I'm not obsessed with how high my gamerscore is. I'm more interested in it as a reflection of the games I play and what I've achieved in them.
Gamerscore, why?
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I don't hate the idea of the Gamerscores and Trophies, I just wish that more of them were related to actually achieving something other than leaving the Vault or reaching level 10. I have no problem with a reward for completing the game, but it seems pointless to hand one out just because you beat the first 10 minutes of a game. The skill points of the Ratchet and Clank series are a good example of how I think it should be done, with points being handed out for playing through certain sections without taking a single hit or for fully exploring an area and finding a snowman that looked like one of the creators of the series.
Surely the score whores are the ones who spend more time playing one game to get all the points it can offer?hazabaza1 said:
Personally, I don't go for them. I'm not that much of a completionist. I just wish they DID something other than be an ever-increasing integer just next to my profile.
Gamerscore: A way to keep you logged on, and therefore make you easier to data-mine by corporate bodies.
there has to be better ways of measuring your self worth than by using a largley arbitary points systemMelasZepheos said:
They're just points. A way to measure how "good" you are at games. It's like the High-Score system in Pac-Man. The guys that take it seriously are probably the same guys who used to play Pac-Man for days on end, so they could enter "ASS" as the top High-Score name.
Well, for the most part I just consider them the challenges of the games, mostly to be taken or left. I rarely get all the points in a game (currently only 8 out of over 50 games.... and I barely count Avatar, The Burning Earth since I rented the game to see if it really is as easy as so many say it is... and now I think it's kind of joke to have it but I can't send them back.)
Also it can make for interesting challenges you can make for yourself, as for right now I'm on a mission to have an average of over 50% of my overall possible gamerscore before I put another game into it. This is tricky as for starters I rarely play online games so with many games I can't even try for many of the points, then there's the games that will add achievements that can only be gotten if you buy the DL content that I don't want (like Halo 3's 1750 possible points and I think at best I can get 1250) I'm still 1500 points from completing this and find it's been a great way to get me back to games I haven't played in a while and making up for my total lack of skill on Guitar Hero/Rock Band is a bit of a pain.
As much as I don't go about talking about it much, hell, this is the first time I've talked about the subject online. In the end, take it as you wish, just those that take it seriously, remember, you might be the only one.
Also it can make for interesting challenges you can make for yourself, as for right now I'm on a mission to have an average of over 50% of my overall possible gamerscore before I put another game into it. This is tricky as for starters I rarely play online games so with many games I can't even try for many of the points, then there's the games that will add achievements that can only be gotten if you buy the DL content that I don't want (like Halo 3's 1750 possible points and I think at best I can get 1250) I'm still 1500 points from completing this and find it's been a great way to get me back to games I haven't played in a while and making up for my total lack of skill on Guitar Hero/Rock Band is a bit of a pain.
As much as I don't go about talking about it much, hell, this is the first time I've talked about the subject online. In the end, take it as you wish, just those that take it seriously, remember, you might be the only one.
Sometimes people feel the need to validate their existence with things like that. I never really cared to be honest (unless they unlock something in game)
I like gamerscore, but I'm not a total whore about it. I usually go for achievements within my grasp. I love The Orange Box Achievements for Half-Life 2 and its episodes though. My proudest achievement is still going through Episode 1 to get The One Free Bullet. 
This is why I hate online achievements, they detract too much from the gameplay and force you to play a certain way or accomplish some specific task that you can easily screw up on again and again.LordNue said:
Note the quotation marks around good. I never said it was a system that worked as intended.LordNue said:
And anyway, I think finishing a game is an achievement in itself. Not really deserving of a huge amount of praise, but it's still an accomplishment.
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On topic, I sort of do. But only amongst friends.
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OT: To have a way of keeping track of achievements?
I like it. Give me extra motivation to play through games, giving me more time to give the game a chance. It was the only reason I went back to Assassin's Creed and ended up enjoying it.