Past Events

Unsure if I am going Crusader right away. I want to experience the new rad of the Crusader and how the game plays with loot 2.0 and the improved mechanics. Let you know when I make up my mind BUT either way i'd love a "all crusaders" event. :D

Let me know where you plan on pre-ordering it from. I want to get it from Best Buy as it's the closest to my house and I can just walk in and pick it up on launch day.

They seem fine for an electronic super store, but I hear you. Hopefully we can pre-order it soon.

Thought this was fun. I think the Alien US President would be a good addition to the game. Seriously. It wouldn't maybe fit in with the world lore but it would be a fun class.

http://m.ign.com/articles/2010/12/22/rejected-diablo-iii-classes

For anyone that joins up in the future, they just dropped the info on the full Collectors Edition and what's included.

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/1853

I am nearly certain when this drops I am going to start a Crusader and head into Sanctuary from the start. Since i've only ever gotten to Hell with my main character i've only beaten the game a handful of times. So I am not upset to play the main story again and in fact I just played D3 the other day and was wanting to do it all over again.

I am digging the idea of starting over with the Crusader because not only will I get the new loot system from the start but also the full Crusader dialog options and how that feels. Unsure if ill roll a man or woman Crusader and if Blizzard showed off what she looked like that might help me out a bit.

I am so fan-boying it right now and I know for many that might seem odd as D3 was a let down, but for what it was I like the game quite a bit and can't wait to check out the new stuff.

Totally, it's only a little under two months...

Yeah, I can't wait. I wonder how many more expansions they are going to do? If they are all as awesome as RoS I don't think i'd mind a couple.

True, but D2 expansion contained two characters and this one is one. I mean thats not a great metric, but i'd personally dig a few more acts and characters.

From what I've heard the PC version is going to be very similar to the console version which had great loot drops. In fact when you completed quests you got some pretty great loot geared for your character so hopefully that makes it to PC too.

I'd also live to get controller support for PC but they have said that might not ever come.

Yeah, I might do that, thanks Travis.

They are adding two more pre-order incentives. If you don't digitally pre-order, you still get the goods if you register your key before March 31st. I appreciate Blizz doing the right thing for people that pre-order outside Battle.net.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/13032539

> As it is, I haven't played since we all played back in the mid 2013's. Will I be completely outmatched for Reaper?

They have taken some tips from the console version to adjust the difficulty. So, if the game is too hard you can turn it down and if too easy, turn it up.

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/1907

After playing the update I have the impression Reaper is actually done. Oh well, so much new stuff with this update.

" Yeah, I would say that's it. I would call Adventure Mode the primary feature of the expansion. That said, I think Act V is our best act, so we did take everything we learned there. And you do have to kill Malthael once with one character before Adventure Mode is unlocked. But knowing that you don't have to play story mode over and over again allows people to relax and just enjoy Act V for what it is; and they may or may not come back to it after that, but they don't have to. It doesn't feel as onerous to sit through those things."

Seems like you have to beat Ep. V before Adventure mode is unlocked. I'll play Ep. V first but why the unlock? I don't know how I feel about that.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/02/28/diablo-iii-interview-lead-designers-reflect-on-their-mistakes-look-ahead-to-reaper-of-souls/

To make the game feel larger? Or maybe there is some story element in Act V that makes adventure mode unlocking make more sense.

In that interview Blizz did say that the expansion primarily hangs on adventure mode.

Whoa, this weekend only, they are handing out 100% XP boost.

http://us.battle.net//d3/en/blog/13407841

Since March 19th is right around the corner AND comes up to filming of the CG Roundtable it won't be practical to have a ton of people over.

That said, if you are interested in coming by to watch Free to Play with me, send me a site message.

It's out: http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/1939

Look forward to it.

Yeah, me too. Been holding out buying a few games in hopes they hit the next bundle.

Just so everyone is aware:

https://twitter.com/humble/status/420298234712428544

"We're having a special tier in tomorrow’s bundle, but there are only 1,000 available. Be there on Jan 7 at 11am PT: https://www.humblebundle.com "

Yeah, I know. I am going to try really hard to be one of the first 1,000 unless it isn't worth picking up or something.

Yeah, I have Starbound so I don't "need" it and it's a good thing too because I was in a meeting and couldn't jump at it like I wanted to.

Odd the event expired already, look into why that happened at all, shouldn't have.

Dig the new 1.2.2 stuff but it seems to be a new Pumpkin Moon event and presents instead of candy bags. Not that I mind, I think it is really neat.

That said the fight is really awesome and I got quite a few presents including a Christmas Tree sword. Let me know what you guys have done and find.

I do like dressing up as women.

😀

Hey Yall,

Just wanted to let you know i'll be shutting down the server in the next day or so. If you want to know why you can message me privately.

So get in your server time WHILE YOU CAN :D

So WBS and I just took one two of the new holiday spawn events. I got another Razorpine and gave it to WBS and we both used them in the battle. Holy cow, the Razorpine with the Spectre Armor is awesome. So much health comes back to you in a fight.

Curious though, is there a hotkey for drinking a mana pot?

A definite must get for sure.

Yep, quick mana drink is "J" that will help out during the fight a ton.

http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Game_controls

Oh and I will be taking the server down in the next couple hours, if you have anything on it you need grab it before it goes. I'll bring it back for a few full uninterrupted days in the new year though.

I know. I think I have a few in a chest somewhere if you.. need a shackle :D

Papers, Please and Organ Trail are both worth getting but the game I bought recently I have been enjoying the heck out of is Pixel Junk Monsters. Plugged in two controllers and a friend and I played it two player, so much fun. Fun single and two player both actually.

Going to pickup Pixel Junk shooter for sure.

I have lot's of games I haven't played too, mostly from bundles. That said, I have noticed from what games I do purchase I play.

I don't buy because it's a good deal anymore, I might even hold off and buy it later just to ensure i'll actually play it. Might pay a few bucks more, but I am trying to avoid the 4,000 games unplayed story :D

I don't count bundles as much BUT I am not buying bundles if they don't contain at least one game I want to play immediately. Which means the last few bundles I have skipped entirely.

Wow, BioShock Infinite is amazing. Seriously, for $9.99 you need to pick it up. Been playing it on my Mac and it is superb. So beautiful and an awesome story. So far only a little bit in and I love it.

Borderlands 2 GOTY is only $15? Whoa.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/32848/

It's $20 on Steam now http://store.steampowered.com/sub/36223/

The amazon purchase might be for steam keys though :D

Do it. Infinite is worth the price of admission alone.

Installing Tower Wars now.

Very easy. Just forward a port and start it up. The password is just a matter of changing the config file.

And Blue_Element reports no lag, so maybe it's you! :)

Just FYI, there are currently some version issues. The game updated but it doesn't appear the server executable updated to the new version. I'm trying to figure that out.

OK apparently it updated while the server was running and just didn't bother to tell me about that.

Hey sorry, this has been down for a while. Not sure how long or why. I'll keep it up a little while longer.

Just posted some info on starting the game out. Might be useful to people :D

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/1763

Right. My plan is to play a bit of the early game till I get an understanding of it. Honestly not much more than those Let's Plays. Maybe do a Let's Play of my own, then kind of back off and see how it is updated and what bugs people find with it.

But yeah, you can't go back and play a game once again and "going all in hardcore style" will make the game harder to play again when it finally drops. I remember friends that played Diablo III beta over and over again loathe having to do the Skeleton King run another time when the game finally dropped.

:D. Once Chucklefish promises to not break worlds and saves the CG server will start. That said, I might run a shared game for an evening just to screw around with people if there is any interest in that.

You know, I might setup something that day for a few days, just to tinker with if people want to try multiplayer. Hmmmm. More as it develops :D

You know, one thing I just thought about as I saw the image the Humble Store is using to sell Starbound.

https://humblebundle-a.akamaihd.net/misc/files/e136b99b85/images/storefront/large_featured_images/starbound_storefront.jpg

As I looked at that picture I was like...

"Hey wait, Starbound is a space game, but it has medieval elements.."

Then I thought about how that could make sense in the game world. After a bit of thought I sort of pieced together things we know. You start in a spaceship hovering over a planet with no space fuel. You start with a sword, a matter manipulator, torches and seeds.

My guess is the game story is something like you were left adrift by space pirates and they took most of your tech. You come across a planet and try and get your fuel back and then hit up other planets to tech up to.... get your revenge? They have said the story is different per race, but yeah, I was thinking "how could you go from spaceships to swords?"

Or it's just all BS because its fun to tech up from sticks and rocks to nukes. Again, fun, but they are putting in some kind of story so... well I guess we will see :D

Yeah so a bit about that I saw... let me see...

I seems like you will get a email from the Humble Store with your key by 10a PST. If you don't get the email, id just check the Humble Store.

http://playstarbound.com/notice-support-e-mails/

I'll post something more substantial after work, but long story short, the game is very good. Ran into a quest smashing bug right away, when you used the bow the game crashed. The devs knew about it, but yeah for what worked it worked very well. When the game finally ships, it will be great.

Here is a screenshot of my mini base:

http://i.imgur.com/zgOtsAn.png

Yeah, the bow seems working now, I must have gotten the patch.

I just posted about my thoughts with the game and did a lets play of me traveling to a small moon. This game is freaking huge. So many planets to explore. My only gripe is how much of a pain it is to get coal to travel to other planets.

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/1768

Sand/gravel, yes I did. It's a really fun mechanic and if there are minerals in it, its pretty easy to get them all. Plus it's fun to just see it all freak out :D

From the planets i've seen so far, digging to the bottom doesn't take much. THAT SAID, I have yet to land on a super huge planet and for those, I imagine ropes will mater ALOT.

I am seriously considering BioShock Infinite if the price is right. I may hold out for the Holiday sale as it will most likely be cheaper BUT... I might spring for it sooner. This finally looks like a BioShock game i'll play. No matter how hard I want to play it, I can't seem to continue on with the original.

Oh and Papers Please. Not really an expensive game at all, but I do want to pick it up.

Interested in hearing how all of those go for you. Game dev tycoon looks awesome.

Nice. Heard it's great, let me know how it goes.

Nice, FEZ is great Jacob, you should really enjoy that.

I just picked up Shadowrun Returns and so far, I really like it. It's a turn based strategic text based RPG based on the Shadowrun rules and so far, I totally dig it. Not terribly far, but fun.

Sale ends tomorrow, anyone absolutely __need__ anything before it wraps up?

I am happy with what I picked up and since Starbound is dropping this Wed, I don't want to add much more to my list.