Ok I play the 360, more than I probably should. I do like the whole achievements thing, the online community etc. But last night I discovered something that I hadn’t really looked twice at in my two plus years of 360 ownership…….a leaderboard!
There I was quite happily playing The Club when, after a match had finished, I noticed on the updated leaderboard that I was sitting around 18th. Wait a mo’ I thought out of all the thousands of people playing this and I’m 18th in the WORLD!! Zoinks, my heart went all a flutter, could I actually be good enough at a game to rank high?
Just to explain this was just on one level of The Club, for those who wish to check “a bridge too far, Venice” on casual and reckless later.
So Sunday night/Monday morning I played the level over and over, learning the route and gradually increasing my score, until at the end of play I was 8th in the world. I was delighted it really felt like I had achieved something, without the plinky sound! So back on tonight and I played the same level for 3 hours over and over until…………2nd in the world. I got a wee elated nervous shake about me, did I actually do that? Yup. Feeling cocksure I upped the difficulty to reckless and within 10 minutes I was sitting at 3rd in the world, what a rush!
The moral of this? I’m quite good at The Club, and you don’t need a plink to tell you that you’ve achieved something, just check the leaderboards, you might be surprised. Incidentally, I don’t care if there were only 20 people on the leaderboard, the fact that I am third really warms my cockles.(there are more than 20 people!)
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