"Free to Play is a feature-length documentary that follows three professional gamers from around the world as they compete for a million dollar prize in the first Dota 2 International Tournament. In recent years, e-sports has surged in popularity to become one of the most... Read All
"Free to Play is a feature-length documentary that follows three professional gamers from around the world as they compete for a million dollar prize in the first Dota 2 International Tournament. In recent years, e-sports has surged in popularity to become one of the most widely-practiced forms of competitive sport today. A million dollar tournament changed the landscape of the gaming world and for those elite players at the top of their craft, nothing would ever be the same again. Produced by Valve, the film documents the challenges and sacrifices required of players to compete at the highest level."
I plan on having a meetup to watch this on March 19th. If you are interested join the event and we can hash out meeting up in the comments!
"Free to Play" will be available to watch on Steam, March 19th:
Cheerful Ghost will have a booth at this years Northwest Classic Games Enthusiasts Swap Meet in Portland.
Join the event, and let me know you will be attending!
"Doors open at 10:00 AM until 7:00 PM. Admission is $5.00 at the door.
PRGE is proud to present the Northwest Classic... Read All
Cheerful Ghost will have a booth at this years Northwest Classic Games Enthusiasts Swap Meet in Portland.
Join the event, and let me know you will be attending!
"Doors open at 10:00 AM until 7:00 PM. Admission is $5.00 at the door.
PRGE is proud to present the Northwest Classic Games Enthusiasts video game swap meet at the Portland Doubletree Hotel on January 18, 2014. We are taking it old-school...back when it was all about getting buyers and sellers together to help build buyers collections and help sellers find good homes for their extras while preserving the cultural and historical aspects of videogames. Nothing fancy - just games, games and more games."
I'm joining this event purely for the discussion. That's about as far away from home as I can get without leaving the country or going to Alaska or Hawaii so I won't be able to attend but I will be there "in spirit" as they say.
One thing I'm really hoping to see in the bundle (and it may be far fetched) is Prison Architect. I want to play it to see if I'll like it. I think if I like it I will *really* like it. But I don't want to gamble that much money on it.
OK so the special tier included Starbound. I got there right at 2:00, f5ing like a madman until the page changed, and as soon as I noticed the new bundle up, it said there were like 600 left. 400 sold in easily less than a minute. I thought there was no way I'd get it but I did manage to snag one, though when it took me back to the site the Starbound extra had disappeared. So I think they all sold out in a minute or so. Pretty impressive.
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wrote on 01/07/2014 at 07:28pm
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.
Everyone, never let Jon forget that he said "I do like dressing up as women."
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wrote on 12/21/2013 at 12:27am
😀
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wrote on 12/21/2013 at 01:28am
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
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wrote on 12/21/2013 at 08:18pm
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.
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wrote on 12/21/2013 at 08:18pm
Yep, quick mana drink is "J" that will help out during the fight a ton.
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wrote on 12/21/2013 at 08:42pm
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.
It's probably worth mentioning, but i used zero mana potions during our frost moon runs. I just used Magic cuffs and when my mana was getting low I let a mob hit me. http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Magic_Cuffs
Usually I prefer melee type characters, and I absolutely LOVE my paladins hammer + cursed hatchet combo, but spectre armor + magic cuffs is where it's at for these special moon events.
Steam's Holiday Sale is the biggest of the year so add this event to your calendar and lets talk about what you are going to get.
Skyrim? Terraria? Left 4 Dead 2?
Steam's Holiday Sale is the biggest of the year so add this event to your calendar and lets talk about what you are going to get.
I'll also probably pick up another extra copy of Terraria. I gave my spare to my friend Greg (as some of you can tell from the Facebook discussion) so I need to get another to keep around for situations like that.
It's become something of a Tradition with me and my friend Jason (@JaBo) that we buy each others Christmas gifts during the steam sales. So I'll be picking up whatever I can off his wishlist as they get discounted. :P
As for what I'm hopping to get for myself, there's several games I'm going to keep an eye out for. Papers, Please looks really interesting, and Organ Trail looks like a lot of fun.
