see the thing is...

although i do like the idea of expansion packs. i mean they breath new life into a game that i love playing already. they may introduce new characters, locations, and occasionally even an entirely new story line. however, all of this magical, wonderful, upgrading-ness does not come without a price.

one of my latter goals during this challenge is to up my percentage of 100% retail and arcade games. the difficulty arrives when downloadable packs up the ante. i started off trying to achieve a regular goal of 1000, or 200 and i would be done. it just seems weird to look at my gamerscores, and see all of these seemingly unfinished titles littering the landscape. with add-ons that change the total score, it feel like they are teasing me with a finish line, and when i get close enough to it and i am about to collapse from exhaustion, they move it another 100-yards away.

it may seem the odd coincidence that i am mentioning this, during the launch of the Knothole Island expansion for Fable II. rest assured, that was actually just a coincidence. i have several other games that bear mentioning on the subject matter, Marvel Ultimate Allaiance for example. also, Ninja Gaiden II, since i am currently playing that as well. at any rate, it became increasingly clear to me, that games with an expansion may pose even more of a challenge to me than first anticipated.

some future plans for the blog include some sort of tracking device for both our points, and the donations, once we get them both up and running. currently, we are being tracked over at 360 Voice. so far, they have not updated our chart to where it will last until the end of the year when the marathon is over. we decided that if that falls through, we can just manually track them, and restart the challenge every 30-days. the advantage to a monthly reset, people can join in who were not initially capable of doing so from the start. the downside of course is keeping track of the scores *sigh*, but again, more on that later.

one more quick thing, at some point i will probably post my game list as well, of course i am going to look for a way for someone who has made listing it less of a chore.