wearing helmets, you figure that's the way to go... just saying.

Anyway... for you gamers out there, what is your opinion? Live, or Die? I wanna know. Comment below! If I pre-order my game in time for the beta, maybe YOU can have the second code I will be getting for it sicne I have the bulletstom one. ^-^

On Gaming, and on life

So... here's the blog, you might think... "Dang that's a sweet header" YES IT IS DON'T KNOCK MY HEADER! Thanks to my wonderful awesome friend Dez for making it for me... I loves it. So anyway... now it's nuclear winter...

But not really. It's a nuclear holocaust cause I've been playing Fallout New Vegas all morning on my sexbox. I mean Xbox 360s... but the S makes me think it means "sexy" because the new 360 is damn sexy. So.... I've dubbed my console the SexBox. Deal with it. Anyway! Back to fallout... I've decided that my chick is a skank. I have seriously slept with the dude that tried to kill me (who I then murdered in cold blood right after he finished pleasing me) A robot named "Fist-o", A cowgirl in a swanky hat, and a few other people throughout the wasteland. I should open a brothel for all of them, well except the dead guy, and make money off them. God only knows you can never have enough money in that game. Also.... Beware of trainyards, cause there this one with Deathclaws, and they kinda rip our face off. Just an FYI if anyone who may try playing this game. Deathclaws + Low level you = mushy-pile of dead you on the Deathclaw's claws. Just saying. Be careful, and watch yourself. MOVING ON!!!

Other gaming crack right now: Halo: Reach. No, I am not so addicted like some crazy 12-year olds/adults out there that practically smash up the dang disc and snort it like a line of coke in order to get their game on. I use good old fashioned FAIL (I like the game, but yeah I kinda suck) and a lot of "plug in the mic and talk shit to the people you are playing against" Most boys/men flip out when I am on the mic because they go "OH SHI.... IT"S A GIRL!" and tend to be distracted and fascinated by me because god forbid there's a girl on the internet, and she's playing Halo. When they stand dazed and enamored by my presence, I run up, stick a sticky grenade to their face/nuts then run backwards and watch them explode. Oldest trick in the book, and it still works. Score 1 for me, Score 0 for the girl-obsessed gaming world. Win.

Onto some other news.... I am supposedly going to Sephora in about 4 hours for a makeover. Not sure if I trust them with my face, but I may still give them a chance. Maybe. If I do, blog later tonight with pictures of what they did to me will soon follow.

Speaking of Sephora- Tokidoki Lip gloss that is BRIGHT BLUE, goes on clear, and tastes like blueberries---- new addiction. I love it, I can't stop using it, and I constantly lick my lips like a nut job. Don't judge me... I love blueberries. =D

And I leave you all with this:

Watch it... you won't be disappointed. I listened to it and sang it while writing this for you guys. (I totally want to date that guy... he's cute, can sing, and more than likely a gamer. Love him.)

LOVE YA!