016 - O GamerScore, Wherefore Art Thou

What exactly is a good GamerScore? We discuss statistics, life/gaming balance, TA leaderboard movements, and much more.

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Opening/closing music: "Jive Bot" by Jake Kaufman from the game Mighty Switch Force! developed and published by WayForward Technologies

Gamerscore Boot Camp music: "Tally Screen" by Jake Kaufman from the game Mighty Switch Force 2! developed and published by WayForward Technologies

All audio production and podcast backend support provided by Tarragon Allen.

Hosts:

Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

• Achievement Sponsors
• Worst Job in the Kingdom and Fizzie says April Fools! from Sunset Overdrive
• Crystal Pepsi on Ebay
• Sodium Bezoate
• Denatured alcohol
• Zed to Zed Science Corner
• Send Crandy a 20yo Crystal Pepsi and he will drink it!
• Crandy's Mug
• Crandy's tea house might be dealing drugs
• Breaking Zed
• Fream will be playing Dark Souls for the first time on April 23rd on Zed to Zed Twitch channel
• Crandy might be attempting Syndicate playthrough on co-op, solo
• GRAW (DRINK!)
• Syndicate Club Music Final Version
• AHP Community show finishing on episode 100, Fream will be featuring - April 17th
• Tarragon's 300k still pending, Easy as One Two Three front runner, thanks Th34lb1n0k1d, MclovinLegend and angelsk for suggestions
• Site Leaderboard Proposal: Weighted GS/TA
• Giveaway: Alan Wake American Nightmare - on our Twitter soon (via Gleam)

0:19:33 - Recap

• Fream
• Destiny
• 0 GamerScore!
• Tarragon
• Monopoly Plus
• Threes!
• Threes! solver
• "zzUrbanSpaceman won 3 Achievements in Threes! for 1337 points"
• Tachyon Project
• Crandy
• Kane and Lynch JP
• Perfect Dark Zero
• GH Live
• Killer Instinct
• Shadow Jago is back
• GRAW (DRINK!) - next week is a special GRAW show
• IBM Model M keyboard
• 2 stick joystick

0:34:08 - Listener Feedback

• Zed Friends
• smrnov, TheTvirusTyrant, HandyDarkness, Kursed Souls, Spazpol
• Crandy would like to get Lorne Lanning on the show (Oddworld creator)
• John Schuller @CallSignIceMan would like some DragonMania Legends help
• montana97: Top 5 reality shows?
• The Bachelor(ette)
• Double Dare
• Air Crash Investigation?
• MythBusters?
• Bear Grylls
• Naked and Afraid
• Survivor
• Big Brother
• The Amazing Race
• Celebrity Apprentice
• So You Think You Can Dance
• Biggest Loser
• KaibaChaos is a one man DDOS
• Will stacks ever be cross play? Consensus: unlikely
• NBA Kirkland wants a competition that doesn't require so much free time!
• Scavenger hunt
• GTASC for 1 hour a week
• Achievement Hounds Achievement Hunt
• Gamerscoragories
• Who has the rarest game?
• Achievement Relay
• McLovin Legend and Big Ell are both hyped for WrestleMania
• Madeyepadeye: What is a healthy amount of gaming?
• Probably a feature topic
• Saucy Slingo asks a question that will plague mankind for centuries
• The Yiddler: what's that intro music. Look up! :)
• Fream's Friend Feed went to that weird place on the Internet (Big Ell, Facial La Fleur, NBA Kirkland, KaibaChaos, Weasel Pizza)
• Sinacide III wants Xbox 360 gamer pics to be upscaled for Xbox One: vote for it on User Voice
• FitBit again!
• Tim Blair @TimTum is a God among men
• MuddyAmoeba suggests that the TTK DLC for Destiny might be available from disc
• Ereaser NL - the UHH was great to prompt games to finish off
• UHH hotting up
• McLovin Legend is giving away some PAL games, check his blog
• Facial La Fleur and Big Ell: 3 hosts is better than 2
• angelsk hates timezones
• Blue Thunder 7398 has a lot of GS on Windows Phone. You monster.
• Big Ell aka Ell Gordo still thinks we should play games "properly" ;)
• Fream would kindly like to finish Bioshock
• iTunes Reviews
• Thanks so much: KaibaChaos, Chiznal and Quinny19898989 - get a longer commute! ;)

1:42:46 - Talking Zeds: What is a Good GamerScore?

• TA Leaderboard Movements
• GS/TA Percentiles
• Zed to Zed Leaderboard Tracking?

2:16:57 - News

• Deus Ex Go, Life Is Strange Go, Just Cause Go domains registered
• Major Nelson is a really nice guy
• Federal Court finds Valve made misleading representations about consumer guarantees
• Shadow of Mordor 2 in the works, thanks Nexus Plexus
• Lego Batman ... the movie?
• PSA: Play Xbox One Killer Instinct before starting Windows 10 version or lose your progress
• Takeaways from the MS Build conference:
• source, source, source
• Hololens:
• Holoportation
• Halo 5 streaming into Hololens

2:39:30 - Cemetery

• Guitar Hero Live - BURIED

2:53:56 - Knobs and Discos

• Big Ell asks about developer contacts - yes, but with caveats
• Project Spark:
• PSA: some achievements not unlocking due to server issues, particularly Conker and Seph DLC
• Developer Team Dakota appears to be treading water
• Latest title update has been on hold for months
• FIFA 12: EAS FC Youth Academy and EAS FC Starting 11 are available again
• Guitar Hero Live Xbox 360: Bling Of The Road fixed
• Pay It Forward in both versions of Darksiders 2 are broken again (thanks Weasel Pizza and KaibaChaos)
• Forza 3 online achievements all discontinued without notice

3:06:08 - Game Delays and BC

• BC: Halo Wars, King Of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match, SoulCalibur II HD Online, Left 4 Dead 2, Dead Space, Saints Row IV (AU version too)

3:09:02 - Zombie News Corner

• Rise of the Tomb Raider's Cold Darkness DLC

3:10:27 - Outro

Glossary of Xbox Gamerscore and achievement jargon and terms: http://zedtozed.com/xbox-gamerscore-and-achievement-glossary