Xbox user hits 500,000 Gamerscore

By Fred Dutton Published 15 October, 2010

"It's been one hell of a journey."

The man with the world's highest Gamerscore has just hit the half million mark.

The Xbox 360 user, Gamertag Stallion83, passed the the landmark with a 20 point Achievement in Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure: Episode 4.

Stallion83 started his 1 Million Gamerscore blog back in 2006 with the aim of, well, being the first to achieve a Gamerscore of one million.

"Well, I'm finally half way there," he posted earlier. "It's been one hell of a journey so far. Thanks for following me and thanks to everyone that helped me along the way. It's going to be a long process getting to 1,000,000, but hopefully I can make it there someday."

He hasn't got a great deal of competition. His nearest rival is Canadian gamer smrnov, some way back at 459,084.

Kotaku reports that Stallion83 celebrated his achievement not by popping a champagne cork, but with a quick blast on Karaoke Revolution.

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  • steve1979 #1 2 years ago

    In other news, Stallion38 needs to get out more.

  • FuzzyDuck #2 2 years ago

    That's insane. I wonder how many games did he trudge through that he didn't actually enjoy though?

  • Fab4 #3 2 years ago

    Journeys usually require you to get off your fucking arse.

  • Benno #4 2 years ago

    Good luck to him

  • vmanb #5 2 years ago

    3 words..... Get a life.

  • Hobo #6 2 years ago

    We all love gaming here, obviously.

    But i can't see anyone here wanting to celebrate this.

  • dbeamish #7 2 years ago

    I'd like to know what sort of person he actually is rather than just cast aspersions. also i want to know if hes turbo obese.

  • man.the.king #8 2 years ago

    "It's been one hell of a journey so far. Thanks for following me and thanks to everyone that helped me along the way. It's going to be a long process getting to 1,000,000, but hopefully I can make it there someday."

    Sounds as if he's giving an Oscar-winner speech. I fully expected him to also thank the housemaid and the kitchen-table.
    Edited by man.the.king at 15/10/10 @ 22:24

  • Hunam #9 2 years ago

    You're all so jealous. I can tell these things.

    Mostly though, he must earn a few bob to be able to buy all those games.

    Just checked his gamer profile, 681 games. Bloody hell.
    Edited by Hunam at 15/10/10 @ 22:29

  • sfp_noodle #10 2 years ago

    It is a little sad in some ways but you can't knock that kind of a milestone. Unless Microsoft actually plan to reward the man handsomely I see little reason to pursue a feat which requires so much dedication and investment. I'd be happy to even reach 50,000. I'm currently on 36,000 and a bit. I started my 'journey' nearly 4 years ago

  • albinac #11 2 years ago

    that is unhealty for any gamer to be soo obsessed.

  • MiniAmin #12 2 years ago

    Oh bog off you arrogant "get a life" posters. It clearly isn't for everyone, and I'd never do that, but he shouldn't be berated for what's a gruelling achievement.

    I congratulate him, I hope he achieves his goal of 1 million: people pursue horrible and harmful goals, he shouldn't be upbraided for this one.
    Edited by MiniAmin at 15/10/10 @ 22:41

  • VandelayIndustries #13 2 years ago

    I'll reserve from commenting... says he with 23,000 odd GS & Level 10 Trophies...

  • 32768Colours #14 2 years ago

    I'd give this guy more kudos if this were a score that was attainable simply through playing your favourite games to completion. But given the fact that he's probably had to play every last crappy game and bit of cynical dlc out there to get there, it just seems a bit sad.

  • Xardan #15 2 years ago

    There are far far more obsessed gamers out there than this guy.

  • Khanivor #16 2 years ago

    Man he's gonna be pissed when MS pull out of the market and there are only enough games to get 900k.

  • Psychotext #17 2 years ago

    Proper mentalist... hey, but more power to him if he's having fun. :)

  • TopKatt #18 2 years ago

    I've only had my Xbox a couple of weeks but already my gamerscore is 265. Watch your back Stallion38!

  • Shikasama #19 2 years ago

    That's really odd. Surely he can't have a job, but then he has to buy all of those games and DLC packs.

