Is any 1 here trying to win a Series X from placing in the top 5 in the EA Play achievements score contest?
What’s this?
On the Xbox dashboard there is a advert to win a Series X you have to place top 5 in achievements score using only games on the EA Play included with Gamepass Ultimate it runs all of February.
Completion #119: Just Cause
- Estimated Difficulty: 4/10
- Estimated Time: 20-25 hours
Second victim of the Backlog Project!
I bought the game on March 2019 and never even downloaded it until this week. I loved Just Cause 2 and always wanted to check out how the series started and… it has not aged well. It was released even before the PS3 launched, so it is actually a Xbox/PS2 game that was also ported to the 360, and it plays a lot like the games from the PS2 era.
The map is huge, especially for a 15 years old game… but unfortunately it is not fun to travel through it at all. First of all, most of the map is just forests, and the cities all look a like. Plus, there is no way to set a waypoint, so you have to open the map once every two minutes or so – and there is not a dedicated button for opening it, you have to press start and select map.
There are no missable achievements. You basically have to do everything in the game – all the 21 story missions, 45 takeover missions, liberate 34 provincies, win 10 different races and complete 13 collect missions. There are also some miscellaneous achievements, like completing 50 (uninspired) side missions and do some stunts.
It is almost impossible to die during the game, but the last story mission is hell. There is a part of the mission in which you have to reach the top of the mountain and you are constantly being shot at by tanks and helicopters. Some takeover missions are also hell because suddenly a tank appears in front of you and traps you by firing some quick shots.
It took me around 6-7 hours to complete the story and 23 hours overall to get the completion. Oh, and it was only my third 360 completion! My goal is to have at least 10 by the end of the year.
Nice completion! I don’t have it in me (and a way too big backlog) to do this with these old ass games. Impressive!
I do own all the Just Cause games, but never gotten around to play them.
Attention: the Week 23 ranking starts now!
Here are the results of the 22nd week:
# | User | Gamertag | Initial GS | Final GS | Total GS | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | @BadMoodJones | Junglee91 | 75.341 | 79.601 | 4.260 | 10 |
2. | @NierlyCrazy | CRZYSPZ | 382.381 | 385.495 | 3.114 | 9 |
3. | @brunopcosta1 | brunopcosta1 | 169.835 | 172.735 | 2.900 | 8 |
4. | @KARMAgoesHARD | KARMAgoesHARD | 589.019 | 591.604 | 2.585 | 7 |
5. | @Shadowgasm | Shadowgasm | 258.388 | 260.835 | 2.447 | 6 |
6. | @Plagueborne | The Wicked Soul | 704.052 | 706.202 | 2.150 | 5 |
7. | @FairyEmpire | baboy1337 | 352.343 | 353.758 | 1.415 | 4 |
8. | @Akosii | Akosii | 313.950 | 315.275 | 1.325 | 3 |
9. | @SheepDip | Ryuukishi634 | 347.170 | 348.395 | 1.225 | 2 |
9. | @DannyEight | Danny Eight | 11.220 | 12.445 | 1.225 | 2 |
11. | n0tjack | n0tjack | 154.367 | 155.447 | 1.080 | 0 |
