Achievement Hunting 101

Level 235 - Kudos to You Guys

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, Matrarch, Kooshmoose, rawkerdude

This Week's Question - RetroChief asked - "Dead Space is getting a remake that changes the original achievement list - which games would you like to see remade with a revised list? Or which should they absolutely not touch?"

Our special guest rawkerdude is playing a pretty™ 3D platformer! Matrarch played a card and boardy role playing gamey Game Pass game and enjoyed herself! Koosh played an 8-bit Metroidvania chock full of easter eggs and it might be leaving Game Pass very soon! Ell played an 8-bit Metroidvania with zero easter eggs, and it's not in Game Pass at all, but it should be! This episode is very fun, so give it a listen and please comment about it in #podcast-discussion!

xNeo21x introduces Year of the Veiner 2023 edition.

Games Mentioned:

• Corey - Wavetale
• Matrarch - Citizen Sleeper
• Koosh - Infernax
• Ell - Mummy Demastered

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

Level 234 - This Episode Slaps!

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Kooshmoose, Vulgar Latin

This Week's Discussion - If a movie or show was being made of one of your favorite games, what’s the game, and who would be your dream casting choices for the main character(s) and why?

Much like behind the scenes, Kenny was confused about famous actors. Much like behind the scenes, Devin got annoyed at Ell. Much like behind the scenes, Nate went on a Power Trip! Much like behind the scenes, Ell ate a ton of food and then played a game related to eating a ton of food.

Games Mentioned:

• Vulgar Latin - Marvel's Midnight Suns
• Koosh - Ben 10: Power Trip
• Ell - Garfield Lasagna Party

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

Level 233 - When Telling Lies and Seeing Red On The Oregon Trail, There’s Nothing To FEAR But FEAR Itself

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, FuFuCuddilyPoof, Kooshmoose, Matrarch

This Week's Discussion - Where are the Game Pass games? Well, we ponder this question, but never FEAR, we have contests aplenty in store for 2023! We talk extensively about the Patron exclusive contest entitled NeverEnding Stories, in which we try to complete the oldest unfinished campaigns on our gamertags!

Fufu talked about an old horror game with a very weird achievement list! Michelle talked about the wacky adventures of the Oregon Trail Panel. Koosh and Ell both happened to play "Visual Novels" but they are decidedly different, and probably decidedly not visual novels at all. Should FMV games be classified as visual novels on TA? Tell us what you think in #podcast discussion!

Waka dives into the game Aerial Knights Never Yield. (1:41:49)

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

Games Mentioned:

FEAR  (FuFuCuddilyPoof)
Nobody Saves the World (Matrarch)
Oregon Trail (Matrarch)
She Sees Red (Big Ell)
Telling Lies (Kooshmoose)

And MANY Xbox 360 games....

Level 232 - Happy Proulx Year!

This Week's Panel - FuFuCuddilyPoof, Big Ell, KooshMoose, Proulx

This Week's Topic - Our gaming goals of 2022 and goals we set for ourselves this year.

Join the gang for the first show of the new year and to make it better it was a live show! This week we discuss the TA and gaming goals we set last year and the things we hope to accomplish this year. 

Watch the panel here - https://youtu.be/rLgifJdgMyU

xNeo21x rings in the new year by talking about the Year of the Veiner. (1:13:51)

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:

• Doom
• Nobody Saves the World
• Unreal Tournament III
• X-men The Official Game

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

Level 231 - Shenmue and the New McChicken Metric

This Week's Panel - Exe the Hero, Kooshmoose, Vulgar Latin

This Week's Question - Which game or two scheduled to release next year are you most excited for?

We're once again playing mix and match with the panel hosts this week. You win big money if you bet on the combination of Exe, Vulgar and Koosh. Exe called an audible a few hours before the show in order to talk about a new coop game. Vulgar went back and played a classic - classic. Koosh played a game pass game that's so hot, Microsoft decided to remove it from game pass later this week.

A new segment, One For You, One For Me, starts with WildWest08. Vulgar and WildWest pick games for each other and talk about it. Featuring a Tunic and some Doom. Was it just like Doom? (1:19:13)

Games Mentioned:

• Embr
  
• Shemue
• Spacelines From the Far Out

Please help Vulgar Latin (Devin Specht) and donate to Extra Life!
https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280

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

Level 230 - Vampire Survivors Is Addictive - The Panel Has Spoken

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/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

Level 229 - I’m High on Life Whilst Watching The 2022 James Awards Presented by Gif Peanut Butter!

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 what crapped the bed while Inigo gloats to the world that he has an achievement named after him… but that has nothing to do with how he feels about the game *wink wink nudge nudge*.  (1:30:09)

Wakapeil talks about Intrepid Izzy in this weeks Waka's Weird Wonders (2:04:56)

 

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

Level 228 - Hellpickle: Vulgar’s Sacrifice

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://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

Level 227 - You’re Gonna Die From Dissin’ Terry! (Or Jackée)

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://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=61280

Chewie sits down with community challenge maestro Freamwhole to catch up on his Completion Challenge from this year and get a tease for what's to come in 2023 (1:54:25)

 

Games Mentioned:

• Arise: A Simple Story
• Battletoads
• Guacamelee 2
• Gungrave G.O.R.E
• The Oregon Trail

 

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

Level 226 - Trophy Trophi Tripho Triphum, I Smell The Blood of a PlayStation!

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

The Master Raters return with their picks for games worthy, or maybe that’s unworthy, of a 2.5 rating.