    That would lead you to believe he has his own money, but if you were that well off surely you could find some better things to be doing with your days.

  • Ryboy #20 2 years ago

    Fucking sad cunt. You'll die alone.

  • davisorle #21 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 20:44:35 16-04-2012

  • NewbieZilla #22 2 years ago

    I'm cool, I am a member of online game sites. Thus, I feel obligated to insult someone who has a bigger milestone in gaming than I do on the pretence of having a justification for it.

  • Eddwah #23 2 years ago

    I bet the fanny flies through his letterbox.

  • SteveHolt #24 2 years ago

    His GT is Stallion83, not 38... I just hope for his sake that x720 allows to transfer your x360 gamerpoints, or he'll have trouble reaching 1M...

    In other news, I reached the 70 000 mark today and, to celebrate that astoundishing achievement, I cleaned my cat's litterbox.

  • tachometer #25 2 years ago

    So that's what Kazunori Yamauchi has been up to

  • makeamazing #26 2 years ago

    Yeah, i think my new Xbox (restarted my account) is at a couple of hundred, I think I am ahead of TopKat... yay :D

    "MakeAmazing apparently opened a bottle of champagne at the news that his gamerscore was higher than someone elses"...

    Anyway on a more serious note, let me say first, that I LOVE games, i really enjoy them, i buy games when i dont really much care for them (just to have something new to play), but to put that much time and effort into it, i think in a few years time when the guy is getting older he might regret wasting that much time in his life. Life is short and you should do things that you enjoy (nothing wrong with playing games at all)...

    So basically what i am saying is, I HOPE his is at least enjoying playing the games to try and get to the score, because i dont see the point in playing through lots of crap just to do this personally.

    Edited by makeamazing at 15/10/10 @ 23:44

  • Dr_Wookiee #27 2 years ago

    All I know is ... He's 27

  • Spekingur #28 2 years ago

    There is guy in my XBox group with 100k GS. He has a job. His job was buying and importing games for a retailer. So he got promo discs and free games. This guy could have the same kind of job?

  • 32768Colours #29 2 years ago

    If I'm going to be honest, I wasn't even aware that there were that many gamerpoints out there to get. I thought I was doing ok with the 13000 I've got!

    Cynicism aside, its not like the guy's doing anyone any harm, so good luck to him :)

  • Fightclubber #30 2 years ago

    Virgin

  • Hobo #31 2 years ago

    "but he shouldn't be berated for what's a gruelling achievement."

    Or however many achievements it takes to hit 500k...

  • MerricK #32 2 years ago

    i read this 10 mins ago "Kotaku reports that Stallion38 celebrated his achievement not by popping a champagne cork, but with a quick blast on Karaoke Revolution." and i still can't stop laughing.

    Mean while I've hit 500,000 real life achievements score ... Do I get my own news story? Naah thought not. am to "ungeeky" for eurogamer :p

  • afghan_jones #33 2 years ago

    Bit silly really. What a plonker. My GS is about 37K and even at that level I often feel like im wasting valuable hours of my life on it. But to get that amount of GS must involve so many shitty games and so many joyless hours. the guy is a fucking idiot actually and the more I think about it the more pathetic this is. Sort yourself out you silly cunt.

  • MerricK #34 2 years ago

    wow"! got negged for having a life! "LOL"

  • Acrid #35 2 years ago

    @Ryboy "Fucking sad cunt. You'll die alone."

    Funniest thing I've read in a long time +1

  • Skurmedel #36 2 years ago

    He has some good games in there. Many people spend their evenings watching telly. How is this worse? Sure some of the games sucks, but have you ever seen Emmerdale?

  • Snakevdf #37 2 years ago

    Who cares this shit!!??!?!?

  • Spence1115 #38 2 years ago

    Having looked through, he's completed many games 100% more than once. For example, he has both LEGO Batman and LEGO BATMAN (JP) at 100%, and Fallout 3 and Fallout 3 (PC), and others, which means he's bought different versions of the game from other countries, just to redo every achievement for the score. That seems even worse than those who rent Hannah Montana for the achievements/trophies. I mean Fallout 3, that's fun, so I can understand that, but really, Alone in the Dark in multiple languages to 100%?

