[awp]

41 hours for 7%? Is that actually correct?

Seems low but I don’t pay too much attention to achievements TBH. And while I love Elden Ring, I will readily admit that I suck.

[braiiins]

A little surprised but makes sense I guess. Most games I played this year were shorter indie games except Guardians and I still need to finish that.

[Bowie88]

 

Yep, seeing as how this was my wife's favorite game of the year, makes sense that this would be my #1

[jazzman]

41 hours for 7%? Is that actually correct?

That’s equivalent to me scrolling the MS store for weekly deals and barely buying anything.

[awp]

A little surprised but makes sense I guess. Most games I played this year were shorter indie games except Guardians and I still need to finish that.

The fact that you only played 30 games is shocking. But then again, a lot of people here just buy games to look at the tiles in their collections.

I played 190 games. Think that’s mostly due to the GamePass effect. Play games for a few minutes to see if I like them and some I never go back to, lol.

[KrayzieKMF]

mine says that i played vampire survivors for 64 hours which can't be right

[Bloomy]

 

Not sure if I should be surprised FH5 beat out Gears 5.

 

I started the year wanting to finish at least 1 game a month, and I hit that mark.  Though some months were close.

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• Jan - Shadow Man Remastered - 2nd completion on TA
• Feb - The Messenger (console) - Started back in 2020 while it was on Game Pass, includes Picnic Panic DLC
• Mar - Mahjong (mobile) - started Apr 2021, needed to wait for the 12 Bronze months
• Apr
  • Tales from the Borderlands (360) - Started in Jan
  • Forza Horizon 5 (base game) - Waited on a couple achievements until I won an Eliminator
• May - The Walking Dead (XB1) - Started Dec 2021
• Jun
  • Lego Marvel's Avengers - Started Dec 2017
  • Tetris Effect: Connected - Started Nov 2020
  • ACA NeoGeo Ninja Combat - Started Jul 2019
• Jul - Omno - Ran through the week before it left Game Pass
• Aug
  • Gears 5 (base game) - Started Sep 2019
  • ACA NeoGeo Sengoku - Started Sep 2020
• Sep - Lost Words: Beyond the Page - Ran through a couple days before it left Game Pass
• Oct - The Walking Dead: Michonne (XB1) - Started in June
• Nov
  • Lego Marvel Super Heroes - Started Dec 2017
  • DEEEER Simulator - Ran through on final day before leaving Game Pass
• Dec
  • ACA NeoGeo Aero Fighters 2 - Started Sep 2020
  • Borderlands 3 (base game) - Started Sep 2019 (also ran through Designer's Cut DLC in Nov)
  • Arcade Game Series: Pac-Man - Started Jan 2018
  • Arcade Game Series: Ms. Pac-Man - Started Dec 2018
  • Microsoft Wordament (mobile) - Started Dec 2021

Other DLCs / updates wrapped up this year :

• BioShock Infinite - Burial at Sea, Episode 1
• Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (360) - The Holodome Onslaught
• Forza Horizon 2 - Storm Island
• Forza Horizon 4 - Eliminator (fully completed game)
• Forza Horizon 5 - Hot Wheels, Series 10, 10 year anniversary
• Forza Motorsport 5 - Nurburgring
• Forza Motorsport 6 - Porsche Expansion
• Gears 5 - Operations 5 and 8, Campaign Update
• Human Fall Flat - City, Lumber, Red Rock, Tower (kept me going in the TA Leap Frog)

 

I still started more games than I completed.  Viva la backlog!

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• Shadow Man Remastered
• Tales from the Borderlands (360)
• Death's Door
• Microsoft Ultimate Words Games (Win)
• Cyber Shadow - left Game Pass
• Infernax - hits 1 year on Game Pass in Feb, might need to wrap up
• Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
• The Walking Dead (360)
• Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep
• ACA NeoGeo Baseball Stars 2
• Pac-Man 256
• Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
• Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition
• The Walking Dead: Michonne (XB1)
• TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
• Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
• Omno
• Puyo Puyo Tetris 2
• Alwa's Awakening
• Skelattack
• Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Ediiton (Switch)
• Ryse: Son of Rome
• TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection
• Guacamelee!: Super Turbo Championship Edition
• Lost Words: Beyond the Page
• The Artful Escape - left Game Pass
• Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
• ACA NeoGeo King of the Monsters
• Prodeus
• Deathloop
• Doom 64
• Vampire Survivors
• DEEER Simulator
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (console)
• Hello Neighbor 2 (let nephew play it in cloud on my tablet)

[Bloomy]

I played 190 games. Think that’s mostly due to the GamePass effect. Play games for a few minutes to see if I like them and some I never go back to, lol.

Do you play enough to unlock an achievement?  Because I don't think TA picks those up.  Unless they count them in the played total but don't show them in your played list.  I don't have You Suck at Parking in my list despite starting it in the cloud yesterday for last week's play quest.

[chnandler_bong]

It looks like I have a new way to earn a few more MS rewards points.  In the (Android) app, there is a section called "Read to earn" that gives me 3 points per news article I click on, up to a max of 30 points.  I presume this is daily, but this is the first time I've seen it.

Yep, it looks like it's a daily total.  So now instead of 270 points per day, I can earn 300 points per day:

 

150 points for searching Bing on desktop

20 points for searching in Edge

100 points for searching Bing in the app

30 points for browsing new articles in the app

 

And since I can swipe between articles, it's not a lot of extra effort.

