Achievement Hunting 101

Level 308 HD-2D Remake: Spoopy Relaxploration

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08

Show Discussion - Koosh submerged himself into a non Game Pass game! How did he like this sequel compared to the original? wildwest of all people enjoyed himself a new Game Pass game! Ell played a...Metroidvania? Do pigs fly? No, but cats do! Enjoy Achievement Hunting 101, ya spoopy bards!

Games Mentioned:

• KooshMoose - Submerged: Hidden Depths
• wildwest08 - Rolling Hills: Make Sushi, Make Friends
• Ell - Gato Roboto

NeverEnding Stories -Hurricane Dale blows through another couple of NeverEnding Stories with Chewie, this time demonstrating his uncanny knack for escaping from many, many prisons. (1:19:14)

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Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing

Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

Level 307 - Xbox Games Showcase 2024 Recap and Reactions!

This Week's Panel: Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08, Exe the Hero

 

Show Discussion: Please join 4 very excited panelists as we talk about the Xbox Games Showcase of 2024! We take patron submissions and reveal our own favorite (and not so favorite) trailers and talk about a LOT of games on the horizon! Enjoy the show!

 

Games Mentioned:

• KooshMoose - South of Midnight
• KooshMoose - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• wildwest08 - Perfect Dark
• wildwest08 - Doom: The Dark Ages
• Exe - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Exe - Life is Strange: Double Exposure
• Big Ell - Gears of War: E-Day

After Party: Cue the after party, baby! In this first ever after party segment, Elroy and Exe discuss the dubious naming conventions behind Game of the Year editions and the problem many of us face with an overabundance of games to play. (1:51:12)

Year(s) of the Veiner Update - xNeo21x drops in to give another Metroidvania update. (2:16:50)

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AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links

Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing

Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

Level 306 - Churro Invaders Promote Unhealthy Behavior

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08

Show Discussion: It's our LIVE show (check it out on Twitch/YouTube at ANY time!) Koosh played a new Game Pass game called Hauntii. It's somehow black and white AND colorful at the same time! wildwest and Ell, still reeling from participating in the big May Gamerscore contest, talk about some of the high Gamerscore games they played! Enjoy Achievement Hunting 101!

Games Mentioned:

• KooshMoose - Hauntii
• wildwest08 - Listeria Wars
• wildwest08 - Chur...Cake Invaders
• Ell - Cave Bad
• Ell - Blow and Fly
• Ell - Hatup
• Ell - Betomis

Game Passible - Fream and Koosh return with your August Game Pass leavings predictions. Check out Game Passible to get the most gamerscore from your Game Pass subscription. (1:18:34)

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AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links

Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing

Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

Level 305 - No Chants Ell Can Afford Displates in Sennaar

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08

Show Discussion: wildwest spent the entire podcast trying to get Ell to buy something called displates.

“OHHHHH DISPLATES= DISPLAY+PLATES I GET IT NOW” - Ell

Koosh played a Game Pass game. The sky is blue. Death and taxes. Ell played a baby game. The sky is blue. Death and taxes. wildwest got almost half a million gamerscore in a month. No biggie. Wait. What? Enjoy Achievement Hunting 101!

Games Mentioned:

• KooshMoose - Chants of Sennaar
• wildwest08 - Pirate Bloopers
• wildwest08 - Color Pals
• Ell - Rayland 2

NeverEnding Stories - Mental Knight is getting stacked with Chewie in the latest NeverEnding Stories. (1:27:36)

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AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links

Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing

Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

Level 304 - I'm Funny How, I Mean Funny Like I'm a Clown? I Amuse You?

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08

Show Discussion: wildwest, away on assignment, surprised us all by scoring HOW much Gamerscore in a day? Wait what? He even found a puzzle game to showcase for us. HOW much Gamerscore in the month of May did wildwest score so far? Listen and find out! Koosh played Game Pass roguelite Have a Nice Death. It's like Hades and Dead Cells had a baby? Wowzers. Ell went Balls to the wall with an "easy" Eastasiasoft game and then clowned around with yet another Eastasiasoft game! Enjoy Achievement Hunting 101!

Games Mentioned:

• KooshMoose - Have a Nice Death
• wildwest08 - Flying Soldiers
• Ell - Ayo the Clown
• Ell - Ball Lab & Ball Lab II

OLTL 23 - Inigo and Elroy return for another edition of One List, Two List, Bad List, Good List where Inigo traveled to a far off place where much like the inhabitants, the game too sucks.  Elroy, on the other hand, regresses back to his teenage self and picks a real winner…. Winner?  Didn’t even know her! (1:20:31)

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AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links

Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing

Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

Level 303 - Hundred Heroes and Nine Lives: Eiyuden Chronicle & Little Kitty in the Big City!

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, Matrarch

Show Discussion - Koosh played the 2024 Game of the Year(?), Little Kitty, Big City! wildwest was on assignment and didn't get to hear Ell talk about Farm Together and MLB: The Show, 2024! Matrarch got to put some time into a big Game Pass RPG that she Kickstarted! We have news about Xbox 360 games going on a deep discount before the store closes in July! Enjoy Achievement Hunting 101!