    Yet at the same time, I have a better score for Dragon Age Origins than him. Huzzah!

  • FutureDave #39 2 years ago

    So it's taken about 5 years to get half way to 1 million. Will he actually make 1 million before the next Xbox?

    At least he'll get in good shape once he starts reaping the Kinect achievements :)

  • brod #40 2 years ago

    I can't respect anyone who claims to be a gamer but plays utter shit solely for 'points'.

    I like the idea of Xbox profiles but I don't like that achievements are assigned point values. I often look at other peoples' profiles, but I judge them based on which games they play, not how many games they play or what their gamerscore is.

  • Quixz #41 2 years ago

    My goal of reaching 20k by the end of this year is only 600Gs away!

    Avatar the... should do it :-)))))))))))))

  • SavageEvil #42 2 years ago

    Lol, lots of people trying to berate another for what he set as his own goal. I think many of you need to "get a life" and a clue while you're at it. This guy set a challenge for himself that is all, you have your reasons to play games, he has his. Is your life that bad you have to talk down someone else? This internet is just filled with wondrous individuals who can talk a lot more than they can think. Just because you won't/can't do something, don't get full of yourself and think it's stupid because someone else can. this world is filled with individuals who accomplished many things that others look at with disdain. Go check the Guiness book of world records and you'll see what I mean. Too many cynics with their noses turned up too high to see the hole they are about to fall into.

    Good luck to the guy, hopefully he manages to make that 1 million...he might also end up in World Record Books with this feat anyway. They do tend to have unique things held as records in those books, at least his feat isn't something that can kill him. I just wonder how good is this guy at these games? He has determination to play through all those games, I wonder how he handles RPG's, those take off a serious chunk of time to complete.

  • afghan_jones #43 2 years ago

    He should be ashamed rather than proud. I see this 'achievement' as similar to announcing you have had a wank to every single video on redtube.

    Yes its taken a lot of time and perseverance but its hardly something to be commended. Scorn and/or derision are the only appropriate responses.

  • Fab4 #44 2 years ago

    I'd have more respect for him if he hadnt boosted 3 of his CoD3 achievements, probably through 'flag tossing' in CTF. Now, some might say "But surely its up to him how he plays the game?", however the achievements are obtained in Ranked games which take minutes (if you are lucky) to get into...even back in 2008 when he got them. So to get the points he has basically ruined a game which legit players will have waited to get into. If these players try to play the game as it is described, the boosters usually launch into a tirade of abuse. Which either forces the legit players to leave or they themselves leave to boost in another game.

    So achievements are lovely, if that's your goal in 'life'. However they shouldnt disrupt the rights of legit players to play the games as they were designed...for fun.

  • KDR_11k #45 2 years ago

    So, will the Guinness Book record this kind of thing?

  • texx #46 2 years ago

    I wonder how many xbox's he's gone trough

  • Bonders99 #47 2 years ago

    Ruddy hell. 681 games. The 360 was released in December 2005 so by my reckoning he is buying and completing ? one game every 2.6 days or every 62 hours non stop since the day the 360 was released. Hmmm interesting

  • Flipper79 #48 2 years ago

    I remember a time before gamerscores. It was a happier time where people only bought games they thought they'd like; where you didn't have to plan out your playing in advance, just in case you missed one of the 1000 collectables and you missed out on your 5 achievement points.

  • Trigg3rHippie #49 2 years ago

    Isn't supposed to be "Stallion83"?

  • UKVampire_2010 #50 2 years ago

    Lets look at this, you guys are all on a games site sat on your arse and complaining and bitching that this guy has been sat on his arse playing games and you have the audacity to tell HIM to get a life?

    Bunch of jealous hypocrits

  • danjfor #51 2 years ago

    You're allowed to do whatever you want with life.

  • oerhoert #52 2 years ago

    The only game that matters is, of course, Ridge Racer 6, and if TrueAchievements is to be believed, this guy is no true gamer. He only has 378 of 1,000, whereas to get the full pot here takes true dedication.

