jdodson: Totally, everyone should join!

Blue_Element: I already joined! :)

Adym: I'll have to join up tonight!

Travis: Adym, I thought you already had! But hey, new member! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0

Travis: Or if you prefer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_KNYNzN6A

jdodson: I love that clip. The Simpsons is classic.

Adym: Ha! I do love that clip too. Especially how Homer is the "normal" one for once.

WhiteboySlim: Tekkit is a mod correct? What does Tekkit add over the vanilla game? And does tekkit work with Bukkit? :)

Sirdan1013: Yes it does and it adds buildcraft and industrialcraft (the 2 big ones) which add machines and stuff and adds equivalent exchange so just a bunch of stuff really.

Travis: That looks like murder. Holy crap.

jdodson: I totally dig how the trailer used the voice of the guy that did lots of action movie trailers in the 80's and 90's.

Is this multi-player only or does it have some sort of Single Player component as well? I like the action movie brawler feel, its really cool. Since I love grisly action films, this feels familiar :D

The Twitch native integration is a totally awesome idea as these kinds of multi-player games will be all over Twitch anyway and taking out the middle man is a nice feature. In fact, I hope to see more of this come out in the future. That or some kind of in game video export or something.

scrypt: It will be primarily multiplayer, but the devs said they are playing with ideas that give the sense of a single player experience in specific game modes. Sounds like an interesting challenge.

I never gave Twitch much of a chance until recently. Now I'm surprised more games haven't implemented this as a feature. I'm hooked.

jdodson: Thats a good way to approach it. Even UT3 had a single player of sorts, it was just a story wrapped up in UT3 matches. Still fun.

Twitch is interesting. Right now its hard for me to get over certain channels "Wacky DJ" mentality. I love humor and fun, but sort of left 90's radio shock personalities and with bigger Twitch people they seem to be coming back. Beyond that, its fun to watch people play games I am not thinking about too often.

scrypt: Voted "yes" for this a little while ago. I could totally go for some peaceful co-op about now.

Sirdan1013: Looks pretty cool!

Sirdan1013: Just read 4 player co-op. MIND BLOWN.

jdodson: I agree. Totally want to cut down bushes Zelda style and tend to my farm. Its pretty much what I do in Minecraft for the most part. No huge ambitions to build the Pyramids, just like tending my farm and such.

WhiteboySlim: You had me at retro community farming RPG.

jdodson: Totally :)

The developers agreed to an interview, if you have any questions you want asked put them here and ill ship them over.

Planning on sending the questions tomorrow!

WhiteboySlim: This obviously is a take on the whole Harvest Moon series, but that scene in the cave kind of looks a little secret of mana-ish. You should ask what games kind of games they were inspired by and/or hoped to emulate while making this one. :)

Also, the video showed off quite a bit of combat. (Is that an orc at 1:24?) But I noticed the list of skills they mentioned don't seem to relate at all to combat. Will combat be a major part of the game, and if so, how will your character improve their fighting ability?

As far as the co-op goes, can they provide some more details about how that will be handled? Will co-op work over a LAN or will it be internet only? Will the other players just be dropped into your town as visitors or will you all exist within the same town?

scrypt: I haven't researched it at all, but I'm wondering if there are any story elements, or adventure objectives.

jdodson: Ill add that to my list, thanks guys!

jdodson: Ok added your stuff to the list, shipping it off later tonight or tomorrow morning.

jdodson: Just added it to the list.

http://cheerfulghost.com/game/24034

Thanks Will!

Will_Owens: In other news I played for like 45 minutes today, so that's 45 minutes more than I've played in the last 1.5 weeks.

jdodson: Hahaha, awesome. 45 minutes is better that 0, especially on holiday!

Sirdan1013: This looks like an awesome game and brings back nostalgia.

MoonWyrd: ah, this brings back memories. Loved Ultima Underworld.

scrypt: I keep meaning to get back into this game. Maybe this will do the trick?

jdodson: Its a great game and now with more pretty :D

jdodson: Cool. Lets do an official event for that.

vdogmr25: Sounds good to me.

SignalWarden: I am totally down for that.

jdodson: Sweet. Try to sort out a time that works and get it to yall unless someone else wants to co-ordinate it.

Sirdan1013: OK will do and will post with more information later.

jdodson: Great. Looking forward to it.

Travis: Which platform?

Sirdan1013: PC

scrypt: This is nice, as I completely suck at these games, competitively.

Travis: Script, the key is to find a low key group or some friends to play with. Jdodson and I play every now and then. It's a fun game but we both suck ;)

jdodson: Its true, we really do. And its ok to lose and when we do we don't rip each other for it :D

But yeah, when the game drops @panickedthumb and I will most likely be playing this a bit, you should hit us up on battle.net and we can go a few rounds against computers. I am getting better but am a far cry from competitive. :D

Sirdan1013: Anyone remember Warcraft 3? Or the first starcraft? Would be really awesome to play with anyone.

jdodson: This is totally awesome. I read the PDF they released as part of it, 35 gigs of rad.

