013 - Just PAL-ing Around

This week we discuss the fallout of Microsoft’s house cleaning, and of course we have Zombie News, Knobs and Discos and a couple of pals just "PAL"ing around.

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

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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: "Dalmation Station (It Gets Better Mix)" by Jake Kaufman (as virt) from the game Mighty Switch Force! 2 developed and published by WayForward Technologies

All music by Jake Kaufman (virt) can be listened to and purchased here: https://virt.bandcamp.com/

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

Show notes kindly collated, calmly and collectedly with 'credible candour by Jo Carter.

Hosts:

Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

• Achievement Sponsor: Luck of the Irish in NBA LIVE 10 for St Patrick’s Day
• Mug of the week: NCALM (FYI, Still with Earl Grey as per last week)
• 360 Regional Compatibility Testing Service - (Shoutout to Dwaggienite, DaveKinetic); Vote for "Filtering by regions".
• Registration officially closed for UHH, Brandon is happy :) Approx 1700 entrants. Good luck everyone.
• Giveaway for Beat da Beat on Steam, on Gleam (Shoutout to DoughBoyee) - closes 18th March (I think)
• Moved from Facebook Group to Facebook Page - LIKE us please.

00:12:35 What We’ve Been Up To

• Randy:
• Got a IBM Model M Keyboard - not the buckling spring version
• GHL - 100 million on Xbox One, 92 million on 360 version. Horrible game… clearly doesn’t recommend this
• Finished ROBLOX (Didn’t pull a Fream)
• Kameo: Elements of Power - finished story, 600-700G in 6-8 hours.
• Killer Instinct - hit Killer rank this week. Season 3 is out 29th March.
• GRAW (DRINK!)  (Shoutout to McLovinLegend)
• Brandon:
• Rayman Legends - got teensies, doing the dailies
• Guacamelee - finished
• Assassin’s Creed: Revelations - collecting animus fragments

00:25:18 Listener Feedback

• Thanks to spazpol, Griffey95, Big Ell, Avenged Against, Jellybigfoot, planting42, McLovinLegend, KaibaChaos, angelsk, Is That Hydro, Ms Dudette, JelliedBigfoot
• We have the Fream; what is the Randy and the Tarragon?
• The Tarragon (verb) Buy games wantonly
• The Crandy (verb) Play a garbage game ironically
• Fream’s Absolutely Wonderfully Awesome and Fantastic Drinking Game: tonight’s drinking words - Awesome, Fantastic, Wonderful, Absolutely
• GRAW (DRINK!)
• Recommend one game of all time, one game for the rest of your life?
• Crandy: Runescape (Overall), Rock Band 3 (Xbox), Driver 3
• Freamwhole: Destiny, GTA5
• Longest Episode == Most Downloaded Episode; clearly due to the extra Jo ;) #jk
• Favourite site wish list items - Regional filtering (Randy); My game collection (Brandon); Multiple ToDo Lists (Brandon - and JO!!!); Leaderboard filtering by Gamerscore/Achievement changes over time (Brandon); TrueAchievement titles (Brandon)
• I totally did doze off at work today (LOL - Jo) - I do love sleep. Urm, 4 hours a night is not enough Brandon!
• Earthworm Jim 3D - possibly the worst collectible task in a game (marbles); I prefer it when there’s a story to collect; 20th anniversary of Pokemon

01:00:06 Featured Content - Just "PAL"ing around

• Shoutout to MightyMango and HandyDarkness
• PAL Regions  - Europe, Australia and New Zealand
• Where? Amazon UK - £5 shipping rate internationally. Also, Game will ship console internationally for £5 (also used consoles).
• Power supply won’t work outside of Europe - will need to get a country-specific power supply.
• Games:
• Amazon UK/ Game, best to buy in buik.
• Germany more difficult to get games from - Amazon DE.
• Get a friend in Europe :)
• Ebay.
• One retailer in Australia - JB Hifi
• GRAW (DRINK!)
• Lots of good PAL games.  Notable/ Rare: Of Orcs and Men (N), My Horse and Me 2 (R), Mafia 2 (Eastern European) (R) - Platinum version with DLC (DLC removed from digital store), Solider of Fortune: Payback (AU - first run), Bloodbath and Kick-Ass 2 (unreleased on disc), Battle vs. Chess (Check vs Mate)
• Digital games: Need a PAL account and PAL console (Games on Demand)

01:27:14 News

• General RAAM leaked for Killer Instinct Season 3
• Xbox Preview Build removed snappable achievements app; but it’s coming back (Shoutout to PMaka1991)
• Fable Legends cancelled and Press Play and Lionhead Studios to be closed
• Other logos go missing (8 studios) - re-structuring, incorporated into other companies 
• e.g: Team Dakota… worries that Project Spark disappearing? 6 months notice for server close-down.. no plans atm to close down game
• Sony jumps in to poach Lionhead employees.
• April 13th Fable Legends Beta closes.

01:45:24 Shovelware Cemetery

• Every 2 weeks now
• Karsten, developer from Happy Tuesday will be interviewed next week on Hero Defense - send in your questions

01:47:12 Gamerscore Bootcamp - OXENFREE

• Alternate with Shovelware Cemetery (every other 2 weeks)
• Excellent guide by amenazamenor JF for the achievement "This House Is Clear" (and pretty much the whole game without spoilers)

01:49:32 Knobs and Discos

• Three Fourths Home - some achievements are getting stuck locked - Devs asking for help (Shoutout to KaibaChaos)
• Machinima app delisted - assumption that achievements will be discontinued
• Rock Band 4 “Locked In” achievement fixed
• Fusion Dots achievements fixed - though TA still has them as unobtainable at time of writing (March 14)
• Smite achievement might become discontinued
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 "Big Leagues" appears to be discontinued

01:53:21 Zombie News Corner

• Dead Island 2 new developer (Shoutout to R56CooperS11 and KURSED SOULS)
• Plants vs Zombies Heroes
• Scooby Doo - PvZ in the commercial breaks; saw this at the cinema the other day (Jo)
• Rocket League getting Dying Light DLC (and vv)

02:01:30 Outro

• Not quite under 2 hours, but close.
• I’m not sneaky ;)
• GRAW Count: 20
• (I think)

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

012 - Outside is Overrated

The newest member of the “1 Million Gamerscore” club, RedmptionDenied, the 5th person on the planet to reach that amazing milestone, joins us. He earned it on his stream last night, not without drama of course, and we’ll ask him about his fantastic run at 1 million. We’ll cover the community questions and find out what the future holds.

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

Please give us a rating or review in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at contact@zedtozed.com, we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on True Achievements.

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

Break music: "Game Cool Dubstep Mode Logo" by Sparximer

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

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

Show notes by Jo Carter. (In proper English :))

Hosts:

Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Guest:

Marshall aka “RedmptionDenied” - TrueAchievements - Xbox - Twitch

0:00:00 - Intro

• Achievement Sponsor: Nifty 50 in F1 2010 - suggested by McLovinLegend
• Intro RedmptionDenied - Newest Member of the 1 Million GS Club
• Mug of the week - Sasquatch containing Earl Grey Tea by Stash
• Pulling a Fream is spreading; the opposite (a Maerf), from alklein92201, is logging in for extra time on ROBLOX for no reason due to missed achievement notifications :)
• March 1 tweet from @StephenKing - Dark Tower movie
• Comments turned off on zedtozed.com due to issues (for now)
• New Leaderboard idea (from Tarragon) - Completion percentage x TA score/ Gamerscore = new stat (I like this! - J)

00:15:00 - RedmptionDenied Interview

• There was a plan. The “Road to 1 Million”; had 950k at the beginning of the year after GTASC 2015 (Great TA Score Challenge)
• 2pm start of the stream, with Kinect game Just Dance 2016 - good achievement name, “Complete your Journey”
• Epic boss battle in Pier Solar, harder because he forgot the controls :)
• Bouncing between 23 games over the course of the stream.
• End of stream - playing Ori, 75g needed. At least that was the plan - but 40g short on re-checking gamerscore…
• 25g short after all popped in Ori. Ended up with Alien: Isolation for final 25G.
• Stats on TA were over 1 million GS - the missing 65g was there; but not registering increase in GS on Xbox (I had this problem with my 100k - J)
• RedmptionDenied extremely disappointed with technical issues in the stream.
• With the 1 million the plan was to play difficult games, survival horror is his favourite genre.
• Lots of positive feedback from viewers and fans.
• 5th person overall, 2nd in US to hit 1 million gamerscore.
• Gamertag? Bonus Level in DOOM (most played game). What about the spelling? 15 character limit on Xbox! (sorry Big Ell)
• Outside is overrated. #obligatorybigellcommentisobligatory
• Started with Halo 3 on the 360, popping achievements.
• Winner of GTASC 2015 individual,.
• Overtook Rand Al Thor earlier this year
• Still in GTASC 2016.
• Let’s Cheer - Kinect shame :)
• Wipe Out games (physically demanding) - shoutout to NBA Kirkland for series completion.
• MX vs ATV: Untamed (non-Kinect, very difficult)
• White whale achievement: Boom Boom Rocket - Sore Thumb Award
• Next obvious goal is 1000 completions.
• Thanks to Big Ell, McLovinLegend, spazpol, Montana7, JQ1017, MADeyePadEYE, JStryker416, angelsk (me), and Johnny Zarpentine for the questions.

01:01:14 - Listener Feedback and Questions

• With thanks to:
• CooperS05 on iTunes, Johnny Zarpentine, Frank Hardy, Mike @Hickster83 and new follower @Chuggybeggs, Harley Wayne, The Yiddler, McLovinLegend, Big Ell, SaucySlingo, Spazpol, Handydarkness, Facial La Fleur, NBA Kirkland, Kez, Enigma Gamer 77, Kunzite 508, Matrarch, II Tatey II, Griffey95, bigeasy97
• Add regional game project on website?
• Ironic games. How do you play something ironically?
• GRAW (DRINK!)
• Yay Jo-love :)
• Tearragon? Tearagone? Tarrygon?
• We love the community!
• Brandon’s Dark Souls Experience TBC (Coming Soon TM). Watch Freamwhole on Twitch.
• GRAW (DRINK!)
• NBA Kirkland Tweet re: parody for Uncharted 4
• Freamhalf - now registered for Brandon’s kid :) (That’s brilliant! - J)
• Banana Split Ship in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - do it solo with the AI not a kid (credit Kez)
• Oi - the “u”s are proper!
• Recommendations for PAL console games?
• Of Orcs and Men (PAL exclusive)
• Rock Band issues US on release
• Indie games for Xbox One not coming to Australia - because it’s expensive to get ratings?
• Correlation with spoilercast and people playing Life is Strange? Petition for Crandy to play?
• Vampyr - Dontnod’s next game
• ET - most famous shovelware movie tie-in game. Documentary about ET and the landfill. Discontinued app on Xbox.
• Tarragon has never seen Jurassic Park?! What is wrong with him?
• Ride to Hell: Retribution
• Hellboy: The Science of Evil, DLC never released (unobtainable)
• Rambo: The Videogame, unreleased DLC also
• Gamerscore bootcamp will be tweaked, maybe do a bit with Shovelware - Twitter Poll
• March 14 - UHH on TA - 1500+ participants so far, sign up closes on the 11th. Thanks to Jack and Rich on TA!
• Potentially more contest ideas coming from Brandon, keep your ears tuned.

01:54:08 - What we’ve been playing

• RedmptionDenied:
• Screencheat
• Jackbox Party Pack 2
• Just Dance 2016
• The Evil Within
• Ori and the Blind Forest (no-death speed run)
• Randy:
• ROBLOX
• Gears of War 2 with Jack
• Pacman Kart Rally
• Wolfenstein (Finished online MP)
• Red Faction Guerilla (boosting)
• Killer Instinct (trying to get Killer before Season 3 - currently gold tier)
• Action Henk
• GRAW (DRINK!)
• Boardgame: Electronic Talking Mystery Mansion
• Tarragon:
• Walking Dead Season 1
• ROBLOX (close to pulling a Fream)
• Zheros
• Minecraft Xbox One
• Pro Baseball Spirits 3 (JP MP) (Thanks Montana97)
• The Swapper
• Madden 08 (Simming, adjust the sliders) - what is this hand-egg thing? SPORTS!
• Boardgame: Roll for the Galaxy
• Brandon:
• The Swapper (Great video walkthrough)
• Kinect Fun Labs Avatar Kinect (Thanks Handydarkness, Hyrulebalverine, Jonker and Soul In A Jar)
• Kinect Fun Labs I Am Super
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
• The Wreckateer (DLC and Golbins)
• Guacamelee - El Infierno

02:09:05 - News

• Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition - March 11
• Rumour about separate achievement list (I hope not - Jo); Cheap upgrade if you have the original version
• The Division - The achievement list is out (7 dark zone achievements)
• New dashboard update - achievements in the left hand side
• Microsoft event - updates about hardware plans, and cross platform stuff.
• Phil Spencer wants to do away with generational idea, and instead we upgrade the Xbox, a blend of PC and Xbox?
• In the past - Sega CD, Sega 32X, Nintendo 64DD (Japan - 15k sold)
• GDC 2016 (March 14-18), Randy planning on attending - donations welcome :)

02:24:34 - Shovelware Cemetery

• Suggestion from Matrarch - Bury it or send to Shovelware Sanctuary
• Beat da Beat
• Bullet hell rhythm game
• Mobile to PC port, coming to Steam
• Verdict: Send to Sanctuary - waiting to see difficulty of achievements
• BONUS: Codes to give away for Steam version (with Steam achievements)
• Action Henk
• Super fun, like Crash Course
• Leaderboard achievement (only going to get harder); hardest achievement is Rainbow Legend
• Screencheat
• Online and local multiplayer, one-hit kills
• Need more time to decide

02:41:20 - Gamerscore Bootcamp

• The Swapper (Great video walkthrough)

02:43:03 - Backwards Compatibility

• Original Plants vs Zombies in the EA Vault - first backwards compatible game in the Vault.

02:34:53 - Knobs and Discos

• Forza 4 - Unicorn Hunter - Partially discontinued (Turn 10 no longer distributing Unicorn cars)
• NOTE: Unicorn car is only obtainable on a fresh start via Forza 3 VIP import. VIP pack has been delisted and is now only available as a download code with a new copy of the Forza 3 limited edition.
• Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones (Win 10) — 4 unobtainable achievements:
• Gone Walkabout, Snappy Threads, Stealth Lord, and The Thomas Riker Award.
• Developer aware and working on a patch
• Fusion Dots (Win 8) - all achievements are currently unobtainable, 0 tracked gamers.

02:47:25 - Game delays

• Mass Effect Andromeda pushed into Q1 2017

02:47:53 - Zombie News Corner

• Dead Island Definitive Collection - May 31
• Dead Island Retro Revenge - it’s a pixelated side scrolling beat-em up mini game as part of the DE.
• Doesn’t include “Escape Dead Island”

02:50:10 - Outro

• Check out RedmptionDenied on Twitch - and see the highlights of his 1 million GS stream.
• You’re welcome :)

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

011 - Gummy Gummy Gummy Gummy

Some unique listener feedback, Fallout 4 mod support, Fream's contest, major GS milestones. BONUS Life Is Strange Spoilercast after the main show.

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

Please give us a rating or review in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed, email us at contact@zedtozed.com, or post on zzUrbanSpaceman's blog on True Achievements. We'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard.

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

Break music: "Game Cool Dubstep Mode Logo" by Sparximer

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

Record Scratch sound by luffy

I Am a Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song) [Party Pop Remix] by Gummibär

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

Show notes by Tarragon Allen and Jo Carter.

Hosts:

Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Jo aka "angelsk" (in the Spoilercast and the show notes) - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

• Achievement Sponsor: Psychotic Prankster from Fallout 3 and Prankster's Return from Fallout 4
• Ew - this sounds like a horrible achievement! (Jo)
• New segment by Crandy: Mug of the week: 36 USF Law Review 2001-2002
• Crandy's tea: Southern Peach Tea by Stash
• Rey's Goop Recipe (this is now the official recipe) - super green!
• PSA: MASTERMAXX713 happy to help people with Famous Piñata from Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise
• Freamwhole's NCAA contest becomes the official True Achievements Ultimate Head to Head Contest (UHH!)
• NOTE: Rules have been clarified - now includes your whole Game Collection if you want
• Make sure you get your Game Collection in order before end of March 11 (registration open March 4)
• A little something special for all of you

