A few seconds into this video the person taking it asks for the Zelda song and Boba Fett plays a song out of Link to the Past. Listening to the song being played by Boba Fett made me smile.
"Borderlands 2 will reward veterans of the first Borderlands with exclusive character customization elements -- here's a look at the character heads and skins that are unlocked when Borderlands 2 detects save data from the original Borderlands!"
Wow. So that ups the extra stuff you can get by a bit. If you pre-order the game not only do you get the premiere club goodies and if your pre-order from Gamestop you get even more. But if you have a save file from a previous game you get a few more extras now.
Waiting for them to announce the bonus for booting Borderlands 2 for the first time. I really like the Sledge bonus head.
OverClocked Remix is paying tribute the Final Fantasy 3 by running a Kick Starter for its latest remix efforts. Its a pretty slick offering as the final product will span 4 discs of material. The line-up of people producing tracks is pretty impressive with: Danny Baranowsky, Jimmy Hinson and more.
If you drop $50 you get a 4 disc deluxe packaging of the remix album delivered right to your door. Oh and did I mention its a limited 1,000 print?
As of the time I posted this they have exceeded their goal and have 751 limited CD's left to nab!
Madcoaster is a fun runner clone I have been enjoying lately. iPhone as of when I write this, sorry Droids! Its published by Chillingo, the company that brought us such greats as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope. A bit of an aside, Chillingo has created a ton of mobile games, you should thumb through the list sometime, its very impressive.
As I said earlier, Madcoaster is a runner clone like Robot Unicorn Attack or Jetpack Joyride. Where it differs is in style and tone. You collect coins and can upgrade your coaster, but the coin and item store is not pushy. Madcoaster is less punishing than other runner type games which is why I think its more fun. Collecting coins is one important aspect of Madcoaster as well as ramming birds. As you progress the variety of birds you can hit increases and it feels both fun and odd to ram them. I was wondering if some of the Angry Birds would make an appearance. So far, not yet.
Its a free game well worth checking out as it fits the mobile spot nicely of fun diversion that doesn't take hours to play. Most mobile games don't stick with me longer than a few hours but this one has me hooked into playing it a few minutes a day. Makes sense too, its fun.
I need a little help. I can't decide which copy of Borderlands 2 to pre-order. Ive pondered for a month+ now and I can't do it. I am leaning to the Standard Edition on PS3 at Gamestop for the extra goodies, but should I get a collectors?
I'm getting the standard edition on PS3, the extra stuff is pretty cool (mainly that chest), but not cool enough to justify the extra cost in my opinion. :)
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 07/07/2012 at 09:46pm
Makes sense, I am leaning that way too.
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The last weekend my wife and I watching the trailers before Pixars latest film Brave when we saw the trailer for "Wreck it Ralph." Wreck it Ralph is a Disney movie where the main character is a bad guy from an old coin-op video game. Looks like Disney licensed a few classic video game villans such as Bowser, Zangief, M. Bison, Dr. Robotnik and a Ghost from Pac-Man. I also thought I saw a nod at Diablo, but ill let you watch the trailer for yourself :)
Wreck it Ralph is voiced by the amazing John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman and looks fantastic. Not a lot of video game movies come out and less look as good as this do.
Bashiok, Blizzard community manager recently posted this on battle.net to address some peoples thoughts on the Diablo 3 endgame:
"We recognize that the item hunt is just not enough for a long-term sustainable end-game. There are still tons of people playing every day and week, and playing a lot, but eventually they're going to run out of stuff to do (if they haven't already). Killing enemies and finding items is a lot of fun, and we think we have a lot of the systems surrounding that right, or at least on the right path with a few corrections and tweaks. But honestly Diablo III is not World of Warcraft. We aren't going to be able to pump out tons of new systems and content every couple months. There needs to be something else that keeps people engaged, and we know it's not there right now.
We're working toward 1.0.4, which we're really trying to pack with as many fixes and changes we can to help you guys out (and we'll have a bunch of articles posted with all the details as we get closer), and we're of course working on 1.1 with PvP arenas. I think both those patches will do a lot to give people things to do, and get them excited about playing, but they're not going to be a real end-game solution, at least not what we would expect out of a proper end-game. We have some ideas for progression systems, but honestly it's a huge feature if we want to try to do it right, and not something we could envision being possible until well after 1.1 which it itself still a ways out."
Few things.
1. We are a "ways out" from PvP. Dang. I was hoping that would come soon. Oh well, hopefully when it drops its really awesome. Kind of wonder if Blizzard bit off more than it should have releasing Diablo 3 when it did? Oh well the game is great and hope PvP adds quite a bit.
2. 1.0.4 Wonder what this will entail? More drops? Eagerly anticipating.
I was getting pretty pumped about d3 reading your posts and the comments so then I decided to see how it'd run under Wine and found this: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=1 - Bummer. I guess I'm sticking with the first 2 =)
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 07/11/2012 at 05:43am
Yeah really. It seems they made have had some false positives they are not quite admitting yet. Happened before with WoW so... Yeah waiting it out is good.
Horrible to be banned for nothing, if it indeed is nothing.
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Adam Ellis, a Portland blogger recently wrote about his early and some recent experiences with video games. Its a well written post about Final Fantasy 6, 7 Earthbound, Fallout 3 and Skyrim. Fun read and the art helps give it personality.