So tempted to get this and try my hand at building a crazy level. Hmmmm.

Adym: Sweet, I've never even played RAGE and I think it would be fun to play around with their tools

Gary_Butterfield: All I ever want for game mods is co op, online gameplay. Co op makes shooters great. Otherwise, I think they're mostly merely good.

jdodson: The co-op in Rage is really awesome. Play it often with my friends now. Legends of the Wasteland++. Got almost no attention but its pretty dope fly.

scrypt: I didn't even know Rage had co-op. I have it for Xbox, but barely put much time into it. I'd go back for co-op, though!

jdodson: Yep, split-screen co-op. You have to beat the first level to go on to the next and it has varying difficulty levels. Console and PC versions are good.

da_gaymer: Awesome indeed! Just finished a new playthrough on Ultra Nightmare for the challenge and, of course, the Scorchers missions.
Who didn't like Rage in the first place, will probably not change his mind because of this DLC, but I really, really recommend it to everyone who enjoyed the base game. Fights are intense on Ultra Nightmare, and the new levels come once again with a tight atmosphere. From the lovely welcome by Sarah at the beginning, over a second episode of Mutant Bash TV to the heart of the Scorchers' base where they hide their mysterious construction, this was just great.
Just a bid sad when it was already over, then. However, that doesn't the mean there's a lack of additional content. Also comes with the nailgun as a new weapon (everybody loves nailguns) and two more minigames (made a couple thousand dollars in 15 minutes by playing poker). And there's even a little surprise in Wellspring for you when you finish the last mission. A very good and fair priced piece of DLC.
Hopefully, this tool kit will bring us more like this. I wouldn't expect any more official DLCs, but maybe there are some diligent fans who deliver more action in the Wasteland. :P Might even give it a shot myself I can free up 35GB and find some time.

scrypt: Are you guys mostly playing it on PC then?

da_gaymer: Although Rage also works well on consoles, PC all the way. :P

jdodson: I pre-ordered Rage on the PS3 when I was still primarily playing games on that. Its a GREAT game but a few downsides to playing it on the PS3 saw me migrate to the PC version to beat it. First off saves. Loading and saving take way too long and the game doesn't autosave for you when you enter/exit a room all the time. It only auto-saves when you go to some plot area. No quick save option on console means too much waiting.

The game is a precision shooter to its really hard to be good on the console, or at least I couldn't snipe worth a damn. With a mouse I headshot all the time. Borderlands and Borderlands 2 were better on console in this respect, I imagine they do some automagic aim or something.

The game also looks WAY more pretty on the PC. Its one of the best looking games on a console, but you are missing out if you can't play it on the PC its absolutely beautiful.

In the end, its a great console port with a few flaws that had nothing to do with the overal game perse. It was just a better experience on the PC imo. That said, the console version DOES have legends of the wasteland split-screen which is fun as hell if you have friends over. So buying it on console wasn't a total wash and its not too expensive on the used shelf if you had friends over and wanted some shooter mayhem.

Gary_Butterfield: It's just couch co op or is it online as well? Split screen....

jdodson: Console version of Legends of the Wasteland is split-screen couch co-op. PC version is online or LAN.

jdodson: Actually the console version does support online Legends of the Wasteland too now that I think about it.

Travis: I feel like I'm alone in thinking that the Lost finale was pretty good.

jdodson: Still need to watch Lost, its on my Nerd list of shame still. I have some friends really into Lost and they keep asking me to watch it.

:D

Adym: I try to not ask too much, as I don't want to drive you away from Lost lol.

I liked the ending of the series too, you're not alone!

scrypt: Good interview! Love me some GoG.com!

I tried to get my friends to throw down on the idea of Disney buying Lucasarts/Lucasfilms, and I got nothing but "well, we'll see...". Now with this announcement of Abrams directing, I'm personally thrilled, not because I think he's a god, but I trust that he'll take good care of it. However, I am worried that he won't be able to make it visually distinctive from his Trek movies. The only other people that I would rather have direct, at this time, are either Joss Whedon or Christopher Nolan.

On Lost, I didn't care for the ending, and not in its explanation, but in it's execution. I blame Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for that. That was their baby, and I feel like they just gave up at the end. Probably not the case, but that's how it came across to me.

jdodson: @scrypt I think he will be able to make it stand out. Remember that in ep IV - VI it was a pretty dirty world. Star Trek has always been pretty germ free, Star Wars... well until the prequels was a pretty dingy, dirty galaxy. Since JJ is a __HUGE__ Star Wars guy I imagine he won't forget this. I don't imagine we will see much sparkle cam/shaky cam, I think/hope he will make different choices there.

