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    Limbo

    Game » consists of 19 releases. Released Jul 21, 2010

    A young boy seeks to rescue his lost sister from the dreary, dangerous world of Limbo in this monochrome puzzle-platformer.

    What is the point of the leaderboards?

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    #1  Edited By mrariscottle

    I can't tell what the leaderboards show? As far as I can tell they only show completion percentage, which makes the leaderboards seem pointless to me... 
     
    Any ideas?

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    #2  Edited By Diamond

    MS requires games have leaderboards AFAIK.  I don't know how people get over 100% though...

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    #3  Edited By Sarumarine

    Leaderboards in general seem to be pretty useless (except among friends) because there's always a group of people who manage to hack or cheat in the game to pull off stuff like 21853235 headshots in 0:00 seconds. Or beat the entire game in 0:00 seconds. Or get over 100% and it's not a Donkey Kong Country game.

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    #4  Edited By Tsukiyomi
    @Diamond said:

    " MS requires games have leaderboards AFAIK.  I don't know how people get over 100% though... "

    There are secret eggs in the game that aren't mentioned in the achievements. Each egg you collect adds 1% above the 100% completion stat.
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    #5  Edited By mrariscottle
    It is possible to get over 100% in Limbo. I just think they need to have leaderboards for like time completion of something because comparing completion percentage is a bad comparison as everyone will eventually get the same score.
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    #6  Edited By Kaburorne

    As Fudgeman7 said, it would be great if they had separate leaderboards for different aspects of a run-through. Like time spent and/or number of deaths. They missed out a bit, I feel.

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    #7  Edited By Brackynews

    It's sad that the leaderboards have become so distorted.  MS is very slow to act against the hackers (currently 80+ above 111%).
    Apparently PlayDead has stated they can't fix the leaderboard issue themselves, but shouldn't a dev be responsible for coding in a proper limit?  It's just bad programming to allow +128 and -128 values to exist in a scale from 0-100.  If your scale goes to 111 on purpose, and doesn't break when someone makes it say 125, I think that's a development issue.

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    #8  Edited By Robiin

    Every XBLA game needs to have Leaderboards, Achievements & Help (or how to play or something) accessible from the menus.

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