| ItsaMii said: What does gamerscore mean in quantitative terms? I mean how much is too much? What is average, what is poor? Correct if I am wrong, but I remember reading that you could get up to 1000 out of each game. How would my beaten games list (check my sig) translate into gamerscore? |
Depending on the game, just beating a game usually gets you somewhere around 400-500 points. Some games give more for beating the game like Godzilla while others give you almost nothing for the single player.
If a game is really heavy multiplayer, they usually put most of their achievements in multiplayer. Gears split it pretty even but strangely enough Halo 3 made just about all 1000 points available through the campaign.
Everything else is received by doing random things like killing so many creatures with one engery ball in HL2: Episode 1, or collecting so many agility orbs in Crackdown, or completing sidequest.
Your 484 games beaten really depends on the games and how complete you were. Also, if they were a Live type game or a classic game like Pac-Man, Doom, Contra, or Double Dragon, those games only get 200-250 points instead of 1000. Getting all points on most games is actually pretty hard. There are a handful of games that are really easy to get 800+ points, but the rest are either really hard or are going to take A LOT of time.
Achievements sound pretty silly and worthless, and they are, but they truly are one of the most genius things the 360 did. Live is amazing, the balance of price and power is great, but achievements is what makes the console really shine. You can quickly see how you are compared to your friends, you see what games they have, and you can compare points with friends super easy.
