Achievement Hunting |OT| Every point counts

Dragon Quest 11 does something achievement wise that i absolutely love… Giving achievements after significant story moments. I hate how many games ignore that when playing a single player game.

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Completion #105: Yakuza: Like a Dragon

  • Estimated Difficulty: 6/10
  • Estimated Time: 70 hours hours

One of the best games not only of this year, but of the entire generation. The Yakuza games always had incredible story, but I was not much fan of the brawler gameplay. But then they decided to swift to one of my favorite genres: turn-based RPG. There was no way the game would end up being bad.

Every now and then the story throws at you a plot twist that takes your breath away. The side stories, as it has always been the case with the Yakuza games, are incredible. Some of them are hilarious, some of them are sad, and most of them makes your heart fill with joy.

Ichiban is a fantastic protagonist, and the rest of the cast blends in extremely well. They also managed to connect Ichiban’s story with the rest of the Yakuza lore, preparing the ground in such a perfect way for future games.

Achievements-wise, it is one of the most beginner-friendly list of any of the Yakuza games. You don’t have to beat New Game +, you don’t have the beat the game on Legend difficulty, you don’t even have to do 100% of the game. You will unlock most of the achievements by playing through the story and doing most of the side stuff.

It would be a real nice 40-hour 3/10 completion if it wasn’t for the True Final Millenium Tower. When I beat the game my party was at around level 60. To beat this final dungeon I had to max the level of all my characters, as well as their main jobs + level up most of the other jobs. And even then the dungeon is no joke and you should always be on the lookout of being OHKO’d or having your whole party suffering from a status-ailment. You have to make your way up through the tower while defeating all the bosses. There are no checkpoints. And the final boss summons every boss you had beaten up to that point.

After deciding my party was good enough, it took me around 7 hours to finally beat the tower. My hands were sweating like no other achievement made me sweat during this year, with the exception for Forza Horizon 4’s Heads Up. But it all ended up working out and I finally completed the game, clocking in 68 hours on my save file and 78 hours according to the Microsoft tracker (probably due to loading my save after some unsuccessful tries).

Yakuza is one of those rare games that leaves us with a felling of emptiness after we finally complete it. I can’t possibly recommend it enough.

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I have 85 hours played and have every achievement except for the true final tower. I’m not sure if i have the patience to go back and get the last one. Awesome completion!

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Fun fact: since I started grinding achievements for this OT, I increased my gamerscore by over 20%, most of it since October to be exact. I was around 250k when this challenge started, now I’m closing on 310k. And I’ve been on Live since 2009!

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I was so glad that I didn’t need to grind every job to max level like most guides seem to suggest. It would have added around 20 or so hours to my completion.

If it helps, this was the team I used to beat the final tower:

  1. Ichiban Kasuga (lv. 99, Hero lv. 99 // + Enforcer lv. 99, Breaker lv. 57, Freelancer lv. 41, Host lv. 32, Foreman lv. 28). Weapon: Legendary Hero’s Bat EX +5
  2. Tianyou Zhao (lv. 99, Gangster lv. 99 // + Breaker lv. 99, Foreman lv. 48, Enforcer lv. 42, Fortuneteller lv. 33, Host lv. 30). Weapon: Curved Crystal Saber EX +3
  3. Koichi Adachi (lv. 99, Enforcer lv. 99 // + Detective lv. 99, Bodyguard lv. 68, Foreman lv. 32, Host lv. 25). Weapon: Special Ops Riot Shield EX +4
  4. Eri Kamataki (lv. 99, Idol lv. 99 // + Night Queen lv. 99, Dealer lv. 82, Clerk lv. 34). Weapon: Celestial Microphone EX +1

This was my back up (which, to be honest, I almost didn’t use during the tower);

