Achievement Hunting 101

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08, rawkerdude Show Discussion - Koosh shockingly found a Game Pass game where you play as a dog. wildwest is going back to the games he likes! Alan Wake 2 and Hogwarts Legacy got DLC and completed respectively! rawker DEMANDED our GRATITUDE and also DEMANDED to be on the show to talk about Still Wakes the Deep! Big Ell and his crew finally finished...

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 wi...

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...

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 Achiev...

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...

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? W...

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 i...

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...

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! e...

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 Di...

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...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, wildwest08, KooshMoose, rawkerdude This Week's Discussion - You can only preserve one game from each system to represent/define the entire console generation: OG Xbox, 360, and Xbox One. Which games do you preserve and briefly, why? Show Discussion - Our MASSIVE LIVE show! We have a great discussion about the best games of each Xbox generation! Koosh plays a Game Pass...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, wildwest08, xNeo21x Nerdy Neo This Week's Discussion - Who/what is your favorite video game antagonist? - Nerdy Neo Show Discussion - We welcome special guest Nerdy Neo! He loves Metroidvanias but dislikes sports games, so Ell only half liked him. Did Ell FINALLY complete MLB The Show 23? What baby game will he discuss next week? Only time will tell. wildwest channeled...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08 This Week's Discussion - What do you consider 2 or 3 hidden gems of the Xbox 360 generation? Show Discussion - wildwest is already waxing nostalgia about the Xbox 360. We discussed many hidden gems in the Xbox 360 library. Koosh waxed nostalgia about playing with Hot Wheels as a youth 55 years ago. He played a game leaving Game Pass to commemorat...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08, ELSock This Week's Discussion - In honor of our surprise guest on the podcast tonight, who is your favorite video game streamer/ content creator? What games do you like to watch online? Please explain why you would recommend them. Show Discussion: We welcome special guest ELSock! A LEGENDARY streamer and an even more legendary man. He played the...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08, Exe the Hero This Week's Discussion - Since the Dragon's Dogma 2 Standalone character creator is getting so much positive press and feedback, how much effort do you like to put into character creators? Do you spend hours fine tuning your character down to the minutest detail, do you just get a look that you like and not worry about specifics, do...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08, Proulx This Week's Discussion - Have you ever bought and sat on a game only to see it come to GP before you even started it? Does a purchased game coming to GP change your enjoyment/value of it? Let us know so we can thank you for your service. - KooshMoose Show Discussion: I hope you like pie as much as we do. What's your favorite kind of pie?...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08, Skeptical Mario This Week's Discussion - We have a Tomb Raider collection recently released and Stars Wars Battlefront is coming soon. What other collections would you like to see come out? Show Discussion: We had a special guest this week. Skeptical Mario and his love for Metroidvanias joined us as he reviewed...a game that is not a Metroidvani...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, rawkerdude This Week's Discussion - With rumors that Microsoft is developing a handheld gaming device we want to know if you would be interested in buying one? What features would you like to see? - wildwest08 Show Discussion: Panelist wildwest took a must needed birthday break off. rawkerdude was up to the task to take his precious spot, and immediately pr...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08, Matrarch This Week's Discussion - We need to get a Valentine's Day for our SO. Can you help us write a gaming themed card? We'll give a prize to the one we like the best. Here's an example: Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, There's a new Tomb Raider coming out, And she's still uglier than you. Show Discussion: We first discuss the new Tomb Raider...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08 This Week's Discussion - Speaking of exclusives that we won't comment on until after Microsoft's announcement next week, what long dormant exclusives (on any system) do you think are ready for a revival? What needs to be done to modernize them? Show Discussion - This was the LIVE SHOW! Check it out on Twitch to see video footage of the games we d...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08 This Week's Discussion - What features should never be part of a paid DLC because you consider them to be core features? What are good achievements for title updates? Give us some specific examples to discuss! Show Discussion - There are new contests afoot. Leap(year)frog makes its illustrious return to TA and the new February targets are reveale...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08 This Week's Discussion - MachineGames is going to release a first person Indiana Jones game after inspiring third person action games like Tomb Raider and Uncharted. Name a series that changed up their formula drastically that either worked really well or failed fabulously. As always, there's no need to mention Nuts and Bolts or The Crystal Skull...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08 This Week's Discussion - In honor of the snowstorms around the US, we ask the following two part question! A) Do you have any memories of snow/sick days playing any specific games as a kid? B) If you had the opportunity today, what games would you play and which achievements would you target? Show Discussion - Snow. It sucks to have to shovel, bu...

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, wildwest08 This Week's Discussion - What game or two are you most looking forward to playing in 2024? Show Discussion - 2024 is off to a great start! We talk about what will make it even better! MOAR GAMES! Koosh is in his happy place as we finally have some Game Pass news to share with all of you! He played a game nobody has ever heard of or played before...