0:11:06 - Listener Feedback

• Thanks for listening and sending in your feedback!
• yellow lego guy; Spazpol; Kez001; Beg Ell; Buckmarley155; Facial La Fleur; MclovinLegend; Jawelin; Mighty Mango; NBA Kirkland; Razzourus; Cky616craig1; NexusPlexus; Xtowers; Jo's Mum!; Weasel Pizza; Johnny Zarpentine @Jzarp43; Dan Taylor @GodOfCyanide; Craig Waddington @craigkilldya; Rich Stone aka TrueAchievement @richstone99; Frank Hardy @HardyFrank of the Cult of Frank
• What does happen after the tutorial in Avatar? Has anyone actually played the whole game?
• Reformatting of the gamerscore bootcamp - Twitter Poll
• The Potentially Endless Bean Dive has passed the 3 year mark! Wow.  MADeyePadEYE, Montana97 and seamonkeypowder are still going strong.
• People like Jo :) Jo is happy.
• We want the dream of being able to 100% even if we don’t ever reach it.  However, is this a good reason not to start a game? There is no wrong way to play. We all have scars. But we hate price gouging content - and we don’t want to support those games (e.g: Call of Duty and $15 map packs), especially if we’re going for achievements; however, if you put 100s of hours into it, then it’s worth it for you (Thanks Big El for the discussion point).
• Re: last week’s video game movie discussion - I like the Mario movie (Jo), controversial, I know - but so bad it’s good :)
• Sausage weekend….. okay…..
• Far Cry the Movie
• Screencheat (or screen peeking) - cool concept for a game (discussion re: Goldeneye, Oddjob was too small)
• My favourite movie tie-in video game is the LEGO Movie Videogame :) (Jo) - “Everything is awesome” - spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!
• Quantum Break has gone gold - play it on April 5th (hopefully)

0:50:57 - Recap

• Tarragon:
• ROBLOX (for the daily)
• Layers of Fear (4 pairs of pants scary) - BethBear guide on TA
• Bioshock 2 (KO) MP
• Zheroes (RARGH!)
• Randy:
• Bioshock 2 (KO) MP
• ROBLOX (for the daily)
• Killer Instinct
• Perfect Dark Zero (in Rare Replay)
• Flight Control in Airplane Mode
• Pool Pro Online 3
• GRAW (DRINK!)
• Wolfenstein (360)

• Tarragon and Randy rant about how bad Windows Phone is. If you reset it, then you can’t access anything you had saved on an SD card (bad!) #crandysrants #tarrysrants
• Brandon:
• Guacamelee
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (for the Achievement Scavenger Hunt this week) with his 7 year old son
• ROBLOX (20 days complete)
• Destiny (Titan Mastery) - completing Feb monthly goals
• Losing a streak is officially "Pulling a Fream"
• Abandoning monthly goals for the show
• However, Brandon is planning on finishing 2 Kinect Fun Labs (inc Avatar Kinect) and Wreckateer (DLC and Goblins), and AC: Revelations inc the Lost Archive #marchgoals

1:06:43 - News and Talking Zeds

• RedmptionDenied hit 990k GS, 1 million in mid to late March?
• Stallion83 to hit 1.3 million on 2 year anniversary of 1 million GS (March 13 2016)
• New Game and Achievement Notifications on True Achievements - Challenges (Xtowers was replaced by a robot), Knobs and Discos, and Server Closures.
• Division Beta - 6.4 million people participated
• Alan Wake’s Return trademark filled by Remedy
• Jay and Silent Bob video game (on Fig) - may be ported to Xbox One
• Naughty Dog stole artwork from AC4: Black Flag for Uncharted trailer - they apologised and released a new trailer
• Vivendi trying to get back in the game industry:
• Vivendi's Fight for Gameloft Goes Hostile
• Vivendi Ubisoft takeover might happen
• Fallout 4 mode support coming in April for PC, and a month later for Xbox One. Question, what will be the mods effect on gamerscore? Will they be disabled? Does Bethesda care?

1:35:42 - Shovelware Cemetery

• What is Shovelware?
• Hero Defense - Haunted Island on Steam by Uber Strategist (publisher) and Happy Tuesday (developer)
• Verdict: Set it free or Bury it?
• Reasonable achievement list - waiting to hear if it’ll come to Xbox.
• ROBLOX (half a star)
• Verdict: Set it free or Bury it
• Earn money from Roblox
• For reference, half star games:
• Bug Village (WP)
• Tony Hawk: RIDE
• Easy 1k

1:54:31 - Backwards Compatibility

• Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
• Carcassonne
• DOOM (New) will come with DOOM 1 and DOOM 2 as a pre-order bonus
• GRAW (DRINK!)

1:55:47 - Knobs and Discos

• Halo 4 Challenge related achievements are (hopefully temporarily) discontinued - server is down for challenges - affects:
• The Challenged
• The Challenger
• Game delay: Assetto Corsa, pushed back to June

01:57:18 The Zombie News Corner

• Capcom - Re-releasing Resident Evil 6 to Xbox One in June, 5 in Summer and 4 in the Fall (20th Anniversary)
• Kickstarter: Walking Dead All Out War Miniatures Game (now over)
• Zombies!!! Boardgame (played by Brandon)

2:01:27 - Outro

• GRAW (DRINK!)
• I’m a Gummi Bear but not this kind

2:06:29 - Life Is Strange Spoilercast

• Life is Strange Walkthrough by our own Jo Carter

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

009 - Jo, I'm getting too old for this!

We meet Jo Carter aka "angelsk"; talk about hip pain and creaky knees and how hard it is to keep up with all the young people while gaming; respond to a lot of listener feedback; get 3/4 of the way through boot camp; and lots more!

