Just to recap from the first page:
What Makes a Game Good or Bad For Your Gamerscore?
Good: Good games for improving your gamerscore reward you for playing through the game, performing specific in-game tasks, or accomplishing goals within reason
Bad: Bad games for improving your gamerscore are ones that require a long term investment of time, topping online leaderboards, or feature a majority of online-only achievements. These are a problem because as people move onto new games, getting online achievements in older games is pretty much impossible unless you have someone to help you.
Games With Difficult or Time Consuming Achievements
- FIFA Road to the World Cup 2006: Moderately easy achievements, but not worth going through the pain of playing this game.
- Perfect Dark Zero: Heavily weighted towards multiplayer. Game isn’t good enough to want to play 1000 multiplayer matches.
- Ridge Racer 6: Fun game, but the achievements are very hard to get.
- Call of Duty 2: The majority of achievements are earned on higher difficulty levels. Fun game, but not good for easy points.
- Quake 4: Weighted heavily towards multiplayer.
- Dead or Alive 4: Fun game, but you’ll likely get frustrated long before you get even half. Weighted heavily towards online multiplayer.
- Far Cry Instincts Predator: Weighted heavily towards multiplayer.
- Rumble Roses XX: Achievements take forever to unlock and you’ll get tired of the game quickly.
- Blazing Angels: Earned by playing through the game, but it isn’t all that fun.
- Battlefield 2: Modern Combat: Weighted heavily towards multiplayer.
- Final Fantasy XI: Extremely hard to earn.
- Bomberman: Act Zero: Easy to earn, but the game is pretty much horrible.
- NHL 07: If you’re a hockey fan you’ll happily get them all. Not recommended if you are just looking to boost your gamerscore.
- World Series of Poker 2007: Some are easy, but many take a long time to earn and you'll likely get bored before you get close.
- Need for Speed Carbon: Weighted heavily towards online and the single player ones can be tough to get.
- Sonic the Hedgehog: Bad game. Not worth the effort.
- Dead or Alive Xtreme 2: Very, very, very time consuming. It will take you months to get them all. Not worth it.
- F.E.A.R.: Weighted heavily towards multiplayer. Single-player tasks are very difficult. You only earn about 70 playing through normally.
- Def Jam ICON: You'll get bored of the junky gameplay after only earning a couple of achievements. Not worth it.
- Bullet Witch: Bad game. Achievements aren't hard, but you'll want to stab your eyeballs out long before you get them all.
- Earth Defense Force 2017: Fun game, but can be difficult. Achievements are tied to beating the game on different difficulty levels, which is a royal, time consuming, pain.
- Tenchu Z: Bad game. Avoid.
- Hour of Victory: Not worth the headache of playing this horrible game.
- Monster Madness: Difficult game with difficult achievements.
- NASCAR 08: Bad game. Don't bother.
- Two Worlds: Another stinker. Avoid.
- Blue Dragon: The game is great, but it takes a long long time to earn the points.
- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam: Fun game, but it'll take a long time to get them all.
- NHL 08: Too many online achievements and difficult solo tasks.
- Juiced 2: Online focus kills the easy achievement buzz.
- FIFA 08: For hardcore soccer fans only.
- Tony Hawk's Proving Ground: Tony needs a year off. SICK level achievements will frustrate you.
- Virtua Fighter 5: Large time commitment to earn them. Can be difficult.
- Guitar Hero III: Increased game difficulty mixed with challenging achievements make this one feel like work.
- Burnout Revenge: Can be very time consuming.
- The Outfit: A good mix of both single and multiplayer achievements. It’ll take you a while to get them all.
- Chromehounds: Very time consuming. Online community is dwindling so earning online points is hard.
- KUF: Circle of Doom: Time consuming. Not very fun.
- Culdcept Saga: Great game, but very time consuming and difficult achievements.
- Turok: Heavily weighted towards Xbox Live. The game stinks.
- BlackSite Area 51: Awful game. Don’t bother.
Xbox Live Arcade
An easy way to boost your gamerscore is by playing the Xbox Live Arcade games. Earning all 200 is pretty easy in the hardwood card games, Uno, Galaga, and Pac-Man. You can get an easy 75-100 points in pretty much every game, but I would not recommend Smash TV or Bejeweled 2 as they feature some extremely tough achievements.
