Are you a gamerscore hunter? Always trying to get all the points you can possibly get? Well this app might just be for you for the Xbox 360. The guys over at Big Rook Games have made an app that shows how you stack up against your friends in gamerscore. From being able to see what lifetime gamerscore is you can monitor in a time line to see if recently you have been keeping up or surpassing your friends.
I'm not the most successful guy when it comes to unlocking achievements. My full score is less than 50,000 but I take great pride in knowing most of those points come from completed games and not just games that I've beaten the campaign and moved on. And I think there's something to be said about what a gamer can learn by completing a game 100%. #achievements #complete
I think my want to understand the whole story of the game is what determines if I want to complete it 100 percent, and I only end up 'completing' certain games because of it. But the ones I do completely beat turn out to be my favorites.
I highly recommend you go back and try to 100% games where you didn't enjoy the story. I was one of those gamers who didn't enjoy ACIII. I thought Connor was a bland protagonist and the overall story started out too slow and ended too fast. When I went back to the game to 100% it, I was forced to play all the side missions. I saw sides of Connor I never did before and interacted with some truly fascinating characters. ACIII isn't my favorite Assassin's Creed by any means, but going back to grab all the achievements in the game has raised the game's worth in my eyes. I'm not saying all games are like that but a few stories are vastly improved when you're searching for all the goodies to unlock everything.
I try to get everything as much as I can, but there are some games where it's far beyond any reasonable amount of effort.
I hear you on that. ACIV's "reach level 55 in multi-player" and Dark Souls III's "Learn all Pyromancies" achievements come to mind. Both were brutal affairs for very little payoff other than being steps on your quest to unlocking everything.
A look at Trueachievents and you can find plenty of people with 90%+ completions and hundreds of thousands of gamerscore. Your gamerscore or number of trophies has almost no bearing on how good of a gamer you are. Just how much time you have to devote to a game.
I'm an achievement hunter but mostly because my back log of games is so huge. I try to maintain a 75% completion ratio so I don't feel so bad about buying a new game that ends up sitting unplayed for a year. I used to do that play for a few minutes or hours then it would get traded. I hate doing that and now find I get more for my money if I try to make myself get most, if not all of the achievements. Except for games I really like and care about, I go for completion for them. Just a hair under 200k now while keeping 75% since I started tracking that.
I'd argue a degree of skill is necessary. Take a look at TrueAchievements again. True (haha, puns) there are plenty of people with a 90%+ completion rate but how many of them are 99%+ completion rate? And are also gamers with plenty of AAA titles on their list? There are not many. And those who do have it typically don't exist in the 150,000+ gamerscore bracket. There are some to be sure (like Brownman) but there are not many. Even you yourself claim to only have around 75%. I imagine if you went for a 99%+ completion rating, you wouldn't have the 200,000 gamerscore that you do.
So yes, there are quite a few games that you can 100% just through persistence and enough time (like Assassin's Creed Unity) but there are also just as many that take a degree of skill, patience, and experience in playing video games to 100% (like Dark Souls III).
It is the little things and it always has been the little things that end up really changing how something is viewed. For video games and this current generation, that little change was the achievement. It was so incredibly simple, yet now, 6 years later, it has completely changed the way we view gaming across multiple platforms as well as how we play.
When it started on the Xbox 360, most people like myself just laughed at the whole prospect of getting these meaningless little pats on the back, but now it has grown to more than just a pat on the back. You simply cannot avoid the achievement when playing any type of game. Sony, Apple, Android and even computer websites like Zynga and Kongregate now have achievement or some sort of equivalent. This simple idea of giving a reason to play these games beyond the simple enjoyment has done both good and bad for the world of games.
It's a gimmick that means nothing IMO.
I mean really do I care if I have a gamer score of 1k vs 100k?
On Sony front the trophy system is a tad better because it shows a better picture of your "Achievments" like how we see in the Olympics.
Even though Sony offers a better representaion with their sytem IMO, It still bugs me that alot of the games I bought and NEVER even finished has trophies on my profile... Some achievements/trophies are too easy to acquire.
What they should do next generation is make all games where if you do get something that is classified as a trophy/achievement is to give you a virtual item for your avatar, rather than charge you real money for fake clothing and items.
Big Rook Games is excited to kick off the release of Gamerscore Tracker on Xbox Live Indie Games with a customer appreciation giveaway!! Starting the day following the release (release date 12/9/2011) we will be giving away a random prizes out of out prize stash each day for a week.
Ok free stuff is good but I would rather pay for an exclusive game microsoft were are the games?