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

Please give us a rating or review in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at contact@zedtozed.com, we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on True Achievements.

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

Break music: "Game Cool Dubstep Mode Logo" by Sparximer

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

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

Hosts:

Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Jo Carter aka "angelsk" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

• Achievement Sponsor: Love Birds from Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

0:04:10 - Meet angelsk

• 6x9: An Immersive Experience of Solitary Confinement
• Angel from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
• Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey

0:26:54 - Listener Feedback

• Thanks for listening and for your feedback!
• Rand al Thor 19; Maka; McLovinLegend1 <3 Big Ell; HandyDarkness; SeperateJoe; All the jaywalkers of the world; Weasel Pizza; Mighty Mango; AceDawg4; Gamer Grug; @She11Shock; @Kenzibit; @_jawelin; Nexus Plexus; @planting42
• GFWL DRM Information (WIP)
• Fiverr

0:56:39 - Recap

• Some gophers are more equal than others
• Is there anybody out there?

1:24:34 - News

• Titanfall 2 News

1:36:06 - Talking Zeds: I'm Getting Too Old For This?

• TA: I'm Getting Too Old For This

2:01:50 - Gamerscore Boot Camp

• Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
• Wrong Bus Guide on True Achievements

2:04:00 - Knobs and Discos

• We are LIVE from NBA LIVE 16

2:05:06 - Games Delays and Backwards Compatibility

2:09:25 - Zombie News

• Ironically I'm in a rush today so I haven't linked all of the things. Is anyone even reading this? Hello? Hello?

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

008 - Maka and the Zeds: Guest Patrick Maka of Maka 91 Productions

We talk to Patrick Maka of Maka's Guides and Maka 91 Productions about making guides, gamerscore, and life in general; Tarragon announces Project BALROG; and the usual listener feedback and more!

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

Please give us a rating or review in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at contact@zedtozed.com, we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on True Achievements.

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! developed and published by WayForward Technologies

Post-Outro laugh by Maka 91 Productions

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

Hosts:

Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Patrick Maka aka "Maka91" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

• Achievement sponsor: Centre of the Galaxy from Elite Dangerous suggested by Warren Kazakiewich (@planting42), thanks!

0:06:00 - Zed Talks: Patrick Maka

• https://www.youtube.com/user/Maka91Productions
• http://www.twitch.tv/maka91productions
• https://www.patreon.com/maka91productions
• https://twitter.com/PMaka1991
• Maka's Setup
• TXR Podcast

0:57:09 - Sounds of the Horde (Listener feedback)

• Thanks for your feedback!
• Officer Zero, BT7398, Separate Joe, Buckmarley155, Planting42, xl Mik392 lx, @AvengedAgainst, @Jzarp43, @angelsk, @doughboyee, McLovinLegend1, Thrash Forever, @_jawelin, Big Ell, Facial La Fleur, Rand al Thor 19, Montana97, Xtowers, x jjaldana x, ... Crandy?
• Game: Ski-Doo Snowmobile Challenge

2:00:58 - News

• Project BALROG: Bean-dive All the Little-loved, Rare and Overlooked Games
• Madden 16 joins the EA Vault
• Gone Home released worldwide
• Sneak Peek at Tom Clancy's The Division Season Pass

2:09:04 - Gamerscore Boot Camp

• Thomas Was Alone
• Achievement pickup levels:
• 0.3
• 0.5 – 1.8
• 1.9 – 2.4
• 2.9 – 3.4
• 3.8 – 4.4
• 4.8 – 5.1
• 5.4 – 6.2
• 6.7 – 7.1
• 7.10 – 8.5
• 8.10 – 9.2
• 9.10

2:11:16 - Zombie News

• DayZ Forums Hacked
• H1Z1 Splitting Into Two Games, Console Versions Confirmed

2:20:08 - Outro

Thanks for listening!

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

007 - Kicking All Of The Starts

We talk Kickstarter, respond to bucketloads of listener feedback (we <3 you guys!), set more goals, knobs and discos, boot camps, and more!

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

Please give us a rating or review in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at contact@zedtozed.com, we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on True Achievements.

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

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

Outro sample from the movie "Pulp Fiction" directed by Quentin Tarantino, performed by Bruce Willis and Maria de Medeiros

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 Sponsor: Battle Mastery from Magic 2015 - Duels of the Planeswalkers suggested by Xtowers - thanks!

0:07:02 - Listener Feedback

• Thanks so much for contacting us, following us, retweeting us, leaving reviews, SOCIAL ALL OF THE MEDIAS!
• Jellied Bigfoot; Pete 924; MADeyePadEYE; Handydarkness; GamerGrug; KURSED SOULS; RavioliCaponi; PLANET13; GillesdeRais; Large Coffee; @angelsk; @griffey96; @GTMontana97; @MclovinLegend; Grumpa782; @bubbajoewhupass; @PMaka1991; @Master_Adamo; NBA Kirkland; @Trueachievement; wtbuffs87; Facial La Fleur; Nick Monfries; seamonkeypowder
• Zero Latency
• @GTMontana97's Government Pandemic Control Picture: https://twitter.com/GTMontana97/status/693309022477250564/photo/1
• Facial La Fleur's thoughts on Game Publishers: http://zedtozed.com/006-gamerscore-vs-games#comments

0:44:03 - Recap

• Stamp Card Glitch for Xbox Fitness
• Freamwhole's Completion Challenge
• Great Random To Do List 2015
• World Snooker Championship 2007 "WIN" Cheat Codes
• Stockfish Chess Engine
• Freamwhole's Scavenger Hunt
• Jesticulator's Solution for Banshees, Fast and Low

1:19:58 - News

• Zed to Zed is on Stitcher
• Zed to Zed is on YouTube
• Dangerous Golf
• Song of the Deep
• Insomniac's Brian Hastings on Song of the Deep
• Amazing Princess Sarah on TA
• Amazing Princess Sarah's Bursting Talents
• Arbiter teased for Killer Instinct Season 3
• Peter Molyneux not actually retiring
• Mighty No. 9 delayed, yet again

1:34:20 - Talking Zeds: Kickstarter

• Kickstarter
• First Law of Mad Science comic Kickstarter
• Skreens Kickstarter
• Luke Oliver in Batman: Arkham Asylum
• FIG

2:09:24 - Talking Zeds: Monthly Goals

2:20:51 - Gamerscore Boot Camp

• Fight Night Round 3

2:24:05 - Knobs and Discos

• Patched and now obtainable:

• Toppest Of Top Drawers from Guitar Hero Live - Xbox One - Xbox 360
• Maestro from Toro
• Seen Some Things from Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Xbox 360)
• ZHEROS achievements should be working now (twitter)
• Snapped! from STARZ Play
• Movie Lover 10 from STARZ Play
• Rivaled! from Killer Instinct
• Known to be buggy:
• Animal Magnetism from Guitar Hero Live - Xbox One - Xbox 360
• Loitering from Guitar Hero Live - Xbox One - Xbox 360
• Discontinued:
• Bling Of The Road from Guitar Hero Live (Xbox 360)
• Partly Discontinued:
• Mural Artist from Killer Instinct
• Unobtainable:
• Four's Company from ROBLOX

2:28:10 - Game Delays and Backwards Compatibility

• Mighty No 9 delayed
• Reddit thread: Friend was able to install Left 4 Dead 2 on their Xbox One
• Half Life 3 Confirmed

2:29:00 - Zombie Corner

• Umbrella Corps
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

2:31:34 - Outro

• Thanks for listening!

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

006 - Gamerscore vs Games

This week we talk about how Gamerscore affects our buying habits, whether Xbox will bring forward their next generation plans, respond to lots of listener feedback, another Gamerscore boot camp, knobs, discos, and more!

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

Please give us a rating or review in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at contact@zedtozed.com, we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on True Achievements.

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! 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 Sponsor: Go Team! from Red Dead Redemption, thanks Nick Monfries
• Former Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Releases Video Game
• The Inner Circle (TIC) Podcast

0:07:13 - Listener Feedback

• McLovinLegend, Facial La Fleur, RAVIOLICAPONI, Reaver Lion, angelsk, WebChimp UK, Handydarkness, AHP The Nyghty, thanks for your feedback!
• Question from @MclovinLegend1
• Question from @Patrick__Bell
• Game: Kick-Ass 2
• Game: BloodBath
• Game: Speak Out English
• Game: NBA ELITE 11
• EA Voted Worst Company in America, Again
• Game: Memories Off: Yubikiri no Kioku (HK/TW)
• Game: Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do (TW)
• Game: Legend of the Galactic Heroes (PC)
• Game: Guitar Hero 5 (WP)
• Game: Robotron: 2084
• Game: Joust
• Project 2005 by Musquito

0:35:25 - Recap

0:55:54 - News

• Xbox One February System Update
• Destiny February Event

1:01:18 - Talking Zeds: Did lack of gamerscore devalue / make you not want to play Indie/Arcade games on Xbox 360?

• Reddit Question: Did lack of gamerscore devalue / make you not want to play Indie/Arcade games on Xbox 360?
• Game: DLC Quest

1:14:42 - Talking Zeds: Will Xbox One's "Failure" Bring Forward Microsoft's Next Generation Console Plans?

• Gamertag Radio

1:33:37 - Gamerscore Boot Camp

• Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Burning Earth

1:35:07 - Knobs and Discos

• Just Dance 2015 VIP Dancer achievements

• Star Struck and Star Chaser from Just Dance 2015 (Xbox One)
• Star Struck and Star Chaser from Just Dance 2015 (Xbox 360)
• Chinese version of Just Dance 2015 does not have these achievements and is not affected

1:36:13 - Game Delays

• Overkill’s The Walking Dead delayed until 2017
• Rumor: Destiny 2 to miss September 2016 release date (reported all over the place)

1:39:51 - Zombie Corner

• Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 Rewards System

1:41:44 - Outro

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

003 - Looking Back and Forward, Rants and Boot Camp Laserlife

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

We look back at the 2015 and discuss what's coming in 2016, introduce the Gamerscore Boot Camp segment with Laserlife, find more Knobs and Discos, news, zombies, and more.

Please give us a rating or review in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at contact@zedtozed.com, we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on True Achievements.

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! 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

0:01:12 - Achievement Sponsor

• Achievement: Pure Poker from Pure Hold'em

0:02:34 - Recap

• TrueAchievements.com Game Collection Feature
• Game: Quake II - zero gamerscore
• Game: Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights (PC) - achievements are a mess
• Big Buck Hunter World Championship
• Achievement: Ghûls Gone Wild from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
• Achievement: The Collector from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
• Achievement: The Hunt is my Mistress from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

0:34:11 - News

• Publisher Masteronic in administration - some titles delisted:
• Foul Play
• Pool Nation
• Serious Sam: Double D XXL
• Serious Sam 3: BFE

• Spectra
• January 2016 Games with Gold
• Xbox 360
• DiRT Showdown
• PSA: VIP Pass require for online play on Xbox 360 (but not Xbox One) is not free at time of recording
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Jan 16)
• Xbox One
• Killer Instinct Ultra Edition which includes Killer Instinct Classic
• PSA: Killer Instinct will automatically pop the achievement Stylish Orchid on load!
• ZHEROS (Jan 16, replacing THIEF)
• Xbox Fitness no longer requires Kinect (Source)
• Unclear exactly what affect this has on achievements
• Mike Ybarra confirms that the 30 Day Gamerscore Leaderboard will return to Xbox One
• Phil Spencer regarding Original Xbox emulation on Xbox One and related achievements

0:55:11 - Talking Zeds: Looking Back

• 2015 Game Highlights:
• Tarragon:
• Batman: Arkham Knight
• Rise of the Tomb Raider
• Life Is Strange
• Randy:
• Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
• Goosebumps: The Game
• Honourable Mentions:
• Barbie and her Sisters Puppy Rescue
• Monster High New Ghoul In School
• Brandon:
• Fallout 4
• Destiny: The Taken King (Year 2 Changes)
• 2015 Game Lowlights:
• Crandy Rants!
• Rock Band 4
• Guitar Hero Live
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
• TrueAchievements.com added lots of great new features
• Potentially Endless Bean Dive passes 1000 days
• World Records:
• Sashamorning solo Xbox 360 24 hour record
• Space Cadets group Xbox One 24 hour record
• Major Gamerscore Milestones
• Celtic Force hit 1 million Gamerscore on 5th September 2015
• The Dauntless hit 1 million Gamerscore on 20th December 2015

2:01:14 - Talking Zeds: Looking Forward

• Zero Latency - Virtual Reality Zombie Experience
• Tarragon:
• Below
• Mirror's Edge Catalyst
• We Happy Few
• Honourable Mention: Pathologic
• Randy:
• DOOM
• Cyberpunk 2077 (Wikipedia)
• Witcher 3 team has moved to Cyberpunk 2077
• Brandon:
• Quantum Break
• ReCore
• Cuphead
• Thimbleweed Park
• Maniac Mansion (Wikipedia)
• Thimbleweed Park Kickstarter

2:33:07 - Gamerscore Boot Camp

• Laserlife

2:35:09 - Knobs and Discos (unobtainables and discontinued achievements)

• Unobtainable:
• Weapon Collector from Overlord: Fellowship of Evil
• Discontinued:
• Toppest Of Top Drawers from Guitar Hero Live
• Indirectly affects From Zero To Guitar Hero as well
• Toppest Of Top Drawers from Guitar Hero Live (Xbox 360)
• Early Bird from NBA LIVE 15
• Every Street United (all achievements)
• Fixes:
• Achievement values fixed in Starwhal

2:37:28 - Zombie Corner

2:40:52 - Outro

Jargon:

• 1K - Complete the base gamerscore in a game, typically 1000 points, thus 1K. Sometimes used to refer to a completion in general.
• Bean Dive - Annual challenge on TrueAchievements.com aiming to earn at least one achievement in every game in your backlog, coined by it's creator, Beanpotter. The "dive" refers to the loss of completion percentage as a result of starting many new games.
• Boosting - Using gameplay mechanics specifically to unlock achievements. Generally refers to the act of setting up multiplayer matches in particular ways to perform achievement criteria without interruption from regular players. Working towards achievements in lieu of regular gameplay.
• Discos - Discontinued achievements - achievements that are no longer unlockable, probably due to online server shutdowns
• Gamerscore League (GSL) - An annual gamerscore competition hosted on XboxAchievements.com
• Great Random To Do List Challenge - A contest run by Facial La Fleur on the AchievementHounds.com community forums
• GTASC - The Great True Achievement Score Challenge, a year-long, weekly elimination contest run by planting42 on TrueAchievements.com
• Knobs - Unobtainable achievements - achievements that have never been unlockable
• NTSC - See NTSC-U
• NTSC-J - One of the three regional variants of Xbox 360 consoles. Games can be locked so they only play on specific region consoles. Also see NTSC-U and PAL.
• NTSC-U - One of the three regional variants of Xbox 360 consoles. Games can be locked so they only play on specific region consoles. Also see NTSC-J and PAL.
• PAL - One of the three regional variants of Xbox 360 consoles. Games can be locked so they only play on specific region consoles. Also see NTSC-J and NTSC-U.
• Potentially Endless Bean Dive - A contest created on the AchievementHounds.com community forums that requires starting a new game every day. Began on the 28th of February 2013, and still going.
• Preloading - The act of working on the criteria for an achievement until it's almost unlocked, and saving it for a later time, usually for competitions.
• Ratio - Generally refers to the rarity of an achievement as determined by numbers of players of a game vs number who've unlocked the achievement. A statistic calculated on the TrueAchievements.com website.
• Stack - Sometimes a game is released in multiple versions, for example in different regions or on different platforms, and in these cases they can have an entirely independent achievement list. To "stack" a game describes earning the achievements on more than one version of what is, in gameplay terms, the same game. Examples: Batman: Arkham Asylum and Bioshock
• TA - True Achievements, either the score type or the website TrueAchievements.com

002 - Challenges Redux and End of Year Goals

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

We invite Garrett (gamertag Xtowers) on the show to discuss challenges in depth, talk about our end of year (2015) goals and whether we made them or not, gaming news, discontinued and unobtainable achievement news, and more.

Please give us a rating or review in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at contact@zedtozed.com, we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on True Achievements.

