Well, it's been fun girls and boys, hasn't it?

Yes, that's right. I did it. On Sunday 22nd November at about 3:30pm...I hit 10,000 gamerscore...exactly.

First of all, I'd like to thank my good friend Zuriel147 for helping me get some co-operative achievements towards the end and also to xbox360chievements.com for their excellent achievement guides, I couldn't have done it without you two, so thanks.

Hitting the 10,000 mark triggered some interesting emotions. For one, I expected some huge firework display to explode from my console. This never happened. Humph. I must say, even though attaining 10,000 is nothing compared to some of the scores I'd seen I was proud of myself for hitting a goal that I had set myself. I've set loads of goals in the past, but I can't name any that I've hit.

One of the stipulations of my challenge was that I wasn't allowed to add any games to my collection as I was trying to raise my achievement/game ratio abover 50%, which incidentally I failed to do. This made me go through my collection and play some great games that just got better and better the more I delved into them for achievements, I realised that there was much more enjoyment to be had just by digging a little deeper into the game. Try it sometime, it really is worth it.

If there was a negative reactiong to my experience, it's the sense of unfulfillment. I expected to be jumping around my front room but I didn't feel anything much at all. Maybe it's because 10K isn't a high score in the slightest or maybe I now had nothing to aim for anymore. Strangely, I have no interest in adding anything to my collection at least until after Christmas as I've really enjoyed the journey into the exisiting games on my shelf, so I'm going to carry on as before.

The experience has taught me to never give up on a game just because you haven't been able to nail everything the first time round and you might just discover something awesome that was just sitting there, waiting to be found.

Ah well, thanks for all the support.

Here's to 20,000!