002 - Challenges Redux and End of Year Goals
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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.
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Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox
Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox
Garrett aka "Xtowers" - TrueAchievements - Xbox
0:00:00 - Intro and recap
Achievement: "Fortnight" from Project SparkMonthly Birthday Gamertag Challenge on the Achievements Hounds community forumsPre-loading guide for SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic RevengeGreat Random To Do List Challenge 2015Achievement: The Cat Came Back from Catwoman's Revenge DLC for Batman: Arkham KnightJazz Hands hand emulation program for TotemBallAchievement: Goal Star from Disney Fantasia: Music EvolvedAchievement: 나바람의 운 (Or winds of fortune) from Super Star KaraokeThanks Black Buff for helping Xtowers out!Xbox 360 running slow? Delete your profile and re-download it0:39:29 - Talking Zeds: Let's Meet Xtowers and Challenges Redux
Achievement: California Drifter from Forza Motorsport 5Xbox One Challenge Notifications leaderboard maintained by XtowersAchievement: Xbox One Preorder achievement from Microsoft StoreAchievement: Day One achievement from Xbox OneUndead Labs announces challenges for State of Decay1:06:09 - Talking Zeds: End of year goals
Great True Achievement Score Challenge 2015AHP Community Show All-Stars Team from GTASC 2015Watchlist for Potential Discontinued Achievements list maintained by matdan12How to find Kinect Fun LabsAchievement: Impress Warren Vidic from The Lost Archive DLC from Assassin's Creed: RevelationsGamerscore League (GSL) on Xbox Achievements1:26:53 - 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 - unobtainableAchievement: Treasure Hunter from Nova-111 - unobtainableWatchlist for Potential Discontinued Achievements list maintained by matdan12Fallout 4 bottle duplication glitch has been patchedListener 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 06Non-physical titles that have no unlockable achievements:1 vs 100Age 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 2015Press Release: EA announces The EA Competitive Gaming Division, Led by Peter Moore, December 10 2015Batman: A Telltale Games SeriesPlatinum Games' TMNT: Mutants in ManhattanShadow Complex Remaster rated for PCRocket League#madewithhololensTheGreatGatsby solo run on OryxDLC plans for DestinyPhil Spencer regarding WiiU Minecraft@StarWhalGame regarding achievement bugsGone Home is actually coming to Xbox One after allCyberpunk 2077 in late 20161K - 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 shutdownsGamerscore League (GSL) - An annual gamerscore competition hosted on XboxAchievements.comGreat Random To Do List Challenge - A contest run by Facial La Fleur on the AchievementHounds.com community forumsGTASC - The Great True Achievement Score Challenge, a year-long, weekly elimination contest run by planting42 on TrueAchievements.comKnobs - Unobtainable achievements - achievements that have never been unlockableNTSC - See NTSC-UNTSC-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 BioshockTA - True Achievements, either the score type or the website TrueAchievements.com