Opening/closing music: "Jive Bot" by Jake Kaufman from the game Mighty Switch Force! 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

Guest:

Garrett aka "Xtowers" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro and recap

• Achievement: "Fortnight" from Project Spark
• Monthly Birthday Gamertag Challenge on the Achievements Hounds community forums
• Pre-loading guide for SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge
• Great Random To Do List Challenge 2015
• Achievement: The Cat Came Back from Catwoman's Revenge DLC for Batman: Arkham Knight
• Jazz Hands hand emulation program for TotemBall
• Achievement: Goal Star from Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved
• Achievement: 나바람의 운 (Or winds of fortune) from Super Star Karaoke
• Thanks Black Buff for helping Xtowers out!
• Xbox 360 running slow? Delete your profile and re-download it

0:39:29 - Talking Zeds: Let's Meet Xtowers and Challenges Redux

• Achievement: California Drifter from Forza Motorsport 5
• Xbox One Challenge Notifications leaderboard maintained by Xtowers
• Achievement: Xbox One Preorder achievement from Microsoft Store
• Achievement: Day One achievement from Xbox One
• Undead Labs announces challenges for State of Decay

1:06:09 - Talking Zeds: End of year goals

• Great True Achievement Score Challenge 2015
• AHP Community Show All-Stars Team from GTASC 2015
• Watchlist for Potential Discontinued Achievements list maintained by matdan12
• How to find Kinect Fun Labs
• Achievement: Impress Warren Vidic from The Lost Archive DLC from Assassin's Creed: Revelations
• Gamerscore League (GSL) on Xbox Achievements

1:26:53 - News, Knobs and Discos

• Achievement: Reincarnationist from The Deer God - now obtainable, thanks Crescent Moon Games!
• Achievement: Unfulmigator from The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing - unobtainable
• Achievement: Treasure Hunter from Nova-111 - unobtainable
• Watchlist for Potential Discontinued Achievements list maintained by matdan12
• Fallout 4 bottle duplication glitch has been patched
• Listener question: seamonkeypowder asks about retail games with no unlockable achievements. Thanks WebChimp UK for digging this info out for me.
• Only one physical title that fits this bill: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
• Non-physical titles that have no unlockable achievements:
• 1 vs 100
• Age of Empires Online (GFWL)
• Ascend: Hand of Kul (XBLA)
• Doritos Crash Course 2 (XBLA)
• Galatic Reign (Windows 8 and Windows Phone)
• Karaoke (Xbox 360)
• Live Draft Tracker (XBLA)
• Project Sunburst (Windows Phone)
• Team Crossword (Windows 8)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 (Xbox 360)
• Voice Studio (Xbox 360 and Xbox One)
• Warface (Xbox 360)
• Wordament (Web version)
• WSOP: Full House Pro (Windows 8 and XBLA)
• Zoo Tycoon Friends (Windows 8 and Windows Phone)
• Xbox One Backward Compatibility Titles Announcement, December 17 2015
• Press Release: EA announces The EA Competitive Gaming Division, Led by Peter Moore, December 10 2015
• Batman: A Telltale Games Series
• Platinum Games' TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan
• Shadow Complex Remaster rated for PC
• Rocket League
• #madewithhololens
• TheGreatGatsby solo run on Oryx
• DLC plans for Destiny
• Phil Spencer regarding WiiU Minecraft
• @StarWhalGame regarding achievement bugs
• Gone Home is actually coming to Xbox One after all
• Cyberpunk 2077 in late 2016

2:01:14 - Outro

Jargon:

• 1K - Complete the base gamerscore in a game, typically 1000 points, thus 1K. Sometimes used to refer to a completion in general.
• Bean Dive - Annual challenge on TrueAchievements.com aiming to earn at least one achievement in every game in your backlog, coined by it's creator, Beanpotter. The "dive" refers to the loss of completion percentage as a result of starting many new games.
• Boosting - Using gameplay mechanics specifically to unlock achievements. Generally refers to the act of setting up multiplayer matches in particular ways to perform achievement criteria without interruption from regular players. Working towards achievements in lieu of regular gameplay.
• Discos - Discontinued achievements - achievements that are no longer unlockable, probably due to online server shutdowns
• Gamerscore League (GSL) - An annual gamerscore competition hosted on XboxAchievements.com
• Great Random To Do List Challenge - A contest run by Facial La Fleur on the AchievementHounds.com community forums
• GTASC - The Great True Achievement Score Challenge, a year-long, weekly elimination contest run by planting42 on TrueAchievements.com
• Knobs - Unobtainable achievements - achievements that have never been unlockable
• NTSC - See NTSC-U
• NTSC-J - One of the three regional variants of Xbox 360 consoles. Games can be locked so they only play on specific region consoles. Also see NTSC-U and PAL.
• NTSC-U - One of the three regional variants of Xbox 360 consoles. Games can be locked so they only play on specific region consoles. Also see NTSC-J and PAL.
• PAL - One of the three regional variants of Xbox 360 consoles. Games can be locked so they only play on specific region consoles. Also see NTSC-J and NTSC-U.
• Potentially Endless Bean Dive - A contest created on the AchievementHounds.com community forums that requires starting a new game every day. Began on the 28th of February 2013, and still going.
• Preloading - The act of working on the criteria for an achievement until it's almost unlocked, and saving it for a later time, usually for competitions.
• Ratio - Generally refers to the rarity of an achievement as determined by numbers of players of a game vs number who've unlocked the achievement. A statistic calculated on the TrueAchievements.com website.
• Stack - Sometimes a game is released in multiple versions, for example in different regions or on different platforms, and in these cases they can have an entirely independent achievement list. To "stack" a game describes earning the achievements on more than one version of what is, in gameplay terms, the same game. Examples: Batman: Arkham Asylum and Bioshock
• TA - True Achievements, either the score type or the website TrueAchievements.com