rdrunner | 422 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Has anyone ever tried to get their Xbox 360 gamerscore (or similar) to a certain exact number? I just finished having some fun with this, landing on 20,000. Nothing fancy I know, but points come slower when you play mostly cheap XBLA games. I decided to do it in style, by going for a hard achievement that I had been putting off: Beating all of the challenge rooms in Bionic Commando Rearmed (achievement aptly named "A Real Challenge") The game features 56 optional rooms full of spikes and traps to swing through with your bionic arm. Most of these were fun, but I think some of them were made just to frustrate people. For example, one challenge is called The Perfect Swing, where the entire room is just one extremely difficult grapple that took me almost a hundred tries to get right. Naturally, the toughest room was saved for last. Challenge #56 is called Final Exam. It's a gigantic maze that forces you to utilize every possible trick swing in complicated ways, all under a strict time limit. The paltry 90 seconds forces you to be extremely efficient, almost to the level of a speed runner. I barely had any time left on the clock when I finally broke through. 466 attempts later, I became only the 978th Xbox user to clear this thing. 20G seems a bit low all things considered, but still, my kind of challenge! Anyway, just thought it would be fun to share. Would love to hear other people's achievement stories! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doner24 | 1,195 Moderator · Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Congrats on the achievement, sounds like it was a beast! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,105 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) I never tried any of those challenges (I had a PS3), but Bionic Commando Rearmed is an amazing game. Edited January 5, 2021 by Bearcat-Doug 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bogomil | 815 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 I played Goldeneye (Wii) online all the time. When I started to play less I realized I had over 80K kills online so I made it a goal to get to 100K. I grinded it out and eventually got there and then stopped playing after reaching that milestone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdrunner | 422 Posted January 7, 2021 Author Share Posted January 7, 2021 On 1/5/2021 at 9:18 AM, Bearcat-Doug said: I never tried any of those challenges (I had a PS3), but Bionic Commando Rearmed is an amazing game. Agreed! While I still really love the original, this remake was extremely well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,105 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 7 hours ago, rdrunner said: Agreed! While I still really love the original, this remake was extremely well done. The remake actually got me to go back and play through the original. I had only rented it once as a kid and I didn't get very far since it took most of the time I had to get used to the controls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaMan52 | 2,445 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 (edited) I was playing Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 on Switch recently, and decided to complete one of Mega Man 7's Challenges. I beat the Stage Remix 1 Challenge in 2 minutes and 10 seconds, and placed 12th (out of 200 players) on the Leaderboard: Edited January 7, 2021 by MegaMan52 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,777 Administrator · Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I used to be really into Playstation trophies. I had to quit cold turkey so I could actually get back to enjoying games. This is my PSN account trophy profile: https://psnprofiles.com/Gloves_Off_Games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 For a short time in my life, I was obsessed with getting 100% achievements on every game I played. It was fun for a little while and I really enjoyed completing ridiculously hard challenges, but eventually it got old and I went back to playing purely for fun. Nowadays, I don't even look at achievement lists. I'm perfectly satisfied to finish a game with 10 points or 1000 points. On extremely rare occasions when I absolutely adore a game, I'll look to the achievement list to find more fun stuff to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.A. | 1,139 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Gloves said: I used to be really into Playstation trophies. I had to quit cold turkey so I could actually get back to enjoying games. This is my PSN account trophy profile: https://psnprofiles.com/Gloves_Off_Games It is a real shame if you didn't get full enjoyment out of Palm Reading Premium! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,777 Administrator · Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 1 minute ago, B.A. said: It is a real shame if you didn't get full enjoyment out of Palm Reading Premium! It's games like that, looking back, that makes me just shake my head lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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