  1. Nanba (lv. 99, Homeless Guy lv. 99 // + Foreman lv. 99, Enforcer lv. 45, Fortuneteller lv. 41). Weapon: Amenohoakari no Mikoto +1
  2. Joon-gi Han (lv. 99, Hitman lv. 99 // + Enforcer lv. 99, Host lv. 32, Foreman lv. 30, Breaker lv. 23). Weapon: Darksilver Fists EX +1
  3. Saeko Mukoda (lv. 99, Night Queen lv. 99 // + Idol lv. 99, Dealer lv. 57, Barmaid lv. 37, Hostess lv. 31). Weapon: Electric Whip

When you reach the final fight and the final boss summons the three shadow characters, stop using AoE attacks. First of all summon Mr. Masochist, and then use your strongest single enemy attack on the final boss. If you use AoE attacks, you deploy the other characters HP and they start summoning special attacks. Focus in one enemy at a time.

The perfect order for dealing with the final fight is:

1. Amon; 2. Majima; 3. Saejima and 4. Kiryu

This is the result: :stuck_out_tongue:

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But yeah, I’ve been affected aswell. Here is my TA score per month since September:

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Attention: the Week 16 ranking starts now!

Here are the results of the 15th week:

# User Gamertag Initial GS Final GS Total GS Points
1. @KARMAgoesHARD KARMAgoesHARD 566.909 569.669 2.760 10
2. @FairyEmpire baboy1337 307.023 309.528 2.505 9
3. @BeardoN7x BeardoA7x 65.970 68.400 2.430 8
4. @brunopcosta1 brunopcosta1 156.060 158.070 2.010 7
4. @BadMoodJones Junglee91 72.721 74.731 2.010 7
6. @Plagueborne The Wicked Soul 642.232 643.947 1.715 5
7. @UnveiledArk UnveiledArk 248.445 249.820 1.375 4
8. @PhantomFox PhantomFox75 39.137 40.497 1.360 3
9. @AroAnimagus Aro Animagus 3.430 4.595 1.165 2
10. @procerus procerus 227.104 228.134 1.030 1
11. TheSego The Sego 142.808 143.668 860 0
12. Akosii Akosii 302.670 303.465 795 0
13. CRZYSPZ CRZYSPZ 350.972 351.737 765 0
13. Scottish_Sin Scottish Sin 506.996 507.761 765 0
15. riazor Riazor 352.748 353.458 710 0
16. Johnohno DarhJohno 356.440 357.130 690 0
17. SheepDip Ryuukishi634 334.060 334.705 645 0
18. Chyld989 Chyld989 332.390 332.860 470 0
19. Jeremy Jeremy Saunders 247.679 248.134 455 0
20. FaultLineBlues wahaj 21.975 22.425 450 0
21. Shadowgasm Shadowgasm 228.167 228.582 415 0
22. supercommodore supercommodore 12.907 13.292 385 0
23. Bluehawk357 BlueHawk357 106.028 106.398 370 0
24. Running_Riot BoutTreeFidy 33.250 33.600 350 0
25. Knottian Knottian 201.805 202.140 335 0
26. dfunktjester dFunkt jestEr 105.227 105.517 290 0
27. Infamy regret 451.560 451.835 275 0
28. Darcadia cyllis 78.438 78.693 255 0
29. dscharles dscharles 45.941 46.181 240 0
30. OneBadMutha OneBadMutha 44.375 44.610 235 0
31. MasterLeePhD Master Lee PhD 281.799 282.024 225 0
32. xJavontax xJavontax 25.024 25.214 190 0
33. CallMeCraig matsze 187.825 187.995 170 0
34. low187 ShadowArceus5 213.415 213.545 130 0
35. Bugalugs214 bugalugs214 122.215 122.320 105 0
36. BananaBox39 MaidenLOKO 181.495 181.595 100 0
37. Scottx2 Scott x 2 59.708 59.764 56 0
38. MRE-Inc MRE Inc 64.572 64.627 55 0
39. Hammer24 Hammer2424 96.333 96.383 50 0
40. MMarfil MMarfil 92.524 92.569 45 0
41. TheSlickTony TheSlickTony 100.857 100.897 40 0
42. MrZweistein MrZweistein 128.080 128.100 20 0
42. Sikamikanico Sikamikanico 117.701 117.721 20 0
44. Mort Mortaigne 137.247 137.262 15 0
45. DannyEight Danny Eight 1.690 1.690 0 0
45. Foorbits Foorbits 43.583 43.583 0 0
45. parksey1972 Parksey1972 17.683 17.683 0 0

