Way of the Rodent

You're rather dull and pointless.

Touché.

Also, what are these stupid numbers you're using? TA nonsense.

@budgie: Are you really going to argue one unit of GamerScore is more valid or meaningful than another?

Your mum's bland and pointless.

@Damo: It's DR Welshy to you, you cheeky northern scamp.

Cor, I'm loving the banter thread.

No, that's entirely the correct response. Carry on.

Actually, they're for playing a real guitar.

Rather than for losing at vidoegames.

And I spent a day pissing in a bottle for the pride of achievement, not because of some superior TA ratio calculated on a website.

It's the completionist in me.

Next up, Lips - 1586 TA points. For fucking karaoke.

So, what you're essentially saying, is that not all of the TA points are yours. Yet you come waltzing in here proclaiming to be 1 point behind me?

Ban request, tag team gaming.

47 TA points for hitting a cowbell 50 times.

Do you actually play games?

This thread is AMAZING!

I sit head and shoulders above you chumps for quality Achievements. RR6 anyone? I thought not.

Chumps.

A couple of girl's scores, that's all they are

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I sir, am fitness evolved and you know it

And an ugly one at that.

I would just like to pop into this wonderful thread to let everyone know I have just beaten twisted's TA score. That is all.

And I've added another 400 or so TA points on my lead on Scrotey.. just to rub salt in the wound.. =p

I'll be honest Keith, anyone who has Mysims and Hotwheels as 2 of their top 3 scoring games is pretty much invisible to me.

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I'll be honest Keith, anyone who has Mysims and Hotwheels as 2 of their top 3 scoring games is pretty much invisible to me.

They aren't really bad games, not good ones either. I have many titles that are aimed at kids simply because I rent them from LoveFilm for Damien to play, and I view it as wasting money to rent a game and have Damien spend 2-3 hours on it over a week and then return it. So I play them, usually with him, and mop up all the chievos on it for completions sake.

Now that one I'll gladly hold my hands up to.. when LoveFilm sends it.. I love CSI, have it on the wii and loved it, so am actually looking forward to playing both CSI games on the 360.

It baffles me that so many people in the 360 community look down on certain games, such as Lost, CSI, King Kong, and MANY kids games.. I play games for fun, the chievos are just a background interest.
If a game is god awful(Condemned 2) then I'll deal with the scar on my record and never look at it again, but it must be said the most fun I've had on the 360 except for Rodent sessions online have been from kids games such as MySims(repetitive but fun while it lasted), Surf's Up, and several LEGO games.

And I was wondering how Tromain had apparently so many "new" games to be able to play and get gamer smarties from ;)

ma5h said:

I would just like to pop into this wonderful thread to let everyone know I have just beaten twisted's TA score. That is all.

Fuckpig.

I've been running through Gears 1 with my neice three times, we're about to finish it on Insane which'll give her another load of cheevo's but lil fat micky here hasn't seen a cheevo on it for about three years.

Still got a session on Duke coming up that'll cough up some points.

There's also trophies on PS3... There's less urge to batter those because I'm comfy with my score. That was until I accepted Chad's request and saw the chubby fingered fuck had 900 odd trophies.

I used to consider getting value out of a game was beating the average score on MGC, but MGC has gone now, and TA doesn't show any kind of average (although one day I might get round to suggesting it).

I'm not obsessed with achievements - I don't mind leaving them unachieved - but they are kind of a loose guideline for me. I did make a point of checking and grabbing the missable achievements on AC:B the other day.

And the competition is a bit of fun. I had a lengthy battle with a colleague after he set his goals on TA to beat my gamer score and TA score by April this year. He beat my TA but not my gamer score, by the deadline. He's cleared off by a few thousand points, now, but so what? It was just for laughs.

I guess with anything like that, there is an instinct for completion which can take over. I was just thinking about that earlier as I spent money on a shit rare book just because I'm trying to complete a set. And then there was the time I spent £180 on Pocket fucking Reversi to complete my NGPC collection. There can come a point where you realise that the measurement has become more important than the thing being measured. :)

Mr_Kentish said: Then Colin flounced off the top spot

Haha, it was a bit of a flounce.

I hit a similar conclusion to Gogs. I was playing games with the view to getting as many Achievements as I could, which often meant sitting with a laptop out guiding me where to go instead of just playing and enjoying the game. When I stopped doing that, games became fun again - I didn't mind abandoning a game part way through if it stopped being enjoyable, or replaying a poor game to get more Achievements.

So, Achievements ruined gaming for me, in that they've taken over from the game itself. They're a great addition, but the scoring and leaderboards aspect have no place in my eyes; it should just be an achievement. PS Trophies are marginally better in that respect, but the whole levelling up adds a score to something that doesn't need it.