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Cygnus Destroyer Reviews Some Classic Retro X-Men Games Hyping The Apocalypse

So far i've thought the X-Men films have been pretty good. I still haven't seen X-Men Apocalypse yet and so far i've heard mixed reviews about it. Days of Future Past and the Rogue Cut were great films so I have high hopes for Apocalypse. To help with the X-Men fever in the air, Cygnus Destroyer has released a retro review of some of lesser known X-Men games.

Also, not many people can pull off pretending kitchen butter knives are Wolverine claws but Ezero does it with such conviction you really have to admire his style! He should take the place of Hugh Jackman whom will retire the claws after the upcoming Old Man Logan standalone Wolverine film. A sad day for sure but Ezero could pull off the sideburns and scowl.

Moonlighter - Dream The Shopkeeping Dream In This RPG Kickstarter

Back this on Kickstarter!

Moonlighter is an upcoming RPG on Kickstarter that focuses on the story from the perspective of a typical NPC.

"Moonlighter is a action RPG game with rogue-lite elements about Will, an adventurous shopkeeper, that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

To earn the daily bread, he needs to venture into the dungeons near his town, defeat strange enemies and obtain loot to be sold at his shop.

Wisely managing the gold from those sales is the only way he’ll get strong enough to risk into deeper gates and, maybe, open the sealed one.

Moonlighter has endless randomly generated dungeons, a myriad of cool and expensive items, many weapons, dozens of weird enemies, five incredibly tough bosses and gold... tones of gold! "

Moonlighter is seeking 40k in funding and is well on the way with 15k raised in it's first day. No release date is set right now but they are planning on launching the game on PC, PS4, XBox One, Mac and Linux.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalsun/moonlighter

Taking A Second Look At Card Hunter

Card Hunter is a uniquely nerdy game that lit up the online card game scene back in 2011. Launching originally as a browser exclusive, Card Hunter was a popular game with users on Cheerful Ghost when it was in early beta. Since it's launch it has received a ton of new updates and has been ported to Steam with a traditional PC and Mac client. Since Card Hunter is a free game I decided to give it another shot on Steam and if you either haven't yet tried it at all or haven't played it recently, you really should.

Card Hunter reminds me of a digital version of the old adventure board game classic Hero Quest. Hero Quest is an amazing board game I played in High School that is simple enough to understand yet deep enough to make you feel like you are adventuring through a fantasy world. Hero Quest is also one of the best Milton Bradley games i've ever played and it's a crime it was never re-released. People have compared Card Hunter to Hearthstone or Magic The Gathering and I don't find that an accurate comparison. I would say as Hearthstone(digital) is to Magic the Gathering(physical game), Card Hunter is to games like Hero Quest or Dungeons and Dragons Wrath of Ashardalon.

In Card Hunter you make your way through adventures that earn you loot and treasure. Treasure can be sold and loot can be used to upgrade your characters abilities. Like other freemium games, Card Hunter has a fair amount of stuff available for free or you can pay to access more features. The game doesn't seem pay to win and I didn't find anything impossibly difficult to beat with the stuff I could find grinding through dungeons.

At a certain point the difficulty ramps up and you need to spend a fair amount of time considering the best way to beat certain levels. I really enjoy that Card Hunter requires you to learn better strategy than simply upgrading your armor and weapons to complete levels. Don't get me wrong, upgrades are nice but I found that a better strategy was more help than better weapon or armor.

Since it's a browser game you don't need a power house gaming rig to play this on PC, Mac or any ol' web browser. If you are looking for a table-top inspired game that you can pickup and play for free Card Hunter is something you should try.

Build This Double Old God Deck For Double The Fun

Kripp has published a couple of his decks after Whispers of the Old Gods launched and I wanted to share one I really enjoy playing with. I made quite a few changes to this deck to combat aggro and zoo in that I replaced Sap, Thalnos & Xaril with Eviscerate and Beckoner of Evil(I also don't currently own Xaril, or else I'd run her in my deck). I also replaced Loot Hoarder with Undercity Huckster as they trade a bit better with early game at 2/2 and get you the draw you need off your opponent instead of drawing from your deck.

