Achievement Hunter

Achievement Hunter is an ongoing series created by Rooster Teeth staff member Geoff Ramsey, in which staff members and contributors from the community demonstrate how to earn achievements in various games and enjoy them in various ways.

The Achievement Hunter logo, as of 2014

Achievement Hunter was born from Pattillo and Ramsey's interest in gaming achievements and the realization that there wasn't a community-based achievement website. In turn Achievement Hunter was created, which shares the design, user profiles and forums of the main Rooster Teeth website. The site regularly releases achievement guides, Easter egg videos, and select volunteers from the Rooster Teeth community to help moderate the website. The Achievement Hunter Twitter handle is @AchievementHunt.

The most frequent videos come from the six most prolific employees and top golden Achievement Hunter cast members: Geoff Ramsey (RT co-founder / AH co-founder), Jack Pattillo (Achievement Hunter's first employee), Gavin Free (RvB Season 7 director / Host of The Slow-Mo Guys), Ray Narvaez, Jr. (Community Hunter turned full-time employee), Michael Jones (Host of Rage Quit), and Ryan Haywood (Game Fails manager). Unlike any other dedicated-achievement website, Achievement Hunter is highly dependent on public contributions and has guides across different games and platforms, allowing the site to expand its focus from Xbox 360, and Xbox One games to those on PC, PS3, PS4, Steam, iPhone, and Windows Phone 7. Along with the main Rooster Teeth website, Achievement Hunter has achieved great popularity since its inception.

Series

Fails

Later that same year two new series were introduced, Fails of the Weak in Halo Reach being one of them. This series highlights mistakes and glitches found in Halo: Reach; most of these videos are submitted to Achievement Hunter by the community, depicting themselves failing. Each Friday, Jack and Geoff upload a video with at about ten fail clips showing the fails with both of them commenting on the fail's humor. "Fails" met with great success and even spun off its own Youtube channel, GameFails. They have recently shown their 100th Fails of the Weak video and made a montage of fails to celebrate. Upon its release, this series moved into Halo 4. Since episode 200 the series has included fails from any game.

HORSE and PIG / Achievement Hunt

The other series that aired in late 2010 was Achievement HORSE with Jack and Geoff, also featuring exclusively Halo: Reach maps. Similar to the basketball game of H-O-R-S-E, the players win rounds to give the other player letter (e.g. Jack wins round 1, Geoff gets a letter H) until one player has spelled out "horse" and wins the game. In this version of Horse, the players (typically Geoff and Jack, but more recently other Rooster Teeth employees have been playing as well/in their stead) compete in an obstacle course until one of them reaches the objective and wins the round. The obstacle courses are Forged in Halo: Reach and are sent to Jack and Geoff by fans. Occasionally they will play a shortened Achievement PIG due to time constraints. So far there have been two company-wide tournaments with employees from Achievement Hunter and Rooster Teeth. Additionally, there is Achievement Pig for Trials Evolution, which also features fan sent obstacle courses, alongside with the Halo: Reach Horse series. Upon its release, this series moved into Halo 4. In October 2013, the HORSE series was replaced with Achievement HUNT , which is the same basic concept, except a different game is used every round.

Rage Quit

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In 2011, a new series debuted, called Rage Quit, in which "test subject" Michael Jones, is subjected to difficult or exasperating games until "he eventually has an aneurysm and we have to rush him to the emergency room," as described by Geoff Ramsey. Michael often plays smaller, lesser-known XBLA games of low quality, adding to the level of frustration. Since its creation, it had become a hit weekly series. Beginning on May 1, 2014 however, the show now airs every other Thursday, interchanging with Play Pals. The show went on a hiatus starting October 9, 2014 due to Michaels absence because of the Lazer Team filming project, but has returned as of January 2015, airing every other Thursday as before.

2011 Smaller Series

Also in 2011, four new series were created by the Achievement Hunter staff for their audience. The first series is "This is...", which introduces new video games that came out recently. The game presented in "This is..." typically is released a day or two prior to the "This is..." video and is often accompanied by some achievement guides from the Achievement Hunter staff for the new game. The second series is titled "Things To Do In:" and presents its viewers with alternative ways to play and interesting things to do in video games like Saints Row 3, Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim, and Minecraft. The third series made is called "A Look Back At" and is a spin-of from the "This is..." videos. In "A Look Back At," Achievement Hunter employees Fragger and Ray re-introduce old XBOX 360 games that might have been overlooked in their release but are now classic games.

