Mar 23, 2016
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.
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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:
-
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
- 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
- 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:
- 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
2:22:47 - News
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
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
3:03:01 - Outro
Glossary of Xbox Gamerscore and achievement jargon
and terms: http://zedtozed.com/xbox-gamerscore-and-achievement-glossary