[jimbo8574]

Anyone else having issues uploading images?   Tried two different browsers and it never saves.

[adonfraz]

 

 

Played a ton of 2K when it was in Game Pass apparently...

[gpn]

Fallout 76 has been my most played so far, but I've only had the Series S since Black Friday.

 

[braiiins]

The fact that you only played 30 games is shocking. But then again, a lot of people here just buy games to look at the tiles in their collections.
I played 190 games. Think that’s mostly due to the GamePass effect. Play games for a few minutes to see if I like them and some I never go back to, lol.

I did a quick scan of TA and the majority of my games played are gamepass titles and a lot of them are 100% completions. There are a few "try and it wasn't for me" games but most I commit to. I'd like to see a comprehensive breakdown because the hours seem low to me. Maybe TA only tracks time in games where achievements are earned because I put some heavy hours into multiplayer in some games. It definitely was a light year for me though, no big open world games for me. I did knock a lot of games off my Nintendo backlog though.

[awp]

Do you play enough to unlock an achievement? Because I don't think TA picks those up. Unless they count them in the played total but don't show them in your played list. I don't have You Suck at Parking in my list despite starting it in the cloud yesterday for last week's play quest.

I’d have to look but honestly I do find it hard to believe I played 190 games let alone unlocked an achievement in all of them. While I joked about the “try and never look back” GP effect, there’s probably not that many that I absolutely hated and didn’t play again so after thinking about it, 190 seems high.

[cancerman1120]

[Bloomy]

I did a quick scan of TA and the majority of my games played are gamepass titles and a lot of them are 100% completions. There are a few "try and it wasn't for me" games but most I commit to. I'd like to see a comprehensive breakdown because the hours seem low to me. Maybe TA only tracks time in games where achievements are earned because I put some heavy hours into multiplayer in some games. It definitely was a light year for me though, no big open world games for me. I did knock a lot of games off my Nintendo backlog though.

I noticed TA won't update achievement progress percentages unless you pop another achievement, and I just did a check with Gears 5.  My last pop was Sept 9, and my time played on TA is about 210 hours less than the time in the Xbox app.  So Gears 5 may be higher than FH5.

 

When I finished the achievements in Lego Avengers earlier this year, I spent some time collecting studs to see if TA would update my spot on the leaderboard there, and it did.  Don't know if time played may track once you hit 100%.

 

Edit: Time isn't updated with 100% on achievements.  My TA time in FH5 is about 21 hours behind Xbox time, with my last pop on Nov 28.

[Shadow_Contact]

[Sielanas]

10x as much time as my PSN summary.

[Captain Wrong]

Well, shit, if it gonna be that kind of party...

 

[CaptainButtlord]

https://i6.trueachie...jpg?v=4954E5D07

[deszaras]

Yep, it looks like it's a daily total.  So now instead of 270 points per day, I can earn 300 points per day:
 
150 points for searching Bing on desktop
20 points for searching in Edge
100 points for searching Bing in the app
30 points for browsing new articles in the app
 
And since I can swipe between articles, it's not a lot of extra effort.

Where is the articles at? Bing, Edge or what? They used to give points for clicking on articles on Edge but stopped a while back.

[chnandler_bong]

Where is the articles at? Bing, Edge or what? They used to give points for clicking on articles on Edge but stopped a while back.

Articles inside the Bing app.

[gamegirlpocket]

My phone is misbehaving with the image embed, but according to TA:

 

436 achievements

10,325 GS

41 games played

168 hours

 

Top game on Xbox: Guardians of the Galaxy

 

I think the total games played might be off. I definitely started up some games via cloud for some of the rewards bonuses etc. I also fired up a few that had updates but didn't actually play them, so I'm not sure how it calculates it.

 

If Nintendo does another end-of-year stats I'll get the full picture since I used my Switch a lot more this year.

 

Also! Fun fact, there are 2,080 hours of work in 52 weeks at 40h/w. So whatever your max hours are, you can see what % of a part time or full time job your gaming was (do you really want to know?).

 

 

I didn't mention the Halo chair, but guess that helps keep it on topic?  I'm leaning towards the Digital Knit backing.

 

Haworth x Halo: Fern Gaming Chair

There's no Mountain Dew cup holder, it's clearly a cheap knockoff.
 

[deszaras]

Articles inside the Bing app.

Thanks for the clarification. I’m not seeing it on iPhone though.

[darthfracas]

Well, shit, if it gonna be that kind of party...

Definitely the winner for “most unexpected most played game”

Also:

[bardockkun]

The more I think about it, the more I'm surprised the Microsoft Solitaire Collection isn't my #1 because I put a shit ton of hours into that at work.

[chnandler_bong]

Thanks for the clarification. I’m not seeing it on iPhone though.

Here's a screenshot of what I see. From the home screen, click on your profile picture and then click Microsoft Rewards. I'm not sure of any other way to see this info.

 

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[psunami]

The more I think about it, the more I'm surprised the Microsoft Solitaire Collection isn't my #1 because I put a shit ton of hours into that at work.

I haven't looked at my Total Achievements list, but I would be shocked if that isn't my highest used one also.  

[Captain Wrong]

Definitely the winner for “most unexpected most played game”

Tell me. I really expected Forza Horizon. I guess I off at work more than I realized.

[goldeneye64]

Costco has Xbox $100 Gift Card for $80 through 1/1/23. While supplies last. Limit 2 per member. I received mine via email 10 minutes after purchase.

 

https://www.costco.c....100524149.html