Let's Play

The final series that aired that year is called "Let's Play". The "Let's Play" videos are some of the most viewed and liked videos from the fans of Achievement Hunter. The first "Let's Play" videos are from Michael Jones and Geoff Ramsey when they were playing Saints Row 3 together with live commentary. Eventually more videos were made from the staff of Achievement Hunter, varying from Saints Row 3 to

Lets Play logo

Assassin's Creed to Trials: Evolution, however the most popular videos are the "Let's Play" for Minecraft with Jack, Geoff, Michael, Gavin, Ray, and Ryan. The Minecraft videos receive millions of views each week and, since fans like them so much, the Achievement Hunter team decided to "upload new Minecraft Let's Plays each week until we die," as stated by Geoff Ramsey. Due to their huge popularity, the "Let's Play" videos received their own dedicated Youtube channel, Let's Play, which is updated every weekday with videos. This includes GTA V on Monday, Let's Build and GO! along a Let's Fail on Tuesday, a series Let's Play on Wednesday, VS on Thursday, and a Minecraft Let's Play on Friday.

VS

This show is a competition show, where a champion is challenged by the challenger to

a game of their choosing. The trophies are a wrestling belt and a golden rooster.Whoever wins in an episode gets to keep these for a week until at least the next episode, where they get challenged. The challenger rotation was initially the order of their desks clockwise (Gavin, Ryan, Jack, Geoff, Ray, Michael), but is now determined by the results of a Go Kart race in VS Episode 52. Starting in episode 52, Lindsay officially joined the VS line up. The current challenger rotation is Jack, Ryan, Michael, Gavin, Ray, Lindsay, Geoff.

GO!

This show is a competition to get a visible achievement or perform a certain task (assigned by Geoff) in any game the players choose. The winner is awarded a sticker to be placed on a crude paper board that Gavin Free and Geoff Ramsey made (Most of the crew thought Millie Ramsey had made the board.)

The first player to fill up their section of the board (five wins) with stickers will be awarded a pizza party with Geoff and a friend. In GO!, Geoff is the host, while Gavin, Ryan, Jack, Michael, and Ray are the competitors. Lindsay and Kerry are also on the board though their appearances have been very few. Ray wins the first GO and the first ever pizza party. He decides to bring Kerry along as his guest. (GO episode 17) Ray also becomes the winner of the second pizza party (Go episode 31) though it is slightly different than the previous one.

Full Play

This show is simply full playthroughs of older games, like Resident Evil: Revelations. This series is usually only hosted by Michael, who sometimes has guests with him. There have been 2 full playthroughs so far, Resident Evil: Revelations and State of Decay, as well as an ongoing series in Banjo-Tooie.

Cast & Crew

Achievement Hunter 2014 — The current Achievement Hunter line up from RTX 2014. From left to right: Matt, Jeremy, Kdin, Lindsay, Michael, Gavin, Geoff, Ryan, Ray, Jack, and Caleb.

Cast

Geoff Ramsey: 2008–present
Jack Pattillo: 2008–present
Gavin Free: 2008–2011 (recurring), 2012–present (cast)
Michael Jones: 2011–present
Ryan Haywood: 2011 (crew), 2012–present (cast)
Lindsay Jones: 2013–present

Crew

Caleb Denecour: 2011–present
Lindsay Jones: 2013–present
Kdin Jenzen: 2013–present
Matt Bragg: 2014–present
Jeremy Dooley: 2014–present
Steffie Hardy: 2014-present
Trevor Collins: 2014-present

Recurring Guests

Community Hunter

Franco Scarcello: 2012–present

Rooster Teeth

Kerry Shawcross: 2010–present
Burnie Burns: 2011–present
Joel Heyman: 2011–present
Adam Ellis: 2013–present

