Impossibly high Gamerscore: 4,916,919

by Christopher Grant { Feb 1st 2006 at 5:06PM }

In my review for King Kong on the Xbox 360, I mentioned that it had earned a reputation for being "especially loose with its gamerscore points." I would like to amend that statement in light of recent developments. The bar has been so significantly shifted, that unless the game dishes out gamerscore points in multiples of 5000, it's chaste relative to one gamer's licentious copy of Condemned: Criminal Origins!

Here's how you too can earn gamerscore points well into the millions: instead of playing several thousand games through, earning all 1000 gamerscore points contained therein, just bend the laws of mathematics to your singular, corrupted will, by earning a total 2550 of 50 achievements, and a total of 4915477 of 970 gamerscore points!

Dondums' Penny Arcade avatar mocks us, his sterling 5 star reputation shames us, and his motto, "I like hugs," makes us feel empty inside. We don't need a hug, we need a strong drink.

[Thanks, Tuan & everyone else that sent this in]

Read on for some other pictures from Dondums' page on Xbox.com, captured here for posterity before the powers that be at Microsoft mend the error, or the world collapses onto itself.

Tags: Gamerscore, XBL, Xbox Live, XboxLive

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

keybladeboy777 @ Feb 1st 2006 5:16PM

Claimed! XD! anyhoo... How did he do this? This is wrong! I mean 2550 / 50 achievements!?! C'mon! *splits over to other personality* hmmm... How would I do that?

Granger Gamer @ Feb 1st 2006 5:17PM

Dang! I'm pretty jealous, I wonder if they'll change his gamerscore?

untitled @ Feb 1st 2006 5:45PM

Recreation my ass...

Hushed Casket @ Feb 1st 2006 5:52PM

You can also get more than 1000 points in CoD2.

Rence @ Feb 1st 2006 6:11PM

obviously a glitch, there's only 970 condemned points anyways.

Iced_Eagle @ Feb 1st 2006 6:12PM

M$ took down his page :- bummer.

Domingo @ Feb 1st 2006 6:13PM

The thing I noticed about Condemned is the whole idea of getting a reward and resetting the machine *might* be expoitable. I couldn't tell for sure, but I think I was rewarded for the same thing twice because I reset the machine as it was happening. I know for a fact that going back to unlock things once you complete the game is really easy. If he was able to do that AND get points for more than one thing...that would add up quickly.
Either that or it was just a glitch on MS's side :)

scott berfield @ Feb 1st 2006 6:33PM

Has to be a bug either in the game or on Live or both. Games can only give out a maximum of 1000 points.

Stuka @ Feb 1st 2006 6:35PM

My guess is he used a paradoxal question attack. The 360s lack of paradox-absorbing crumble zones is well documented. As a result, it awaraded him 4M+ gamerpoints.

Jeb @ Feb 1st 2006 6:47PM

I'm with you #2.... this guy takes it far beyond recreation.

Getting the same achievement(s) that many times over? What sane person wouldn't stop way before 4M+ points?

spike117 @ Feb 1st 2006 7:14PM

This is obviously the work of Chuck Norris.

swoosh bnd @ Feb 1st 2006 7:50PM

Maybe we have the first modded Xbox 360?

Tim @ Feb 1st 2006 8:23PM

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No absolutely not.

Recoil @ Feb 1st 2006 8:40PM

Nah, it's not cheating. I know Dondums, he hangs out on the Penny-Arcade forums (hence the Mr. Period avatar) -- ths is simply a glitch, and he has no idea how it happened.

He's also getting flooded with people sending him friend invites or voice-message-harrasments, so please, don't do that.

Spartacus @ Feb 1st 2006 8:45PM

spike117- Lol, I totally agree. For everyeone who missed the joke, don't hesistate to check this link out:

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

One of the funniest sites ever...

Spartacus @ Feb 1st 2006 8:47PM

Grrrr...

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

pepsifreak @ Feb 1st 2006 10:20PM

Hey you can still check out his gamercard at

http://gamercard.xbox.com/dondums.card

Its still in the millions

pepsifreak @ Feb 1st 2006 10:22PM

http://gamercard.xbox.com/dondums.card

Brian @ Feb 1st 2006 10:38PM

I think I'm more impressed with the other column... 12/12 achievements on Geometry Wars.. go you!

Sabo @ Feb 1st 2006 11:28PM

You can also check out how far away his score is from the real top spot on the mygamercard leaderboards
http://www.mygamercard.net/leaderboard.php

chuck @ Feb 2nd 2006 9:20AM

That Chuck Norris site is very funny. I was TRYING to hold my laugh in because I'm at work.

balki @ Feb 2nd 2006 12:33PM

Spartacus,
Visit the real Chuck Norris fact site here, http://4q.cc The link you give is a total ripoff, don't support that site. I know the link I give doesn't look so "official", but you'll get all the funny ones that the other site hasn't had a chance to rip off yet.