I think I've hit an epiphany moment in my life and I'm not sure where to go at this point. Allow me to explain
Five years ago my brother got a shiny new Xbox 360 Arcade that we all gathered around and played Halo 2 on. I stayed with my PS2 for some time, until i discovered the Achievement. the little *ding* that was followed with a message on the bottom and an amount of Gamerscore was equivalent to oral sex. Eventually I aquired my own Xbox, a LIVE, and began my quest for Achievements. Only after achieving 2500 did i discover the fantastic Xbox360Achievements.org and AchievementHunter.com did my score increase tenfold and my gaming style switched from Casual, to Achivement Hunting. From December 2008 to December 2009 I amassed 19K gamerscore, and from then now have 32K gamerscore.
anyway, tonight I was playing Kinect Sports with my brother, sister, and mom when a bunch of achievements began popping up in quick succession, giving me a total of 125G. I immediately praised every god of every religeon (as is normal fare with this amount of G in such a short amount of time) and gave out a series of hoots. My mom proceeded to question why i was obsessed over the *ding* and my brother immediately ridiculed me by saying the *ding* had no real value and I was getting worked up over nothing.
An hour later I was pondering what he said when the world came crashing around me - Teh last console generation lasted from 2001-2006, about five years. Teh Xbox 360 came out in 2005, and the other 2 in 2006. This november will celebrate the 5th anniversary of the three-console seventh generation of gaming, just about how long the last console generation began. This means taht in about a year and a half, the Xbox 720 or the Playstation 4 or teh Wii2 will be making appearances and my Gamerscore will be lost forever.
What really is tragic is taht I'm not even one of the higher-gamerscoreers out there. The top guy has like 500k gamerscore! What happens to all that work? Is it really all arbitrary? Will the slate be wiped clean in the age of Xbox 720? Fellow Achievement Hunters, please help me!
