New Avatar game awards 1K gamerpoints in 2 minutes
by Griffin McElroy 
{ Nov 18th 2007 at 11:00AM }
Gamerpoint addiction is a serious problem, people. Did you know that 1.2 million Americans buy awful games every day, just to harvest the sweet gamerpoint nectar that lies within? That's close to 60 million dollars a day that could be donated to charity, or, at the very least, spent on good games. We've got good news and bad news for these people. The bad news? You're going to be buying another bad game soon. The good news? You'll only need to play it for two minutes.
Apparently, the creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth (Avatar: The Legend of Aang - The Burning Earth for our European readers) thought it would be much, much harder to rack up a 50 hit combo than it actually was. We wonder when someone will start up a Gamerpoint Regulation Council that will make the distribution of points between games like Avatar and games like Guitar Hero III a tad more uniform.
[Thanks, jstroh]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
TomCo @ Nov 18th 2007 11:08AM
Jeez, no effort put into the achievements in that game!
Arno @ Nov 18th 2007 11:09AM
I *must* rent this game!
Brello @ Nov 18th 2007 7:19PM
Do gamerpoints do anything?
Poisoned Al @ Nov 19th 2007 4:29AM
Yes. They tell people that you have WAY too much free time on your hands.
Sam @ Nov 18th 2007 11:14AM
most rediculous thing i have ever seen in a game.
Seriously.
Frank @ Nov 18th 2007 11:26AM
Almost as "rediculous" as your spelling of RIdiculous!
Sam @ Nov 18th 2007 2:41PM
Holy shit and usually i'm the grammar whore.
Oh well. I can't always be right :P
rTwelve @ Nov 18th 2007 11:16AM
Guards! Increase your numbers!
DangerMouse @ Nov 18th 2007 11:18AM
isn't this game for kids?
Rob Accomando @ Nov 18th 2007 11:40AM
What's that got to do with anything?
Grant @ Nov 18th 2007 3:49PM
only if they're handicapped.
Rob Accomando @ Nov 18th 2007 11:23AM
gotta run out to Blockbuster... brb
Neebs @ Nov 18th 2007 11:32AM
This game will now sell respectively next month.
gonk @ Nov 18th 2007 11:50AM
it would be "respectably" in this case, fyi
GoldenS1104 @ Nov 18th 2007 6:53PM
you mean it will be out of stock at blockbuster... no one in their right mind would buy this game.
MosquitoControl @ Nov 18th 2007 11:36AM
Guy's name is "MS Is Stupid?"
How lame.
Grant @ Nov 18th 2007 3:51PM
anyone else see the irony in him buying a 360?
colin @ Nov 19th 2007 12:02AM
rtwelve can tell you about irony ...
T @ Nov 18th 2007 11:44AM
"Guards! Increase your numbers!"
I see now that even the gaming world isn't safe from the effects of the Writer's strike.
Your Ad here 555-1923 @ Nov 18th 2007 12:44PM
I notice the effects of the strike in the gaming world the second I started playing assassins’ creed.
CubeGuy @ Nov 18th 2007 2:43PM
M'eh. That sounds about Avatar-esque.
xXFenixKnightXx @ Nov 18th 2007 11:45AM
Retarded! I usually only compare how many achievements my friends have in difficult games anyway. Not garbage like this. Get all the achievements points in games like COD4, Gears, Halo3, RainbowSixVegas or Assassins Creed and that is something to take pride in I guess. Thats why I dont rent or play these crappy games. Guess Im not an achievement whore afterall lolz. Just dont say anything about my King Kong achievements...oops!
HotShotX @ Nov 18th 2007 11:52AM
This is like, the 7th Avatar game they've pumped out in 2 years. Just because the series is good doesn't mean the games will be.
~HotShotX
religiousjedi @ Nov 18th 2007 3:24PM
Agreed. Do not ruin a good series by pumping out crap games...
CanadianZero @ Nov 18th 2007 12:02PM
move over King Kong and TMNT
Neebs @ Nov 18th 2007 12:05PM
How is this related? One game (made for kids) has easy achievements doesn't show the "patheticness" of Xbox owners.
Judging by your comments, you have the calling card of a bitter PS3 owner who can't see that the PS3 does have games, and needs to stop calling BOOOOOOOOOTTTZZZZ and flaming Xbox owners and go play them.
Hasnat @ Nov 18th 2007 12:14PM
nice marketing strategy
Corey @ Nov 18th 2007 12:17PM
It seems like one of three things:
1) The developers don't like doing achievements, so they just put in five really easy ones.
2) The developers forgot about adding achievements until the very end and had to add some quick to meet the deadline.
3) They were worried that they made a crappy game (I don't know as I haven't played it) so they added the easiest achievements possible to help sell the game.
RolexDPracer @ Nov 18th 2007 1:15PM
My wife and I are actually fans of the cartoon. It's just gone to the top of my Gamefly cue. LOL
Kye, NDF - Game-Theory Expert @ Nov 18th 2007 12:25PM
OK, so I'm going to speak for all the non 360 owners and ask;
What do you use these points for?
TheMayor @ Nov 18th 2007 12:30PM
epenis++;
daniel @ Nov 18th 2007 12:30PM
showing off to other people, which really makes this games points completely worthless
Covert-X @ Nov 18th 2007 12:31PM
to increase our numbers!
AirIntake @ Nov 18th 2007 12:33PM
I'll speak for the 360 owners and answer;
Abso-fucking-lutely nothing. I only have 3300 points, and don't understand why people would rent games they don't like, just to get points that do nothing. I am proud of getting ~750 points in Guitar Hero II though...
Kye, NDF - Fearless Leader (on leave) @ Nov 18th 2007 12:38PM
Really, nothing!?
All that hype over nothing?
At least when you buy a Nintendo game, you get star points which you can use to download wallpapers and musics etc. Not that anyone with an I.Q. over 4 ever would, but at least you can.
Saying that, Nintendo is supposed to allow you to buy Wii points with star points sometime in the future. So at least buying a new game will subsidise buying an old game.
Microsoft should follow suit and all points to get you a discount on marketplace stuff.
Mr Khan @ Nov 18th 2007 1:07PM
It restores somewhat the old appeal of the High-Score screen for the new arcade-less age
That and leaderboards, gotta love leaderboards
Van Faulk @ Nov 18th 2007 2:54PM
It's fun.
That's why.
mike @ Nov 18th 2007 5:41PM
what the point of collecting all the container hearts in a zelda game? There is no point. But with achievments, its like a little extra permenant reward you get. Some achievments are also difficult to obtain and you can show skill be having certain ones.
Also, at one pointMS did offer a free game and MS points if you had a certain gamerscore. Which is way better then stupid nintendo wallpaper. People who knock achievmenets are those who havnt experienced them. Im not some GS whore whos gonna rent this crappy game for 1000 points. But I do try to get 1000/1000 for every game I play. Its come to a point that I see gaming as pointless unless I have some sort of achievments to score. Its almost like thats what the game is about, obtaining them. Also if you go for them all in most games, it lets you experience the game to its fullest. (most games have 100% the game achievments). These are tuly the most innovative thing this generation. WAY more then nintendos waggle control.
I hope next gen sees nintendo return to a standard controller.
Brello @ Nov 18th 2007 7:24PM
There's a fine line between "Wow, he must be really good!" and "Wow, he needs a girlfriend."
Kye, NDF - Fearless Leader (on leave) @ Nov 18th 2007 9:38PM
That was some real smooth trolling there, Mike. Points are more innovative than 3D motion sensing eh?
Sure... *mock thumbs up*
Autopsy15 @ Nov 18th 2007 9:43PM
"epenis++;"
lolz. Thanks to my programming class, I understood that and laughed. Thank you public edumacation.
Thief @ Nov 18th 2007 12:39PM
Lazy lazy developers...
[.sm0ke.] @ Nov 18th 2007 12:40PM
ACHIEVEMENTS! INCREASE YOUR NUMBERS!
Kye, NDF - Fearless Leader (on leave) @ Nov 18th 2007 12:47PM
Also, off-topic.
NDF UPDATE PLEASE!!!
I really should say that I've been absent for a while due to my new-born son.
As much as I would love to lead the ranks against the sony-ites, them nappies aint gona change themselves. Just think of it as raising a future NDF leader.
Last thing. Someone, Sheppy I think (myt be wrong), seems to be under the impression that I feel I have weight at Joystiq. I know I don't. But I have the right to express my opinions. Re: The whole F. Rocker banning. Was I going to find out what happened and support fernando? Yes. Was I going to act like I owned the place and demand things? No.
So please don't think I walk around like I own the place, I'm a visitor just like everyone else.
Mr Khan @ Nov 18th 2007 1:11PM
Many happy returns
But there isn't much going on, aside from Wii getting the best game ever (apparently), and name123 appearing to spread propaganda ad nauseum
sheppy2.0 @ Nov 18th 2007 3:07PM
A thousand pardons, Kye. Your tone, at writing the whole "good to see you back, I was about to write an angry letter" after being told that it was Ludwig, after 7 straight days of warnings to Fernando (actually, many more warnings than most people get) somehow indicated that you felt you had more sway on this board than Ludwig. Especially given this quote.
"I was JUST going to write a letter of complaint to Joystiq for banning you. And it was going to be one STERN-ASS letter! (Not that you aren't still banned). But at least you're here."
and this one...
"Sheppy
NDF Members stick together.
If anyones gona tell him off it'll be me.
Also, my name isn't Suzie.
Thank you for your time, Rapunzel.
Kye."
Given those two quotes, is it any wonder I run around with that misconception? After all, if I run around declaring I'm the emperor of France and someone tells me I most certainly am not, do I then have the right to say "well, it's not actually as if I REAALLY said I was the emperor of France."
But oh well. As for the whole Sony-ites thing, dude, you have a kid now. Don't you think it's about time to grow up? If anything, outside of a few exceptions (Noshino and Shags), majority of the Sony user community on this site would love to read a Sony news article without the Sony bashers flooding it like a spawning glitch in Advent Rising. It's really getting old, man.
Kye, NDF - Fearless Leader (on leave) @ Nov 18th 2007 9:53PM
Sheppy,
I browsed through your reply (its late) so pardon anything that I've missed. Let's just agree to disagree on whatever it was we misunderstood or disagreed on, OK?
For the umpteenth time I do not really care about what systems people choose to own/play. The whole NDF thing is jokes to me, that's all. I do own and play Sony, Sega and MS consoles. And it would be a sad day should Sony ever leave the console race.
And as for me growing up now that I have a kid, I can assure you you would have to look long and hard to find a more dedicated, loving father than me. Please do not think that my sense of humor (or lack of) relates to my parenting skills.
If you really want to read news articles sans-bashing then you can always go to the BBC website or similar. But don't be surprised if it happens on Joystiq.
Thanx,
Me.
Volcomite @ Nov 18th 2007 12:50PM
Haha. The "quality" of the game is almost worse than doing that just for achievements. Actually, it could go either way. Oh well.
Raimo @ Nov 18th 2007 1:07PM
well, most games don't cost 60 bucks after the first couple of months. for example Prey is pretty easy for gamerpoints and i bought it for 11 euro (new)...
Deuz Augustine @ Nov 18th 2007 2:15PM
Such a great show ... this game looks awful. :(