100 Q*Bert play marathon record attempt ends with a thunder storm caused glitch.

[kain_kusanagi]

superchunk said:

richardhutnik said:

superchunk said:
wow that really sucks. But its a really stupid record to achieve in the first place.

What qualifies as a smart record to go for, when it comes to videogames?  I saw at E3, Borderlands has the record for the most unique guns in a game.  Not sure how that is a smarter record.

I don't think I'd attempt any video game related record. Seems like a waste of time. Hell, I don't even try for all the achievements. Just play the game.

I could not agree more. I don't give a crap about achievements and trophies. However with points based games, like classic Arcade games, I do try to beat my best score. I really enjoyed the movie "King of Kong: A Fist Full of Quarters" and ever since I've been playing the original arcade Donkey Kong just for fun. Just like golf it's very difficult to master and increasing your best score is like shaving swings off your golf game. But that's the point of those games. Achievements on the other hand are just tacted on and don't matter to me. While playing a story based game I don't  want to be interupted by some dumb achievement notification, I just want to enjoy what the game was designed to be.

What I really don't understand are some gamer's obsession with their gamerscore. As far as I'm conscerned the only thing a high gamerscore tells me is you play too many games and should read a book or go oustide more.

As Katniss would say "In our world, I rank music (Achievements/Trophies) somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness."