My Incomplete Games: October 31st, 2021
Happy Halloween, everybody. The last two months I've been working on completing my incomplete games. Since then, I've decreased my "Incompleted Games" count by 12, from 49 to 37, including getting two "pseudo-completions," where I earn all the achievements in a game except for the discontinued achievements (those games are
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 07 and
Madden NFL 07). I still don't consider pseudo-completions as completed, no matter how easy or trivial the discontinued achievements "should" be, because I believe considering those games as "completed" is invalidating to those who managed to accomplish the discontinued achievements before they became discontinued. I'm curious to see others opinions about this topic. Do you consider games complete if you've earned all the achievements except the discontinued achievement in that game? Let me know in the comment section.
My goal was to have 35 incompleted games or less by the end of the year. So far, I am ahead of schedule. In fact, I could probably complete two games today, if I really wanted to. So I'll set myself a new goal. By the end of the year I'd like to have 30 incompleted games or less. I think I'll be able to manage that.
Here is the updated list of my 37 incompleted games, along with the categorizations of what I need to do to complete them:
Easy Games / Saving for Site Events: (4) I like preserving my high overall TA ratio and high completion percentage, but I also want to complete all available community challenges. For this reason, I keep a few games in reserve that I can use for completing site events, so I don't have to start easy games and tank my ratio and/or completion for site events.
KinectKid333's achievements in Human Fall FlatKinectKid333's achievements in Golf With Your Friends (Windows)KinectKid333's achievements in Golf With Your FriendsKinectKid333's achievements in New Super Lucky's TaleOnly Easy Grinding Left: (10)
KinectKid333's achievements in Microsoft Solitaire Collection (UWP)KinectKid333's achievements in Microsoft Sudoku (JP) (UWP) - I only have one gold medal left, so I'll be completing this game early November.
KinectKid333's achievements in Microsoft Mahjong (Windows) - I don't really like changing the date for these Microsoft Casual Games, like most people do, and I just started this game this month, so this game will be on my tag for at least another year, assuming I don't change my opinion about time travelling.
KinectKid333's achievements in Forza Horizon 2KinectKid333's achievements in Forza Motorsport 4KinectKid333's achievements in Forza Motorsport 5KinectKid333's achievements in Guitar Hero: World TourKinectKid333's achievements in Forza Motorsport 6KinectKid333's achievements in Forza Motorsport 7KinectKid333's achievements in Bejeweled 2Difficult Achievements: (3) These games are nearly complete, but they have a handful of difficult achievements that will require lots of practice -- as opposed to grinding -- to complete.
KinectKid333's achievements in Michael Jackson: The ExperienceKinectKid333's achievements in JoustKinectKid333's achievements in Cyberball 2072 <- ONLINE CO-OP PARTNER NEEDED, PLEASE HELPLots of Work Left: (6) These are games in which I have made very little progress:
KinectKid333's achievements in Just Dance 2019KinectKid333's achievements in Just Dance 2020KinectKid333's achievements in ZHEROSKinectKid333's achievements in Kinect: Disneyland AdventuresKinectKid333's achievements in Double Dragon NeonKinectKid333's achievements in Mirror's EdgeMissing DLC: (2) These games have delisted DLC which I do not have access to. Pinball FX has some pretty difficult achievements that I still don't have, but I'm not too worried about them. The DLC is the bigger obstacle holding me back from that completion right now. For Marble Blast Ultra, the DLC achievements are all very easy, and they're the only achievements I have remaining in that game. I just don't have access to the DLC.
KinectKid333's achievements in Marble Blast UltraKinectKid333's achievements in Pinball FX (2007)It's Complicated... : (2)*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***KinectKid333's achievements in Hole in the Wall : There is an achievement in this game which is very glitchy and no one knows exactly how to unlock -- "Shining Collection." Research and experimentation is required. However, it's possible that unlocking more achievements will make it more difficult or impossible to unlock "Shining Collection." I know of at least two other gamers (MattiasAnderson and Sir Paulygon) who are interested in this achievement and discovering a way to unlock it.
KinectKid333's achievements in Skate : This game has 17 online achievements, but the servers have been shut down. However, these achievements are still obtainable through a glitch. You must play offline, without the patch, and unlock the "Tricked Out" achievement. Once you get the achievement notification, press the guide button, and there is a very small (less than 1% chance, I estimate) that many or all of the game's achievements will unlock. This is the only way to unlock the online achievements for this game, anymore. The glitch supposedly has a greater chance of working if you have less achievements unlocked, so I don't want to unlock any more achievements to make things any harder on myself. The problem is that the glitch is extremely unlikely to happen. Less than 10 people have successfully gotten the glitch to work in the past 5 years, and this game has nearly 70K gamers. I don't even know if the glitch is even possible on the hardware that I have (I suspect the glitch may require an OG Xbox 360 -- I only have an Xbox 360 Elite). One person who was successful with the glitch said it took him over 300 attempts across two years. It takes 20-30 minutes per attempt. As you can tell, this is extremely frustrating, and I suspect this game will be incomplete on my tag for a very long time, if not forever.
Only discontinued achievements remaining: (8)
Given Up? (2) Life is too short for some games to be completed. This game is very difficult, very infuriating, very long, and will require spending real life money, to boot. I could probably learn a whole language in the time it takes me to complete these games, and one of those choices would be a lot more productive, enjoyable, and useful. I don't know if I will ever bring myself to complete this game to get rid of 4 achievements and 2 incomplete games on my tag. I already have a bunch of locked discontinued achievements on my gamercard I can never get anyway. What's four more? My time is literally too valuable to be spent playing this garbage game. Maybe I'll change my mind one day. I hope I don't. Maybe I'll return to these games if I ever reach the point where I've unlocked ever other obtainable achievement on my gamercard. I wish the achievements would just completely, permanently break in this game to put me out of my dilemma. But I shouldn't wish that... That's something very selfish to wish for. I digress...
KinectKid333's achievements in Despicable Me: Minion Rush (Windows)KinectKid333's achievements in Despicable Me: Minion Rush (WP)