Cities in Motion 2 DLC, maybe. Looking at Bioshock Infinite and Assassin's Creed 3 and 4 too.
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wrote on 12/19/2013 at 12:21am
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.
We'll see what goes on sale. Most the games on my wishlist are new-ish, so I'm not sure if any of them will be discounted enough to entice me. I still own a metric crapton of games I've never played.
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wrote on 12/19/2013 at 06:59pm
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.
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wrote on 12/21/2013 at 02:21am
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.
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wrote on 12/23/2013 at 07:16pm
That's tempting, but I bought Borderland 2 on PS3 so I could play co-op with my wife and I generally have a rule about not buying the same game twice. :\ I would love to play with all you fine peeps who have it on PC though.
So far, I've bought Gone Home (which looks really interesting, but I know nothing about), Left 4 Dead 2 (for free!), NBA 2K14, Papers Please, and Tower Wars.
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wrote on 12/27/2013 at 12:47am
Installing Tower Wars now.
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So my PC has been down and I haven't found much time to work on it, so I wanted to get something rolling here that I could play on my macbook.
I was thinking a Gib Fest run through The Parish on advanced, but I'm open to suggestions for other settings.
So my PC has been down and I haven't found much time to work on it, so I wanted to get something rolling here that I could play on my macbook.
I was thinking a Gib Fest run through The Parish on advanced, but I'm open to suggestions for other settings.
Come play the beta with us. The only rules are to not be a dick and steal things, destroy other people's things, etc.
Be sure you don't put anything in the "account" field when you join.
Come play the beta with us. The only rules are to not be a dick and steal things, destroy other people's things, etc.
Be sure you don't put anything in the "account" field when you join.
This is just to test out Starbound multi-player. Travis's connection is a bit slower. When we run the official server I might host it as I have a lot more up than him.
Thanks for doing this Travis, how hard was setting it up?
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 12/11/2013 at 02:58am
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! :)
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 12/12/2013 at 03:04am
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.
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 12/12/2013 at 03:06am
OK apparently it updated while the server was running and just didn't bother to tell me about that.
Hopped on the server last night although, sadly, I was alone. ; ;
I'm guessing we all spawn on different worlds? Because the one I started on seemed like it was completely untouched, including a chest that was fairly close to the spawn point and still had loot in it. It also had a really cool underground base that I had fun looting and killing all the inhabitants of. I didn't get to fully explore it because my inventory filled up and I had decided to leave and come back later. Lots of awesome decorative items in there! When the game gets closer to release I really look forward to building some more permanent structures.
The last balancing patch seems to have worked pretty well. The amount of damage I was dealing (and taking) felt fair and reasonable. The amounts of Ore I was finding seemed good too with the exception of coal. It's not that I didn't find any coal at all, I just didn't get to fill up my fuel very much at all after I was done crafting torches and whatnot. Seeing as i can't use wood for fuel anymore that is kind of a drag.
Over all I'm very impressed with the game and especially with Chucklefish for making so many improvements on the game so rapidly. It still has a long ways to go but so far I'm very pleased.
Random observation: Last night I encountered a bird type monster whose attack consisted of vomiting blood on me... >.<
I'm considering how much I want to play it. I mean I have to check it out and play with it but I don't want to play so much of the early beta that I have no desire to play when the final version drops. That's the downside to early access games I guess.
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wrote on 12/03/2013 at 03:05am
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.
I'm definitely going to be poking around in the game when it drops. I will not be building any grand houses until there is some permanence to our characters/worlds. :)
I doubt I'll be putting in the kind of play time I spent on Terraria until the game is a little more close to completion and the Cheerfulghost server close to reality. Then again, I started playing Minecraft during the beta and I sunk a loooot of hours in that game...
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wrote on 12/03/2013 at 11:07pm
: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.
"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
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wrote on 12/04/2013 at 09:21pm
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.
I'm having the hunting bow crash too. Besides that, the game seems pretty polished so far. I've seen a few glitches with the hover-text, but the bugs just make the game funny. I'm glad such a cool game like this made it to Mac.
Woah. Turns out the game only crashes with the bow if you don't pull back the bow all the way. If you hold it down until it blinks, it'll shoot like normal.
