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GamerScoreBlog On Achievement Points
>> From johnporcaro on gamerscoreblog.com (Microsoft's Xbox PR Blog):
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For those of you that skim the blog, skip the podcast, and ignore the comments, there's an interesting discussion going on stemming from a discussion we had in this week's podcast.
* What kind of impact has the pursuit of Xbox 360 Achievements had on your gameplay?
* The four of us (Chris, Sara, Nelson, and I) agree that Achievements have had an impact, and that they make the games we're playing more enjoyable. There's something very rewarding about the small "pat on the back" you get when you finish a level or collect an item or do something particularly challenging. There's also a strong social component to Achievements, because individual Achievements can be viewed by your friends, and compared game by game. It gives you something to talk about with other gamers ("I finally got Pacifism on Geometry Wars!"), and comparing your Gamerscore with friends can create a fun rivalry.
* Are there games you play solely to get Gamerscore points?
* One side-effect of the rivalry among friends is that some people will play a game they might not otherwise solely to earn Achievement points. I don't think the developers of games mind it when a customer buys/borrows/rents a game to do that--it's another way to get customers to become interested in a purchase. In the podcast, we discuss the race between Sara and me (she's 1000 points ahead now!), and that both of us have played games solely for points, and I pointed out that I actually enjoyed not only the race for the points (our own "meta-game"), but I enjoyed playing games like Harry Potter. Heck, I played Avatar for an hour or two even after I earned all 1,000 points...
Nelson pointed out that being in last place by such a wide margin (neener neener neener) has caused him to lose interest--for now--in the "Gamerscore race," at least among the five of us.
* What games do you continue to play knowing you won't get any more Achievements?
* We all have games we love, and play knowing that we probably won't be getting any Achievements anytime soon. For me, it's Lumines Live or Puzzle Quest. For Chris, it was Gears of War. All of us agree that a good game is a good game, and we all enjoy playing regardless of points we'll earn along the way.
We also discussed that it's subtly disappointing to finish a level and not get even a small Achievement, or to finish defeating the last boss, only to get 10 points for the effort. We're all salivating, waiting for the Pavlovian bell, but we'll keep playing great games anyway.
* What do you consider a "good" Gamerscore? Are YOU a real "gamer?"
* I think anything over 3,000-4,000 is worthy of praise, and anyone in the 10K range is definitely someone who plays a lot of videogames. Some others might think that's pathetic. And I'm certain that there are real "gamers" who have a score under 1,000. Maybe they really only like one game (or game type), maybe they spend a lot of time offline, maybe all their game time is being taken up by World of Warcraft. Or maybe they're still enjoying playing on the original Xbox.
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