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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The latest Episode of the Cheerful Ghost Roundtable is out and newer than ever! We start things off talking about what we've been playing and watching like Rocket League, Hearthstone, Pokemon and Sherlock. We then move right in to talking about the new Fallout 4 DLC and Star Wars. This episode is a bit shorter to keep things interesting and we are including more TV and movie discussion. Let us know what you think in the comments.

Also, our next episode will be all about Fallout 4 so drop any questions or comments you have about the game here as scrypt will read them in the next episode for us to discuss.

Show Notes:

http://cheerfulghost.com/Travis/posts/2806/fallout-4-s-first-three-add-ons-announced

http://cheerfulghost.com/Travis/posts/2807/helpful-and-interesting-info-for-your-fallout-4-playthrough

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/2790/link-learning-manbos-mambo


This new comparison video shows off just how well the new Twilight Princess HD will look on the Wii U. Nintendo isn't just bringing the game to the Wii U in HD but also adding some new features as well.

Twilight Princess HD drops March 4th on the Wii U and if you want to know of some more features coming to the game checkout the Cheerful Ghost article.

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/2774/the-legend-of-zelda-hd-on-wii-u-launches-march-4th-with-amiibo-support



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Twitter user Unreal389 asked the official Doom twitter handle about how much time the new Doom single player mission would take to complete. Since I can't stop cramming my brain with new Doom news, the tweet is below.

"@Unreal389 The difficulty level plays a factor, but folks playing at the office average 13+ hours in the campaign"

https://twitter.com/DOOM/status/697883390821982208

13+ hours seems like a reasonable amount of time for the single player campaign. I plan on spending as much or more time building levels in Snapmap and i'll also give multiplayer a try.

Bethesda has been keeping the new Doom hype train going and recently dropped more information about the single player campaign.

"This is where the show really begins. Martin seems to be everywhere at once. He mantles to an upper deck and hits one demon with some plasma fire. He drops to a lower level and uses his modded Rocket Launcher to detonate some heavy ordnance behind a heaving Hell Knight. Out comes the Chaingun for some rapid peppering of multiple enemies. He staggers one demon, then another, then rushes forward to Glory Kill the first and immediately dispatches the second with an explosive burst from his modded Combat Shotgun. And, as he earlier promised to show us, he’s flick-switching – id’s in-house term for the instinctual and nearly instantaneous swapping of weapons that players can pull off once they learn their way around the weapon wheel. A quick tap, a quick flick… and the weapon wheel never even appears. “It makes you feel super slick when you’re doing it,” Martin smiles. “You’re just flick-switching between weapons and you’re like…” Martin pauses to make some rapid-fire pew-pew-pew sound effects. We get the point.

But Martin isn’t just showboating for us. He’s also demonstrating something we haven’t yet seen in action: the player progression system. While id wasn’t ready to reveal the mechanics behind this system, they wanted to give us a taste of how players can customize their abilities to fit their play style.
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https://bethesda.net/#en/events/game/inside-dooms-brutally-fast-single-player-campaign/2016/02/17/78

New Doom will drop May 13th on PC, XBox One and Playstation 4. Let me know in the comments which platform you plan on playing it on.


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Miitomo is Nintendos upcoming Android and iOS app that aims to bring Miis to your phone. Miitomo is a social network of sorts that lets you build your Mii much like with the Wii or Wii U and then connect with your friends. Miitomo is a freemium app that, if you want, can spend in game money to customize your Mii. From there you can collect your Mii friends and pose them for special Miifotos you can share on social media like.. Cheerful Ghost. Nintendo has been hyping this for awhile now and today just allowed pre registrations.

You can sign up below and you don't need to own any Nintendo hardware to join in the fun. I hope this ushers in a new era where Nintendo accounts and services are a bit more open and am pretty excited to check this out come launch day. If anyone is interested in becoming Mii friends, let me know and when the app drops we can exchange friend information.

https://my.nintendo.com/pre_registrations/miitomo?language=en-US
https://miitomo.com/en/


YouTuber Crank recently played a match of StarCraft II and Hearthstone ... at the same time. Since Hearthstone is a turn based game this doesn't seem impossible.