Former

David "Knuckles Dawson" Dreger: 2008 (recurring)
Brandon "Fragger" Light: 2011–2013 (recurring)
J.J. Castillo: 2013 (crew)
Ray Narvaez, Jr.: 2010–2011 (recurring), 2012–2015 (cast)

Shows

Current Shows

Past Shows

Schedule

Monday

Let's Play GTA
AHWU
Countdown
MegaCraft
Game Fails: The Daily Fail

Tuesday

Five Facts
GO!
Let's Play
Game Fails: The Daily Fail

Wednesday

Things To Do In: Minecraft
Achievement HUNT
Let's Play
Imaginary Achievements
Game Fails: The Daily Fail

Thursday

How To:
VS
Let's Play
Rage Quit / Play Pals
Game Fails: The Daily Fail

Friday

Let's Play Minecraft
Things To Do In: GTA V
Fails of the Weak

Trivia

All the Achievement Hunters have edited videos during their time at Rooster Teeth.
- Gavin (formerly) edited Let's Play Minecraft episodes and edits Things To Do In and Let's Plays.
- Michael edits Rage Quits and Let's Plays.
- Ray edits Achievement Guides and Let's Plays.
- Geoff (formerly) edited Trials Files and Red vs Blue. Also runs the Game Kids channel.
- Jack edits Achievement HUNT, Fails of the Weak, and AHWU.
- Ryan edits Let's Play GTA and was previously charge of the Game Fails channel.
- Lindsay edits Minecraft Let's Plays, Let's Plays, Let's Builds, and Things To Do In.
- Caleb (formerly) edited Game Night. Runs the Community Hunter and Game Kids channels.
- Kdin edits Countdown, Coming Soon, Let's Builds, and Let's Plays.
- Matt edits MegaCraft, Let's Plays, and Let's Builds.
- Jeremy edits Imaginary Achievements, Let's Plays, and Let's Builds.
- Trevor edits Game Kids Let's Plays as well as runs the Community Hunter and Game Kids channels.
- Fragger edited Retro Active/A Look Back At.
- Franco edits Five Facts.
- Kerry edits Go!
- Ray left to pursue streaming full-time on Twitch.
Let's Play - Surgeon Simulator 2013: Alien Transplant, uploaded on Jan 31, 2014, is currently the most viewed video on the YouTube Let's Play channel.
Let's Play Minecraft, uploaded on May 11, 2012, is currently the most viewed let's play on the YouTube Rooster Teeth channel.
Matt Bragg (Axialmatt) and Jeremy Dooley (Jerem6401) from the Community Hunter Channel were officially hired by Achievement Hunter at the second AH Panel at RTX 2014. The two joined the group in the panel.
Fails of the Weak, Five Facts, Trials Files, Let's Play Minecraft, Versus, Rage Quit, Achievement Hunter Weekly Update, and Halo Achievement Horse are the only Achievement Hunter series to reach at least 100 episodes.
Ray is the first Achievement Hunter of the main six to leave.

Team Names

See main article: Achievement Hunter Teams.

Most of the Achievement Hunters who have recurring pairings end up giving themselves team names.

Member		Team Lads			Team Gents
Member		Gavin	Michael	Ray	Geoff	Jack	Ryan
Team Lads	Gavin		Team Nice Dynamite	X-Ray & Vav	Plan G	Team Trial & Error	Team Love 'n' Stuff
	Michael	Team Nice Dynamite		Team Better Friends/ Team No Name/ Team Brown Bear/ Team Not Verified	Dynamic Dumb-Asses	Team Angry Fat	Team Crazy Mad
	Ray	X-Ray & Vav	Team Better Friends/ Team No Name/ Team Brown Bear/ Team Not Verified		Team Boner Jizz/ Team Go Fuck Yourself / Team Salt and Vinegar		R & R Connection
Team Gents	Geoff	Plan G	Dynamic Dumb-Asses	Team Boner Jizz/ Team Go Fuck Yourself/ Team Salt and Vinegar		Team O.G.	Team Magnum Dong
	Jack	Team Trial & Error	Team Angry Fat		Team O.G.		Team Same Voice
	Ryan	Team Love 'n' Stuff	Team Crazy Mad	R & R Connection	Team Magnum Dong	Team Same Voice