World's Biggest Gamerscore Breaks 500,000

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

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?

I assume you don't understand the point of why he's doing this.

You say gamerscore is meaningless... true, in the real world it has no meaning or use.

However to the individual can the same be said?
Can we say that these numbers are meaningless to him? Cause he's got 500,000 of them... so they must mean something.

Maybe he's doing it to brag? Maybe he's doing it to look cool? Maybe he's doing it because it's what he wants to do.

Maybe he wants to achieve something... gamerscore is a wonderful little thing that keeps you playing by rewarding you for doing so. Simple behavioural therapy.

But he's taken it to the next step, he wants to achieve something that almost no one is ever going to achieve.

Compare it to climbing Everest... not many people have climbed Everest... nor will doing so really have that much meaning to anyone other than yourself. Is he being ripped off cause he's giving money to companies that sell hiking gear for a happy feeling?

Don't knock someone for doing something that makes them happy.

 

[Crunchy English]

Is it any "less" real than top tier armour in WoW or the level 1 challenge for Final Fantasy 12, or hell for a real golden oldie, the old all White Mage Challenge in FF1? Or beating a megaman game without getting hit?

Gamers have been giving themselves arbitrary goals for as long as their have been games, right down to "I'm going to checkmate you without ever moving my Queen." This guy's thing is to hunt down achievement points, same way a toy collector hunts down rare stuff and then never opens it and plays with it. It might not make sense to us, but its no weirder than any little personal challenge and he doesn't deserve to be mocked.

 

[MarsProbe]

Coincidentally, just after I got to the bit in the article about the Wallace and Gromit game, an ad for "Wallace and Gromits World of Invention" came on the tv. Peculiar.

Anyway, 500,000 gamerscore, that's....impressive, I suppose. There are likely a lot of easy achievements making up that 500k points. For every one "A Monument to All Your Sins", there's probably about 20-odd "Cool File Bro"'s in there....

 

[Mezzo.]

Well, someone has too much disposable income.

 

[PorkChopXpress]

man he must be rollin in the pussy

 

[Jumplion]

That's literally a fuck ton.

I wonder how much total Gamerscore there is. Someone needs to add every game released on the 360 that has achievements to find out, I'm really curious.

 

[danyukhin]

He'll get stuck on Super Meat Boy and that'll take him off his route to 1 million by a couple of months.

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

I'm tempted to write up a lengthy justification for my opinion, but it's just not worth it. As with politics or religion, the people who disagree with me have alternate perceptions of reality. No amount of healthy, civil debate will change their or my views, so I may as well just blurt it out, unqualified: gamerscores, achievements, and trophies are fucking stupid. They're the dumbest new feature of this console generation after DLC.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

How.. How did he find nearly enough time to do that? Hell, how did he afford that?

Gamefly subscription.

OT: I don't use GS as a bragging rights tool (although it can be used as that), rather I use it as a baseline for some harder aspects of a game. Sometimes achieve's force me to play outside my normal box which adds to replay value for some games.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Holy.. shit.

That is all.

(Damn my 9,800 measly score!)

 

[Exterminas]

Don't knock someone for doing something that makes them happy.

I didn't intent to knock on something. If anything I intended to make a not how strange achievements of any kind are, if you take one step backwards.

Also I think that you mix of two seperate points in you post. One begin "This is noteable, because noone has done it before" on which I agree to a certain degree, because the difference between any real achievement and a banality is questionable. Climbing the Mount Everest, even as the first one, is certainly not an Achievement to anyone. It offers no gain to anyone, consumes resources at best, people's lifes at worst. So why should this be an Achievement? So my intention was more to point out that what is an Achievement to you is dependend more on your believe and the one of those around you, than on anything else. Especially on a score.

On could even derive the point that achieving one achievement is as much an achievement as achieving a thousand one, as long as you find enough people who think that way.

And "It is notable, because it makes him happy.", which is kind of a strange point to me, when it comes to the discussion attached to a News Post. I ate a piece of cammombert this morning, which made me happy. But I don't expect the world to take notification of that.

 

[tigermilk]

Hmm... this just seems like an excuse for people to pretend they don't care about their gamerscore while telling everyone what it is.

EDIT: Anyone else wondering if he hacked his gamerscore.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

It seems like a waste of time and money to me... think about all the games he's paid for that he didn't want just so he could get gamerscore... I would assume that he'd just get to the point where he doesn't even enjoy playing games anymore...

 

[theriddlen]

[This was posted in wrong thread - the profit of multiple tabs]

And just to make it fit the thread: I hope that this guy will try to complete Yahtzee's Duke Nukem Forever achievements.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

Hmm... this just seems like an excuse for people to pretend they don't care about their gamerscore while telling everyone what it is.

EDIT: Anyone else wondering if he hacked his gamerscore.

He didn't. Microsoft confirmed he's 100% legitimate.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

Decided to snip for length

Oh god now I'm confused...

I concede, I'm just going to go drink my WKD in peace and and cave some zombies heads in.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

As for what he's doing next, he said he's going to Disne... play more Xbox 360.

Was that a Balls of Fury reference!?
[small]Or was Balls of Fury actually referencing something else I don't know about? >_>[/small]

 

[mattttherman3]

And people say I'm addicted.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

Woah, that's pretty crazy.

I have 13,245 and I thought I had a lot.

How many games does he have anyways?

EDIT: Well would you look at that! Post #1000! I get my Morpheus badge now!

 

[Fr]anc[is]

LOL congrats dude, you paid for and played barbie's horse adventure, Wall-e the game, UP the game, Madden 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, Avatar the game, avatar the last airbender the movie the game, wwe vs raw, spongebob truth or square, bakugan, hot wheels beat that; planet 51 the game; Disney Sing It: High School Musical 3: Senior Year with Microphone; monopoly; hannah montana the movie; Madagascar Kartz; Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Game Time; Bee Movie Game.....