A few days ago my Gamerscore broke the 20K barrier. I was on 19995 and the achievement that got me past the barrier was Bird on the Ground. A Call of Duty 4 achievement which is achieved by shooting down an enemy helicopterwith an RPG in the single player campaign. Suddenly, however, 30K seems a long way off .

I borrowed Army of Two off Ben and I can say that the game is enjoyable. However, The AI can be frustrating at times. For example, when I die, my partner (who is controlled by the AI) will find it difficult to revive me or get to a good spot to revive me when I could do it easily if it was him dying. But, as annoying as this is, the AI does a good job at killing the enemies and spreads the killing out evenly. It's a fun game and I'm up to Mission 3 after about 3 hours.

I know I haven't blogged in a while. It's been months now, hasn't it? But yeah, this is just a blog to say, I'm back on Gamespot and blogging again. To be honest I never really left. I was always here, posting and comment here and there but I'm back to doing blogs for myself.

Not been up to much since my last blog. I made the purchase of GTA IV and I find the game awesome. Just like everyone else. I've not completed it yet but I am getting there, I'm up to the last mission so not long now I guess. I've also started playing Final Fantasy XII again. It's a great game and I love the combat system, this time though, I am taking my time and enjoying it. However, I am still suffering from my "RPG curse".

So yeah, not a big blog but there will be more!

So yeah, I've been tagged, thanks to PAJ89 (Curse you Paul). So I guess I better start telling you some things about me.

1. I have four different types of pets. A dog, Snake, Tarantula and Newts. I used to have a lizard as well but that died as well as well as my fish.

2. Even though I have a Tarantula, I hate spiders. I can stand little ones you find around the house but I have yet to hold my Tarantula which I have had for 6 months now.

3. I love sports. I love Football and American Football. I support Manchester United and the San Francisco 49ers, I also play for an American Football team. I also like to watch Golf when I can catch it on TV. Partial to Rugby, but not mega-into it, played for school a few times.

4. My favourite food at the moment are Noodles. I love 'em. I have Noodles pretty much all the time even if it is just plain old Super Noodles or Pot Noodles.

5. I would like to be a Police Officer when I am older. However, my job preference always changes so this isn't really a solid fact. I would like to go into games journalism but Police work seems like the most appealing job to me.

6. Wait, there's a sixth fact? I know, I know but I have to say one thing. Cake is better than Pie, and that's a fact :p.

Am I meant to tag more people? If I have too, I tag: Ben, Jonny, Sean, Joe and that will do for me .

So I'm 1 year and 2 days old on Gamespot now. It's been a good year (and 2 days ) with some major changes happening in the Gamespot world. Here are my stats for the year:-

Profile views: 3054

Friends: 39

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Games in Collection: 163

CommunityForum Posts:1695

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My Blog Posts:65

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Written Reviews:5

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Digg Referrals:16

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A pretty good year even though most of my forum posts have been comments. Here's to many more years!

When I play RPGs, I pretty much always find the story to the game interesting and I love seeing how it ends. However, seeing an RPG to the end is a great acclompishment for me. Why? Well as you know, I'm bad at levelling up my characters and always storm my way through a game, because of this my characters end up of the brink of unplayable which usually results in me putting the game to one side and not playing it again for years.

I recently borrowed Final Fantasy VII of Sean recently and I think everything about it is great, well except those random frog dudes who turn me into a frog, that's a WTF moment. However, I've fallen into the trap of not levelling up my characters. I'm starting to find the wild enemies a lot harder and I'm nearly dying from fighting them. I was talking to Sean earlier today about what level I should be and he said I should've at least been 5 levels higher than what I was. So, at the moment I'm fighting all the monsters I can and I'm packing lots of Phoenix Downs and Potions. In case you want to know, I'm up to Nibelheim (not the flashback) on the first disc.

As for Eternal Sonata, I actually have made that game unplayable, I'm like 10 levels behind what I should be and I die against the simplest monster encounter so I've started again and this time I will level up like mad, although it will be slow progress as I can't be bothered playing it much. One thing I can say about that game is though, the cutscenes are way too long and take up most of the game. I'm an hour into my new playthrough and I'm skipping the cutscenes and 1 hour faster than my previous time for where I am.

See ya!

P.S - The FFVII soundtrack is "friggin' awesome" as Sean would say .