I've recently unlocked all of the achievments out of Halo 3, yet it still feels like something ismissing though I earned all of them fair and square I don't really have any feeling of acomplishment or pride. I'm not enjoying Halo as much as I had without anything to aim for or any goals left to do and I just wish they had made the achievments harder.

In reference to Gears (Yes I am a fanboy oh noes) I liked the fact that you had to put time into it to get the achievments rather than being lucky though it does help alot ;). Maybe ifBungie had put an achievment like "Seriously..." (GOW)or "General"(COD3) it may have made each match you play as if you were working toward something rather than a waste of time. Games like Dead Rising demontrate stuff like this well as me and Tom were discussing earlier today, in which achievments like "7 day survivor" and "Zombie Genocider"make you put time into the game and are fun to do although I'm not speaking from Dead Rising experience. Its probably just me but I like the thought of getting a really hard achievment and everyone knowing what time and effort you had to put in to get it.

Ok I know I'm going on a bit now so let me just tell you about why I havn't been very active on Gamespot or on XBL for a while now. Basically I was moving house and had to stay at my grandmas for a month as I mentioned in an earlier blog of mine. She lives in the stone age so it was pretty dull for a nerd like me. So back t Gears until Mass Effect comes out and hats about it for this blog :lol:, I'll leave you with a picture of my Spartan.

Though it has been said many a time that I am too competetiveon Gears amongst other things, I'm starting to feel like me and my "Homies"(haha) are the only ones that play for a laugh. I don't have to think hard to remember being called an f****** d*** etc for my friend starting a ranked match with 6 players instead of 8, don't get me wrong it doesn't bother me all too much but it does make you wonder whether people do play for fun anymore. Joining games and killing people that seem friendly enough at first but if you kill them its automatically bull poop or your doing the "host glitch". Gears is one of the main games I credit myself as being amazing at;) (modesty at its finest) and one of my favourite online games. It is really disappointing to see so many people taking the game too seriously and having to boot you if it doesn't quite go how they wanted to. "If you can't lose the game don't play the game" someone said to me the other day, I agree entirely and go by that from now on.

Also in reality... looks like we've sold the house and should be moving out next Wednesday though unfortunately that means 1-3 weeks at my grandma's pad without the Internet or XBL. Sure I love her but it sure is boring overthere... You guys are gonna have to have me round to your places ;). An update from my previous blog, Myspace lasted the day and morning after. I'm still on it search Ben Stokes but not quite as obsessed as I was.

Just wanted to mention Me and Tom completed Gears on casual in 2hours 50 minutes start to finish, Yeah Baby!

So things are pretty dull for now everyones on holiday and I'm struggling to get out of the house, have been playing around with some avatars etc.

Ta ta for now and I love Boobies.

OK first a very sarcastic thank you to Tom, Chelcie(mmmmm) and Jack for getting me to join the Drug that is Myspace! I've been on for a day and I'm hooked :shock:.

Lastly Myself, Tom (Robot_Vampire), Jack (Hartley07), Broadi (Broadi360) and Dan (Suicidal Muppet) have made a Gears clan for a good laugh so if anyones up for a bit of fun check us out at Gamebattles.com We are called the Big Meat Men (quality I know).

It's all good fun! Erm, that should do for now.... and Tom you owe me Pokemon!

A short blog just to say, I've done the elite 4 in 9:03 hours on Pokemon Sapphire but the best thing is, that at 9:05 hours of gameplay I found and caught Latias. it was the first wild Pokemon I saw after! First I got a Feebas on my 3rd try now this. Luck or Skill? ;) You are not worthy foul pond weed'eh!.

Ok, So yesterday and in the early hours of this morning I finally for to try out Pokemon Diamond. Though this was a brief experience it was great, tons of new features and Pokemon to try out. I have always been into Pokemon games and am still obsessed with them. Which has really made me regret buying a PSP over a DS, I'm going to be completely blind to the full extent of the Pokemon world until December!! (NOOOOOOOOOO!). Curse you Paul and Tom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Just to make this more post friendly, whats your favourite Pokemon and the best party you've had!

(I'm sorry I went and did a Jonny on this blog.);)

Yes, it is. Haha Jonny Clarke, My Xbox 360 is far superior.

Just reached level 10 today, pheonix down so I thought it would be appropriate to make my first video on Final Fantasy, I hope you enjoy it if you choose to watch it (cheers in advance). Erm also things are looking good on the whole moving house scene, We think we've sold our house and have seen one we really like :lol:.

So all is good for now really, E3 was awesome and I enjoyed all the conferences even Nintendo's before you mention it.Really looking forward to the summer holidays where I'll end up glue'd to my 360 no doubt but am gonna try catch up with some people I havn't seen in a while. And lastly on that front really is that I'm getting Overlord this weekend and am very, very bossy as it is ;)(thanks goes to PAJ)

Sooo erm, would really like to hear your thoughts on E3 and also whats been going on with you guys lately, get back to me and check out my first video!

Looks like things are finally bucking up lately, the first sign is that I think we may of sold our house and if all goes to plan we should be moving pretty soon. Secondly I found my PSX memory card, alot ofmemories there, though it brought something to my attention that Tom recently pointed out also. I had retro consoles like everyone else but I never had the classics like MGS and FFVII, now I feel like if I play them, I wont give them the appreciation they deserve. (Meh I'll do it anyway!)

In other completely unrelated news Danzig are freakin awesome, I heard mother by them a while back on San Andreas (found that broken beauty earlier today)but have just downloaded some of their stuff and its really good.

Just to keep you all up to date with more useless information, I should be getting a new game this weekend and hopefully a new headset (apparently tying the mic to your head with a belt makes you look a lil' loopy) anything you would recommend because Im split between The Darkness and Overlord, need your opinion over here PAJ ;). Open to all suggestions here and if not just your thoughts on some of the stuff I mentioned earlier.

Thanks, Ben. (I hella like brackets)