March 23, 2016

014 Gee Dee Cee Cheer!

3 hours 6 minutes

014 - Gee Dee Cee Cheer!

Crandy earns an achievement and goes to some little game conference, Fream finds out he's not alone in the world, and Tarragon gets more games.

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

Please give us a rating or review on iTunes and in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success, and is a free, easy way to support the show!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at [email protected], we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on TrueAchievements and zzUrbanSpaceman's blog.

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

5 Sec Crowd Cheer sound by Mike Koenig

Record Scratch sound by luffy

Nyancat song by daniwell and Momomomo

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

Guest:

Damien Knox aka "Spazpol" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

Achievement sponsor: Leader of the Pack from Yaris. Thanks KaibaChaos!

Mug of the week: Canada with Twinnings Earl Grey

Rare game: Memories Off: Yubikiri no Kioku (HK/TW)

Tarragon's new classic games:

Barbie and her Sisters Puppy Rescue

Just Dance: Disney Party 2 (Xbox 360)

NBA Baller Beats

The Voice

Falling Skies

360 Regional Compatibility Project

Fream has a Doppelgänger

IRS Data Breach

Beat da Beat giveaway - contest still running

TrueAchievements Site Leaderboard Proposal: GA/TA Weighted by Completion

Regional Compatibility: thanks BigNev44, JamP0und32, General Tynstar, TheSpinalClerk, Huckster and MightyMango for putting your hands up to help, and |X| Falcon and Large Coffee for one off tests.

Kick-Ass 2 is PAL only

Zed to Zed Facebook Group to be retired in favour of Zed to Zed Facebook Page

Keep both?

Youtube format changing - single shows, not split format

Ultimate Head to Head Contest launched on TrueAchievements and is awesome

Week 1 Zed to Zed related matchups

Ereaser NL vs Freamwhole

Crandy vs Sammler 360

Trombone Guy vs zzUrbanSpaceman

angelsk vs Daffadillon

Spazpol vs smoking opios

The Yiddler likes the Gummy Bears rather than our show?

Explicit: HAM from Urban Dictionary

Rich and Jack from TrueAchievements have been awesome with developing the UHH contest

Facial La Fleur's Great Random To Do List Challenge 2015

Games go on sale but not DLC, it's annoying

People want more UHH!

Thanks for your feedback: Big Ell, The Yiddler, AHP The Nyghty, Facial La Fleur

0:43:10 - Recap

Brandon:

Rayman Legends - thanks morseypoo2000 and Xtowers for setting the bar really low

Dived 7 games: Pneuma, Thief, Chariot, The Deer God, Styx, Battlestations: Pacific, D4

Revisited: Titanfall, Halo: Spartan Assault, SSX, Crimson Dragon and pulled a maerF, Child of Light

Tarragon:

OXENFREE, The Walking Dead Season 1 Xbox One, Monopoly Plus 360, Summer Athletics for the 1 pointer, ZHEROS, Tachyon Project

UHH: The Lego Movie Video Game, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Threes!, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Xbox Fitness, Powerstar Golf, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Rare Replay (Killer Instinct Gold), Wreckateer, D4, BattleBlock Theatre, Secret of Monkey Island, Valiant Hearts

I am rubber, you are glue

Randy:

UHH: Wolfenstein, Bad Company 2, Midnight Club, Aegis Wing, Saints Row 4, Saints Row 3 German, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Bloodstone, Killer Instinct, Perfect Dark

Lucky32468 asks whether Shadow Jago will be back in Killer Instinct: yes, almost certainly. Thanks for the question!

CRANDY UNLOCKS SOLO CHAMPION IN GRAW YAAAAAY!

No more GRAW drinking game?

Future GRAW special

Twitter conversation with @Serellan about GRAW

GRAW - Crandy got passed on the leaderboard which added some motivation

10k hours - Crandy has mastered boosting GRAW

Crandy to do a post-GRAW ratio dive (Barbie!)

1:04:21 - Feedback

Thanks Handydarkness - you know what you did

Marknocturnal hopes not to Pull a Fream in ROBLOX

MattQuin89, thanks for listening! You'll probably see this in a month. ;)

Thanks @AUWarEagle (Cannon Fodder 06)

Keith271179 asks - how about that Done... Unlocking issue? We will cover it on a future show, thanks for the question.

Thanks again to the TrueAchievements podcast for bringing so many listeners our way

Tarragon sounds like Hugh Jackman?

Achievement streaks: Tarragon: 320 days, Randy: 51 days, Brandon: 51 days

Windows Phone: not really worth it for achievements in Randy and Tarragon's opinion

Windows Phone had achievement syncing issues early 2015, no solution beyond wiping phone and redoing

R56CooperS11 asks if large sporting events inspire playing particular sports games:

Tarragon gets the urge to play the F1 games buuuuuut ... no

Randy doesn't watch sports, but wants another Fight Night game (NOT UFC)

Brandon doesn't like sports games, would watch real life Mortal Kombat

Big Ell wants episodes sooner. Here's next weeks show just for you

Randy only got into GDC because it was his sweet 16

Thanks Jo for show notes last week

Big Ell asks about favourite co-op games:

Tarragon: GAUNTLET arcade, Halo, Chariot

Brandon: Legend of the Mystical Ninja - Brandon's white whale!

AHP The Nyghty asks about favourite underrated games:

Randy: Syndicate

Tarragon: Spec Ops: The Line, Sleeping Dogs, Bully

Brandon: Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine

Facial La Fleur discusses console upgrades

PS4 upgrade for 4K? Crandy coined "PS4K"

KaibaChaos found his headphones! YAAAAAY!

@MattQuin89: smrnov passes Stallion83 on the TA leaderboard, crandy graw graw crandy graw crandy

Randy might host the GRAW show when he turns 17

BIGSXY1 passes Rand Al Thor

Kaiba Chaos likes long shows

Big Ell:

Fitbit! GOFBC - The Go Outside FitBit Challenge

Zed to Zed FitBit Group?

Eragon isn't as bad as people think. (Yes it is! -t)

Planting42 emailed us! YAAAAAY!

Weird gamerscore updates are weird

Watch out for unlocking backwards compatible achievements offline

@GodOfCyanide waits until the last minute

1:44:41 - Feature: GDC 2016

Virtuix Omni free movement rig for VR

Something for the TrueAchievements office?

101 Ways to Die by Four Door Lemon and Vision Games (TA)

Achievements creation involved the entire dev team

Giveaway code in a future show

BigBen Interactive (The Big Ben Booth)

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

Nacon Gamepad

Nice feel

Customisable

Mouse emulation

Grippy feel good stuff

Changeable cable

Changeable weights

2Dark by Gloomy Wood

Very cool sounding survival horror game

Achievements also part of the development process and not an afterthought

Unique theme

Might be a physical release/collector's edition?

WHERE DID FREAM GO?

2:22:47 - News

TrueAchievements achievement keyword search returns via the advanced search page YAAAAAAY!

Xbox Is Actively Looking Into Digital Game Sharing Options

Destiny Kid Has His Characters Deleted via SharePlay

Xbox are open to the idea of cross-platform network play: Xbox Wire, GameSpot

Windows 10 UWP apps will come to Xbox One

Xbox One DVR is coming

New Tomb Raider movie reboot to be inspired by 2013 video game

Rumour: Red Dead Redemption 2 and RDR Remaster to be announced at E3

2:43:16 - Shovelware Cemetery with special guest Damien Knox

Punch Club

Thanks tinyBuild for the review code

Great story and 16-bit feel

To the sanctuary!

Screencheat

Thanks to Surprise Attack Games for the review code

Price is a little steep for what it is

A lot of fun with friends

One unobtainable being actively worked on by the developer

Great concept, reminiscent of N64 multiplayer days/GoldenEye

To the sanctuary!

Thanks to special guest Damien aka Spazpol for the extra feedback

2:55:31 - Knobs and Discos

Better Together from Don Bradman Cricket fixed YAAAAAAY!

Don Bradman is Australian and we're keeping him!

Sky Captain from Screencheat currently unobtainable, developer working on a fix

Unfulmigator from The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing fixed

2:57:37 - BC and Game Delays

Gone Home follow up Tocama delayed

New Backwards Compatibility titles: Alan Wake, Pac-Man, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Halo Wars (preview owners only)

BC emulator update in preview?

2:59:53 - Zombie News Corner

Resident Evil: The Musical - GameSpot - Capcom

A musical interlude

3:03:01 - Outro

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

...more

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March 23, 2016

014 Gee Dee Cee Cheer!

3 hours 6 minutes

014 - Gee Dee Cee Cheer!

Crandy earns an achievement and goes to some little game conference, Fream finds out he's not alone in the world, and Tarragon gets more games.

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

Please give us a rating or review on iTunes and in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success, and is a free, easy way to support the show!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at [email protected], we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on TrueAchievements and zzUrbanSpaceman's blog.

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

5 Sec Crowd Cheer sound by Mike Koenig

Record Scratch sound by luffy

Nyancat song by daniwell and Momomomo

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

Guest:

Damien Knox aka "Spazpol" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

Achievement sponsor: Leader of the Pack from Yaris. Thanks KaibaChaos!

Mug of the week: Canada with Twinnings Earl Grey

Rare game: Memories Off: Yubikiri no Kioku (HK/TW)

Tarragon's new classic games:

Barbie and her Sisters Puppy Rescue

Just Dance: Disney Party 2 (Xbox 360)

NBA Baller Beats

The Voice

Falling Skies

360 Regional Compatibility Project

Fream has a Doppelgänger

IRS Data Breach

Beat da Beat giveaway - contest still running

TrueAchievements Site Leaderboard Proposal: GA/TA Weighted by Completion

Regional Compatibility: thanks BigNev44, JamP0und32, General Tynstar, TheSpinalClerk, Huckster and MightyMango for putting your hands up to help, and |X| Falcon and Large Coffee for one off tests.

Kick-Ass 2 is PAL only

Zed to Zed Facebook Group to be retired in favour of Zed to Zed Facebook Page

Keep both?

Youtube format changing - single shows, not split format

Ultimate Head to Head Contest launched on TrueAchievements and is awesome

Week 1 Zed to Zed related matchups

Ereaser NL vs Freamwhole

Crandy vs Sammler 360

Trombone Guy vs zzUrbanSpaceman

angelsk vs Daffadillon

Spazpol vs smoking opios

The Yiddler likes the Gummy Bears rather than our show?

Explicit: HAM from Urban Dictionary

Rich and Jack from TrueAchievements have been awesome with developing the UHH contest

Facial La Fleur's Great Random To Do List Challenge 2015

Games go on sale but not DLC, it's annoying

People want more UHH!

Thanks for your feedback: Big Ell, The Yiddler, AHP The Nyghty, Facial La Fleur

0:43:10 - Recap

Brandon:

Rayman Legends - thanks morseypoo2000 and Xtowers for setting the bar really low

Dived 7 games: Pneuma, Thief, Chariot, The Deer God, Styx, Battlestations: Pacific, D4

Revisited: Titanfall, Halo: Spartan Assault, SSX, Crimson Dragon and pulled a maerF, Child of Light

Tarragon:

OXENFREE, The Walking Dead Season 1 Xbox One, Monopoly Plus 360, Summer Athletics for the 1 pointer, ZHEROS, Tachyon Project

I am rubber, you are glue

Randy:

UHH: Wolfenstein, Bad Company 2, Midnight Club, Aegis Wing, Saints Row 4, Saints Row 3 German, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Bloodstone, Killer Instinct, Perfect Dark

Lucky32468 asks whether Shadow Jago will be back in Killer Instinct: yes, almost certainly. Thanks for the question!

CRANDY UNLOCKS SOLO CHAMPION IN GRAW YAAAAAY!

No more GRAW drinking game?

Future GRAW special

Twitter conversation with @Serellan about GRAW

GRAW - Crandy got passed on the leaderboard which added some motivation

10k hours - Crandy has mastered boosting GRAW

Crandy to do a post-GRAW ratio dive (Barbie!)

1:04:21 - Feedback

Thanks Handydarkness - you know what you did

Marknocturnal hopes not to Pull a Fream in ROBLOX

MattQuin89, thanks for listening! You'll probably see this in a month. ;)

Thanks @AUWarEagle (Cannon Fodder 06)

Keith271179 asks - how about that Done... Unlocking issue? We will cover it on a future show, thanks for the question.

