What is the deal with Gamerscore?

[CriticallyAcclaimed]

i dont earn achievments for bragging about gamer score, i earn achievments cause their like a 'game within a game'...
...or Pokemon. can you catch them all? (yea, im sorry for that one too)

 

[iJosh]

Bragging rights that makes no sense. Just proves you have no life and can 100% games and all.

Lawlzors, I has 19 400 gamerscorez

 

[USSR]

http://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/archives/images/2008/08/77b6a636a049.jpg

I forgive your double-post, because that made me chuckle =p

 

[Kirosilence]

It's the numerical representation of the xBox 360 epeen. It's about as useful as a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest but provides that "Lul lok I R bettar than u!" feeling when you see someone lower than yourself. Try as I might I still can't avoid that feeling sometimes when I hear someone bragging about their gamerscore being some abysmally low number. Which then begs the question of why they are bragging about something so useless in the first place but I just return to my theory that if I could understand the thought process of people who's mental capacity often parallels that of a pot of petunias, the universe would be a far better place.

Mine is 12000some, I can;t be bothered to remember the exact number.

 

[kommando367]

Bragging rights Mines 15875 mwhaaawha

25868, suck it.

 

[Bob_F_It]

Gamescores are primarily a dickwaving competition.

Although I've seen opinion on the escapist that it's also a sly device to get people to buy more games. With every game capped at 1000 points (or 1250 with DLC), after you've got all the achievements for all of your games, the only way to increase your gamerscore is to go and buy another game.
And that's the odd bit: are you buying the game as a game, or as a means to increase your gamerscore?

How do you think Sonic games are still selling?

And the difficulty of the games through their bad controls completely wrecks the second hand market for them, pumping sales higher.

 

[gamegod25]

Because colleting things can be fun.

BTW 32,841 ^_^

 

[orangebandguy]

My gaming OCD.

 

[FallenRainbows]

Bragging rights Mines 15875 mwhaaawha

39,000...

ITs just somthing To do for me, Im a perfectionist you see.

Bragging rights Mines 15875 mwhaaawha

25868, suck it.

Suck It...

 

[mokes310]

I find the gamerscore/achievements to be a sort of table of contents that I can compare with my friends. If I see that they have a specific achievement, I can ask them how they got it. For example, two kills, one bullet, something like that.

 

[Heyallo]

meh its a number, deal with it and stop playing with your e-peens is what I say.

 

[Xvito]

I don't get why people call it out as "comparing penis length".
It's something to strive after. Achievements can be fun, in the right games...

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

i usually dont care unless its a game i really like (just got my last 2 for The Pitt today so i now have 1200/1200 on Fallout 3)

 

[Agent Larkin]

I agree with thw above mentioning of gamerscore being nothing more the the gaming equivilent of a peacock raising its feathers as its useless i have a score of 12900 but i dont care hell i have a friend who has over 100,000 and even he agrees that it is pointless.

 

[Rascarin]

I like to 100% the achievements on a game, just because it makes me feel like I've a)done pretty well, and/or b)done almost everything in the game, so then I can move on.

The number itself isn't that important, I just take note of milestone numbers. I remember a little while ago I got mine to 12345. I prefer to have a lower GS with more 100% games than a high GS with loads of unfinished games.

 

[sims629]

it's really just something to compare how much more time people are wasting than you...think of it as a way to say that you don't waist that much time on video games as the people who have all those achievments

 

[AceDefective]

dosent the escapist have a gamescoure leaderboard i think they do

 

[Wolfwind]

I think achievements are a fun little addition to games, if done right. Some of them are fun if you choose to go for them and extend your play time a little. I mean, it's completely optional, so I sort of like that because it's not like you have to strive for it to progress in the game, but it would be nice if they could be exchanged for stuff (maybe clothes for your avatar or gamer pics or something). Like, your gamer score wouldn't actually go down, but you'd have like a cache on the side that you could buy stuff with.

Personally I like them, since I don't look at the achievements for a game the first time I play it, which makes each one a suprise and I can go "Sweet. An achievement". And then after that, I can choose to actively persue them if I want, so they're cool for giving you extra stuff to do if you want.

"what ? OVER 9000?"
*grabs keyboard and crushes it in his hands*

WHAT NINE THOUSAND!? There's no way that can be right!!

I think it's right. He does know the art of Kaioken, after all....

 

[Corven]

You know I'd like them to completely scrap the gamer score system, and instead put in place a little bracket thing like our badges here, where you can stack the top ten achievements you are most proud of earning and show them off instead of just some arbitrary number.

When people see gamerscore they don't know how you earned it, I could have spent days earning that zombie genocidest badge in Left 4 Dead to get the same amount of gamerscore points if I had played any cookie-cutter movie based game that has come out by just finishing the first level.

 

[internutt]

People like collecting things.

Pogs/Pokemon, pretty much everything popular is base on this concept.