12. | riazor | Riazor | 367.658 | 368.648 | 990 | 0 |
13. | Chyld989 | Chyld989 | 347.635 | 348.490 | 855 | 0 |
14. | MasterLeePhD | Master Lee PhD | 292.329 | 292.994 | 665 | 0 |
15. | Scottish_Sin | Scottish Sin | 522.035 | 522.620 | 585 | 0 |
16. | Jeremy | Jeremy Saunders | 251.069 | 251.589 | 520 | 0 |
17. | Mort | Mortaigne | 138.152 | 138.567 | 415 | 0 |
18. | dscharles | dscharles | 50.785 | 51.180 | 395 | 0 |
19. | CallMeCraig | matsze | 199.045 | 199.435 | 390 | 0 |
20. | Sikamikanico | Sikamikanico | 119.196 | 119.581 | 385 | 0 |
21. | Foorbits | Foorbits | 44.893 | 45.253 | 360 | 0 |
22. | Knottian | Knottian | 204.180 | 204.490 | 310 | 0 |
22. | Darcadia | cyllis | 88.113 | 88.423 | 310 | 0 |
24. | Johnohno | DarhJohno | 359.920 | 360.210 | 290 | 0 |
25. | supercommodore | supercommodore | 17.582 | 17.812 | 230 | 0 |
26. | FunkyOne | Sir Funkified | 229.043 | 229.263 | 220 | 0 |
27. | DeusJabu | DeusJabu | 156.599 | 156.804 | 205 | 0 |
28. | PhantomFox | PhantomFox75 | 45.622 | 45.817 | 195 | 0 |
28. | FaultLineBlues | wahaj | 23.320 | 23.515 | 195 | 0 |
30. | xJavontax | xJavontax | 37.754 | 37.944 | 190 | 0 |
31. | low187 | ShadowArceus5 | 219.240 | 219.405 | 165 | 0 |
32. | MMarfil | MMarfil | 95.774 | 95.924 | 150 | 0 |
33. | BeardoN7x | BeardoA7x | 81.650 | 81.785 | 135 | 0 |
34. | Bugalugs214 | bugalugs214 | 122.965 | 123.065 | 100 | 0 |
35. | TheSlickTony | TheSlickTony | 102.157 | 102.252 | 95 | 0 |
36. | UnveiledArk | UnveiledArk | 284.675 | 284.765 | 90 | 0 |
37. | Scottx2 | Scott x 2 | 62.059 | 62.134 | 75 | 0 |
38. | Hammer24 | Hammer2424 | 97.098 | 97.153 | 55 | 0 |
39. | MrZweistein | MrZweistein | 128.200 | 128.250 | 50 | 0 |
40. | Xumbrega | ctZz1 | 149.827 | 149.857 | 30 | 0 |
40. | TheSego | The Sego | 144.028 | 144.058 | 30 | 0 |
42. | dfunktjester | dFunkt jestEr | 105.872 | 105.892 | 20 | 0 |
43. | BananaBox39 | MaidenLOKO | 182.125 | 182.140 | 15 | 0 |
44. | procerus | procerus | 228.984 | 228.984 | - | 0 |
44. | Bluehawk357 | BlueHawk357 | 108.853 | 108.853 | - | 0 |
44. | MRE-Inc | MRE Inc | 64.912 | 64.912 | - | 0 |
44. | OneBadMutha | OneBadMutha | 46.062 | 46.062 | - | 0 |
44. | Running_Riot | BoutTreeFidy | 33.997 | 33.997 | - | 0 |
44. | parksey1972 | Parksey1972 | 18.303 | 18.303 | - | 0 |
Here is the General Points Ranking with the results from the first 22 weeks:
# | User | Gamertag | Points |
---|---|---|---|
1. | FairyEmpire | baboy1337 | 571 |
2. | KARMAgoesHARD | KARMAgoesHARD | 548 |
3. | Shadowgasm | Shadowgasm | 523 |
4. | Plagueborne | The Wicked Soul | 477 |
5. | brunopcosta1 | brunopcosta1 | 320 |
6. | Akosii | Akosii | 277 |
7. | BadMoodJones | Junglee91 | 222 |
8. | BeardoN7x | BeardoA7x | 219 |
9. | CallMeCraig | matsze | 197 |
10. | Chyld989 | Chyld989 | 191 |
11. | Scottish_Sin | Scottish Sin | 190 |
12. | UnveiledArk | UnveiledArk | 184 |
13. | MasterLeePhD | Master Lee PhD | 178 |
14. | CRZYSPZ | CRZYSPZ | 156 |
15. | MMarfil | MMarfil | 116 |
16. | PhantomFox | PhantomFox75 | 104 |
17. | Johnohno | DarhJohno | 100 |
18. | SheepDip | Ryuukishi634 | 71 |
