How do people have such large achievement scores?

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Hi, not sure how much you have to play or cheat (is this even possible) to have a score of over 400.000.
With my puny 5000 i feel like sooooooo sad now.

I don't think i ever ever will get a score like that. Not ever.:bomb:
 
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Other than playing A LOT, they also pick easy games to help boost their scores. Such as Avatar: TLA and movie / tv show game adaptions.
 
I got a random friend request from a guy who had a hacked gamerscore that was only like 20,000 but he had 100% for all his games even all 4000000000 halo 3 achievements... Also checked out his clan mates and they too had 100% for all their games weird huh? =P
 
* Play lots of (360) games
* Play easy children games (I was guilty of this early on, but I decided it wasnt worth my time)
* Dedicate lots of time to your 360 and neglect everything else (this is the important bit)

Gamerscore and Achivements arent for everybody, and I'm rather jealous of those who dont care for them. There are a lot of games I'd like to get to but I'm too focused on finishing X game on 360.
 
[quote name='Unlode']I got a random friend request from a guy who had a hacked gamerscore that was only like 20,000 but he had 100% for all his games even all 4000000000 halo 3 achievements... Also checked out his clan mates and they too had 100% for all their games weird huh? =P[/QUOTE]

People get together in multiplayer to "boost", i.e. work together to get each other the achievements, like they will take turns and all stand together and let one guy blast them with a rocket launcher so he can get the Overkill achievement, etc.

I got invited to do that kind of thing once and it just felt dull and like it was a chore. I like getting achievements, but it kind of defeats the point when you're not actually achieving anything.
 
[quote name='dinovelvet']People get together in multiplayer to "boost", i.e. work together to get each other the achievements, like they will take turns and all stand together and let one guy blast them with a rocket launcher so he can get the Overkill achievement, etc.

I got invited to do that kind of thing once and it just felt dull and like it was a chore. I like getting achievements, but it kind of defeats the point when you're not actually achieving anything.[/QUOTE]

The only times I've ever done anything like this was when it was the only achievement keeping me from 100% and the online is deader than dead.

Case in point was Doom... had every achievement but 50 and 100 kills, and the online had zero people playing. Found someone on xbox360a, we traded kills for about 15 minutes and went on our way.

If the online is active, I won't boost and have no problem doing it legit (I did for Doom 2), and if it's too much of a chore I won't boost either. Doing stuff like the Gears 2 glitch to get to level 100 is not worth it to me.

I don't play any children's games or any of that nonsense either... but when I get a game, I make sure to really play it inside and out since I like to get my money's worth. Achievements for me are like the optional quests in RPG's - there to do if you want, but for those who don't care just skip them. I enjoy when developers add extra challenges to their games and make me play and replay certain parts differently, like the Alan Wake achievements, or the Red Dead Redemption ones.
 
[quote name='dinovelvet']People get together in multiplayer to "boost", i.e. work together to get each other the achievements, like they will take turns and all stand together and let one guy blast them with a rocket launcher so he can get the Overkill achievement, etc.

I got invited to do that kind of thing once and it just felt dull and like it was a chore. I like getting achievements, but it kind of defeats the point when you're not actually achieving anything.[/QUOTE]

That is the whole reason developers need to stop putting multiplayer achievements in games. If your multiplayer modes are good enough, you will not need achievements for it.

I don't consider mine high at all but all I do is play games I think I will enjoy. Prior to playing the games, I look at the achievement list so I can maximize my first game through so I don't miss easy achievements. I normally only play a game through once (unless I really enjoy it). By doing this, you should get around 700+ points/game (if you look spend time for the collectables).
 
Mine was from working at GameStop. Since we were able to check out games, I didn't even have to try to build it up.
 
[quote name='yester']Hi, not sure how much you have to play or cheat (is this even possible) to have a score of over 400.000.
With my puny 5000 i feel like sooooooo sad now.

I don't think i ever ever will get a score like that. Not ever.:bomb:[/QUOTE]

By using extenZe. And for the price of a postage stamp, you too can increase the size of your gamerscore.
 
[quote name='Thorgouge']By using extenZe. And for the price of a postage stamp, you too can increase the size of your gamerscore.[/QUOTE]

I remember when I had a measly 4 inc- i mean 4 thousand gamerscore but now, with extenZe my gamerscore is a gargantuan 80,000. I get a lot of compliments from my partners.
 
You can adopt a couple kids and put them to work around the clock. You could go three kids in eight hour shifts or a more cost effective route would be two kids twelve hour shifts. Hell you could make their food rations based on how much gamerscore they added per shift. Make sure you get one Japanese reading child so they can play imports.
 
I've just played A LOT of games. I really only go for the achievements if they're fun. If they're too difficult to obtain I generally don't bother and move onto something else. I've got too many games backlogged to be spending a ton of time on one thing. Though I do get addicted occasionally. Lost Odyssey is a good example; ended up getting some of the more difficult achievements because of it. However, something like the "brass balls" achievement in Bioshock... I tried it, not worth the effort.

As far as "boosting" goes, I have only boosted with one game, TMNT. Though I did play it because I actually wanted to, not to get the gamerscore. It just so happened they were an easy get.
 
They have the high scores since they put in the time and effort. I'm just too lazy to finish anything in life, much less a game...lol
 
[quote name='yester']Hi, not sure how much you have to play or cheat (is this even possible) to have a score of over 400.000.
With my puny 5000 i feel like sooooooo sad now.

I don't think i ever ever will get a score like that. Not ever.:bomb:[/QUOTE]
You have a life outside of gaming. What's sad about that?

I do track achievements (usually), but I couldn't care less about my gamerscore.
 
[quote name='gigan22']i've just played a lot of games. I really only go for the achievements if they're fun. If they're too difficult to obtain i generally don't bother and move onto something else. I've got too many games backlogged to be spending a ton of time on one thing. Though i do get addicted occasionally. Lost odyssey is a good example; ended up getting some of the more difficult achievements because of it. However, something like the "brass balls" achievement in bioshock... I tried it, not worth the effort.

As far as "boosting" goes, i have only boosted with one game, tmnt. Though i did play it because i actually wanted to, not to get the gamerscore. It just so happened they were an easy get.[/quote]

+1
 
I've owned an Xbox 360 since launch and have played probably 40 hours a week since then. That's a total of ~10,000 hours. Probably 40% of that time was multiplayer that didn't help with any achievements, so that would leave ~6,000 hours to get a 120K gamer score.
 
I don't even care about Gamerscore. If it's a game I'm interested in, I'll go for achievements, otherwise I just play the game and beat it and I'm done.
 
[quote name='TC']You can adopt a couple kids and put them to work around the clock. You could go three kids in eight hour shifts or a more cost effective route would be two kids twelve hour shifts. Hell you could make their food rations based on how much gamerscore they added per shift. Make sure you get one Japanese reading child so they can play imports.[/QUOTE]

This sounds silly but honestly I swear some people have roommates/friends/kids/spouses who help them play their games ;)

Last night I popped in Beautiful Katamari and realized I'd probably have to do 3/4 of the levels another 3-4 times each before I even get close to collecting everything in the game. I've already got all the cousins and presents. Anyway, I was thinking how it'd be nice if I had somebody around to play the game for me :p
 
[quote name='2DMention']I don't even care about Gamerscore. If it's a game I'm interested in, I'll go for achievements, otherwise I just play the game and beat it and I'm done.[/QUOTE]

This is exactly my thought -- I have done some achievement whoring in the past, but it's not really fun. I sank to rock bottom when I borrowed a friend's copy of The Last Airbender for the 1000 and then got the 10 points in Dragon Age for 'romancing' Zevhran, and decided not to do it anymore.
 
[quote name='2DMention']I don't even care about Gamerscore. If it's a game I'm interested in, I'll go for achievements, otherwise I just play the game and beat it and I'm done.[/QUOTE]

That's me. The only time I'll go for them is if it's a game I'm loving and the achievements are fun to get. Best examples would be Oblivion and Fallout 3 where most of the achievements are tied to completing sidequests.

That's a great use of achievements as it extends the game without grinding or doing random crap, and gives some incentive to do sidequests in games rather than moving on to the next game after beating the main quest.

Otherwise I'll just look at the achievement list and maybe clean up a few easy to get achievements before trading the game on Goozex and moving on to the next one.
 
I tried to get for some game the most achievements.
But then there are some i don't even try like the one in Dead Space where you need to shoot asteroids and keep above 50% health.
Normally i have at some games maybe half of the achievements. I only own about 15 games. So i don't play a lot myself.
But i am impressed by the scores never the less. I just can do that... to much time. :roll:
 
lol omg my friend had 32k

now a month later has over 139k and has literally "everything" on his list perfected. now i know why he logged in like 30 times a couple days ago

this is why those 400k people have their Games Played as hidden, their list is probably full of wrongly perfected games
 
because some people find crappy budget games just to get easy points. i think its mostly people with gamefly accounts and sit through utter crap to get there 1000 points. i'll admit with games i enjoy i'll try to get some achievements so i have more things to do, but i have never played a game just for the points.
 
also some people pick up import system so they can play Europe or Japanese version to stack achievement.
 
I've never gone the budget game route, all of my modest gamerscore was accumulated just playing games I would have anyway. Like some people said, when I really love a game I might be motivated to go the extra mile for the full score (like with Dragon Age or the Assassin's Creed games) but mostly I just get the ones I can get during the course of a normal playthrough.
 
[quote name='timesplitt']lol omg my friend had 32k

now a month later has over 139k and has literally "everything" on his list perfected. now i know why he logged in like 30 times a couple days ago

this is why those 400k people have their Games Played as hidden, their list is probably full of wrongly perfected games[/QUOTE]

He hex-edited his profile. Hope he enjoys his ban.
 
I knew someone who had 1000 GS in the same game multiple times, because they would get region free games :p But I do think it's against the rules somewhere.. so it's risky
 
gamerscore is stupid, I wasted a couple of months getting mine to over 40K and now I regret even doing it !! because what is the point ? well the point is " THERE ISNT ONE !! " .
 
[quote name='iKilledChewbacca']gamerscore is stupid, I wasted a couple of months getting mine to over 40K and now I regret even doing it !! because what is the point ? well the point is " THERE ISNT ONE !! " .[/QUOTE]
true dat. but besides eating/drinking and breathing NOTHING has a point
 
[quote name='iKilledChewbacca']gamerscore is stupid, I wasted a couple of months getting mine to over 40K and now I regret even doing it !! because what is the point ? well the point is " THERE ISNT ONE !! " .[/QUOTE]

Ok

I knew someone who had 1000 GS in the same game multiple times, because they would get region free games :p But I do think it's against the rules somewhere.. so it's risky
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This isn't against the rules
 
[quote name='nnthomas']He hex-edited his profile. Hope he enjoys his ban.[/QUOTE]

He wont get banned. Trust me, I know from experience that the risk of a properly modded gamer profiles GS is pretty rare. Of course, this is only accounts I modded for friends; I'd never touch my legit 71k Gamertag, risks of ban or not. Over 3 years, over 6 gamertags modded, no bans.

And for the OP, the simple answer to people with 400,000 GS is that they used a program to mod their game collection and GS. It literally takes a minute. Those people eventually get banned, because someone is bound to whine to the xbox police about it. However, if they are a little more MODEST, and give themselves like, 1,000GS a day, for like a year, they won't likely get banned.

Then there's the kids, who in my opinion are WORSE than "hex editors" and cheaters that use programs; achievement wh0re boosters. Not the boosters that get together on Battlefield to nail some hard achievements with friends, no, I'm talking about the scum of the earth; the guys who play nothing but Disney and kid games. Hannah Montana, etc. I have a friend like this. He use to play good games with us, like MW and Gears...now, his existence is spent boosting easy games. He buys some for cheap, gameflys others. Every one has stopped playing games with him, and respecting him in general.

It's okay to be somewhat obsessed with getting 1k on every game you play. But when you play TERRIBLE games that there's no way you can actually ENJOY, just for achievements...then you need to find another hobby.

The irony is that these people do it for a bigger "xbl peenis", but absolutely no one but themselves is thinking "wow! good job!" or anything positive. There's just no respect, not even amongst most achievement whorez. So in the end, it's like they're suffering these bad games for nothing, because no one respects their e-peen. It's like, yeah, his XBL peen looks big from far away, but if you get closer, you'll notice that it's just a 3 inch peen with a 5 inch silicone extender attached to the end. it looks big, but it gets absolutely no respect; it's fake, and wasn't earned in a respectable, hard way.

Get the I Am Bad Company achievement. That cancels out 50 Disney baby games right there in terms of awesome GS.

And yes, I too am guilty of playing Avatar. But who wouldnt be? It takes 30 seconds, there's no suffering involved. And, a burned dvd costs about $1. All my lady friends borrow it too, they think guys will make fun of them if they have a low GS. Ahh, such silliness.

Conclusion: I actually respect the people that cheat for their GS with a program that takes 30 seconds. It shows me they at least don't enjoy wasting their life with mediocre games. Most games take on average 20 hours to get a full 1k. It's really no shock that people have a high GS; 20 hours is a weeks worth of gaming in most peoples free time after work. That's not too long, and add to the fact that not everyone buys a new game weekly, you'll understand how they have time to 1k so many games until they purchase a new one. 50k a year sounds about normal for most.
 
There's something about having a Gamerscore, a running point total of all your achievements, that really hooks me. It's the reason that I love getting achievements, but couldn't care less about trophies on my PS3. And I know my Gamerscore is not impressing anyone else out there; that's not the point for me. It just gives me some sort of yardstick to chart my own progress within an individual game, or overall. When I look at the list of my games on XBL, I like seeing the ones with 700+ (I almost never get 1000/1000, in fact I've only done that once), whereas if I ended up with less than 500 on a game, it's a bit of a letdown.

I have no interest personally in building up my GS with stuff like Avatar, but I don't begrudge the people who do. What do I care? If I see someone has a six-figure Gamerscore, I just assume they have a lot more time to play games than I do, are much better at it than I am (which I'm fine with), or whatever. And at that point, the Gamerscore could be 120,000 or 400,000, it's all the same to me.
 
Its more or less a competition between me and my friends. Some of them aren't even aware of the competition. If I see one about to pass mine, or is past mine, I jack it up on the games I play hoping to get more. Same things with trophies on the PS3.

Haven't gotten a 100% on a lot of games, but it's a good feeling when you do.
 
i played a LOT of crappy games to get my gamerscore. I have since quit playing junk. I still like getting cheevos on games that I enjoy.
 
[quote name='BackInBlack']Why paint the name off the top of the list when it is repeated down the whole image?[/QUOTE]
lol didn't know it was there.
 
For people who hex-edit their accounts or whatever, I have very little respect. They only took a few minutes to change a few numbers around, but that sole action shows that they actually care about their Gamerscore, but aren't willing to actually accomplish things in their favorite games to boost it. What's the point? You didn't do any of the things on your list. It's like setting up a fake identity of an attractive person on myspace to boost your self esteem. It's sad.

Quality over quantity for me. My achievements for beating Master Ninja in Ninja Gaiden II or completing the Street Fighter IV trials are far more valuable to me than completing Call of Duty 2 on Veteran, even though the CoD2 one is worth far more points. I do like getting lots of achievements, and if there's a game I like, I'll definitely go for completion. If it's an easy game I had a mild interest in that's not awful, I might go for completion there too. However, I won't play Avatar or Terminator Salvation or whatever else just to get easy achievements (not that there's anything wrong with playing those games. I just personally have no interest in them).
 
I am somewhat (ok alot more than somewhat) of an achievement whore, why I am not entirely sure, alot of times it does become quite the chore for me to get certain achievements. As such it makes me very picky about what games I play and which I do not, as I do not want to pick up achievements for a game and end up not liking the game then sit there with a 1/50 on my gamer profile.

Yes it can be rather excessive, it is kind of an obsessive compulsive tendency. But something I wanted to point out, is that do not be so ready to label a person or people a "hacker" or "cheater" due to what achievements they have.

I have only 15k or so gamer points, yet I often get accused of hacking alot of my games because I have most of my games fully completed. These are not easy games to get 100% completion either, I am talking games like Mass Effect 1 & 2, Fable II, Fallout 3, Bioshock, etc, etc.

I have 100% on all of those games, due to many pathetic hours invested in getting 100% of those games. Call me pathetic, or whatever you like, fine, I can live with that. But a hacker? Hardly. Just keep in mind there are probably quite a few others, just like me.
 
I just play a lot of games. There are probably people with 5,000 gamerscore that play games on their 360 twice as much as I do. Problem is, they spend 100 hours a week playing Modern Warfare multiplayer, which gives you zero gamerscore.

I do play multiplayer, but I just don't play the same game for months. I got to level 35 or so on MW2 and haven't played the game since.
 
I used to love to just get achievements and play a variety of great and shitty games. Now since I have moved and bought my own place I have different priorities and just find time to play games I want to play.

I still love achievements and try to get them but I used to have a lot more time on my hand to play then I do now.
Plus I have had my 360 since launch.

BTW Alan Wake is great!
 
I think its sad to see a "5" in the corner of my Xbox account, and such a low gamerscore. It's a bit of a misnomer, I didn't have a 360 for 2+ years and my account went to silver. :)

However it seems a lot of the older titles had much easier to obtain / higher reward achievements vs newer games. (eg Madden 06, NBA Live 06, etc. vs what they have in newer versions) I'm sure I could get a bunch of those games for like 10 bucks and boost it, but that would be just kind of sad at this point...
 
[quote name='Thorgouge']By using extenZe. And for the price of a postage stamp, you too can increase the size of your gamerscore.[/QUOTE]

[quote name='Irukandji']I remember when I had a measly 4 inc- i mean 4 thousand gamerscore but now, with extenZe my gamerscore is a gargantuan 80,000. I get a lot of compliments from my partners.[/QUOTE]

I thought I'd quote these to make sure everyone saw them. :lol:
 
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