Games Mentioned:

• KooshMoose - Little Kitty, Big City
• Matrarch - Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
• Ell - Farm Together
• Ell - MLB The Show 2K24

NeverEnding Stories - Hurricane Dale is back with a NeverEnding Story to tell Chewie from deep within Middle-Earth as he builds armies, takes back Mordor and wages war on his nemesises. Nemesi? Nemeses? (1:37:07)

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AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links

Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing

Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

Level 302 - Admirably Adopting Adorable Aabs Animals From Fallout Shelter

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, wildwest08, KooshMoose, Proulx

 

Show Discussion: Koosh played a Demolition Derby style Game Pass arcade racing vehicular combat automobile game. Is it worth your time or will you get REKT like Koosh? Ell looked at a cat for many seconds and got 1,000 Gamerscore. The other panelists were proud. Special guest Proulx played an impressive amount of GTA V. Proulx proceeded to do something so amazing, even Ell was surprised at the magnitude of his accomplishment. Despite seeing several acts of actual grand theft auto in New York City on a daily basis, Ell still gave Proulx his props. wildwest deemed GTA too violent so he played an indie game designed to tug at the heartstrings.

 

Games Mentioned:

• KooshMoose - Wreckfest
• wildwest08 - A Fold Apart
• Proulx - Grand Theft Auto V
• Ell - Aabs Animals? Really, Ell?

Game Passible - Fream and Koosh return with your July Game Pass leavings predictions. Check out Game Passible to get the most gamerscore from your Game Pass subscription. (1:26:23)

Year(s) of the Veiner Update - xNeo21x drops in to give another Metroidvania update. (1:55:53)

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AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links

Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing

Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

Level 301 - Jump Scares, Joker's Lair, Magic Spells, & Big Ell

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, eildwest08, Exe the Hero, ElroyOMJ

This Week's Discussion - It's time for the question of the week! But wait. We don't need one because we have some awesome talkative fellows on tap!

Show Discussion - Koosh has been an editing machine and deserved a night off. So...we channeled our inner Koosh! Ell channeled his inner Koosh and got his 2 games leaving Game Pass done! eildwest channeled his inner Koosh by gushing over Hogwarts Legacy. Exe channeled his inner Koosh by being afraid of scary games and getting his co-op partner to do all the work for him. Elroy channeled his inner Koosh by...playing loads of baby games, going far in Leap Frog, and winning GTASC. Koosh totally did that too.

Games Mentioned:

• Exe the Hero - Dead Island 2
• Eildwest08 - Hogwarts Legacy
• Ell - Pikuniku (Definitely not a Showcase)
• Elroy - Xbox Batman Arkham Return to Arkham Xbox X Series Arkham City Return to Xbox Series X Batman

NeverEnding Stories - Mario emerges from the shadows to bring Chewie a new(ish) NeverEnding Stories completion. (2:13:12)

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AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links

Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing

Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

Level 300 - This Is Achievement Hunting 101!

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, wildwest08, KooshMoose

This Week's Discussion - Our Question Guru wildwest asked - As we reminisce about Level 300 and the history of Achievement Hunting 101, let’s think about the history of Xbox as well. What is the most important feature that Microsoft has revealed for the Xbox brand? It could be achievements, Game Pass, Elite Controllers, or something else.

Show Discussion - Welcome to milestone Level 300! We thank you SO much for continuing to listen to our show! Koosh talked about a lil Game Pass game. It may or may not be inspired by Zelda. It's up for you to decide. wildwest played a surprise game! He shared his opinions on a game you may or may not have heard about in the past. Ell finished up the May 2024 TA challenge centered around Golf, The TA Open. He played a myriad of games to finish up, and this is the most athletic thing he will likely do all year.

Games Mentioned:

• Koosh - Little Lil Gator Game
• wildwest08 - Hogwarts Legacy
• Ell - Quote the Ravenlok, nevermore. Hmm. That would have been a decent title.

AH101 300s - Some of the voices you've heard over the past 300 episodes return to talk about a gaming 300-related topic or just to weigh in on the past 300 episodes. (2:11:42)

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AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links

Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing

Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

Level 299 - Open Roads? Where We're Going, We Don't Need Open Roads!

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, wildwest08, KooshMoose

 

This Week's Discussion - A. Nonymous asks - Are there games you want to love but just can't for some reason? What are the games, why can't you get into them, and do achievements play a part?

 

Show Discussion - A fun question starts the show off! Koosh played a Game Pass game with some totally impressive voice acting by some amazing celebrities! Just don't ask who they are. We forgot. wildwest played DEATHLOOP! wildwest played DEATHLOOP! wildwest played DEATHLOOP! wildwest played DEATHLOOP! wildwest played DEATHLOOP! wildwest played DEATHLOOP! wildwest played DEATHLOOP! wildwest played DEATHLOOP! wildwest played DEATHLOOP! wildwest played DEATHLOOP! wildwest played DEATHLOOP! wildwest played DEATHLOOP! Ell hit his head writing these show notes.

 

Games Mentioned:

• Koosh - KooshMoose Plays Open Roads, The Only Ones That I Have Ever Known
• wildwest08 - Don't Know Where DEATHL00P Goes, But Montana Is Home To wildwest And I Eat Alone
• Ell - I Walk This Empty Street, Just To Find Subway Where I Can Eat, Give Me Cookies Please , With My Veggie Delite, I Eat Alone

Return of the VSS - After … how long has it been? … TOO DAMN LONG, Exe & Elroy have reunited, and it feels so good! For their return segment, they discuss the top 5 achievements that sound like something David Caruso would say after putting his sunglasses on in the beginning of an episode of CSI Miami. And if you think that title is a mouthful, you’ve forgotten just how much tangential conversation occurs when Exe & Elroy work together. We hope you enjoy listening to our reunion as much as we enjoyed making it! (1:33:42)

Ell Eats Alone - I have no words. (2:43:30)

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AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links

Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing

Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube