Achievement Hunting 101

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Vulgar Latin, Exe the Hero This Week's Question - For this week's question, we'd just like to know what your video game-related Christmas or holiday wish is! Can be personal or more general. Feel free to give a real answer, a pipe dream answer, or both! With two panelists playing hooky, special guests Vulgar Latin and Exe the Hero! 3 millionaires on one panel! Vulgar played an almost veiner on Game Pass! Ell played a definite veiner that left Game Pass! Exe played a lot of stuff, and some of it was on Game Pass! Fufu likes Game Pass too, we think. Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life!   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 Games Mentioned: Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker Recompile Record of Lodoss War -Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth- Shapeshifting Detective Vampire Survivors Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/e

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Matrarch This Week's Question - Did you watch the 2022 Game Awards? Whether you did or didn’t, leave a comment about any impression you had, either negative or positive! About the awards themselves, the game trailers, lack of Xbox representation, etc. Thank you!  The 2022 Game Awards are in the books! Which trailers did the hosts enjoy?  Michelle played an old classic, how does it hold up? Ell played two WONDERFUL games. Classic. Nate played a game nobody has ever heard of. Classic. Kenny played an obscene, drug loving, very colorful game. Acid. I mean. Classic. Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life!   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 Games Mentioned: Bioshock Remastered Cruz Brothers High on Life Lake The Tale of Bistun Elroy works hard to get the stinch of sewers, and possibly Subway, out of his clothes as he is full of outright disappointment with what could have been and wha

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Vulgar Latin Before the show started, Vulgar Latin ate a pickle candy cane and it was well…check for yourself! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1672381355?t=00h10m18s Yum! This Week's Question - What's a game deep in your backlog that you've been meaning to go back to, and have come close to playing, but for some reason still haven't gone back to? - erutaerc It’s our live show! Koosh shockingly played a Game Pass game, but he didn’t use his hands! How did that go? Vulgar took a village. That’s it. Ell finally hit a huge milestone and mused about it, but not in full detail like he’d like to at some point! FuFu ate hot sauce mixed with rice and Old Bay. xNeo21x gives the November veiner roundup. (1:21:11) Games Mentioned: Resident Evil: Village Soccer Story Well done, Ell. Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life! https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Matrarch This Week's Question - In honor of our euro boosting group (plus Mario) finally all getting Seriously in Gears 1 after two years of weekly boosting, what’s the one achievement you’ve put the most time and effort into but haven’t yet unlocked? What does it involve, are you still actively trying for it, do you think you’ll realistically ever earn it and when do you expect it might happen? And after all is said and done do you think it will be worth it? We welcome Michelle back to the show! She visited Oregon and walked the trail! Ell had a little help from his friend(s) and family with Battletoads, but did Guacamelee 2 Proving Grounds by himself like a big boy! Kenny visited Game Pass and found guns, and gore. Well, not so much gore. At least he didn't have explosive diarrhea this week. Nate indeed get a rise out of playing Arise. Obvious joke is obvious. Enjoy the show! Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life!   https:/

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Vulgar Latin This Week's Question - PlayStation has allegedly taken steps to begin limiting achievement spam games (the ones where you literally just push a button to unlock a platinum). Thankfully Xbox doesn’t have quite the same problem (or the vast number of stacks) but would you like to see Microsoft also take more steps to limit what sort of games and achievement lists are allowed on Xbox? How much control and oversight should they have on what’s acceptable? Nate played a Limbolike on Game Pass! Devin played Persona 5: Royale With Cheese. Ell played a potpourri of poop, and also Tunic. Kenny had explosive diarrhea and left us halfway through, but should be feeling better now. Games Mentioned: Arsonist Heaven Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer Persona 5 Royal Somerville Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master! Tunic

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Freamwhole This Week's Question - With the TA event 12 Days of Xmas coming up soon, we ask the following! What are your favorite achievement hunting contests/activities?  Can be TA or AH101 related such as FCC 2023 (which is on the horizon), TA Targets, GTASC, BCC, AHL, RTDL, etc. Anything with acronyms is always a plus. We welcome Freamwhole back to the show! He had a lot to discuss regarding TA community events! He also discussed a Game Pass game recommended to all of our faithful AH101 citizens! Nate put on his detective hat but it was all slimy. Kenny got Metal AF! Ell had a large eggplant but he forgot the bread so it somehow was not a sandwich! Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life!   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 Games Mentioned: Citizen Sleeper Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery Metal: Hellsinger Peepaw's Farm In this episode of OLTL, Elroy and Inigo tackle the seriou

