World's Biggest Gamerscore Breaks 500,000

[Tom Goldman]

World's Biggest Gamerscore Breaks 500,000

If you thought your Xbox Live Gamerscore of 46,390 meant something special, think again.

The man we will only refer to as "Stallion83" has reached a milestone with his Guinness World Record holding Xbox Live Gamerscore. Just this week, Stallion83 announced that he'd broken the 500,000 point barrier, thanks to Telltale Games' Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures [http://www.amazon.com/Wallace-Gromits-Grand-Adventures-Download/dp/B002RL8K2A/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1287254720&sr=1-3].

A self-professed "achievement junkie," Stallion83 has vowed to never quit until he reaches a Gamerscore of 1,000,000. After four years, he's only made it halfway there. I hope he likes Kinect [http://www.amazon.com/Kinect-Sensor-Adventures-Xbox-360/dp/B002BSA298/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1287254845&sr=8-1].

After playing a little Medal of Honor [http://www.amazon.com/MySims-Sky-Heroes-Xbox-360/dp/B003M986XO/ref=sr_1_4?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1287255129&sr=1-4], it was Wallace and Gromit's "Tournament of Chumps" achievement that apparently allowed Stallion83 to achieve this level of artificial greatness. As for what he's doing next, he said he's going to Disne... play more Xbox 360.

Stallion83 recently wrote that he plans on adding some usefulness to his Gamerscore blog [http://www.1milliongamerscore.com/] by helping gamers with achievements that might pose a certain level of challenge. I suppose he feels safe enough with more than 500,000 points under his belt that now he can give away his secrets. We'll check back with Stallion83 in another four years to see if he's accomplished his lofty goal.

Source: Telltale Blog [http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-686]

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[Altorin]

that's pretty impressive, but from that picture he hasn't broke 500,000.

Mine is floating just under 20,000 (about 18.5) but that's largely because I can't afford to buy games.

I haven't had a chance to mention this yes, but this seems like a decent place: Condemned Criminal Origins has a total of 970 points.

I don't understand that.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Wow, that is a lot of Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie.
Oh wait... only some people buy that in as many languages as possible to get gamerscore >.>
Pah, I gave up with gamerscore long ago, after I started buying more games for my best friend than myself >.>

 

[technoted]

I just hate achievements and gamerscore, it just turns people into a bunch of mindless morons screaming "Look at my score, I'm so epic and 1337!" I'd much rather play games for fun and dicking about purposes.

 

[Beat14]

That makes me feel nauseous

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

that's pretty impressive, but from that picture he hasn't broke 500,000.

Mine is floating just under 20,000 (about 18.5) but that's largely because I can't afford to buy games.

I haven't had a chance to mention this yes, but this seems like a decent place: Condemned Criminal Origins has a total of 970 points.

I don't understand that.

It came out before Microsoft reviewed the achievement policy the first time.

Originally the policy said 'Up to 1000G from retail' which meant any gamerscore as long as it wasn't over 1000.

It's now got to be 1000.

The makers of condemned planned to release DLC but that fell through.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Holy shit.

Mine is only 16000 at the moment. Meh, they're worthless anyway.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Talk about your achievement whores.

 

[Irridium]

...
So what?

I know that sounds hypocritical coming from someone with 40,000+ gamerscore, but honestly thats just because I like playing all kinds of games.

I just don't understand people's obsessions with the things. I guess some are good, as there are quite a few that challenge you to play the game in a way you wouldn't normally play, or try to do something unique and interesting. But most are just "kill/find/save/heal/capture/ect X amount of this".

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

And I thought that my 87,000 was a lot...

I still would never resort to play crap games for achievements though.

 

[Lucane]

I wonder if this guy has a PS3 Trophy collector counterpart.

 

[Snarky Username]

Congratulations!

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

...
So what?

I know that sounds hypocritical coming from someone with 40,000+ gamerscore, but honestly thats just because I like playing all kinds of games.

I just don't understand people's obsessions with the things. I guess some are good, as there are quite a few that challenge you to play the game in a way you wouldn't normally play, or try to do something unique and interesting. But most are just "kill/find/save/heal/capture/ect X amount of this".

You don't have to understand it. Just accept it.

I can't say what is so appealing about achievements and for some games (Dead Rising 2) I can easily stay off my whoreish ways because I'm having way too much fun caving zombies heads in.

I can also be judgemental about achievements if I feel like it. Rockstar don't do very good achievements, they're sometimes interesting but not that great.

Infinity Ward actually do quite good achievements... and Capcoms achievements hate you and want you to know about it.

I've rambled a bit but yeah, to some people achievements are important, not to say 'Oh look at how big my e-penis is' but to really feel like they have achieved something.

 

[Exterminas]

So he paid microsoft to give him not even a piece of paper with a meaningless number on it, but merely the digital image of said number? Boy, you got ripped off.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

So he paid microsoft to give him not even a piece of paper with a meaningless number on it, but merely the digital image of said number? Boy, you got ripped off.

He did what now?

Where in the article does it refer to anything you are talking about?

 

[Exterminas]

So he paid microsoft to give him not even a piece of paper with a meaningless number on it, but merely the digital image of said number? Boy, you got ripped off.

He did what now?

Where in the article does it refer to anything you are talking about?

A Gamerscore is a number. Numbers are important in out daily life, because they generally have some meaning attached to it. Gamerscore has no said meaning, besides "I have played (payed) many games." (Games that Microsoft generally can excepted to earn money with).

With many numbers in reallife, people often complain about them being meaningless. Like money just being pieces of paper, with said numbers on it. Or a school degress, just being another piece of paper.

The irony in this so called achievement lies within the fact that didn't even get the paper. All he got was the arbitrary number on some computer that will lose all it's fictive value or meaning the second Microsoft decides to shut down it's X-box support. Or decides to ban him for some reason.

Can you understand that now?

Edit: Something I should ad. Other numbers from our life, like money, earn their value and meaning by the trust, people put into it. Same can be said by gamerscore. It ist of some sentimental value to people, who "believe" in it's value. The only problem here is, that you have microsoft, who are able to pull the plug anytime they want. Money on the other hand will always be worth what anyone will give you for it, even in the worst scenarios, like a nuclear holocaust, because it only depends on people believe.