To appreciate the present I will look back to my first milestone, 10k in gamerscore. It was September 2007, and I had just finished the campaign in Halo 3 for a total gamerscore of 10036. It has taken me 1 year and 10 months to reach 20k. In that time span, I have played Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal, Ms. Pac-man, Carcassone, Call of Duty 4, Avatar (yes, I know), Guitar Hero 3, Rainbox Six Vegas, Fight Night Round 3, Guitar Hero 2, Sensible World of Soccer, Bioshock (Game of the year 2007), Hexic, Undertow, Pimp my Ride (shudder), Sonic the Hedgehog, Zuma, Bully, King Kong, GTA IV, Battlefield Bad Company, Dead Space (Game of the Year 2008), Gears of War 2, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Uno, Dash of Destruction, Call of Duty World at War, Mass Effect, Peggle, Guitar Hero Metallica, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, You're in the Movies, Guitar Hero World Tour, and Battlefield 1943. Excluding Avatar for obvious reasons, Call of Duty 4 was my highest gamerscore for a single game with 800 points. The lowest was Zuma, with 20. The most achievements for a single game is actually tied beween Dead Space and Bioshock with 38. The lowest , again, was Zuma with 2. I am roughly averaging 120 gamerscore a week. It should be noted I did not get an Xbox 360 until September of 2006. Other interesting tidbits: I've spent $180 on XBLA games. I have an S rank in 6 retail games and 1 arcade game. Will I make it to 30k before April 2011? I'm going to say it's definitely possible.

To appreciate the present I will look back to my first milestone, 10k in gamerscore. It was September 2007, and I had just finished the campaign in Halo 3 for a total gamerscore of 10036. It has taken me 1 year and 10 months to reach 20k. In that time span, I have played Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal, Ms. Pac-man, Carcassone, Call of Duty 4, Avatar (yes, I know), Guitar Hero 3, Rainbox Six Vegas, Fight Night Round 3, Guitar Hero 2, Sensible World of Soccer, Bioshock (Game of the year 2007), Hexic, Undertow, Pimp my Ride (shudder), Sonic the Hedgehog, Zuma, Bully, King Kong, GTA IV, Battlefield Bad Company, Dead Space (Game of the Year 2008), Gears of War 2, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Uno, Dash of Destruction, Call of Duty World at War, Mass Effect, Peggle, Guitar Hero Metallica, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, You're in the Movies, Guitar Hero World Tour, and Battlefield 1943. Excluding Avatar for obvious reasons, Call of Duty 4 was my highest gamerscore for a single game with 800 points. The lowest was Zuma, with 20. The most achievements for a single game is actually tied beween Dead Space and Bioshock with 38. The lowest , again, was Zuma with 2. I am roughly averaging 120 gamerscore a week. It should be noted I did not get an Xbox 360 until September of 2006. Other interesting tidbits: I've spent $180 on XBLA games. I have an S rank in 6 retail games and 1 arcade game. Will I make it to 30k before April 2011? I'm going to say it's definitely possible.

The 20k mark is pretty significant; I reached it with The Godfather II earlier this year. I have played Avatar too, don't worry. It is an ignominy on my part. It has taken me awhile to advance from 20,000 but two days ago I hit the 22,000 mark. Pretty good, I guess. I will be renting some fun, easy point games like Wolverine and Bionic Commando soon so that should bring it up.

Will I reach the 2k mark...?  Kidrobot...?

Nice

Nice. I just reached the 18k mark today, so I'm not too far behind you. However, since I got Verizon FiOS, I haven't been able to get my Xbox Live to work, so I called them today and they're sending a guy out later to fix the problem for me. Hopefully everything is resolved soon. Without being able to go on XBL, you guys at Giantbomb can't see my increased score. OH NO! WHATEVER WILL YOU DO?!!!

I'm at 11k-ish. I plan on beating your score & surpassing you. bwahahah.

waitaminnit.

I just checked your achievements. It appears you are an achievement whore. Most of your
1000 "S" scores are all the easy ones!!  Subtract that crap & then we can see the real score.
I learned early on that those easy achievements are just a waste of time & money.

I'm almost at the 30k mark!

Ah 20,000 gamerscore. Those were the days.

I remember how disappointed I was when I hit 10,000.  I was hoping a message would pop up and congratulate me, but alas no such luck.  I don't even remember hitting 20,000 but I was stuck at 29,000 for awhile until just recently hitting  30,000 (which now I'm almost at 32,000-go figure)

" @Lind_L_Taylor: If Jeff Gerstmann is ok with it, then, I'm ok with it. "

At this moment I'm at 30,606. It seems to take me about 6 months per 10,000 points. i did get 4,000 in one week though being a complete GS whore. Congrats on 20k. You officially passed the average 360 player to geek that like achievements mark with 20,000. If you pass 100,000 you either have OCD, or like a big e-penis.

Congratulations!  I'm still working towards 10,000 myself.  I've tried to limit myself to games that I can at least tolerate, so no Yaris.  I'm not touching the Kung Fu Panda that came with the Premium I just got.  That's over three years and change of on and off Xbox 360 ownership.

" Congratulations!  I'm still working towards 10,000 myself.  I've tried to limit myself to games that I can at least tolerate, so no Yaris.  I'm not touching the Kung Fu Panda that came with the Premium I just got.  That's over three years and change of on and off Xbox 360 ownership. "

" @Lind_L_Taylor: King Kong says "Hi!" Stop trolling "

You're achievement points are valid...except for these:

Fight Night Round 3
TMNT
NBA Live 06
Madden NFL 06
NBA 2k6
College Hoops 2k6
Avatar

So technically you're really at around ~13,000.  Not 20k.  Any game that gives you something for nothing isn't really an achievement now is it? It didn't require you to do anything but load the game. LOL.  Most of the sports games, Basketball, Football, or Baseball, give them away, from what I understand.  Unfortunately, my Virtua Tennis game didn't & the controls on the latest Tennis games have been pretty awful, but I digress.

I'm sitting at 18,541 attained since November '06. It would/could be higher, but this past year, I've had less time to play games. My buddy and I used to be neck-and-neck as far as Gamerscore. He's played way more games than me this year, though. I think he's around 45,000.

And how about Fight Night Round 3??   You might have enjoyed it, but you aimed at getting easy ones.  I don't see any of the sports games that you played that had hard achievements...so that leaves me suspicious of your motivations.

" ...that leaves me suspicious of your motivations. "

I'm slowly creeping up to 10k It's going to be a gooooood feeling :)

almost at 30k myself.

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

" ...that leaves me suspicious of your motivations. "

Does it really matter? I've NEVER played a game purely for points, but if there are people out there who enjoy this aspect of Achievements then good for them. I certainly don't begrudge people who do this. Well, maybe except for that Jeff guy.EDIT: I forgot to say congrats to jhosaphat! "

" almost at 30k myself. "

I can't honestly remember what 20k was but my 10k was(sadly) Medal of Honor Airborne.  Nor can I remember what my 30k was.  Eh....

" @TheMustacheHero said:

" almost at 30k myself. "

Doesn't show in your achievements section.  And hey: pat yourself on the back! "

" They're just wasting time, money, & resources to have a crappy game pop out 1000 points of meaninglessness.  Achievements should be tough to get, otherwise it's not really an achievement, by the very definition of the word. "

Im almost at 20K. Ive got Star Wars: The Force Unleashed coming in the mail tomorrow which should get me the rest. I got it on sail for $30. Hopefully I don't get to distracted buy Persona 4 which I got for $15 it is in the same package. Dam you Endurance run you made me buy it.