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, FuFuCuddilyPoof, wildwest08 This Week's Question - With EA entering a partnership with Marvel for 3 superhero games, which character and genre would you like to see? What existing game/series SEQUEL and genre would you like to see? We welcome illustrious patron wildwest08 back to the show! He put us all to shame by discussing a huge AAA title! Ell tackled a Game Pass puzzler with a puzzling title. Nate found his garlic and took a bite out of a game with over 100 achievements! Ahayzo and Vulgar finish the 360 Gears games on Co-operation Nation (1:27:15) This week in Waka's Weird.....not wonders he offers a warning for the game God Damn The Garden. (2:12:20) Games Mentioned: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Gorogoa Vampire Survivors

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, rawkerdude, Vulgar Latin This Week's Question - What are your thoughts about DLC and Title Updates affecting the difficulty of the main game such as new OP characters, assist modes, or new harder difficulty or NG+ modes being added months after release? It’s the November 2022 live show! We welcome back rawkerdude and Vulgar Latin for a fun time. Vulgar played a backwards compatible game with a server closing down soon. Ell played a dark Ratailaika game. Nate played a brand new shoot ‘em up. rawker played a well regarded Game Pass game.   Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life!   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 Games Mentioned: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Deathloop Prince of Landis Warhammer 40k: Shootas, Blood & Teef   Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing   AH101 Podcast Show Links - https

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, FuFuCuddilyPoof (sort of), Matrarch This Week's Question - What is the scariest game you ever played? - Freamwhole It's Halloween time, so let's talk about candy, of course! Oh, and games too! Nate played a hard to pronounce adventure game with an interesting aesthetic. Michelle played a Zumaesque puzzler. Ell played some puzzle games too, including one not for young eyes! Kenny disappeared during the podcast to change a diaper!   Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life!   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 Games Mentioned:  Boreal Tenebrae Marble Duel Metropolis Lux Obscura Pirates of First Star Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing   AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Matrarch This Week's Question - Are you happy with the current Xbox Game Pass format? Would you change/tweak anything? (price, availability time, etc.) Is there such a thing as too many Game Pass games? - @wildwest08 Nate played a cute little Game Pass game...again! This time with costumes! Michelle played a delightful game that weighs in at about 200 megabytes. Ell finally took care of some business six years in the making!   Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life!   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 Games Mentioned:  Costume Quest Demons Tier+ Sunset Overdrive   Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing   AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Matrarch This Week's Question - “Are there any games you've continued to play past getting all the gamerscore from it? Is there a particular "comfort food" game you go back to just for fun? Maybe a game you keep on your hard drive to help others boost a certain achievement in?” - Big Ell Nate played a cute little Game Pass game...again! He played it with his eggcellent chum. Michelle played a puzzle game that Nate recommended to her! How did that go? Ell is going head to head with a community member and has been playing a bunch of decent games...but they are old. But so is he, so it all works out.   Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life! Pew pew pew - call a cab(ela) to make it to the latest genre discussed in Genre’ly Speaking where a fowl dynasty is discussed that may or may not be involved in deep sea spear fishing.   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 Year of the Veiner spread

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Vulgar Latin This Week's Question - What video game universe do you think would translate well to visual media (movie, TV show, anime, etc.)? Alternatively, what already existing video game movie has been done well? Or... has been done horrendously badly? - Legohead It’s our October live episode! Nate played a good game with a bad title. Ell played a bad game with a good title. Devin wore a mask and scared us. Kenny played some Halo. Insert surprised face here!   Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life!   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 Games Mentioned:  Arsonist Heaven Hardspace: Shipbreaker Halo Infinite Mark of the Ninja Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing   AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Matrarch This Week's Question - If all achievements were discontinued for every game except one game of your choice, and that game was continuously updated, what one Xbox game would you choose to continue playing indefinitely? - GT3OptionFan Nate played a cute little Game Pass game just for childr...oh. Nevermind. Ell is ready for the highly anticipated sequel to the GOAT, so he played a game with a triple stack! Did M finally slay her foe? She aspired to do so. Learn about a great game to play on the go with xCloud!    Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life!   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 Games Mentioned:  Beacon Pines Goat Simulator Slay the Spire Children's Miracle Network Hospitals This week Waka dives into the game Catmaze (1:30:30) AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVm

This Week's Panel - Ahayzo, Ahayzo, Ahayzo, Ahayzo This Week's Question - Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo? - Ahayzo  Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo.   Games Mentioned:  Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo Beasts of Maravilla Island Ahayzo Ahayzo Ahayzo You Suck at Parking Ahayzo Ahayzo Blame erutaerc.  AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, rawkerdude This Week's Question - With the sad announcement of Nintendo 64's Goldeneye 007 coming to Xbox with no online MP, it got us thinking. Which games with "tacked on" MP were the best/worst? With FuFu out with the FluFlu, the other 3 OG panelists are here this week! With the holidays on the horizon, lots of new games are getting announced, including the long awaited Nintendo 64 port of Goldeneye! Good brother rawkerdude hit 1 Million Gamerscore! We celebrate this milestone with him and find out what he did to accomplish this goal! Ell played a crazy 3D color platformer. Nate pulled an Ell and played a plethora of new titles and talked about them all! Corey "went ham" and played about a trillion easy Gamerscore games. How much score did he get in one month? Listen and find out!   Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life!   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 Games Mentioned:  Newt Zero Onsen Mas

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, Vulgar Latin, KooshMoose This Week's Question - What's the best and worst Xbox game cover art and why? It's the September live show! Devin spaced out and played a free game, and it was educational too! Ell played an homage to a 1990s classic. Koosh played both a free game (if you have Game Pass) and it's also an homage too! Find out which community members are giving their all to win pTart's Birthday Challenge! And get ready for Shiny September! Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life! https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280 xNeo21x gives the round up for August's Year of the Veiner. (1:20:26) Wakapeil returns with weird wonder review of Cruz Brothers. (1:25:00) Games Mentioned: Freeze Me Space Science Investigation Tinykin AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, FuFuCuddilyPoof, KooshMoose This Week's Question - What is your most controversial gaming take? - Freamwhole We provide more controversial takes from the panel and from the patrons! The Switch gets dunked on. Ell enjoyed Island Saver, which is available for $Free.99! Turnip Boy is a fun Game Pass game. Check it out! Nate played another Game Pass new game at 12AM, and it packs a punch!   We say RIP to Xbox 360 games being part of Games with Gold! Games Mentioned:  Island Saver Midnight Fight Express Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion Cheevwhiz returns with a totally original idea that is totally not jeopardy as three contestants battle it out for an awesome prize of absolutely nothing which is coincidentally what chipp remembers about all the games he has played.  Spoiler alert. (1:25:54)

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, FuFuCuddilyPoof, KooshMoose, Proulx This Week's Question - What is your most controversial gaming take? - Freamwhole We welcome back avid Xbox gamer and Star Trek aficionado, Proulx! We had very lively discussion and debate our most controversial gaming takes, as well as the takes of the patrons!  Nate played the new Game Pass game Escape Academy. Where else do you find Subjects ending in 101 but in an academy? Kenny played a management game. Everyone was shocked. Proulx played a  totally original game that is unlike any other game seen or heard of before! Ell was proud of an achievement he got! Remember folks, it's better for the wrist. Freaky gets an N+ at GenXbox for talking about Ten rooms and ten seconds without making ten comparisons to broforce.  Elroy dips into his NES memories for a game that has a serious connection to the city… and makes a splash with his offering!   Games Mentioned:  Batman: Arkham Asylum Escape Academy Nexomon: Extinction Two Point Campus Watch_Dogs  

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, Exe the Hero, Ahayzo, FuFuCuddilyPoof This Week's Question - While many gamers consider remakes, remasters, or definitive editions to be nothing more than a cash grab, there are several that buck that trend and offer a genuinely superior product. What remake, remaster, definitive edition, etc. do you consider to be the best delivering or most worthwhile? ElroyOMJ talks with TripleTriad777 about his time at Achievement Fest 2022. Wakapeil takes a look at the game Rumbleverse.  Click the link below to sign up for pTartTx 2022 birthday challenge https://www.trueachievements.com/gamerblogcomment.aspx?gamerblogid=86496 Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing   AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube  

This Week's Panel - KooshMoose, kT Echo, rawkerdude This Week's Question - Now that summer's almost over, we'd like to know if you cheevo hunt/game while on vacation? If so, what do you do and how does it differ from your regular gaming? It's been a real week of panelist musical chairs. Koosh is rushing to complete the multiplayer in several games. kT Echo makes his podcast debut and talks about Yakuza and the Outriders DLC. Rawkerdude bats cleanup and sells us on Arcade Paradise which is most definitely not a game about laundry. Games Mentioned: Arcade Paradise The Ascent Jump Force Outriders Splinter Cell: Blacklist Yakuza 0 Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing   AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube