Okay, so I'm finally getting this post out that I said would be out last week. Anyways, update on the chase for 8,000 gamerscore. I reached it about the middle of last week actually. I was able to grab the last few points I needed in Left 4 Dead 2. However, I've pretty much ran out of achievements I can earn in it without playing online. Right now though I'm playing another game in hopes to earn all the achievements for it. The game: Lego Batman, hey, it's an E rated game, they normally have easy achievements in them. If I do get all of them for that game, it'll be the first one where I have gotten all the achievements for it. I'm close to getting them all with ODST, but the Vidmaster Challenge: Endure stands in my way. I've had a ton of people say they are willing to help me with it, but I'm not too concerned with getting it. Okay, so it'll get me another 25 points, the first or second game with all achievements and the Recon armor for Halo 3.
Anyways, moving onto achievements that are difficult, yet don't offer many points. I understand that the point of the achievement is to do something difficult and you get a little award or something. In the case of what I am talking about though, you do something difficult in a game and get the achievement; yet when you look at it, it isn't worth but only 30 points or maybe less than that even. A good example of these are two achievements along the same lines, just in two different games. The first is, "Little Rocket Man" from Half-Life 2: Episode 2. In which, you are required to find a gnome(which are evil) at the start of the game and carry him to the end. Needless to say it was a pain to keep track of that stupid gnome in the middle of a battle.
Same thing goes with Left 4 Dead 2, there is an achievement that requires you to do the same thing in it. Find a gnome at the start and carry it to the ending rescue you with. Both of which were worth 30 points and were rather annoying to keep track of the gnome in the middle of a battle. You'd be surprised how far those zombies can kick a little gnome. Poor guy....must have hurt, but you're still evil.
Anyways, back on topic here, I'm not saying that they should have been worth 100 or 150 points, but maybe something like 40 or 50 points would be nice for all that trouble I went through. So, my question to you is this, have you ever had one of those achievements where it sounds awesome to do, but not worth it point wise?
Now why was I saying gnomes are evil in the previous paragraph you ask? Well, besides the obvious fact that they are evil. It's mainly due to the fact with the previously stated achievements I was talking about. The gnomes would just not cooperate with whatever you wanted them to do. So if I put him in a little corner while I went to grab ammo after I was done protecting it from a massive horde of zombies, he would not get in the corner, but instead bounce off the wall or something. And, when I would have to drop it in order to fight off a wave of zombies, they would kick him around and away from me. Surprisingly enough, a multicolored gnome doesn't stick out at all on a white floor or light brown floor. Or a turf styled floor for that fact... That being said, gnomes are evil. Maybe a few exceptions, but not many.
That's all for now, I know it's not much but it's at least something. I'll try to get posts out on a more decent basis, even if they are just short little updates on anything really. However, once I have completed Lego Batman and got all the achievements for it(may take a while, but I'll get them, probably even need Storms help for one of them) or hit 10,000 gamerscore(whichever comes first most likely completing the game) I'll then have enough stuff to make a semi-good post. Until then, keep doing whatever it is you've been doing.
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