Wait, apparently it just started working for me all of a sudden. Guess it doesn't matter if you hold it all the way or not. Not sure what the cause or fix is, but it now works for me.
There was a patch to fix the bow bug, which apparently only affected OSX users.
I have explored a bit and found an underground campsite type thing, apparently inhabited by electric floaty things and weird lizard people that sound like horses. The randomness is awesome.
I feel like the first time playing Terraria, and that's a good thing. I love Terraria but even with the 1.2 update I kinda knew what to expect. There were new things to find but the core of the game was the same. This is entirely new, and I'm loving the experience of totally discovering a game like this. So much to find, and every time you learn something you end up with new questions to answer.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 12/05/2013 at 04:08am
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.
OMG, I just found out that typing emoticons in the chat, e.g. :D , :O , :'( , makes your character actually express the emotion. This is probably one of my favorite random features in the game right now.
Got to play around in game a little bit last night. So far I am really liking the game. By the time I logged in they had already patched the bug with the hunting bow, so I had no trouble with that. I did seem to have some trouble hitting mobs with the bow, but I'm not sure if that's a bug with hit detection or if my aim just really sucks. :P
Btw, did any of you guys see how sand/gravel physics work? It's actually kinda cool. They don't just fall straight down they kind of settle off to the side also. I accidentally buried myself alive by digging carelessly in some sand and causing a small avalanche. (I dug myself out, I didn't seem to take any damage or suffocate or anything while being buried in sand.)
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wrote on 12/05/2013 at 07:43pm
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
Looks like we're getting craftable climbing ropes with tonight's update as well. WOOT! That was seriously one of the best additions to Terraria 1.2 and I'm glad to see it's coming to Starbound already. :D
Yeah I'm looking forward to the ropes. Hellevator here I come!
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 12/06/2013 at 02:28am
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.
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The dates for upcoming Steam sales have leaked and we are bringing them to you so you can mark it on your calendar. You know, to mark the date you will have much less money.
Join up and lets chat about what you are planning on getting and what you end up buying!
The dates for upcoming Steam sales have leaked and we are bringing them to you so you can mark it on your calendar. You know, to mark the date you will have much less money.
Join up and lets chat about what you are planning on getting and what you end up buying!
So the day is upon us. What are you hoping to snag for cheap?
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wrote on 11/27/2013 at 05:44pm
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.
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wrote on 11/27/2013 at 05:49pm
Oh and Papers Please. Not really an expensive game at all, but I do want to pick it up.
So far I've bought Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, Game Dev Tycoon and FFVII. Most excited for Game Dev Tycoon! Downloading that one first to try out. I'm hoping for an old school Rockstar BBS-type experience :)
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wrote on 11/30/2013 at 01:29am
Interested in hearing how all of those go for you. Game dev tycoon looks awesome.
I just "beat" Game Dev Tycoon. It was pretty fun. There were definitely some things that confused me for a while, so that slowed me down a bit about mid way through the game, but a really fun experience. And it's kept me up until now, I had no idea what time it was (3 am).
I just bought FEZ finally to play through. I got hammerwatch and Rogue Legacy the first day. I was gifted insurgency and Forge Quest. I'll probably be getting a few other things as well.
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wrote on 12/02/2013 at 01:19am
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.
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wrote on 12/03/2013 at 02:46am
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.
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"Today, we’re happy to confirm that PlayStation 4 (PS4) will launch on November 15th in the U.S. and Canada – in time for the holidays! PlayStation fans in Europe and Latin America will also be able to get their hands on a PS4 system on November 29th, so you’ll be able to... Read All
"Today, we’re happy to confirm that PlayStation 4 (PS4) will launch on November 15th in the U.S. and Canada – in time for the holidays! PlayStation fans in Europe and Latin America will also be able to get their hands on a PS4 system on November 29th, so you’ll be able to connect with your friends and fellow gamers worldwide on PS4 this year, taking advantage of all of the deeply integrated social features and incredible gaming experiences that PS4 has to offer."
Are you going to pick this up on launch day? If so join the event and let us know!
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