just out of curiosity, what yours. so ridiculously high that you go too bed each night, your thumbs sore?

Dont let your self become an Acheivment whore. i personaly couldnt care for acheivments its only a marketing way to get u to play longer or try harder. 90% of my gaming is online, what few acheivments i get from online dont compare to offline play acheivments. if someone nags because your gamer score is low, prove them wrong, destroy them in multiplayer. Acheivments, Rankings, etc…. dont mean squat!!!

And yeah, I actually picked up a 360 and Gears on Saturday. I’ve seen people with scores such as 24000 + (and play silly games just to get them) through general browsing on forums and such and I just think “well…actually, I’m proud of my few hundred points, so far”.

The other problem is that to do with the internet gaming terms: noob, noobie (etc. there are so many variations for the same thing) and owned. Okay, so we light it when we d chainsaw people, but people shouting “oh my God, ****ing owned that son of a *****” is disappointing in fellow man, whilst being called a noob is rather insultory. Whilst I don’t mind being called a beginniner (we all start somewhere, right?) I don’t need someone of superior (and usually sadder) gaming skill to remind me of that fact with my abismal score. Heck, it took a month in CounterStrke: Source for me to finally get matches where at the end, my K/D ratio was above 1.0.

The thing is though, you’ve hit the nail on the head. What I won’t do though is play Gears all through with a pistol. No bloody way.

there’s too much variance from game to game, so actual game score has nothing to do with how much of an achieved gamer you are. Personally, I like the old school where high scores were everything. Achievements do cause people to play more of a game than usual and I know people who play games they don’t even like which is completely silly in my opinion.

I think that achievements breed poor sportsmanship in online multiplayer games. Some players will not help their team in any way if they are trying to get a specific achievement. Although the idea is novel, someone’s score doesn’t carry much weight in my book. I would support it more if there were less achievements requiring online play. The ones that do carry online achievements should be based around team wins instead of individual accomplishments which would really keep with the intended spirit of online gaming. Of course, the corporate idea behind this entire system I am sure is to find a way to keep you on the game as long as possible.. so we will never see these changes.

7115? *&^%ing n00b.

@steve & penn
not everyone one live is a complete idiot wanker , but there are people who are there just to have fun, but theyre just harder to find than a loudmouth. i would be one of them, if i could afford to get broadband and therefor live but i only have a part time job.
just keep hope, there are cool gamers out there.

also i would like to say i dont cheat to get them and i dont go out of my way to get them either.

Any gathering involving 7 million odd users, with a large contigency of smelly teens and middle aged men who still act like teens but whose stench has increased with there age. All of which, have a internet connection and alter-ego to hide behind…Your bound to run into an @$$hole somewhere amongst them…