jdodson1

Joined 01/23/2012

I'm an Engineer and built the video game community Cheerful Ghost and text based mini-MMO Tale of the White Wyvern.

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YouTuber Yangyugi cut up a video comparing the original 1994 Doom to the 2016 remake and it's pretty fun. Most of the same stuff can happen in both games but it's fairly obvious the new game is a remake of the old one. Which isn't a bad thing at all.


Greetings lovers of the Irish and all things green! If Warwick Davis’s Leprechaun taught us anything is that you don’t get between the little green people and a pot of gold or gamers and great gaming deal. So keeping in Saint Patrick's Day Holiday season we are marking Starship Rubicon to 60% off! WHAT? THAT’S SO CRAZY! The luck of the Irish won’t be with you forever as this sale packs up and walks back over the Rainbow Monday March 21st.

And really, what were you going to spend your money on anyway? You can only buy so much beer dyed color green anyway. We're not saying don’t buy a ton of green beer but buy a ton of green beer AND Starship Rubicon too!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/372030/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpiKHC7NVco


The new trailer for Fallout 4's upcoming DLC Automatron is available and unveils more from this Pokemon styled Robot collector building pack. It also hints there may be some exclusive story content here as well even if light it would be welcomed. Interested to know whom will be playing this on launch day as I might not be but want to know more about how it plays.

Automatron will be available for download on PC, XBox and PS4 March 22.

https://bethesda.net/#en/events/game/fallout-4-automatron-trailer-released/2016/03/14/88


"Players who level a World of Warcraft character to level 20 will earn a new Achievement, Fledgling Hero of Warcraft, that will unlock Liadrin for use in Hearthstone. No World of Warcraft subscription is necessary to earn this hero and bring the power of the Light to bear in Hearthstone—simply log in to your existing World of Warcraft account and play.

Note that while the World of Warcraft Achievement will not be rewarded retroactively, anyone who leveled a character to level 20 after 11 a.m. PST on March 11 will be eligible to receive Lady Liadrin.
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The first three heroes in Hearthstone cost $10 so it's nice to see one that you can unlock for free. World of Warcraft subscription or not you can unlock this hero using your normal account or WoW starter edition which is free to anyone with a Battle.net account.


In the video above Robert Bridenbecker head of the classic games division of Blizzard has recently talked about an upcoming Warcraft III patch 1.27 coming March 15th. If it's anything like the recent Diablo 2 patch it should update the game for modern operating systems and fix some bugs and popular cheat programs.

"It’s been a long time coming, but today we’re releasing 1.14a for Diablo II.

This update focuses on system glitches introduced by modern operating systems. In related news, you can finally retire those old Mac PowerPCs. Included with the update is a shiny new installer for OSX.

We’ve also begun working to improve our cheat-detection and hack-prevention capabilities. There’s still work to be done, but we’re making improvements every day.
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Really great to see Blizzard patch these older games and this seems to be the fruit of Blizzard hiring to patch up these older titles Travis mentioned November of 2015. Warcraft III is one of my most favorite Blizzard titles so an update will be welcomed and i'd love to see it optimized for modern Widescreen monitors!

http://us.battle.net/en/forum/topic/20742864181
http://cheerfulghost.com/Travis/posts/2690/blizzard-is-restoring-their-classic-games-to-glory


Whispers of the Old Gods is an all new upcoming expansion for Hearthstone that will launch late April / early May and feature over 300 new cards. Blizzard has dropped some info on a couple new cards featured in our discussion video and linked below. On launch everyone will be getting 3 free Old Gods packs and on opening your first pack you will get the Old God C'Thun and 2 cards that play well with it, for free. So if you've stepped away for whatever reason, you should head back at launch for some awesome freebies.

In this special episode of Hearthstone Dailies for Ghosts I welcome my friend and Cheerful Ghost aficionado Dan to talk about the recent Whispers of the Old Gods Expansion announcement. We talk about the trailer, new cards and overall feel of the current meta.

Before The Old Gods expansion drops Blizzard will be giving us 9 more deck slots as well as deck recipes next Monday. So even though the march to The Old Gods will be a bit long, we will get a few cool features before then.

I want to thank Dan for joining me last minute to record this special episode, it was really fun to be able to bring together after todays announcement.

What do you think of The Old Gods expansion? What kinds of cards do you want to see included with it?

Read up on all the details of the expansion below:

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKjUgLrDEbI

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/expansions-adventures/whispers-of-the-old-gods/


In this pre Hearthstone expansion announcement episode we grind daily quests with Dragon Priest. I go 2 for 3 and gain more gold for packs for the upcoming expansion. This is a really fun set of games as the people I go head to head with play with some fairly unique decks.

I plan on doing a special episode talking more about the next expansion and the new cards it will be adding, so check that out when it drops in the next couple days.


After recently completing Link's Awakening i've been watching some Speedruns and found this great run from 2004's AGDQ charity run. Guiocob expertly runs this and uses all manner of wall clips, text skips and shenanigans to get the run down to one hour and seventeen minutes. There are two speedruns in the above video and the first one runs a couple of rules such as no save and quit making it so you can't glitch out the game to get a much faster and also they don't allow out of bounds. The second run allows save and quit and out of bounds and drops the run to 6 minutes.

Link's Awakening is a retro classic and watching these people break the Wind Fish is fun.


Day of the Tentacle originally wrapped it's way around gaming in 1993 and is being remastered by Double Fine for launch on March 22nd. You might think that since this is an older game that you can get away with running it on your old 486 computer but that is not so! Not only can you pre-order Day of the Tentacle right now on GOG but Double Fine has also released the system specs to disappoint everyone that has their old DOS PC's from high school.

Kind of surprised it requires so much memory but you know, modern tentacles really do need to address a lot of RAM.

Minimum:

Windows: XP (Service Pack 3) / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual Core
Memory: 2 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon 4870 HD, Intel HD 3000, or equivalent card with at least 512 MB VRAM
DirectX Version: 9.0
Disk Space: 2.5 GB
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Additional Notes: Must have OpenGL 3 with GLSL version 1.3

Recommended:

Windows: 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 2.2 GHz
Memory: 3 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, AMD Radeon HD 6850
DirectX Version: 11
Disk Space: 2.5 GB
Sound Card; DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Additional Notes: Must have OpenGL 3 with GLSL version 1.3

http://www.gog.com/game/day_of_the_tentacle_remastered


Kripparrian recently posted a really great video going over the history of Hearthstone card nerfs. I really enjoy this as I played the game in an early state but don't remember much of the game balance so it's nice to get the history of how it's evolved. Interesting to consider the last card nerf was Warsong Commander and not much has been balanced since then. It seems Blizzard favors releasing new cards as a response than nerfing older cards, which I don't mind. I do think some cards should be buffed, but again Blizzard seems against that sort of thing in favor of releasing a new card that work with something less powerful.