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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.

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Completion #119: Just Cause

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  • 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.

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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.

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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!

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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
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@n0tjack you’re a maniac. I don’t think I have the skill and/or patience to 100% Cyber Shadow. :smile:

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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.

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Thx man :smiley: 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.

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Man, I’ve been lagging it. But I’m about to start knocking away at the backlog. :gem:

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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.

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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!

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Just saw that Xitilon are making windows 10 stacks now so thats a thing. laugh lol GIF by SpongeBob SquarePants

Going to try Rogue Company tonight. Everyone getting good completions and all I do is play Warzone :joy:

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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

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Completion #120: The Little Acre

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  • 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.

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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 :frowning:

Well, at least we have achievements. I’m playing through Super Mario 3D World and I would kill for achievements supports on the Switch.

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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

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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… :sweat_smile:

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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.

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I grew up with Final Fantasy. I played the first one on NES around the same time I played Dragon Warrior and both those games made me fall in love with rpg’s. FF 1-9 were all great with 8 being a weird outlier, and then the series took a nose dive after Sakaguchi got the boot from Square/Enix after the release of 9.

I think a lot of it for me is just nostalgia. Some of these games were incredible for their time but might not hold up today. 7 is like that for me. I still like and enjoy it, but man is it dated.

Also, the JRPG gameplay style (at least how it used to be) can be an acquired taste.

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