Whore of a Different Color

When it comes to multi-platform release games, I will go with the Xbox 360 version 95% of the time. Why? For the Achievements, of course. It's just satisfying for the system to keep track of how I'm doing and let me know when I've accomplished something with the familiar little pop-up. And that makes me an official Achievement Whore.

Generally, AWs are classified by their desire to get every single point they can. While I'm not opposed to that, and I will look through the list and see what extra points I can get along the way, I actually have a different standard to my point hording. In fact, the only two games I have yet to achieve maximum points are two rental games, neither of which I really liked.

I feel the need to have some points at all my games. Having that embarrassing 0 point total on my gamercard brings dishonor to my family. So instead, I have a bunch of games with only one achievement, but I still feel satisfaction. In the past I even bought crappy Xbox Live Arcade games because I had played the demo and got saddled with a permanent Zero for the game until I upgraded. Now, presumably, you can erase demos from your gamercard... but I still just avoid demos, because I would still know how I did not get any achievements.

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Hey, Microsoft: How about giving 10 points for completing a demo? Sounds like a marketing plan that could generate a few extra sales, presuming the game is fun enough to buy... which is the point of having a demo, right?
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I'm happy to say I finally went back and got at least one achievement at all the games I own. Which is a lot. I still have three games I rented which I failed to get points on: Lost Planet (I got from Gamefly, popped the disc in to see if there was local co-op, then took it out and returned it without playing), Virtual Fighter 5 (I got my butt handed to me so many times, I have an attic full of butt now.), and Beautiful Katamari (I'm a terrible stickyball roller). I will have to get those back and find a way to get some points.

Easiest Game to get initial Achievement Points: Tiger Woods 07. All you have to do is create a custom character. While the options for tweaking your golfer is immense, you could just click through it and get the 5 points.

Most Difficult Game to get initial points: Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2. After about 4 or 5 playthroughs with a single character, I finally collected all of her swimsuits. It took me nearly that long to get the timing of the volleyball down, which probably wouldn't have been that hard if there were options for positioning the camera.