h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I admit it, I'm an acheivement whore. I've played some pretty pathetic games just for that 1000g. Fight Night Round 3, a dire, dire boxing game that required you bash two buttons over and over and over. For five hours. 1000g at the end, mind. Job's a gudun.

Film tie-ins are usually pretty pants as well, no matter how good the film. Lego versions tend to be absolutely brilliant, but the non Lego versions of Harry Potter are downright dreary and have very clunky controls. The beauty of movie tie-ins is that they tend to be rather short, and some of them have a few different types of mini-games in them to keep you slightly interested.The worst one I think I ever played was Jumper, the film was pretty pants and the game is even worse, boring, repetitive and gloomy as a dark cave - even worse the achievements didn't 'stack' (ie if you play the game first time on the hardest setting you get all the lower settings as well when you complete the game) Jumper had three difficulty levels and I had to play the damned thing through three times.

There are some rather excellent ones out there, The Amazing Spider-Man, Kung Fu Panda (seriously), but generally speaking kids film tie ins are a distration for few hours and easy cheevos.

The game that took the least amount of time to 1000g? Well, that would be Avatar: The Burning Earth. It only had 5 achievements and you could just bash away at the B button for about 20 mins just after the start of the game to get them all. Thnkfully no-one actually bought the game, it just did the rounds of family and friends when it came in to rent at Blockbuster.

[Amy P]

You overachiever, you.

222,298g and counting, Dmitri

Scuse my ignorance, but what is 1000g?

My mum was a dedicated gamer in the '80s and '90s, until she ran out of nice cartoony type games to play, but she just liked to finish the games, and the score was a by-the-by. I knew what I wanted to do to win the game, but I couldn't often do it...

These days we play more puzzle-type games - mum is a big fan of Cut The Rope