avatar - 1000points in 5 minutes

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this stuff really gets to me

i have had my 360 about 18months now and i must admit - i havent really ever got into this gamerscore boosting thing - i play games that appeal to me for fun - im not overly competitive when it comes to games

so i got R6vegas about 3 months after having my console - i loved the game - wanted to get everything out of it

got lots of points - got to elite in multiplayer without doing the points cheat thing
really proud - i never finished it on hard for the last few points as other games came along - and i wasnt buying the live vision camera for the other achievement

so i settled on about 780 points

pretty good going in my opinion. [especially for a good 8-9months time on one game]

so a while back my younger brother comes to stay for a weekend and rents TMNT
he completes it in a day on my xbox as he doesnt have one

i check and he has 1000 points - but its a game aimed at kids his age - and he worked hard on it

not like my 9 month slog in vegas but kids dont have that attention span i guess.

my friend emails me today

'i got 1000pts in 5 minutes'

on a game called Avatar

5 achievements - 1000 points - 5 minutes

thats criminal - im not starting a flame war on achievement grabbers - it doesnt bother me

but im thinking that microsoft need to balance the system out a bit

it would make people commit to these small title games more.

i just think that the lifespan of a game should be reflected in price
all games are average £40 but the lifespan of games do not reflect the price

no wonder there is such a high trade-in market for console games
 
If people are gonna spend £40 to gain 1000 points in 5 mins then the only person winning is the publisher IMO.

More fool the gamer!
 
Needles said:
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i know the discussion of this game may be old -
MY POINT
is that why can publishers consider that 6months + work on one games achievements is worth the same amount of money as this?

6Months vs 5 minutes? at £40 each

i know which one i would take

im merely putting the point of VALUE in games across - which i think is a valid and important discussion - if you feel that my point is not valid then by all means - carry on with your dissmissal

and i will hold on to my nice cool 'pint of bothered'!
 
I just see it as a way of adding to a game you have. I like to get as many points as possible out of each game, plus it makes you do stuff you would have never thought about.

Eg knocking over a turret with another turret on Portal, or falling 30,000ft.

Certainly don't worry about high total gamerscores though.

Toppy's score is pretty impressive I think, 62000 but hes only played about 80 games. He has maxxed most of them out.
 
You say you are not bothered about points, but then you make a complaint about people getting easy points? I think you are more bothered about gamerscore than you make out :p

Avatar sold a lot more games than they would have done if the achievements were harder to get, so I guess you could say it was clever development.
 
Simon said:
I just see it as a way of adding to a game you have. I like to get as many points as possible out of each game, plus it makes you do stuff you would have never thought about.
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i agree with that plus it gives you an incentive to up the difficulty and stuf like that

i just dont see why microsoft cant scale the achievement difficulty in accordance with the lifespan of some of their games.

i know achievements add a lot to games even for those who dont bother with them - i like to be surprised and get them for just playing

but a full 1000 points in 45 seconds or whatever just takes the longevity of a game and flushes it down the toilet

i just think more consistancy needs to be added to some games to help them avoid being dropped into the 'rent it to boost' catagory
 
Kyle009 said:
You say you are not bothered about points, but then you make a complaint about people getting easy points?
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im saying that microsoft need to scale achievemnt points to add value to the game

a guy in this thread said that he took the disk out after 2 minutes
that means that he didnt give the game a chance

my argument is not about gamerscore or cachievement whoring or whatever - [its peoples lives let them do what they want - an online number means nothing really]

but im trying to get the point across of microsoft needing to make sure that they check this stuff before releasing so that their customers see some kind of lifespan - it would increase game sales and then all customers could buy any game and think "great, im buying at least Xmonths worht of entertainment" - if you see what i mean
 
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rp2000 said:
Loads of people!!! You can check their gamercards or read their blogs!!


rp2000
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I think it is really sad that they do it. Paying what like £3-5 for a rental just for achievements. I couldn't care less about achievements (dont want to start a flame war, just telling people who rent Avatar off! ;)).

I completely agreed with Simon about the points, im glad COD4 doesn't have them because its about gameplay, not points.

I do like achievements for singleplayer because it adds replayability, but people who just buy/rent games for the points have no life.
 
Nymins said:
I think it is really sad that they do it. Paying what like £3-5 for a rental just for achievements. I couldn't care less about achievements (dont want to start a flame war, just telling people who rent Avatar off! ;)).
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They don't pay £3-£5 if they're on a rental service where they just pay a flat monthly fee and just add it to their queue. I don't see why you're getting so worked up about it.
 
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