just 1000d Crysis!!! super easy!!! no idea why i was having such a hard time on the normal difficulty

Dark Souls has made it to partial tourny status...

To those of you playing it... Good luck and may you have all the patience in the world!

Will the new TA options on DLC affect the league in any way?

So stackables don't count? No biggie to me but I thought I would ask.

Nope.  Getting the same achievements on many platforms doesn't help you in the league standings at all...

But, it does put you at the top of the "IP Leaderboard" for the game...   http://mylivegamerscore.cloudapp.net/IPLeaderboard.aspx

Nope.  I purely go with the highest scores for a game (DLC inclusive) on xbox.com.

I don't know what to say about Dark Souls. It's clearly very awesome, but it's also very depressing to spend all day long... making no advance.... just trying to learn the map and several trips running back to my dead body to pick up lost souls each time I die.

Wait, okay, I've figured the area out... I'll continue, up the stairs, nice a portal. I go through the portal and BAM massive freaking demon that squishes me into paste instantly. And I'm fairly positive I have to kill it to advance the game.

I don't like overly difficult games but there is just something about it that beckons you, no, DARES you to try and finish it.

Heads up and FYI, I may not participate in the league next year. I has nothing to do with purposed changes either, under that system I would receive a ton of points.. but I have other reasons. Mainly I'm ready to game how I want to game and have no concern for beating this person or winning that tournament. And if anyone hasn't noticed I've really dropped off in the last couple months anyway. No matter what I do I'll never compete with the "masters" and it seems like as this season goes on more and more "masters" keep joining. I'm glad it's good for the league and good for competition but my previously mentioned reason mixed with the fact that I'm slipping lower and lower as new people come in really makes me want to leave. I hope I don't sound bitter because I'm not. I just think sometimes you should walk away while you are somewhat on top.

I know the first thing I'll hear is along the lines of, "stay, you don't have to compete or pay attention to rankings," but the truth is as long as I am in the league it will always be a factor. Plus honestly I could care less about VGChartz aside from the league. But even if I do leave, I've made a lot of cool friends here and I'm not going anywhere on xbox live.

Forza 4 has made partial tournament status.

Hope it's selling well ...

I hope it does too.  I played my first track last night.  I thought holy sh-- this is the best video game racing experience I have ever had...  It really did feel like I was in the driver's seat and the colour and detail is that much richer.  If you like realistic car simulators there is nothing better out there.  Forza 2 was good but really last gen graphically. Forza 3 brought awesome graphics but lacked a feeling of racing and car excitment to it...  Forza 4 captures racing the way I think it should be.  And improved the graphics that much more.  By the end of the first race I was thinking, this game must be played all the way through.