This is a very fun deck to play if you have the cards for it and since it contains two old Golds that raises the win conditions considerably. The downsides to this deck are, at times, few answers to aggro but this deck is very sold against Mid and Control. I did fairly well with this deck in a recent local bracketed ladder and I remember one match where dropping N'Zoth after C'Thun sealed the win as my opponent didn't expect me to be running double Old Gods.

How To Capture Game Footage For Let's Play Videos

Metal Jesus is a retro game YouTuber I follow and he published a video some time ago I felt was really important to anyone looking at creating gameplay videos. He goes over all of the methods he uses to capture gameplay footage on old analog video port consoles, modern HDMI based consoles and PC's.

Didn't We All Want To Play The New Doom In The Old Doom?

Doom modders are bringing back the gameplay, maps and guns from the new Doom to the... original 1993 version. I love these sorts of demakes and in this case it's a demake of a reboot to get back to the roots of the original which is now becoming the reboot.... or something. Regardless these kinds of projects make the amazing aspects of the mod community shine.

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=52164&sid=67e87677ed8187c5c703bb0b130bbf0e

Game Giveaways Are Now Live!

Travis and I haven't been resting after we launched a new site revamp a couple weeks back and this evening we are launching a cool new top level feature called Giveaways. Giveaways are game contests that we will be running every now and again any registered Cheerful Ghost user can enter or run. If you see a game you want to win, click to join and you will be entered in the contest to be randomly selected to win!

It's also great in that anyone on the site can create a game giveaway for (mostly) and kind of digital game. If you have a few bundle keys or extra copies laying around your Steam inventory you can create a Giveaway contest! Giveaways work in conjunction with another new feature, which is game key gifting. Everyone has had(for a few months now) an option in your drop down menu to manage your game keys. This interface was created for you to add spare Steam, Humble, Origin, Uplay or Itch keys to gift to other Cheerful Ghost users. One nice aspect of key gifting here is that you can see when they opened it and if they haven't opened it in 4 days, you can take it back!

When you create a new Giveaway you can select one or many of the keys on your account for the Giveaway OR optionally select that the game is in your personal Steam inventory. When the Giveaway is over we randomly hand out keys to the winners OR if it's a Steam Inventory Giveaway we tell you the winners and you do the game gifting through Steam.

Cheerful Ghost has run some amazing game contests over the years starting with our Borderlands 2 giveaway through many now classic titles such as Terraria. I am looking forward to running lots of great Giveaways on the site and i'd also love to see yours too.

Travis and I are running two Giveaways right now so head over to the section, check them out and enter! I am running a contest for Sword & Sworcery and Travis is handing out a 3 copies of E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy.

Gabe Newell Talks About Half-Life 3 Over A Decade

"Compilation of interviews / events in chronological order where Gabe Newell first talks about Half Life 2 Episode 3 then suddenly becomes silent about it. I tried to get the best possible quality from internet archives. Some of this footage is from websites that are now inactive. The GTTV ones from February 2008 and September 2009 were not reuploaded to this day."

You know, i'm going to be honest here in that I don't think Half-Life 3 is going to happen. Even if it does it would be best that we all sort of just let it go to help make peace with it taking even longer or it not happening at all. It's obviously taken much longer to make than Valve anticipated, which is a story i'd love for them to talk about sometime. Don't get me wrong, i'd love a new Half-life game but it's been 10 years now and I think it's time to move on.

#lordgabenforgiveme

Companion Cube Coming to Terraria 1.3.1

1.3.1 might not be the largest Terraria patch but it does seem loaded with some interesting stuff like full controller support, more wires and now a companion cube pet. It's also pretty nice that it's easy to get from a Merchant instead of some intense mob farming.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/24/2016 at 04:43am

Interesting. It looks cool and has a cool death scream. Another thing I found interesting, that I didn't know about, was that there are mob-only activated pressure plates. That could come in handy. Honestly, I don't think this new update fits my kind of Terraria gaming. I'm not much of a builder. I imagine that Travis could probably make something really cool with these new tools. Who knows when it will be, but I'm still looking forward to another CG Terraria server. I think we should do it at least once more, if for nothing else than for completion of Expert Mode, which I don't hardly dare try alone.

Travis Admin wrote on 05/24/2016 at 12:57pm

The mob only pressure plates could make arena building much nicer!

