This is our second installment in our Member Of The Month series where we find more about the gamers on EX3A. This month we have YouStayClassy who is number one on our Leaderboard and winner of our Achievement Guide Competition last month. CLICK HERE if you would like to view last months interview with whttrashtheman. Without further ado, here is the interview...

 CoverPimpSloth : Tell us a little bit about yourself and your Gamertag ?

 My current job is I run a freight crew for a grocery store. It's really boring and mind numbing work and has lousy vampire shift hours, but as long as I have my MP3 player I stay very sane.

My Gamertag is a signature catchphrase from the movie Anchorman, which is by far one of my favourite movies of all time. I'm ones of those insufferable people that are still quoting it some four years later. I have been using YouStayClassy for everything and anything I do online, and I hate to use "55" for the "ss" cuz of Microsoft's word censor policy. I think it looks so silly that way.

 How did you get into gaming and how long have you been playing? 

 I've been playing all my life, although I was definitely a PC gamer for my early years. I had a Nintendo, but for me those games always paled in comparison to PC games like King's Quest and Space Quest. It wasn't until I played Final Fantasy IV (aka II) on the Super Nintendo I realized console games were finally starting to catch up. That, and it was getting REALLY expensive to have to keep upgrading if I wanted to play the latest games.

 When did you get into achievements and how?

 I got my first 360 in April 2008, and honestly didn't even notice achievements at first. I was just playing to play the games. It wasn't until Grand Theft Auto IV came out I found myself going out of the way to get those achievements because they were such a unique challenge. After I spent a whole night trying to get the Qub3d achievement (I'm mostly colour blind, so it was VERY hard for me), I decided I was officially addicted. Very soon after that I went out and rented the holy 2006 360 sports games line up and Avatar. The rest is history.

 What are your long term gaming & achievement goals? 

 Long term I really want to work on raising my completion percentage, it really is about the saddest thing ever. I also wouldn't mind becoming number one on the United States Family Zone leaderboard on mygamercard.net in 2010.

Short term I suppose is hitting 200,000 GS, but even more short term is beating all the top tier 360 RPG's like Mass Effect and Fallout 3. That's definitely going to delay 200K for awhile I think.

 What are the worst games you have played for points?

Top 5

1). Shellshock 2

2). Hour of Victory

3). Alone In The Dark

4). Jumper

5) Ratatouille

 What are the hardest achievements you have obtained?

 For actual difficulty, Penalty Shot Hero in NHL 08. Scoring the actual shot wasn't hard, but getting it set up so I could attempt the shot was a nightmare. The penalty calling in that game is so erratic and frustrating.

The worst achievements for me have been ones like Play 500 Games in NHL 2K10 and collect all 300+ cards in MLB 2K9. I don't deal with boredom well at all, and those ones almost killed me.

 What is your favorite game for online play for fun? 

 I am sure a lot of people will think I am crazy for saying this, but Gears of War 2. Host advantage is horrible, but the game is still an absolute blast to play for me.

 What is your favorite for offline play for fun?

 Halo 3, without a doubt. I consider Halo one of the greatest sci-fi universes ever created, and the game is the pinnacle of that. Every level in the campaign is a larger than life roller-coaster experience every time I play it.

 What are you doing when you aren't playing Xbox 360? What are your hobbies?

 When I am not working, almost all of my free time goes to my children. I live in South Dakota which I'm pretty sure is in the Middle of Nowhere and has nothing going for it whatsoever, so most of my hobbies are limited to writing and drawing. I'm also very much into straight edge culture, music and tattoos.

 What games are you looking forward to in the upcoming quarter?

 Final Fantasy XIII, Dante's Inferno, Mass Effect 2, BioShock 2 and the new Army of Two game. I'm also heavily anticipating the new Left 4 Dead 2 DLC because I love the direction that series is going.

 You are ranked No.1 in South Dakota. How does this feel and do you have any pressure to succeed because of this?

 Despite South Dakota being a VERY dead state for achievement gaining, I'm still pretty proud because of how fast I rose up to be number one on the leaderboard. When I joined that leaderboard I had a gamerscore of 2,500 something and in less than a year I had 97,000. I don't feel much pressure on that leaderboard because of the lack of competition, but I certainly am not looking to give it up anytime soon so I'll keep adding to my score as much as possible.

 What brought you to EX3A? 

 I am a huge fan of forums where everyone is kind of polite and EX3A is the epitome of that to me. Everyone here is so nice and sociable, it is SUCH a fresh breath of air compared to all the other achievement sites out there.

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