Mar 30, 2016
015 - smrnov, Korea, and Fitbit
Tarragon sits down for a chat with Gamerscore giant
smrnov, Korea games get some attention, and apparently a lot of
people have Fitbits.
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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
from the game Mighty Switch
Force! developed and published by WayForward Technologies
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Show notes by Tarragon Allen.
Hosts:
Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements
- Xbox
Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements
- Xbox
0:00:00 - Intro
0:19:30 - Recap
- Tarragon
- UHH: Forza Motorsport 5, South Park: Stick of
Truth, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Gears of War
- Rare games week: Memories Off: Yubikiri no Kioku
(HW/TW), Dead Rising 2: Case Zero (KR), Dead Rising 2: Case West
(KR), Wall•E (KR)
- Tachyon Project, Minecraft: Xbox One Edition
- Brandon:
-
Monthly Birthday Gamertag Challenge on the Achievement Hounds
forums
- Nicktoons MLB, Injustice: Gods Among Us, The
Escapists, YAIBA: Ninja Gaiden Z, Enslaved: Odyssey to the
West
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Destiny
0:29:31 - Feedback
- iTunes reviews! Thanks Black Buff, Avenged Against,
MitRialB
- Email! Thanks Tim Blair GT: MitRialb
- Twitter: @KaibaChaos - future guests we'd
like?
- The Dauntless
- Microsoft Achievement people
- Rand Al Thor 19
- Christian Allen
- Phil Spencer
- Major Nelson
- Creators of first achievements
- Vince Curley
- IGN Unfiltered
- Twitter: MclovinLegend - GRAW and nyancat
- Twitter: NBA Kirkland - twitch for Dark Souls
- Fream will stream Dark Souls soon
- Blog: Facial La Fleur - don't bother with Windows
Phone
- Feed: Facial La Fleur - need more lead time to give
feedback!
- Feed: Xtowers - ever bought DLC without
achievements?
- Tarragon: yep: Batman and Minecraft
- Brandon: nope, unless it's in a season pass
- Feed: Handydarkness - wife in hospital? Lack of
movie tie-in games?
- Feed: Big Ell (THAT guy)
- don't do more than two contests a year
- play our games properly the rest of the year
- There's no proper way to play games :P
- Goal-driven achievementing
- BeanPotter's Bean Dive responding to the same
"problem" as the UHH: ridiculous backlogs
- DLC co-op for N+
- Kursed Souls didn't repeat a Fream
0:57:44 - Interview: smrnov
- Interview from January
- smrnov's
statistics from TrueAchievements
- 50k+ achievements
- 1.25+ million gamerscore
- 2.3+ million TA score
- 74% completion
- Second in the world to hit 1 million GS
- Most completions in the world (1400+)
- 48% of all possible achievements unlocked
- smrnov overtook Stallion83 recently on TA
score
- Stallion83's death in
the family - :( our condolences Ray, all the best
- What over 2
million GS looks like
1:23:48 - News
1:45:48 - Gamerscore Bootcamp
1:49:41 - Knobs and Discos
1:51:53 - Backwards Compatible and Game Delays
- BC: Assassin's Creed, Grid 2, Dark Void, Tekken Tag
Tournament 2, Dark Souls
- Delayed: Dangerous Golf, Adr1ft
1:53:19 - Zombie News
1:57:10 - Outro
Glossary of Xbox Gamerscore and achievement jargon
and terms: http://zedtozed.com/xbox-gamerscore-and-achievement-glossary