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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

All audio production and podcast backend support provided by Tarragon Allen.

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?
    • THQ?
    • LEGO 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