013 Just PAL-ing Around

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.

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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

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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