Thanks again to the TrueAchievements podcast for bringing so many listeners our way

Tarragon sounds like Hugh Jackman?

Achievement streaks: Tarragon: 320 days, Randy: 51 days, Brandon: 51 days

Windows Phone: not really worth it for achievements in Randy and Tarragon's opinion

Windows Phone had achievement syncing issues early 2015, no solution beyond wiping phone and redoing

R56CooperS11 asks if large sporting events inspire playing particular sports games:

Tarragon gets the urge to play the F1 games buuuuuut ... no

Randy doesn't watch sports, but wants another Fight Night game (NOT UFC)

Brandon doesn't like sports games, would watch real life Mortal Kombat

Big Ell wants episodes sooner. Here's next weeks show just for you

Randy only got into GDC because it was his sweet 16

Thanks Jo for show notes last week

Big Ell asks about favourite co-op games:

Tarragon: GAUNTLET arcade, Halo, Chariot

Brandon: Legend of the Mystical Ninja - Brandon's white whale!

AHP The Nyghty asks about favourite underrated games:

Randy: Syndicate

Tarragon: Spec Ops: The Line, Sleeping Dogs, Bully

Brandon: Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine

Facial La Fleur discusses console upgrades

PS4 upgrade for 4K? Crandy coined "PS4K"

KaibaChaos found his headphones! YAAAAAY!

@MattQuin89: smrnov passes Stallion83 on the TA leaderboard, crandy graw graw crandy graw crandy

Randy might host the GRAW show when he turns 17

BIGSXY1 passes Rand Al Thor

Kaiba Chaos likes long shows

Big Ell:

Fitbit! GOFBC - The Go Outside FitBit Challenge

Zed to Zed FitBit Group?

Eragon isn't as bad as people think. (Yes it is! -t)

Planting42 emailed us! YAAAAAY!

Weird gamerscore updates are weird

Watch out for unlocking backwards compatible achievements offline

@GodOfCyanide waits until the last minute

1:44:41 - Feature: GDC 2016

Virtuix Omni free movement rig for VR

Something for the TrueAchievements office?

101 Ways to Die by Four Door Lemon and Vision Games (TA)

Achievements creation involved the entire dev team

Giveaway code in a future show

BigBen Interactive (The Big Ben Booth)

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

Nacon Gamepad

Nice feel

Customisable

Mouse emulation

Grippy feel good stuff

Changeable cable

Changeable weights

2Dark by Gloomy Wood

Very cool sounding survival horror game

Achievements also part of the development process and not an afterthought

Unique theme

Might be a physical release/collector's edition?

WHERE DID FREAM GO?

2:22:47 - News

TrueAchievements achievement keyword search returns via the advanced search page YAAAAAAY!

Xbox Is Actively Looking Into Digital Game Sharing Options

Destiny Kid Has His Characters Deleted via SharePlay

Xbox are open to the idea of cross-platform network play: Xbox Wire, GameSpot

Windows 10 UWP apps will come to Xbox One

Xbox One DVR is coming

New Tomb Raider movie reboot to be inspired by 2013 video game

Rumour: Red Dead Redemption 2 and RDR Remaster to be announced at E3

2:43:16 - Shovelware Cemetery with special guest Damien Knox

Punch Club

Thanks tinyBuild for the review code

Great story and 16-bit feel

To the sanctuary!

Screencheat

Thanks to Surprise Attack Games for the review code

Price is a little steep for what it is

A lot of fun with friends

One unobtainable being actively worked on by the developer

Great concept, reminiscent of N64 multiplayer days/GoldenEye

To the sanctuary!

Thanks to special guest Damien aka Spazpol for the extra feedback

2:55:31 - Knobs and Discos

Better Together from Don Bradman Cricket fixed YAAAAAAY!

Don Bradman is Australian and we're keeping him!

Sky Captain from Screencheat currently unobtainable, developer working on a fix

Unfulmigator from The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing fixed

2:57:37 - BC and Game Delays

Gone Home follow up Tocama delayed

New Backwards Compatibility titles: Alan Wake, Pac-Man, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Halo Wars (preview owners only)

BC emulator update in preview?

2:59:53 - Zombie News Corner

Resident Evil: The Musical - GameSpot - Capcom

A musical interlude

3:03:01 - Outro

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

...more

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