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What Is Your Donkey Kong Scoring Goal?
ChrisP:
I'm going with Option #2, for now.
Ohrami:
So does this mean we aren't elite unless we get at least 1,150,000 points? What if we're at 1,149,100-1,149,900? Are we in purgatory? :D
KIG666:
It might sound a bit cocky for a noob like me but I have clicked on 5 :-[
I have not started DK just to quit right after my first 1M game. I really want see how far I can get LOL
Love the fact that DK is such a competitive game. On my other favs I basically play just against myself so 0 competition :'(
homerwannabee:
--- Quote from: KIG666 on February 09, 2013, 03:56:12 am ---It might sound a bit cocky for a noob like me but I have clicked on 5 :-[
I have not started DK just to quit right after my first 1M game. I really want see how far I can get LOL
Love the fact that DK is such a competitive game. On my other favs I basically play just against myself so 0 competition :'(
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Well with other classic games, you can think of it as playing against a 30 year history of video game players that have come, and gone. Yeah, I get the fact that most of those scores that you pass will probably never be upped in response to you passing them, but you still get a sense of pride that you passed up a person that took this game very seriously at one point in time in their lives, and that this score was satisfactory enough for them to let it be.
Also it's cool just to look at some of the names you pass. Some of these players are amazing all around players. Over the years I have passed on the scoreboard in certain games some pretty amazing gamers like Todd Rogers, Dwayne Richard, Shawn Cram, Steve Wagner, Robert Mruckzek, Donald Hayes, Billy Mitchell, Ike Hall, and Steve Wiebe. In almost every single case they were no longer active in the particular game I passed them up in, but that did not stop me from being amazed at the fact that I was even able to pass one of their many great scores.
In my mind, just because the player has stopped playing it does not mean the score is dead. In my mind those scores will be around long after those players are no longer breathing. They are scores that remain with us through generation after generation. True in a thousand years there may only be 1 or 2 people who will even bother to check to see what the all time scores are on any particular game, but when those scores which are attached to a name are glanced at even for a split second those scores, and our names live on.
And who knows maybe once ever 20 years in a thousand years a person will have a go at the all time list of scores for a certain game, and in a way he will have a thousand years of scores to compete with, and when that person passes our score or come close to our score they will have a general idea of the struggles we went through in order to achieve such a score. And in that way we are connected to those of the future, and the people of the future are connected with those of the past.
You see the competition on these great classic games is never 0 in my mind. Even if no one else besides yourself is currently playing these games, you are still competing with those of the past, and with those of the future who will take up that game you are playing long after you have past away.
Did I just go tangent? You better believe I just did, but what a fun trip I had while doing it!
stella_blue:
I also went with the second choice, Chris, although Option 1.5 would better express my immediate goal. I'd like to secure a killscreen score in the mid to upper 900K range via a 110-120K start, a conservative 2-hammer approach to the barrel stages with little to no grouping up top, and finally just running boards when I'm down to 1 man in reserve.
I played my first full game last night with the above approach.
Final Score: 491K (116K start, 970K overall pace)
2 deaths on conveyors (4-2 and 12-2) and back-to-back rivet deaths (7-6 and, you guessed it, 7-6)
We'll see how it goes today.
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