XboxEra's 2024 Backlog Challenge |OT| Surely this is the year?

I just noticed that every game in my GWG tab now says owned…

+0 Geometry Wars 2

Fun enough game. But I’m not spending 10 hours memorising that final level/sequence, so… done.

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Do I need to complete Tus If they continue the story to get a point?

That dlc is where I finally started to get a hang on how to drift in FH.

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I’m not sure I understand your question. What’s a “tus”?

It was great for that, that looong drifting challenge down the mountain is still fun as hell. I’m sure @BRiT agrees completely :wink:

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Finished a small game. Butterfly +1.

Not much to say about this, a basic puzzle platformer with a lot of easy GS. I love puzzles so I played the levels legit (it has cheats) and it was a mix of incredibly easy levels and some very frustrating ones later on. Decent podcast game, retries was swift and there’s level select if you get stuck.

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Lol I frickin hated that one - I still think it might be one of the few PR stunts I’ve not got 3 stars on.

That and the little U shaped one in the city on FH3 and the U shaped one by the reservoir in FH5 are my worst ones.

I want to think I’m Tokyo Drift but I look more like Mr Bean desperately trying to donut rather than drift…

Danger signs are my favourite - I spend forever finding the best spots to start from and rewinding till I hit it right, then speed traps. Speed zones are OK but some dirt track ones I place only just above drifting!

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Haha, it’s an acquired taste :wink: Drifting just clicked for me, I love it. Helps I seem to have a talent for it I guess. When I bought my driving setup with wheel/pedals/shifter I was in heaven haha.

I enjoy the danger signs too! It’s fun trying to figure out the right car, the best approach etc.

I really enjoy it all, but I do prefer racing in the lower classes. It’s a lot more fun with less over the top cars. I think my favourite race would be a B class rally if I had to choose.

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Absolute torture.

Thats probably where I left off at, when all the drifts showed up for progression.

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Oddly enough, my favorite racing is dirt trails then dirt tracks in the A or B classes. I like the getting loose in the corners, but can’t maintain it long enough for drifting challenges.

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Maybe APOPHIS1989 meant title updates?

For example Vampire Survivors has added a bunch of achievements / levels / characters as title updates. But this doesn’t count as a completion after you finish the main game, and since they’re not something we intentionally acquired it’s not a dlc completion either.

I’m assuming the question is something along those lines?

Horizon really does shine in the dirt sprints or mixed surface races. Also A and B are definitely a sweet spot, because they don’t require perfect high speed driving but they definitely still require skill.

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Ah, that might be it. In that case, yes what you said.

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Yeah that’s the best ones. Drifting really helps a lot in regular races too, mastering those curves!

Definitely. I’d argue it’s harder than the high speed S-class road races.

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To confirm, title updates are NOT needed for a point, even if it continues the story? The base 1k is sufficient for the point?

Yes.

And the Title Updates don’t give any dlc points.

+1 Story tale (OG 1k, no TUs)

A short, basic puzzle platformer with somewhat of a story tying it all together.

+1.5 all three Hot Wheels Unleashed DLCs (Batman, Monster Trucks, Looney Tunes)

I discovered these while looking to see if I completed any other game sans TUs. It turns out that I completed these just before the game left game pass in March. They each add some new cars and tracks to the game, adding some variety.

I did literally the same thing with those, since I own a physical copy of the base game and wanted to keep from not being able to get them later, but for me they didn’t count since I didn’t own the dlc which was part of the GP version.

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I didn’t realize that the DLC was included in Game Pass. I thought I had bought them because I liked the game. Sorry @Mort, those points are a mistake and should be worth zero points. I posted that late at night, so my mind wasn’t all there.

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I mean double check if you have them, but the game pass version did have the dlc included. I finished the batman one I think the day they removed that.