Will_Owens: That interview is pretty rad. I rate GoG above Steam for me because of their extras and better customer service. I guess the smaller scope helps, though.

beansmyname: Glad to hear that GoG doesn't focus on their competition as an obstacle to be overcome, but instead focuses on improving their own product. I like GoG because their love for the same games I grew up with (The Tex Murphy Series, the original Unreal, Phantasmagoria) is evident in the packaging: soundtracks, manual scans, additional images bundled right alongside the binary blob of reminiscence.

Also, many of the early DOS titles utilize DOSBox, so it's not difficult to adapt them to running under Linux. The GoG team has already done most of the hard work in configuring EMS, XMS, soundcards and the like. So, the configuration for the game takes a few tweaks and works like a charm.

Travis: bean, not sure if you're aware of this: http://www.gogonlinux.com/

Not official, but you sign into this app, and it downloads your games and configures them for running under Linux. A meager list of supported games so far, but still interesting.

beansmyname: @panickedthumb Thanks for the link! I'm going to have to check that out later.

The limited number of games supported is probably because it appears to be a one-man show for the most part. Definitely got my interested piqued.

SignalWarden: GoG is really fantastic, but I think they have a serious struggle to deal with on the indie front. On the one hand there is the aforementioned Steam. If you look through GoG's indie catalog you'll see the majority of the games have been on Steam for quite some time and gone through many of the renowned "Steam Sales". As an example, I have almost all the games on their list and got them all for pennies on the dollar. Also, you have games that are obtaining exposure through Greenlight (which GabeN says is going to be made less restrictive and more alluring for indie devs very soon) meaning when they release on Steam, whether before or after a GoG release, they will have a built in audience there.

On the other hand you have the obscure indie games that never had a chance to shine on Steam. Those are usually games that got a community start on IndieDB which is directly tied to Desura. As a result most of the people who have been creating and/or catching the buzz from those games, are already in the Desura network, and smaller devs tend to focus more time there than anywhere else, especially since it will be more cost effective for them.

I think what GoG really needs to do here is essentially create a new ecosystem for the general gamer. Those that rely on Steam as a third console option and have never heard of Desura. As such they need to actively assist in the development of games that are stable, polished and away from the fringe. If they can cultivate enough of a library in that area, and find a way to make the purchase of the games through their system more appealing then I think they can carve a permanent place in the market. It will definitely be a challenge though.

SignalWarden: Also, Lost finale was great as far as I was concerned and JJ can make the next trilogy with sock puppets and it will be better than anything Lucas would develop.

Will_Owens: I think MIasmata is one of those games that made much more of a splash on GoG than Steam. Even though it's been out on Steam for a while, I hadn't heard of it until GoG put it on their front page making it look pretty cool. I think they have a slower release schedule and easier to manage storefront on their side. I'm up to date with literally every game they've hosted while I have no idea probably 80% of the games on Steam even exist. It's a weird thing, but I check GoG's store pages more than Steam because it's just easier for me to get through.

scrypt: Another thing to keep in mind with GoG, is that their game offerings are all DRM-free, something not many (if any) other services can claim. I have a large Steam library, and yet I've picked up quite a few games that Steam hasn't included in their library (Syndicate, Icewind Dale, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, and many others), or that GoG was first to offer. I have a Desura account, but haven't used it in ages. I prefer Steam's interface, and I didn't want to have to deal with two exclusive game library environments.

jdodson: @scrypt +1. Its also very different from Steam in that GOG.com is a digital locker. You download the .exe files from the web app, which is totally rad. I don't personally mind have different people in the market because really, Steam and GOG.com are very different.

scrypt: Interesting perspectives he puts out there. I like the idea of free-to-use productivity software, although it might cause a bigger problem with ownership of distributed assets if you follow through with the shared revenue idea (i.e. who's licensing to whom). I also love the idea of local streaming of game collections to the living room, and have been begging for this for years. It's the retail cost of console games that has kept this from happening. There's no reason we shouldn't already be playing games off of our own local servers, without having to verify ownership by inserting a disc into the system. I'm really excited that Valve is pushing this.

jdodson: I agree. Gabe is spot on when he says that people don't like to scap everything when the move to a new system. The next round of consoles should be really interesting!

Still wondering what Apple will do and like Gabe I think they are the biggest player to look out for.

scrypt: Apple already has the framework, they just haven't breathed any life into it. Why they haven't turned the Apple TV into exactly what Gabe is talking about, I don't know. I mean, I do know (Steve Jobs didn't care much for games), but still. I don't know when/if that motivation will change for them.

It's like all of this technology is hovering around something great, and nobody has really figured it out. Microsoft is going nowhere with the Xbox. Sony is coming around, and I guess we'll see in a couple of weeks what the "Ps4" will bring to the table. Nintendo is at least trying to be innovative, despite their reluctance to truly enter the online space. I tell you, I'm most excited about Valve and Ouya, at the moment. They just seem to get it.

jdodson: Ouya looks really interesting and I dig the price point. Did you get one?

scrypt: I did, through the Kickstarter, so it should be here in about a month or so. I'll post a review when it arrives.

jdodson: Awesome! Look forward to it.