@Lind_L_Taylor:
if easy achievements are such a big deal to you, then why don't you go out and make a game yourself with ridiculously hard achievements in it just to satisfy yourself. the things that other people do in their time should be of no concern to you, especially if its something as insignificant as a gamerscore.
anyways congrats on reaching 10k. im about 60 points away from 20k but i can't stop playing bf1943 and gears 2 long enough to go and get the 60 points...

" @Lind_L_Taylor:if easy achievements are such a big deal to you, then why don't you go out and make a game yourself with ridiculously hard achievements in it just to satisfy yourself. the things that other people do in their time should be of no concern to you, especially if its something as insignificant as a gamerscore. anyways congrats on reaching 10k. im about 60 points away from 20k but i can't stop playing bf1943 and gears 2 long enough to go and get the 60 points... "

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

" @TheMustacheHero said:

" almost at 30k myself. "

Doesn't show in your achievements section.  And hey: pat yourself on the back! "

Yeah, my Gamertag is shared with my brother, unfortunately he registered our gamertag on his account. "

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

" They're just wasting time, money, & resources to have a crappy game pop out 1000 points of meaninglessness.  Achievements should be tough to get, otherwise it's not really an achievement, by the very definition of the word. "

No, I meant what does it really matter to you? They're not wasting your time, money and resources, after all. Who cares if that's how someone else got their score? You play it the way you wanna, and they can do likewise. "

Grats.

@Lind_L_Taylor said:

"@TheMustacheHero said:

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

" @TheMustacheHero said:

" almost at 30k myself. "

Doesn't show in your achievements section.  And hey: pat yourself on the back! "

Yeah, my Gamertag is shared with my brother, unfortunately he registered our gamertag on his account. "

Darnsies.

@buzz_clik said:

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

" They're just wasting time, money, & resources to have a crappy game pop out 1000 points of meaninglessness.  Achievements should be tough to get, otherwise it's not really an achievement, by the very definition of the word. "

No, I meant what does it really matter to you? They're not wasting your time, money and resources, after all. Who cares if that's how someone else got their score? You play it the way you wanna, and they can do likewise. "

It matters to me because it's not something to brag about. There is enough malignant narcissism on the interwebs already."

" @Lind_L_Taylor:if easy achievements are such a big deal to you, then why don't you go out and make a game yourself with ridiculously hard achievements in it just to satisfy yourself. "

"

@Lind_L_Taylor said:

"@TheMustacheHero said:

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

" @TheMustacheHero said:

" almost at 30k myself. "

Doesn't show in your achievements section.  And hey: pat yourself on the back! "

Yeah, my Gamertag is shared with my brother, unfortunately he registered our gamertag on his account. "

Darnsies.

@buzz_clik said:

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

" They're just wasting time, money, & resources to have a crappy game pop out 1000 points of meaninglessness.  Achievements should be tough to get, otherwise it's not really an achievement, by the very definition of the word. "

No, I meant what does it really matter to you? They're not wasting your time, money and resources, after all. Who cares if that's how someone else got their score? You play it the way you wanna, and they can do likewise. "

It matters to me because it's not something to brag about. There is enough malignant narcissism on the interwebs already."

 

Pretty sure I'm not bragging here. 20k in gamerscore is pretty common for people who read sites like Giant Bomb. I'm just saying I've got here, look what I've played. That's it. Let's not make mountains out of mole hills. "

15,720 gamerpoints, and none of them through playing Avatar or King Kong. I plan to being at 25k by the end of the year.

Ever since giant bomb introduced this achievment tracking ive turned into such a whore (of achievments).Ive mainly been going through games getting easy achievments that i missed and replaying COD4 and COD:WAW on veteran difficulty

Congratulations.

" 15,720 gamerpoints, and none of them through playing Avatar or King Kong. I plan to being at 25k by the end of the year. "

I have all 30k+ of my points WITHOUT Avatar thank you all very much. Also no King Kong. I do have a few easy sports games but I genuinely enjoyed those games and I felt like I had to get all their points because they were cake.

Good job on your milestone though and keep on truckin.