Quotes from the article:
"Over at the 1 Million Gamerscore Blog you can read a full account of Stallion83's day, from "7:00AM — Miss Mittens woke me up by meowing her face off. She better make the coffee today,"
"Will he rest on his laurels, or continue the good fight? As I write this, he's online playing Karaoke Revolution. What a trooper."
Quote from the article:
"Dan Ryckert's Gamerscore is now over 98,000, Jeff Cork just hit the 100,000 mark, and executive editor Andrew Reiner is approaching an astounding 140,000 and loves it. But I found one gamer who puts all three of them to shame...and then some."
Joystiq - The guy with half-million Gamerscore
Quote from the article:
Joystiq - The guy with half-million Gamerscore
Quote from the article:
"The only slightly avid gamer Stallion83 (we can only assume Stallion1 through 82 died due to severe thumb inflammation) is half-way to his goal of achieving one million Gamerscore on Xbox 360"
Eurogamer - Xbox user hits 500,000 Gamerscore
Quote from the article:
"Congrats on this victory, good sir. Now prepare for Internet users everywhere to belittle your accomplishment."
GamesRadar - World Gamerscore record holder reaches 500,000
Quotes from article:
"The Guinness Book of World Records highest Gamerscore entrant for two years in a row can't stop now, and Xbox 360 fanatic Stallion83 isn't - he's just become the first in the world to reach half-a-million points on the 360 Achievement system.""We don't even want to know how many Hannah Montana and Disney movie-themed games this guy has had to endure to keep pumping up that score, but it's nevertheless quite a stellar accomplishment."
Escapist Magazine - World's Biggest Gamerscore Breaks 500,000
Quotes from the article:
"A self-professed "achievement junkie," Stallion83 has vowed to never quit until he reaches a Gamerscore of 1,000,000."
"Stallion83 recently wrote that he plans on adding some usefulness to his Gamerscore blog by helping gamers with achievements that might pose a certain level of challenge. I suppose he feels safe enough with more than 500,000 points under his belt that now he can give away his secrets."
"Stallion83 recently wrote that he plans on adding some usefulness to his Gamerscore blog by helping gamers with achievements that might pose a certain level of challenge. I suppose he feels safe enough with more than 500,000 points under his belt that now he can give away his secrets."
The Telltale Blog - Wallace & Gromit Helps Achieve The Highest Gamerscore In The World
Quote from the article:
He broke the very impressive half a million points threshold by unlocking the 20 point 'Tournament of Chumps' Achievement in Telltale's own Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures."
SpikeTV blog - Man Hits 500k Gamerscore, 0k Life Score
Quotes from the article:
"To put it in perspective, if you stretch out the text of all his achievements into one word it’s well over one quarter of a mile long. At this point we’re guessing he’s at least twice that far from reaching second base with a living, breathing female."
"He chronicles his classic struggle on a minute-to-minute basis, so head on over to his site to read stirring entries like, “My cat is drinking all my water”
S83: Tiles, not text. Like I really counted every character for every achievement.
smh.com.au - Desperately trying to score
Jeuxvideo - Le plus gros gamer 360 passe un cap
Mondoxbox - Ragginuto un Gamerscore da 500.000 punti
Pelaaja - Tämä mies viettää aivan liikaa aikaa Xboxillaan
Mondoxbox - Ragginuto un Gamerscore da 500.000 punti
Greatest thing about those articles is all the hater comments in the discussion sections. That never gets old.
ReplyDeletehaha, tbh I don't even bother reading that crap anymore. It's always the same thing over and over again.
ReplyDeleteThat actually kind of annoyed me reading some of the nastier comments in the sections and especially that SpikeTV article. Your dead right not to read most of them because ignorance like that can drive a man crazy.
ReplyDeleteThere's a famous french website too :
ReplyDeleteJeuxvideo.com :
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jeuxvideo.com%2Fnews%2F2010%2F00046397-le-plus-gros-gamer-360-passe-un-cap.htm&act=url
I only just found out about this site and your goal and I have to say it's awesome sauce. I just read the entire blog from beginning to end and whilst that feels like quite an achievement already I can only begin to imagine how much work you put in. It has definitely inspired me to put in some more work on completing half-assed games and put down a bit more achievements (not that I'll ever get close to your accomplishments) being it's something I always wanted but I figured I was the only one.
ReplyDeleteI do have been wondering though, how much money do you think went in thus far? I have read about where you get the games (sort of) but couldn't quite figure out if you generally rent or have this huge garage full of (sponsored?) games?
Cheers and god speed!
Matthias
Wow, thank you! I've put a lot of working into it, that's just the way I'm wired. I just go and go and go with anything I try to accomplish. I spent a lot of money in the beginning, but it would be hard to give an estimation. Time is money, and I've spent A LOT of time as well.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.vandal.net/noticia/50704/un-americano-consigue-500000-puntos-gamerscore-de-xbox-360/
ReplyDeleteFrom Spain. Congratulations
Fair point, hehe. I'm quite dedicated to myself, just not so much in regards to gaming the past couple of years (whereas I spent more time gaming, or things related to it, than going to school in the days of CS a good decade ago).
ReplyDeleteIt had gotten as bad as picking up games just because well, they seem great, play them for 5 minutes and then never touch them again so I have quite a collection to go through - your reviews must say probably helped (Alan Wake being one of those games which I will and have another go at later today).
I have since recently been picking up my gaming albeit more in the MP/online department (CoD:MW2 specifically), and it got me hooked to achieving again, although on another level (generally not being achievements but XP within the game).
How do you feel about that development by the way? That games evolved to each have their own XP and ranking system within, seperate from the achievement-system XboX360 - do you think it's because of the limitations of achievements (fx 1000G) or a natural development? Does it take away focus from the achievements?
Regards,
Matthias
wow spike article was extremely unprofessional.w/e spike is a band wagoner game sourc
ReplyDeleteJust stumbled on this site from yahoo. Grats on that 500k. Though the spike article was meh. What game did you squeeze the most points from? (not a console player, though)
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