This update came out two days ago, anyone play yet?

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/24/2016 at 05:59pm

:)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/24/2016 at 06:18pm

Not yet!

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 07/14/2016 at 08:30pm

Oh and in case you're hoping to snag the new Companion Cube, you're going to have to dish out 5 platinum for it!

Travis Admin wrote on 07/15/2016 at 02:39am

Money is so plentiful these days, that doesn't seem too crazy anymore.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 07/15/2016 at 05:16am

Yeah, agreed. That's a couple higher level boss runs.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 07/15/2016 at 05:55am

Me and Vinny have been playing on a new Expert world for the last two days. I don't know exactly how much he has, but I think it's less than one platinum where as I have about just less than two platinum coins. We have defeated King Slime twice and we did finally beat the Eye of Cthulhu after I used TEdit to copy over the boss arenas from our last CG Expert World. Maybe I see the price of the new pet as expensive because we're still a bit early in the game. Five platinum coins just for a pet just seems a bit ridiculous.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 07/15/2016 at 06:52am

Early on it is really high priced for sure. But once you have one, you can carry it over to new worlds. I don't think it's cheating to start with a cosmetic pet or whatnot.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 07/15/2016 at 07:39am

Good point. Vinny knows how to cheat in Terraria and I basically told him "no cheating" in our playthrough. A cosmetic pet, sure that's fine, but everything else I'd like for us to obtain by playing. However, one could say we're "cheating" by using TShock and I've "cheated" by using TEdit to put in those arenas. After doing that, I thought about writing up a quick post about both of those programs. I know Travis is more familiar with them than I am, but I've found them both surprisingly easy to use!

Travis Admin wrote on 07/15/2016 at 11:22am

Yeah they're both very simple.

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We Need To Have a Nuanced Discussion About Gameplay - But First Let's Punch a Demon in the Face

Jack and Rich from PreviouslyRecorded released their Doom review and like much of their show, I love it. I also tried Doom today and I love that too and for only having played it a couple minutes I can say that it's one of the better shooters i've played in years. It's nice to see Doom go back to the good ol' days of a simple fast paced game.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/24/2016 at 04:32am

I think I'm going to jump on the bandwagon to Hell.....LOL

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/24/2016 at 04:33am

The devil is impressed Greg!

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/24/2016 at 04:47am

Well I'm impressed and that's why. At first I wasn't at all interested, I thought it looked like a bit too much gore for my taste. But, I watched one of my favorite YouTubers play and it looks awesome. There's a very interesting impression I'm getting from what I've seen and thinking of that translating into gameplay is exciting.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/24/2016 at 04:58am

Yeah, the gameplay is really exciting and... There is a lot of gore. TBH I was really surprised with the gore in Diablo 3 but it's not a huge deal now. I guess it's just another day desensitized to all good human emotions

Joking aside, let me know what you think of the game. It has the biggest download to date but looks great.

Travis Admin wrote on 05/24/2016 at 01:00pm

Yeah the DVD install helped my bandwidth cap a little but it was still a ton of data. Similarly to Fallout 4, it went really slowly from the DVD for some reason, but I let it because of the bandwidth cap my ISP has.

It's a really solid game. Doom 3 was good, I loved it even when people were complaining about it, but it didn't feel like Doom, it was survival horror for the most part, and it worked well. This is just straight up mayhem.

Travis Admin wrote on 05/24/2016 at 03:00pm

So I usually don't watch long video reviews of a game, especially if I've already played it. But this one was really good. I think they kinda liked the game. :D

Seriously though, this game is like what shooters would be like today if cover shooters and military shooters never took over. It takes some cues from Wolfenstein: The New Order, I think. I'm not saying that cover and military shooters are bad, I'm just saying this is better!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/24/2016 at 06:18pm

I think New Order set the stage for what iD games can be. Amazing shooter, challenging gameplay and a good story. Doom focuses more on it being a sort of anti-story while still having a driving and natural narrative.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/25/2016 at 04:24am

Oh Hell yeah! This game is sweet! I thought I'd suck at it, so I started off playing on the lowest difficulty level, but it didn't take me very long to decide to increase the difficult back to normal. I think we have our 2016 Game of the Year. Hahaha

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/25/2016 at 05:13am

It's really good.