Ah achievement points. We all love em', but there are times when we find ourselves playing games just to boost our scores. I'm a one guilty of such things. The following list contains those games I've subjected myself to just to raise a meaningless score.......which still isn't high enough...
You may notice the list starts off with some admittedly decent games. However, as my addiction grew, my taste swiftly declined.
Now this first game isn't bad at all. In fact, I rather enjoyed my time with it. However, the sole purpose of shelling out the $60 at launch was for the easy points. Just set the difficulty to easy, and haymaker your way to 1000.
Another decent game. Yes, I certainly relived some childhood memories during my playtime. However, the $30 spent was not for nostalgic reasons. I paid $30 for the easy 1000 points.
Here's a game I actually wanted. I played the first Godfather and was actually on the fence about the second. What tipped me over to the side of buy? Why the 1000 points I currently have of course.
Here's a game I didn't actually play the whole way through. It just became boring. However, had I had a few hours more patience I'd have 1000 instead of 600.
Honestly, who didn't play Avatar? Simply press a button for around thirty seconds and you have 1000 shiny new points added to your score. Was it easy? Yes. Was it a waste of time? Yes. Do I regret it? Well...I do have that extra 1000...
Admittedly, Lost is an intriguing television show. I stopped watching after season one. So why pick up a game I probably won't understand or care about? If you're this far down the list, do I really need to spell out the answer for you?
A terrible game based on a mediocre film. But hey, beat it once through on hard difficulty and you'll never have reason to play it again.
This has to be a new low for me. I found it used for $9.99 and even at that cheap, the game I subjected myself to was dull, repetitive, easy, and, thankfully, short. I may have the 1000 points, but this game took a small piece of my soul with it back to the store from which it came. Worst part? I had to play through it twice.
A generic, dull, ugly shooter placed into my Xbox360 for some quick points. In one night, I had beaten it's ridiculously short campaign 3 times (once per difficulty) to end up with all but one of it's single player achievements. The pain didn't last long, but it was there...oh was it there...
