JazzyJeez said:
PoundHound said:
Onibaka - If you merely look at someone's score it can be misleading. People often comment on my score, but I always tell them there are people with half my score who who have a better gamerscore than me, because if you actually take some time to look at their profile you can see they have accomplished more things and are clearly better gamers.
Gamerscore covers both bases for me. It may seem superficial,but it shows the volume of games you play and, given the proper scrutiny, your gaming prowess.
I have a PS3, but I rarely play it. I haven't switched it on since GoW3 and don't intend on doing so again until UC3. Clearly my preference is with the 360, however, (I hope) I'm old enough (41) and mature enough to be over the whole fanboy thing when I say I'd take Gamerscore over Trophies every day of the week.
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The exact same reasoning can be applied to trophies, personally I see very little difference between the two and peoples preference is clearly driven by which console they game on the most, which your final paragraph gives a clear indication.
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Actually, I prefer trophies over achievements even though I game on my Xbox 360 almost exclusively. The primary difference between the two is that trophies at least give some recognition for completionists like myself who like to actually finish most of the games that I play. For gamerscore, there is no difference between me getting 1000/1000 in two worlds (should be given a medal for playing that stupid game so long) and someone else just casually playing 10 different games for a half hour or so getting around 200 points each.
I only have about 8 platinums on my psn account when I made a switch over to that for a brief few months, but I noticed that I really had a greater sense of accomplishment when I finally got a platinum that I did not and still do not get when I 1000/1000 a game.
Hopefully, they will change this for achievements eventually. I can't tell you how many impressive gamerscores I have seen which turned out to just be some guy that played a whole bunch of games and never completed any of them.
