K4rn4ge to attempt 1 billion-point Geometry Wars high score

My high score is 450,000 something; I'm impressed by those who can break one millon but spending 90 hours shooting squares looks like a waste of time. He already has the high score, what else does he want?

Yea, guinness record worthy, definatly.

1 billion would be ridiculous. MS should give him a trophy lol. Assuming he makes it.

he deserves to be raped by lions in a plain.

Wow... that's a lot of time and effort. I'd rather spend time with my girlfriend.

"K4rn4ge has revealed plans..."

they were a secret.

Good thing he isnt going to be going for the old british billion (now know as a trillion)

But seriously i dont know if this is something i should be seriously impressed by or if i feel sorry for the guy. (kinda leaning towards the latter)

More like "No life." I'd probably rather kill myself than spend 90 hours on it just for a record. Play games to have fun, you loser.

Yup, it's No Life worthy =P

I am teh suck at that game.

is that his excuse for not having friends?

I've never broken three million. This guy is the cat's pajamas.

DAMN! My highest is only 2.8 million.

That's crazy, if he does it I should hope that would be enough to make him the Geometry Wars King for all time.

It's one thing to be number one, it's another to make a giant gap between number 2 and number 1.

If he succeeds I don't think anyone will ever go for the high score again.

Just when I thought the extent to which a person could be lame, something like this happens.

What would be funny is if someone broke a billion first. :)

Damn, I can't get past 280,000 ,,, the shit just gets waay to crazy for me. This guy is nuts!!!

I missed the newsworthy information in this post, where was it?

Unfortunately... Even if he breaks one billion, he'll still be leaps and bounds behind his current standing record of going a consecutive 137 billion straight seconds without ever seeing a girl naked...

HIYOOOOO... try the lamb, tip your waitress... i'll be here all... well, for another 10 minutes actually.

If anyone was to do it, I would like to see K4rn4ge or YourExWife do it. They devote so much time into the community of Xbox and for the game. I've known them both on XBL for a while and there both great! Check out one of the sites they run @ http://www.XBLaddict.com

I like all the "waste of time" posters. Oh the irony.

Wow, it's a blog, not a news outlet.

Anyway, I gave up at 300,000, but my wife has hit 3.7 million. I'm in awe whenever she plays...

#16 - Unfortunately, i cannot play Geo Wars at work, or i would.

I can, however, go the whole "paid to post" route.

so being that most people dont even get to see the highest difficulty it is a big achievement. I remember when the sexbox had just come out and 7 mil was a crazy high score. I think i remember seeing an article in rolling stones anout it . Then the benchmarks of 10, 20 , 50 , 100 , now 300 mil came around. Id like to see the people talking like "he doesnt have a life or girlfrriend crap" get a high score. Apparently they have time to bash people on the internet. Now , those are the cool kids!

Fun Fact:
137 billion seconds = 4341 years

@14 (Soulo Okalani)

137 billion seconds? Are you suggesting this man is 4,344 years old? Even so, I bet he saw his mother naked very early on, so I'd take off just a few billions.

Id lol if at the 999 milion mark, after gaming for 89 hours straight, the power went out. This how serial killers are born people.

Rubang=pwnt

Yes, its impressive. No, he hasn't seen a girl naked.
My highscore is 4.3 Million. I can't even imagine getting over 100 million let alone a billion.

Yea, I've talked to this K4RN4GE dude online and he actually has an ego over this and was a real dick. So good for him, maybe he can get a room with StripClubDJ and they can makeout with each because it's probably all the play these 2 super nerds are going to get. /moving along

Thanks Tim. This is my first time getting pwnt on Joystiq. It really means a lot to me. And I'm at work, so I just got paid to get pwnt. My boss=pwnt!

@4 ...wait, what's a girlfriend? I assume that it has something to do with "friend"s (girl_friend_), so what's a girl?

You know, sadly, the guy would have to go through a lot to make sure that Guinness takes the record. Todd Rogers once played for 85 hours straight on one game of Journey Escape for Atari 2600, but he didn't get the drug test necessary (and he claims he was clean with it). Google "Todd Rogers Journey Escape", because he did a lot of interviews for it.

Hahahah Rubang I'm just kidding around. Great minds think alike and all that jazz.

"Wow... that's a lot of time and effort. I'd rather spend time with my girlfriend."

How long does it take you to inflate her?

Oh snap.
Johnny Falcon is my new hero.

Well, I don't have a girlfriend, AND I suck at Geometry Wars. So I feel -really- bad :(

@27: I find that highly unlikely considering he's a very cool guy. You're just probably one of the dozens of friend requests and messages that each of us gets everyday that we just ignore. So many that you can't love 'em all.

To everyone that says that we have no lives/girlfriends, etc., you guys are just sad. Jealousy is an ugly monster. Eveyone in the top ten leads a normal life outside of Xbox Live. Many of us are full time college students. Others, like Another Joe, have wives and kids. This is just a like a side project or a hobby for us. We don't play these games non-stop either. We spread them out over many days when we get free time. You guys just need to get over yourselves.

i'd laugh if is his 360 froze when he gets close to a billion

No.

Maybe if he played a video game for the most consecutive hours ever, that would be GWR worthy, but just getting the highest score ever on one specific game doesn't seem like enough of an achievement to warrant inclusion in the GWR book unless you're suggesting that they start including high-score winners in every single video game ever.

Ignorant posts like these from immature people who have no idea who the person is behind the gamertag.

I am currently in college grad school- already graduated from C.W Post Long Island University with a B.S (no not bull$hit for the morons here), working full time, had girlfriends (not currently but did last week and NO we did not break up because of my geometry wars high score session, jeez).

Also, I want to point out that I never spoke or played with that dude razer who said supposedly I have an ego problem. Ask anyone in the geometry wars forums (where I post often) and you will see that is untrue. Sure I enjoy being # 1 but I have never said that I am the best. In fact, I know for a fact that other people like YourExWife and EckoWll are in the same skill range as me and they could take the number one spot away from me sometime.

Again, the people who think out of their a$$es will say "oh you have no life because you played 30 hours to get that score". Well, I played 30 hours but over 4 days. Sure it was still alot of geometry wars but I did it when I was off from work- plus after that I gave me and my xbox a long needed rest where I only played other games for an hour or so the next couple of days. I used up that time for geo wars to get a high score and now I probably won't play it again for weeks, until winter break when I will have enough time to try for a billion. Anyway, I'm rambling now but some people are just haters.

I get loads of messages and have a full friends list due to geometry wars but I will try to reply or private chat to everyone if you want to have a serious discussion about this. To the people that think I'm cool, thanks. To the people who think I'm a loser, go **** yourselves because you don't know how good my life is outside of video games, and I could care less what you think about me.

Might I add that this article is completely wrong? He never revealed any plans to do anything of the sort. He revealed that he wants to one day break 500 mil, but that's it.

@ YourExWife,
"like Another Joe, have wives and kids."
So are you telling me that Another Joe is a morman, or are u just teh sux at typing?

Ok, here's the deal. No doubt 300 000 is impressive, (maybe not as much as the 400 000+ fella before me) but let's be objective - not critical, since I support any time consuming endeavor- just how much harder does the game get after, say... 200 0000? If you can break that, wouldn't it be simply a matter of endurance to reach 300k and 400k and so on? Or, does the game have some kind of 'Infinity Difficulty Slider' that makes each subsequent 100k milestone harder to break? Nonetheless, I do think that's an impressive score.

I'm sure if you think really hard, Marc, you'll know exactly what she means.

I think its great. Kudos to the man.

Everyone saying he has no life is no better than Jack Thomspon saying GTA helps kids train to be killers. Stop generalizing like that. It's silly. Coming from so called gamers, its also hypocritical.

Severran, you will understand if you ever play it. This is how it works.
1. it starts easy. every 10 or so seconds a new wave comes out of each corner, each time with new harder enimies, faster, more of them; different combinations that progressively get harder.
2. there are some random ones that appear in between.
3. as you kill them, you build up a point multiplier, for everyone you kill, it multiplies the points.
4. If you die, your multiplier starts over, but the waves continue to grow harder.

The trick is to get a very high multiplier (don't die) you have more lives, but if you die, it continues to get harder, but you are getting much less points. I have gotten to about 768k points. That took about 20 minutes. Basically, every 5-8 seconds the screen almost filled up with several hundered (or more) shapes that were all trying to hit my little ship. If any of them touches your ship, you die, no health. 1mil points is a great feat. 1,000,000,000 is just... that is a big number.

Dammit! I can't get higher than 4.6 mil to save my life. I bet K4RN4GE actually levitates while he plays!

@Steve (the real one):

While your analysis and explanation are appreciated, 5 million points takes about 30 minutes. 700k or so is only about 5 mins.

@Marc:

You're a moron. The grammar is correct because I am referring to multiple people having wives, not just him.

@YourExWife

Not that I'm supporting him on anything else, but I must inform you, even if it's multiple of you, you each only have one wife, making is correct to say many of us have a wife and children.

Either way is correct Petrie. The beauty (and ignorance) of English is that so many different things can express a similar thought.

I dont have a girlfriend all i do with my life is play Geometry Wars

This is like David Blaine announcing he is about to do something that's going to take a really long time and has no real consequence on anything meaningful.

Now, high score on Pac-Man, there was something to get excited about...