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There’s an alternate dimension. One where everything is determined by your gamerscore. Have a low gamerscore and you can forget about that car, that job, and that brunette at the end of the bar. Have a monster gamerscore and the world is yours.
I know this dimension exists because I’ve found an artifact from it: The Easy 360 Achievement Guide written by someone called Ski. If you’re willing to spend $39.95, this guide will enlarge your gamerscore.
Judging from the ad copy, this guide tells you which games to play – so you won’t waste time playing games with a low rate of return. You’ll save time and money, playing only the games which engorge your gamerscore.
“It was taking me three days to get through Burnout Revenge and by the end I’d only unlocked 4 of its 36 achievements. My gamerscore was creeping up while my friend played all day and widened the gap.”
Yeah, why would you want to slog through good games, when you can fly through crappy ones? Why bother playing any game which doesn’t endow your meaty, throbbing online presence?
Bluraven (Carlton):
I think that gamerscores, while a fun and innovative way to draw players, is also somewhat destructive to gaming. I remember playing games on my NES and SNES simply because they were incredibly FUN! Not because I was trying to get that last achievement or get my gamerscore up to the next 100 or 1000.
Boz:
I still think the main problem with gamerscore, in its current form, is that it is useless as a total. It is only a measure of how much you have played. Looking at the individual game achievements is more relevant, though still impossible to compare from game to game since they are far from equal comparisons in terms of points and effort. I’m not sure there could ever be a system that could do it in a way that makes more sense. Even if point levels were granted by a central authority (which is ridculous anyway) and displayed as a rate per gaming hour (to eliminate the problem with it only being a total), how do you really compare the effort of some task in Resident Evil 5 vs. something else in Madden?
Gaymer Bois:
The difference is the task in resident evil would be fun and the task in madden would be pointless.