19. | Bluehawk357 | BlueHawk357 | 54 |
20. | Mort | Mortaigne | 47 |
21. | riazor | Riazor | 35 |
22. | low187 | ShadowArceus5 | 31 |
23. | xJavontax | xJavontax | 17 |
24. | Darcadia | cyllis | 14 |
24. | n0tjack | n0tjack | 14 |
26. | TheSlickTony | TheSlickTony | 8 |
27. | procerus | procerus | 7 |
28. | Scottx2 | Scott x 2 | 5 |
28. | DannyEight | Danny Eight | 5 |
30. | dfunktjester | dFunkt jestEr | 4 |
30. | supercommodore | supercommodore | 4 |
30. | dscharles | dscharles | 4 |
33. | Hammer24 | Hammer2424 | 3 |
33. | Jeremy | Jeremy Saunders | 3 |
35. | FaultLineBlues | wahaj | 2 |
36. | BananaBox39 | MaidenLOKO | 0 |
36. | Bugalugs214 | bugalugs214 | 0 |
36. | DeusJabu | DeusJabu | 0 |
36. | Foorbits | Foorbits | 0 |
36. | Knottian | Knottian | 0 |
36. | MRE-Inc | MRE Inc | 0 |
36. | MrZweistein | MrZweistein | 0 |
36. | OneBadMutha | OneBadMutha | 0 |
36. | parksey1972 | Parksey1972 | 0 |
36. | Running_Riot | BoutTreeFidy | 0 |
36. | Sikamikanico | Sikamikanico | 0 |
36. | TheSego | The Sego | 0 |
36. | Xumbrega | ctZz1 | 0 |
36. | FunkyOne | Sir Funkified | 0 |
Every GamerScore earned from now until Monday, February 22, 2021 2:59 AM will count towards Week 23’s Ranking. Whoever earns the most GamerScore during the week will gain 10 points, the second place will gain 9 points, and so on. Then the Ranking will reset again and a new week will begin.
Every GamerScore earned until Monday, March 1, 2021 2:59 AM will also count towards February’s Ranking. Whoever earns the most GamerScore during the month will gain 100 points, the second place will gain 90 points, and so on. Then the Ranking will reset again and a new month will begin.
Don’t forget that this topic is first and foremost destined to talk about all your achievements and trophies, discuss completions and even try to gather people for a boosting session! The Ranking is just a side activity to take part in.
Good luck everyone and happy hunting!
January’s Featured Game Results
Like previously announced, whoever had the most Gamerscore in the featured game of the month would earn 100 points. If two or more people happened to share the same amount of Gamerscore in said game, they would all get the 100 points.
Cyber Shadow was the chosen game for January/2021, and here are the results:
# | User | Gamertag | Gamerscore | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | @n0tjack | n0tjack | 1000 | 100 |
2. | OneBadMutha | OneBadMutha | 237 | 0 |
3. | MasterLeePhD | Master Lee PhD | 80 | 0 |
4. | Scottish_Sin | Scottish Sin | 64 | 0 |
5. | dscharles | dscharles | 64 | 0 |
6. | Shadowgasm | Shadowgasm | 48 | 0 |
7. | Running_Riot | BoutTreeFidy | 32 | 0 |
8. | Plagueborne | The Wicked Soul | 0 | 0 |
8. | KARMAgoesHARD | KARMAgoesHARD | 0 | 0 |
8. | CRZYSPZ | CRZYSPZ | 0 | 0 |
8. | riazor | Riazor | 0 | 0 |
8. | Johnohno | DarhJohno | 0 | 0 |
8. | FairyEmpire | baboy1337 | 0 | 0 |
8. | Chyld989 | Chyld989 | 0 | 0 |
8. | SheepDip | Ryuukishi634 | 0 | 0 |
8. | Akosii | Akosii | 0 | 0 |
8. | UnveiledArk | UnveiledArk | 0 | 0 |
8. | Jeremy | Jeremy Saunders | 0 | 0 |
8. | FunkyOne | Sir Funkified | 0 | 0 |
8. | procerus | procerus | 0 | 0 |
8. | low187 | ShadowArceus5 | 0 | 0 |
8. | Knottian | Knottian | 0 | 0 |
8. | CallMeCraig | matsze | 0 | 0 |
8. | BananaBox39 | MaidenLOKO | 0 | 0 |
8. | brunopcosta1 | brunopcosta1 | 0 | 0 |
8. | DeusJabu | DeusJabu | 0 | 0 |
8. | Xumbrega | ctZz1 | 0 | 0 |
8. | TheSego | The Sego | 0 | 0 |
8. | Mort | Mortaigne | 0 | 0 |
8. | MrZweistein | MrZweistein | 0 | 0 |
8. | Bugalugs214 | bugalugs214 | 0 | 0 |
8. | Sikamikanico | Sikamikanico | 0 | 0 |
8. | Bluehawk357 | BlueHawk357 | 0 | 0 |
8. | dfunktjester | dFunkt jestEr | 0 | 0 |
8. | TheSlickTony | TheSlickTony | 0 | 0 |
8. | Hammer24 | Hammer2424 | 0 | 0 |
8. | MMarfil | MMarfil | 0 | 0 |
8. | Darcadia | cyllis | 0 | 0 |
8. | BeardoN7x | BeardoA7x | 0 | 0 |
8. | BadMoodJones | Junglee91 | 0 | 0 |
8. | MRE-Inc | MRE Inc | 0 | 0 |
8. | Scottx2 | Scott x 2 | 0 | 0 |
8. | PhantomFox | PhantomFox75 | 0 | 0 |
8. | Foorbits | Foorbits | 0 | 0 |
8. | xJavontax | xJavontax | 0 | 0 |
8. | FaultLineBlues | wahaj | 0 | 0 |
8. | parksey1972 | Parksey1972 | 0 | 0 |
8. | supercommodore | supercommodore | 0 | 0 |
8. | DannyEight | Danny Eight | 0 | 0 |
Here is the General Points Ranking after the above results:
# | User | Gamertag | Points |
---|---|---|---|
1. | FairyEmpire | baboy1337 | 571 |
2. | KARMAgoesHARD | KARMAgoesHARD | 548 |
3. | Shadowgasm | Shadowgasm | 523 |
4. | Plagueborne | The Wicked Soul | 477 |
5. | brunopcosta1 | brunopcosta1 | 320 |
6. | Akosii | Akosii | 277 |
7. | BadMoodJones | Junglee91 | 222 |
8. | BeardoN7x | BeardoA7x | 219 |
9. | CallMeCraig | matsze | 197 |
10. | Chyld989 | Chyld989 | 191 |
11. | Scottish_Sin | Scottish Sin | 190 |
12. | UnveiledArk | UnveiledArk | 184 |
13. | MasterLeePhD | Master Lee PhD | 178 |
14. | CRZYSPZ | CRZYSPZ | 156 |
15. | MMarfil | MMarfil | 116 |
16. | n0tjack | n0tjack | 114 |
17. | PhantomFox | PhantomFox75 | 104 |
18. | Johnohno | DarhJohno | 100 |
19. | SheepDip | Ryuukishi634 | 71 |
20. | Bluehawk357 | BlueHawk357 | 54 |
21. | Mort | Mortaigne | 47 |
22. | riazor | Riazor | 35 |
23. | low187 | ShadowArceus5 | 31 |
24. | xJavontax | xJavontax | 17 |
25. | Darcadia | cyllis | 14 |
26. | TheSlickTony | TheSlickTony | 8 |
27. | procerus | procerus | 7 |
28. | Scottx2 | Scott x 2 | 5 |
28. | DannyEight | Danny Eight | 5 |
30. | dfunktjester | dFunkt jestEr | 4 |
30. | supercommodore | supercommodore | 4 |
30. | dscharles | dscharles | 4 |
33. | Hammer24 | Hammer2424 | 3 |
33. | Jeremy | Jeremy Saunders | 3 |
35. | FaultLineBlues | wahaj | 2 |
36. | BananaBox39 | MaidenLOKO | 0 |
36. | Bugalugs214 | bugalugs214 | 0 |
36. | DeusJabu | DeusJabu | 0 |
36. | Foorbits | Foorbits | 0 |
36. | Knottian | Knottian | 0 |
36. | MRE-Inc | MRE Inc | 0 |
36. | MrZweistein | MrZweistein | 0 |
36. | OneBadMutha | OneBadMutha | 0 |
36. | parksey1972 | Parksey1972 | 0 |
36. | Running_Riot | BoutTreeFidy | 0 |
36. | Sikamikanico | Sikamikanico | 0 |
36. | TheSego | The Sego | 0 |
36. | Xumbrega | ctZz1 | 0 |
36. | FunkyOne | Sir Funkified | 0 |
@n0tjack you’re a maniac. I don’t think I have the skill and/or patience to 100% Cyber Shadow.
Warning
Since we first started, the numbers of participants has increased significantly, which has certainly put a smile on my face.
Nonetheless, we all agree that quality is always better than quantity. This community was created to be a place within XboxEra in which we could discuss achievements while bonding together – the leaderboard was always a bonus thing.
With that said, starting this month, at the end of each month I’ll be checking for inactive users. When I post the results for the February ranking, whoever hasn’t posted anything in the forums for a whole month will be removed from the leaderboard.
Summarizing, if the information highlighted below shows that you haven’t posted anything in the forums for the entire month, you will be removed from the leaderboard.
Thx man You can definitely do it; the no upgrade playthrough basically forces you to learn how to get through each area the best way, then the speedrun one isn’t that bad. The getting to the monkey temple was a bit frustrating though.
Man, I’ve been lagging it. But I’m about to start knocking away at the backlog.
Not Internationally. Started playing all the Battlefield campaigns that I’ve missed throughout the years whilst ignoring the Achievements. Did the same thing with Call of Duty last year.
I’m enjoying them but you usually have zero chance winning these things when the True Achievement community have their eye on it.
I got 100% on Hitman 3 and loved every minute of it. Some really interesting changes to the formula that I thought worked quite well (especially Dartmoor). Weighing it up though, I think Hitman 2 is overall still my favourite game in the trilogy.
The achievement hunting is definitely going to come to a bit of a standstill. I’m deep into Dragon Quest 11 and I’m really enjoying it. The real fast load times on the Series X definitely helps also!
Just saw that Xitilon are making windows 10 stacks now so thats a thing.
Going to try Rogue Company tonight. Everyone getting good completions and all I do is play Warzone
They are not Play Anywhere, though, so a second purchase is necessary. They are reeeeaaally miliking achievement hunters!
On a side note, now every new Ratalaika release is also “Optimized for the Series X|S”. This is the second publisher that realizes that this gives extra visibility, even though no optimizations were needed lol
The load times on The Series X are insane. I was playing through The Little Acre while watching Maka’s video guide, and every time I had to pause my game and advance the video because the loading times for him was 5x longer!
My Avengers completion would have taken 10 hours less if I played it on the Series X instead lol
Completion #120: The Little Acre
- Estimated Difficulty: 1/10
- Estimated Time: 1 hour
Nothing much to say since everyone in here already completed it lol It is a little point and click adventure game with a quick completion if you are following a guide. And it’s also on Game Pass!
The animation style reminded me a bit of Dragon’s Lair, which I’m not the biggest fan of.
I wonder if someday we will be able to sort our achievements list alphabetically like we can on the Xbox PC App. It is astonishing how many basic features are missing
Well, at least we have achievements. I’m playing through Super Mario 3D World and I would kill for achievements supports on the Switch.
top of the week after ages. I see what that does to your overall score. Cheers for keeping this up Bruno; even though we disappear at times
Just completed Final Fantasy VIII: Remastered. I hated that game back in 1999 and I still hate it today. Easily my 2nd least favorite FF game. Now to move on to my least favorite, FF12…
I’ve tried a little with a few FF-games but I just can’t get into them. I do not see the appeal tbh.