New Avatar game awards 1K gamerpoints in 2 minutes

Do gamerpoints do anything?

Yes. They tell people that you have WAY too much free time on your hands.

Almost as "rediculous" as your spelling of RIdiculous!

Holy shit and usually i'm the grammar whore.

Oh well. I can't always be right :P

What's that got to do with anything?

only if they're handicapped.

it would be "respectably" in this case, fyi

you mean it will be out of stock at blockbuster... no one in their right mind would buy this game.

anyone else see the irony in him buying a 360?

rtwelve can tell you about irony ...

I notice the effects of the strike in the gaming world the second I started playing assassins’ creed.

M'eh. That sounds about Avatar-esque.

Agreed. Do not ruin a good series by pumping out crap games...

epenis++;

showing off to other people, which really makes this games points completely worthless

to increase our numbers!

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...

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.

It restores somewhat the old appeal of the High-Score screen for the new arcade-less age

That and leaderboards, gotta love leaderboards

It's fun.

That's why.

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.

There's a fine line between "Wow, he must be really good!" and "Wow, he needs a girlfriend."

That was some real smooth trolling there, Mike. Points are more innovative than 3D motion sensing eh?

Sure... *mock thumbs up*

"epenis++;"

lolz. Thanks to my programming class, I understood that and laughed. Thank you public edumacation.

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

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.

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.