Here is the General Points Ranking with the results from the first 15 weeks:

# User Gamertag Points
1. FairyEmpire baboy1337 333
2. KARMAgoesHARD KARMAgoesHARD 287
3. Plagueborne The Wicked Soul 270
4. Shadowgasm Shadowgasm 267
5. BadMoodJones Junglee91 212
6. MasterLeePhD Master Lee PhD 171
7. Akosii Akosii 167
8. brunopcosta1 brunopcosta1 132
9. Chyld989 Chyld989 122
10. Scottish_Sin Scottish Sin 115
11. CallMeCraig matsze 92
12. SheepDip Ryuukishi634 61
13. Infamy regret 55
14. Bluehawk357 BlueHawk357 54
15. Mort Mortaigne 47
16. UnveiledArk UnveiledArk 42
17. low187 ShadowArceus5 28
18. BeardoN7x BeardoA7x 25
19. CRZYSPZ CRZYSPZ 19
20. MMarfil MMarfil 16
21. Darcadia cyllis 10
22. riazor Riazor 9
23. TheSlickTony TheSlickTony 8
24. procerus procerus 7
25. Scottx2 Scott x 2 5
26. dfunktjester dFunkt jestEr 4
26. PhantomFox PhantomFox75 4
28. Hammer24 Hammer2424 3
28. Jeremy Jeremy Saunders 3
30. FaultLineBlues wahaj 2
30. AroAnimagus Aro Animagus 2
32. BananaBox39 MaidenLOKO 0
32. Bugalugs214 bugalugs214 0
32. DannyEight Danny Eight 0
32. dscharles dscharles 0
32. Foorbits Foorbits 0
32. Johnohno DarhJohno 0
32. Knottian Knottian 0
32. MRE-Inc MRE Inc 0
32. MrZweistein MrZweistein 0
32. OneBadMutha OneBadMutha 0
32. parksey1972 Parksey1972 0
32. Running_Riot BoutTreeFidy 0
32. Sikamikanico Sikamikanico 0
32. supercommodore supercommodore 0
32. TheSego The Sego 0
32. xJavontax xJavontax 0

Every GamerScore earned from now until Monday, January 4, 2021 2:59 AM will count towards Week 16’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 Friday, January 1, 2021 2:59 AM will also count towards December’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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I got one achievement all week! Haha, fml. Ah well, should get some more time for gaming soon. I have started Cyberpunk 2077 though (which is working great so far on XSX btw!) but that game is gonna take a while with not a lot of GS. I plan to just do a first playthrough and then wait for the XSX-version and some more content before going all in.

I have a few side-games lined up though, which I hope I can get around to as well.

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Any suggestions for January’s featured game? The biggest releases are Hitman and The Medium, but the first is not on Game Pass, and the second will be released only in the very end of the month and is a Series X exclusive :frowning:

By the way, a little heads up: for obvious reasons I will not be able to post December’s ranking results as soon as it finishes. Don’t expect an update on 12 AM January 1st :stuck_out_tongue:

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If there isn’t a game that qualifies, we could just skip the month. I have a feeling a few games will pop up unannounced though, so we could always wait and hope that happens.

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Yeah, I thought about that. Skipping the month at first, and when the new Game Pass games for January are revealed, if there is anything that meets the criteria, we set up a poll to decide.

The other option was to make a poll with every Game Pass game that meet the criteria (excluding Gears Tactics and Call of the Sea). But people would have to be ok with the fact that someone might already have played the games and therefore earned some Gamerscore.

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Slacker.

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I’m glad I waited! I knew the achievements list would be different!

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I’m glad that’s the case. Achievements always motivate me to replay games.

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Attention: the January ranking starts now!

Here are the results of December/2020:

# User Gamertag Initial GS Final GS Total GS Points
1. @FairyEmpire baboy1337 300.638 315.458 14.820 100
2. @KARMAgoesHARD KARMAgoesHARD 559.604 572.289 12.685 90
3. @BeardoN7x BeardoA7x 58.065 70.185 12.120 80
4. @brunopcosta1 brunopcosta1 147.080 158.255 11.175 70
5. @Shadowgasm Shadowgasm 220.502 228.612 8.110 60
6. @Plagueborne The Wicked Soul 636.207 644.192 7.985 50
7. @Scottish_Sin Scottish Sin 501.200 508.321 7.121 40
8. @UnveiledArk UnveiledArk 245.715 252.815 7.100 30
9. @NierlyCrazy CRZYSPZ 346.767 353.587 6.820 20
10. @Chyld989 Chyld989 327.790 333.825 6.035 10
11. SheepDip Ryuukishi634 329.840 335.120 5.280 0
12. Akosii Akosii 299.170 303.790 4.620 0
13. CallMeCraig matsze 184.195 187.995 3.800 0
14. MMarfil MMarfil 89.459 92.584 3.125 0
15. PhantomFox PhantomFox75 37.652 40.737 3.085 0
16. Infamy regret 449.210 452.120 2.910 0
17. supercommodore supercommodore 11.947 14.827 2.880 0
18. BadMoodJones Junglee91 72.136 74.731 2.595 0
19. Bluehawk357 BlueHawk357 104.158 106.743 2.585 0
20. riazor Riazor 351.518 353.758 2.240 0
21. FaultLineBlues wahaj 20.495 22.525 2.030 0
22. AroAnimagus Aro Animagus 3.190 5.195 2.005 0
23. Jeremy Jeremy Saunders 246.264 248.264 2.000 0
24. dscharles dscharles 45.081 46.846 1.765 0
25. procerus procerus 226.629 228.354 1.725 0
26. Johnohno DarhJohno 355.870 357.370 1.500 0
27. dfunktjester dFunkt jestEr 104.152 105.562 1.410 0
28. low187 ShadowArceus5 213.105 214.475 1.370 0
29. Mort Mortaigne 135.907 137.262 1.355 0
30. MasterLeePhD Master Lee PhD 281.034 282.354 1.320 0
31. Scottx2 Scott x 2 58.708 60.009 1.301 0
32. TheSego The Sego 142.648 143.683 1.035 0
33. Knottian Knottian 201.250 202.240 990 0
33. OneBadMutha OneBadMutha 43.815 44.805 990 0
35. xJavontax xJavontax 24.549 25.494 945 0
36. Darcadia cyllis 77.913 78.773 860 0
37. Bugalugs214 bugalugs214 121.640 122.470 830 0
38. Running_Riot BoutTreeFidy 32.920 33.690 770 0
39. Hammer2424 Hammer2424 95.683 96.383 700 0
40. BananaBox39 MaidenLOKO 181.070 181.595 525 0
40. TheSlickTony TheSlickTony 100.382 100.907 525 0
42. parksey1972 Parksey1972 17.493 18.003 510 0
43. MRE-Inc MRE Inc 64.172 64.647 475 0
44. Sikamikanico Sikamikanico 117.536 117.871 335 0
45. MrZweistein MrZweistein 127.890 128.100 210 0
46. Foorbits Foorbits 43.583 43.583 0 0
46. DannyEight Danny Eight 1.690 1.690 0 0

Here is the General Points Ranking with the results from this last month:

# User Gamertag Points
1. FairyEmpire baboy1337 433
2. KARMAgoesHARD KARMAgoesHARD 377
3. Shadowgasm Shadowgasm 327
4. Plagueborne The Wicked Soul 320
5. BadMoodJones Junglee91 212
6. brunopcosta1 brunopcosta1 202
7. MasterLeePhD Master Lee PhD 171
8. Akosii Akosii 167
9. Scottish_Sin Scottish Sin 155
10. Chyld989 Chyld989 132
11. BeardoN7x BeardoA7x 105
12. CallMeCraig matsze 92
13. UnveiledArk UnveiledArk 72
14. SheepDip Ryuukishi634 61
15. Infamy regret 55
16. Bluehawk357 BlueHawk357 54
17. Mort Mortaigne 47
18. CRZYSPZ CRZYSPZ 39
19. low187 ShadowArceus5 28
20. MMarfil MMarfil 16
21. Darcadia cyllis 10
22. riazor Riazor 9
23. TheSlickTony TheSlickTony 8
24. procerus procerus 7
25. Scottx2 Scott x 2 5
26. dfunktjester dFunkt jestEr 4
26. PhantomFox PhantomFox75 4
28. Hammer24 Hammer2424 3
28. Jeremy Jeremy Saunders 3
30. FaultLineBlues wahaj 2
30. AroAnimagus Aro Animagus 2
32. BananaBox39 MaidenLOKO 0
32. Bugalugs214 bugalugs214 0
32. DannyEight Danny Eight 0
32. dscharles dscharles 0
32. Foorbits Foorbits 0
32. Johnohno DarhJohno 0
32. Knottian Knottian 0
32. MRE-Inc MRE Inc 0
32. MrZweistein MrZweistein 0
32. OneBadMutha OneBadMutha 0
32. parksey1972 Parksey1972 0
32. Running_Riot BoutTreeFidy 0
32. Sikamikanico Sikamikanico 0
32. supercommodore supercommodore 0
32. TheSego The Sego 0
32. xJavontax xJavontax 0

Every GamerScore earned from now until Monday, February 1, 2021 2:59 AM will count towards January’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.

Every GamerScore earned until Monday, January 4, 2021 2:59 AM will also count towards Week 16’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.

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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December’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.

Call of the Sea was the chosen game for December/2020, and here are the results:

# User Gamertag Gamerscore Points
1. @Akosii Akosii 1000 100
1. @BeardoN7x BeardoA7x 1000 100
1. @brunopcosta1 brunopcosta1 1000 100
1. @CallMeCraig matsze 1000 100
1. @Johnohno DarhJohno 1000 100
1. @KARMAgoesHARD KARMAgoesHARD 1000 100
1. @MMarfil MMarfil 1000 100
1. @PhantomFox PhantomFox75 1000 100
1. @Shadowgasm Shadowgasm 1000 100
10. Jeremy Jeremy Saunders 875 0
11. Plagueborne The Wicked Soul 580 0
12. FaultLineBlues wahaj 550 0
13. Scottx2 Scott x 2 545 0
14. Hammer2424 Hammer2424 510 0
15. Darcadia cyllis 170 0
16. TheSego The Sego 130 0
17. Bluehawk357 BlueHawk357 75 0
18. dscharles dscharles 55 0
18. Knottian Knottian 55 0
20. BananaBox39 MaidenLOKO 45 0
20. procerus procerus 45 0
22. BadMoodJones Junglee91 25 0
22. Bugalugs214 bugalugs214 25 0
22. OneBadMutha OneBadMutha 25 0
22. supercommodore supercommodore 25 0
26. AroAnimagus Aro Animagus 0 0
26. Chyld989 Chyld989 0 0
26. CRZYSPZ CRZYSPZ 0 0
26. DannyEight Danny Eight 0 0
26. dfunktjester dFunkt jestEr 0 0
26. FairyEmpire baboy1337 0 0
26. Foorbits Foorbits 0 0
26. Infamy regret 0 0
26. low187 ShadowArceus5 0 0
26. MasterLeePhD Master Lee PhD 0 0
26. Mort Mortaigne 0 0
26. MRE-Inc MRE Inc 0 0
26. MrZweistein MrZweistein 0 0
26. parksey1972 Parksey1972 0 0
26. riazor Riazor 0 0
26. Running_Riot BoutTreeFidy 0 0
26. Scottish_Sin Scottish Sin 0 0
26. SheepDip Ryuukishi634 0 0
26. Sikamikanico Sikamikanico 0 0
26. TheSlickTony TheSlickTony 0 0
26. UnveiledArk UnveiledArk 0 0
26. xJavontax xJavontax 0 0

Here is the General Points Ranking after the above results:

# User Gamertag Points
1. KARMAgoesHARD KARMAgoesHARD 477
2. FairyEmpire baboy1337 433
3. Shadowgasm Shadowgasm 427
4. Plagueborne The Wicked Soul 320
5. brunopcosta1 brunopcosta1 302
6. Akosii Akosii 267
7. BadMoodJones Junglee91 212
8. BeardoN7x BeardoA7x 205
9. CallMeCraig matsze 192
10. MasterLeePhD Master Lee PhD 171
11. Scottish_Sin Scottish Sin 155
12. Chyld989 Chyld989 132
13. MMarfil MMarfil 116
14. PhantomFox PhantomFox75 104
15. Johnohno DarhJohno 100
16. UnveiledArk UnveiledArk 72
17. SheepDip Ryuukishi634 61
18. Infamy regret 55
19. Bluehawk357 BlueHawk357 54
20. Mort Mortaigne 47
21. CRZYSPZ CRZYSPZ 39
22. low187 ShadowArceus5 28
23. Darcadia cyllis 10
24. riazor Riazor 9
25. TheSlickTony TheSlickTony 8
26. procerus procerus 7
27. Scottx2 Scott x 2 5
28. dfunktjester dFunkt jestEr 4
29. Hammer24 Hammer2424 3
29. Jeremy Jeremy Saunders 3
31. AroAnimagus Aro Animagus 2
31. FaultLineBlues wahaj 2
33. BananaBox39 MaidenLOKO 0
33. Bugalugs214 bugalugs214 0
33. DannyEight Danny Eight 0
33. dscharles dscharles 0
33. Foorbits Foorbits 0
33. Knottian Knottian 0
33. MRE-Inc MRE Inc 0
33. MrZweistein MrZweistein 0
33. OneBadMutha OneBadMutha 0
33. parksey1972 Parksey1972 0
33. Running_Riot BoutTreeFidy 0
33. Sikamikanico Sikamikanico 0
33. supercommodore supercommodore 0
33. TheSego The Sego 0
33. xJavontax xJavontax 0
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Happy New Year, everyone!

I can’t believe I posted the results for the fourth month of our little competition. We started with a few interested achievement hunters, and we are now 47!

Talking about our Ranking, @FairyEmpire’s decision to not play Call of the Sea costed him the first place – which now belongs to @KARMAgoesHARD, the only one to be on the top of the ranking for both our featured games so far!

Thank you everyone for the company and support in the past few months of this difficult year that has just ended. Hopefully 2021 takes us back to normal times – including more games and less delays!

To wrap things up, I think it would be nice if we shared our 2020 in review. You can take advantage of True Achievement’s fantastic stats page by using the link below:

https://www.trueachievements.com/gamer/YOURGAMERTAG/periods

Here’s mine. I’m really happy with my numbers, especially because I completed almost half of all the games I played last year!

A huge leap when compared to my 2019 :stuck_out_tongue:

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Mine for the year. Hoping to do more this next year in a new career.:slight_smile:

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Congrats to @KARMAgoesHARD for taking the lead :slight_smile: I knew I’d risk losing the lead by skipping the monthly games, but I was mainly pushing towards reaching my end of the year goal of 300k score - happy to report I managed to do it with a +15k margin no less! Crazy that I managed to do about 65k in like 3 months, hah.

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Call of the Sea got me a nice boost, thank you Melissa McGamepass :+1:

this was my 2020

I had a lot of fun with Game Pass games, my backlog games and with Indie, Blockbuster and Eurojank games. Lets see what 2021 brings.

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Not bad at all, considering I only started the meaningful hunt in October.

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