    Me? I've got 350, having spent almost 50 hours on it.

  • chronom4n #53 2 years ago

    assuming the grim reaper don't get the fucker first!

  • SteveHolt #54 2 years ago

    @Fab4: he probably was in a boosting party = a game where everyone agrees to help each other getting achievements (very common pratice in sites like x360achievements.org). You may run into one of those parties when you try to play multiplayer games that no one plays anymore. It's not legit, but this is between consenting "adults" so no harm done here.

  • kwospecialk #55 2 years ago

    Considering he has Scene It on his most recently played list tells me this achievement whore is a proper achievement whore. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if he has 1,000Gs on Avatar.

  • Fab4 #56 2 years ago

    @steveholt

    Its not something that is possible to organise in CoD3, especially back in 2008. While there may have been a group boosting (its actually needed to flag toss) its still very likely that they were disrupting games for legit players...those who were not 'consenting', adults or not.

    You should listen to StepTo's seminar at PAX East this year, on his thoughts on gamerscore manipulators, amongst other things. Why is he important? He's only the director of M$s XBL Policy Enforcement Team.

  • bigmickhart #57 2 years ago

    fair play to the guy. Its gonna take a lot of time and effort and would be cool if the xbox team gave him some kind of reward for doing so.
    Edited by bigmickhart at 16/10/10 @ 11:45

  • Kerome #58 2 years ago

    Madness. I'm as much of a gamerscore junkie as the next man, but 500k... that's just silly.

    Just think what his life might be like if he'd applied that effort to other things: self-made millionaire? Well-known lothario with a girl in every port and a score of illegitimate children? World-famous body-builder? I mean, that's a serious time investment, probably well past the 10,000 hours to acquire mastery of a major skill.

  • Drpwnage #59 2 years ago

    With a bit of luck he may done by 2014!

    Then he can jump up off the sofa, punch the air, look back at 8 years effort and shout 'ACHIEVED!' feeling warm inside at meeting a life goal or maybe he will just feel empty and have to keep going.......

    This level of obsession is just a modern iteration of Collecting, if it wasn't Gamerscore clearly it would have been something else.

  • coolbritannia #60 2 years ago

    Retrend, grinding through shit games does not make someone better at games than me. This is not something to celebrate. M$'s gimmick of gamerscore has successfully led this compulsive personality to sit on his ass for 1000's of hours and play games he couldn't possibly enjoy. <a href="">http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2009/358/2/d/fail_so_epic_its_almost_a_win_by_samukari.jpg<a href="">

  • TopKatt #61 2 years ago

    Hmmmmm, I might have to step things up a notch. I've just calculated that if I continue getting gamerscore at my current rate, I'll hit the 1,000,000 mark on the 18/05/2186.

  • coolbritannia #62 2 years ago

    TopKatt, that's the same day I hit maximum rank on Reach!

  • Esapekka #63 2 years ago

    First step of recovery process is admitting that you have a problem.

  • Matt_B #64 2 years ago

    Checked his Gamercard and he has started playing the NTSC version of Stranglehold, he's already completed the PAL version. He did the same with 50 cent Blood in the Sand & Tomb Raider Underworld. Crazy.

  • kwospecialk #65 2 years ago

    By the time he get's to 1,000,000Gs hover cars will be real and Lady Gaga head will be put into a fish bowl.

  • The12thMonkey #66 2 years ago

    I shall be somewhat amused if the last game he needs to unlock to get past 1 million is Final Fantasy XI...

  • Smoped #67 2 years ago

    I wouldn't want to mock anybody for playing games a lot. And some people collect stamps, which I don't really get, so who am I to judge people who want to collect achievements? But 681 Xbox 360 games? At least 500 of those must be really bad, 300 so bad playing them has to be painful.

  • abrakababra #68 2 years ago

    Not so hard to have access to so many games, what with your local Blockbusters/Xtravision just around the corner.
    You could make a very interesting indie movie out of this story, although it would want to be VERY loosely based on it to be interesting.
    Still.

  • flipperpod #69 2 years ago

    Impressive and yet worthless at the same time.

  • Lunastra78 #70 2 years ago

    Seldom has anyone achieved so little, by doing so much.

  • callum9999 #71 2 years ago

    retrend - 99% of people on here are probably better at games than me, simply being better is not an issue, being obsessive to the extent where gaming (seemingly - only he really knows whether its true or not) is what his life is based on is pretty sad in my opinion. I'm not saying he should be stopped from doing so if he want's to do it, but it's a waste of a life.

    If I looked back on however many years of my life and my main achievement was receiving a big number based on the huge number of games I'd played (and going by the other comments, replayed several times using foreign versions to get more points) in that period of time, I'd be extremely depressed. Looks like OCD to me - while many people do weird things with their time, its generally stuff they enjoy (though who knows, maybe he does genuinely love every xbox game ever made to the extent he enjoys playing them over and over again?).

  • Codger81 #72 2 years ago

    His mother must be so proud.

  • TrevSkyline #73 2 years ago

    Did this guy need a winch to lift him off the sofa?

    Does he even know what the outside world looks like??????

    Epic GS, but at what cost?

  • Jacksie66 #74 2 years ago

    Ive got 2900g and im pretty pleased with myself....also i have a life.. and a nice 1 at that.

  • Jacksie66 #75 2 years ago

    http://files.sharenator.com/fat_guy_in_c... this is him sitting playin his xbox..

  • jambii267 #76 2 years ago

    That's an inhumane score.

    Is he an achievement powered Robot?

  • Farzlepot #77 2 years ago

    I gauge how important achievements in real life are by what people in the pub might say.

    For example, if I told everybody that I'd just been signed on to play for Manchester United, people would be genuinely enthusiastic, even if they hated the team.

    If I told everybody that I'd just scored 500,000 points on the Xbox, I get the feeling that I'd end up lying in a pool of blood and broken glass in the gutter outside.

  • miiiguel #78 2 years ago

    but I judge them based on which games they play

    ewwww, I hate judgemental people. Sorry, not personal I just do.

  • NewbieZilla #79 2 years ago

    "If I told everybody that I'd just scored 500,000 points on the Xbox, I get the feeling that I'd end up lying in a pool of blood and broken glass in the gutter outside."

    Remind me not to go to the pubs you go to.

  • Sunyavadin #80 2 years ago

    All the people claiming we'll hit the next gen before he hits 1M - My personal game collection alone has a potential of about 100k. And I'm fairly sure I don't own 10% of all XBox games out there. Not even close.

    *Checks wikipedia*
    Yep. With 762 retail games, that'd be a base number of 762,000
    Add in 335 Arcade titles, for 67000, you have 829,000
    42 GFWL titles -another 42,000, for 871,000

    Then account for some of them including 1250/1500/1750GS, and you can definitely break the 1M mark.

    *Edit* Although yeah, when it comes to boxed retail titles, surprisingly I *DO* own more than 10% of all the 360 games on the market... wow...
    Edited by Sunyavadin at 17/10/10 @ 03:38

  • JensonJet #81 2 years ago

    Give the man a peanut! I doubt Microsoft will allow Gamerscore to run over to the next console. Why would they? It's clearly a money-spinner... and we all know there are plenty of er... gamers, who'll spend hundreds, or thousands getting a high score. Speaking of which, does it really bring you enough respect from young gamers to be worth it?

  • waynenot #82 2 years ago

    "Well, I'm finally half way there"

    To a full lobotomy? This story makes me feel a bit dirty to be a gamer.

    Achievements and the like are for people who have ceased to need their noses to breath.

  • Transcendent #83 2 years ago

    If someone celebrates this, there must be nothing better left for us to do as a species. Let's lie down and die.

  • Farzlepot #84 2 years ago

    @NewbieZilla,

    Welcome to Telford!

  • Sunyavadin #85 2 years ago

    Give the man a peanut! I doubt Microsoft will allow Gamerscore to run over to the next console. Why would they? It's clearly a money-spinner...

    All the more reason why they WOULD do it!

    Remember - XBox originals costs them next to no money to run, but makes them a little bit of a profit from the people gullible enough to buy from them rather than spend an afternoon trawling the second hand shelves. Now, when they do backward compatibility on the next XBox, all the original 360 titles will still be up on the on demand service - and they all have gamerscore implemented already - it's more of a reason for them to get people to pay through the nose for old games!

    Not to mention compatibility with GFWL - did they start the gamerscore on that from scratch when Windows 7 came out? Of course not!

    I'd go so far as to bet you a brand shiny new next-gen XBox that your live accounts and all their progress will carry over to the new system.

  • Lunatic4ever #86 2 years ago

    :D Thats nuts!

  • JensonJet #87 2 years ago

    Sunyavadin
    Sure, that's one argument and it makes sense. But I'm convinced Microsoft will weigh up the pros and cons and go with what they think will help sell the more games. And I'm convinced dropping everyone to zero and having everyone start again will sell more games as the Gamerscore obsessed gamers desperately spend their way to a higher Gamerscore.

    I think that you hope Gamerscore stays because you're a gamer who is concerned about score. I expect everyone who cares about this is convinced (or desperately hopes) Microsoft will keep it. Otherwise it does kind of prove what a pathetic obsession it is IF it's lost for the next console.

    Personally I hate Gamerscore and think gaming would genuinely be in a better place without it. I'm happy to hear how much someone loves gaming, that it's their love, obsession, passion and hobby, but people who go out to build up Gamerscore are... (I've nothing positive to say about them). And all that just to say you have a high Gamerscore and to gain a little respect from immature gamers!?!?

    Old games will still have their Gamerscore, but you'll be playing them to build up the score on your next gen 360, whatever it gets called.

  • NewbieZilla #88 2 years ago

    "Personally I hate Gamerscore and think gaming would genuinely be in a better place without it."

    You point out the person you are replying to is biased. Surely you recognise that you, yourself have the same thing, just from the other side.

    Personally, I don't think they'll bring over your gamerscore exactly. It'll bring over your profile, and something as a representative of the 360. What form that'll take, I don't know. I just don't think they'll throw away years of gamers play time with nothing there because of how many gamerscore obsessed there are.

    But if they brought over the exact gamerscore from your previous console, then people who didn't have a 360 will not be on the same competitive level as those who did. They need to have a "Oh, I can get that score too!" attitude that wouldn't be possible if people saw "Oh, 200,000 gamerscore. Nah, never will get that" or something.

    Edit: In short, the point I'm trying to make is that achievement whoring needs to be a constant carrot for those who are swayed by such things. Whatever reduces that is something they are likely to shy away from.
    Edited by NewbieZilla at 17/10/10 @ 15:36

  • Brownstudy #89 2 years ago

    I'm really pissed off with some of the comments here. And before I continue with this little rant, let me make clear that my Gamerscore is just under 9000.

    Is this clear? I'm not that bothered about my own Gamerscore. I love gaming, though, and I'm a bit of a sucker for RPGs, in which Achievements are collected a bit more slowly than in other games. This is fine. I love playing good games, and when I get the occasional Achievement, it makes me feel slightly good inside.

    The Stallion83 haters really should fuck off. This man has set out to achieve something really difficult. He has set himself a huge challenge, and he's doing rather well at it. Ultimately, there is no obvious, tangible benefit to what Stallion83 is doing, but does that matter? Do we laugh at winners of the London Marathon? Chess champions? Everest climbing mountaineers? Do we scold them for being so obsessive about their goals? Or do we celebrate their dedication, commitment and talent?

    And let's not forget that there have been numerous London Marathon winnners, Chess champions and Everest scaling mountaineers. Only one person has reached 500kG. I wouldn't want to try and beat that myself; I'd be hopeless. I have other goals and aspirations, as do most of us, but let's not try and convince ourselves that what Stallion83 has done is anything less than marvellous.

    And guess what? When our beloved hobby does gain the recognition it deserves, more and more people will see the likes of Stallion83 as true masters of their game and they'll get fame and cash for their achievements, while we're all chasing +1s

  • muters #90 2 years ago

    I have a gamerscore of 127,413, most of which I got between the 360's release and late 2008. Was it worth it? Not really. It required neglecting every other platform for the sake of playing a fair amount of games I didn't care about, and replaying some games I did like past the point of enjoyment. It became quite a compulsion, where every time I played a non-360 game I felt as if I was lagging behind my arbitrary goals, and taking advantage of cheap rental schemes and eBay to make most of my money back off the ones I bought, it turned it all into something of an assembly line to have to manage efficiently. Fun, sure, but it took away my ability to just play for the sake of playing.

    I wasn't even particularly 'hardcore', either. I never boosted, whereas I'd see others mapping out their plans for hundreds of hours of exchanging kills and flags and the like online. And although I did shamefully resort to playing Avatar for five minutes for the full 1k, I drew the line at putting any real time into a game if I honestly wasn't enjoying myself.

    A high gamerscore doesn't really represent anything other than having lots of free time. I don't want to speak too badly of the Stallion guy, if he's satisfied with what he does then good for him, and it's a bit shitty for anyone to tell him how he should be living his life. But there's no way you can get a score even close to that high without playing more shit games than most people would in a lifetime, and unless you're incredibly easily pleased, willfully boring yourself silly for no real gain.
    Edited by muters at 17/10/10 @ 20:28

  • JBlokeUK #91 2 years ago

    Did Brownstudy just compare this to winning the London Marathon and climbing to the top of Everest?

    I knew there was a reason I came here. I've finally found it.

  • PlugMonkey #92 2 years ago

    JensonJet
    "Give the man a peanut! I doubt Microsoft will allow Gamerscore to run over to the next console. Why would they?"

    If they reset the gamer score, it gives everyone a chance to get off the bus. Stallion83 might decide to get a PS4.

    If they keep it going, every current gamerwhore in the world has only one console choice. They buy the next Xbox or lose thousands of hours worth of currency.

    I can't believe you're claiming that people will play fewer games if their score keeps going up on the comments thread of an article about someone who has played 681 games to get 500k. That is illogical, Captain.

    It's interesting how the reactions to this story differ from the reactions to the news that Steve Wiebe had reclaimed the Donkey Kong high score. Both played video games to the exclusion of all else. One is deemed a hero, and the other a cnut.

  • muscleblade #93 2 years ago

    I will get to 100 000 by the end of this week and i dont play all that much. If i didnt have full time job, two kids and competed in bodybuilding 500 000 wouldnt have been out of reach.

  • metalmike25 #94 2 years ago

    Maybe he should get a girlfriend

  • Sicho #95 2 years ago

    Getting a Highscore is the purest form of Gaming. The first Games (like Pong) only featured Scores, no Stories or Cinematics etc. just plain scoring ... the same goes for Pinball Machines etc.

    So why bitch around Gamerscore, when scoring is the purest form of Gaming? Even in Sports or Table Games, it's all about the score ... and it always will be.

    Remember this when you play CoD online this Evening: The Team with the highest Score wins the Match ...

  • mkreku #96 2 years ago

    Well, at least he is the best in the world at SOMETHING, which is more than I can say about myself.

  • geeza2020 #97 2 years ago

    Damn, that's a lot of hours of gaming. Not sure I could commit to that. I was quite worried when I got to 10K that i was playing too many games. Now, when people comment on the amount of time I spend playing, I can point them in the directions of this king among men.

  • JensonJet #98 2 years ago

    PlugMonkey,

    Exactly where did I suggest people would play fewer games if their Gamerscore continues to increase? I don't believe this at all. Perhaps you should read through my post again, slowly, and you might understand my comments more clearly.



    Brownstudy,

    I don't think anyone is suggesting they hate the gamer who reached 500,000 Gamerscore. The majority of us agree that of all the pleasures and achievements to be gained from gaming, getting a few numbers for just playing a game is about as pointless and unimpressive as gaming gets.

    No one's suggesting completing a game or playing a game you love is bad in any way. Of course not, we all have the same hobby around here, obviously! What people are astonished about is that someone would boast having wasting thousands of hours playing any old game (many of which were not even completed) just to get a higher number than others.

    Gamerscore is often given without any skill whatsoever... as is proved when Gamerscore is awarded in the early stages of a game. It doesn't respresent anything other than how many games have been played on your console, or more specifically how much money you spend on gaming.

    If you were told a gamer had played 300 games would you be impressed? Or perhaps if they'd played 600 games you'd think they've achieved something out of the ordinary? Even hardcore gamers admit there are genuinely sad cases out there, and this is an example of one of the worst.

    Perhaps to you there's no difference between a chess master, a marathon winner and a guy who just plays any old console game, but to the majority of normal people, he's the depressingly sad side of gaming. I think you'd be hard pushed to find anyone who thinks 500,000 Gamerscore is as impressive as a chess master. Again, nothing wrong with winners, dedication to improve, but high Gamerscore proves only one thing... you play lots of games, some you like and no doubt many that you'd otherwise have steered clear of were it not for Gamerscore.

  • PlugMonkey #99 2 years ago

    JensonJet
    "Exactly where did I suggest people would play fewer games if their Gamerscore continues to increase? I don't believe this at all. Perhaps you should read through my post again, slowly, and you might understand my comments more clearly. "

    Heh heh. I love it when people on internet forums try to be really condescending, patronising and superior.

    OK, I've read your post #104 again really, really slowly. It says:

    "And I'm convinced dropping everyone to zero and having everyone start again will sell more games"

    So surely you think that not dropping everyone to zero, and instead just letting their gamerscore keep increasing, would sell fewer games? N'est-ce pas?

    Or do I need to read it again even fucking slower?

  • JensonJet #100 2 years ago

    PlugMonkey,

    Ok, let's start again. I think Microsoft will drop everyone's Gamerscore to zero with the next console. Here's why; Gamerscore, for all intents and purposes, is a marketing plan to sell a few more games. There's no reward scheme and no benefit to the gamer. Microsoft know people love ratings and scores, and correctly assumed some people would spend more money on gaming to help increase their Gamerscore. Even more so in that it's easy to come by and is no reflection of skill or ability.

    If they allowed the scores to continue to the next machine they would sell as many games as they do now. But by resetting the score they have the potential for two scenarios. Firstly, the people who chase Gamerscore will find themselves with the same as everyone else, and will inevitably be determined to reach a high GS again and may end up spending more money than they otherwise would. The gamers who bought into the 360 late but also love Gamerscore will have a chance to have a high GS for the next generation.

    Those that aren't bothered by Gamerscore won't care whether it's reset or carried over to the next generation of console. So my opinion is by reducing GS to zero for the next console Microsoft could potentially make more money than by carrying Gamerscore over from the 360.

    I think people who have chased Gamerscore would be angry or upset to know their Gamerscore will be reset, and so refuse to accept that it may happen. The decision will be made based on whether it's more or less profitable for Microsoft. I believe there is potentially more money to be made by resetting it next generation.
    Edited by JensonJet at 18/10/10 @ 14:34

  • PlugMonkey #101 2 years ago

    But the words I'm putting in your mouth came out of your mouth in the first place...

    Saying:
    "I'm convinced dropping everyone to zero and having everyone start again will sell more games"

    is the same as saying:
    "I'm convinced not dropping everyone to zero and not having everyone start again will sell fewer games"

    Isn't it?

  • IronCladChicken #102 2 years ago

    I'm impressed, yet I feel superior - sweet!

  • metalangel #103 2 years ago

    I await the headline "Stallion83 dies of Doritos-related illness. He was 39 (stone)"

  • fisherpot #104 2 years ago

    C'mon your always going to get some odd people out there but we have all seen 'king of kong'! I am split on this guy as it's such a waste of life just to get your 15 minutes of fame but fair play on the other hand for setting a challenge and actually do it! At a guess this guy only has internet friends?

  • PlugMonkey #105 2 years ago

    Nice retro-edit.

    I believe there is potentially more money to be made by resetting it next generation.

    And that is still the same as saying that there is less money to be made by not resetting it, which is what I said you said.

    And I still think that is illogical to determine that people will buy fewer games chasing an increasingly high gamerscore than they will starting their gamerscore from scratch, in the light of a player who has played 680 games and got to half a million. That wouldn't seem to suggest that the lustre fades.