I wonder what other two online games you could play at the same time?


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Back in the 90's the Doom craze was real. Doom mania didn't quite hit Nintendo level highs as there wasn't a Doom cereal or cartoon. That said, iD Software did fun things with the brand and one amazing creation from that era was a Doom comic book, the a story of a psychotic marine that absolutely loves killing Demons with his fists. This guy has such a crazy obsession with carnage the story hugs the bizarre but contains a special glow that only the 90's could produce.

Want some dialog for posterity sake? I am sure you do.

"I'm cookin' with gas! I've gotta handful of vertebrae and a headful of mad! Yeah, that's your spinal cord baby! Dig it! Who's the man? I'm the man! I'm a bad man! How bad? Real bad! I'm a 12.0 on the 10.0 scale of badness! I don't need a gun... guns are for wusses!"

Doom guy said it folks, guns are for wusses. Who knew? Obviously Doom guy.

Read the whole blood soaked issue at Doom World below.

https://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/comic.php


Halo was the game that launched the XBox console into a gaming powerhouse. Bungies first person shooter is a classic and deserves a place in the halls of some of the best games of all time. Coming out originally on the XBox and more recently with the Halo Master Chief Collection on XBox One, Halo is still a fun game modern audiences will like. But what if you want to come back and play Halo today and don't have an original XBox or want to get an XBox One? In 2003 Bungie teamed up with Gearbox to launch Halo on PC and this version is completely playable and if you want to relive this classic sans an XBox, this version is where it's at.

I picked up Halo Combat Evolved on PC recently at Fry's Electronics for $20 and it came with a CD install disc, box, key and game manual. The installation was painless as you simply enter the key and the game installs quickly. The game comes all on one CD so it's not quite as long as Fallout 4 that has a hybrid DVD/Internet install process. After the game installs I recommend you install the latest Halo PC patch from 2014.

https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/64943622/0/0/0/0

The 1.0.10 patch bumps the game version, strips out the CD play requirement, removes GameSpy and modernizes the game for Windows 7. After the game updated I maxed the video settings and reconfigured the default controls to something resembling a more modern shooter.

The games online multiplayer is still intact as I was able to browse Internet games and join a few. I wasn't the worst person playing which was odd as I expected the game to be rife with hackers and aimbots. The multiplayer felt just like I remember it and it's nice to see a few hundred people still having fun with it.

I never fully completed the original Halo as I really never owned it and only played it with friends a bit at a time. I've always liked the chill nature of the Halo story and the lush world is enjoyable to be in. The graphics are a bit dated now but after you are in the core gameplay itself is strong enough to keep you going. My only complaint about gameplay is that it's a bit one note. Go here, kill bad guys, go there and kill bad guys. The shooting is fun but so far into the game it's somewhat repetitive. The game only lets you save with checkpoints meaning that if you have only a few minutes to play here and there and you don't fully make it to a checkpoint you lose progress. This isn't a huge deal, but something I noticed as I stepped away a couple times.

There have been rumors flying for years that Microsoft would port Halo 3 and the like to modern PC's and bring the whole collection to Steam but so far this hasn't materialized. If you want to come back to Halo I'd suggest nabbing the box copies and playing those. Currently you can play Halo and Halo 2 on PC and whereas i'd love a modern port to Steam so far this is our best option to play outside the XBox ecosystem.


"Rey took her first steps into a larger world in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and will continue her epic journey with Finn, Poe, and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the continuing Star Wars saga, Star Wars: Episode VIII, which began principal photography at Pinewood Studios in London on February 15, 2016."

This fills my heart with fan girl excitement. This year Star Wars Rogue One will launch but next year we will all be able to bask in Episode VIII. Rian Johnson, the director of Looper is at the helm of Episode VIII and I have no doubt it should be pretty darn incredible.

http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-viii-now-filming


In this episode I talk about the upcoming changes to Hearthstone while I grind my dailies. I play my Raptor Rogue, Dragon Priest and my brand spankin' new aggro Mage deck. In one of my matches I go down to 1 hp and still bring it around for the win making a very fun Hearthstone moment. I note that the decks I see most play now are really aggro, do you find that to be true in what you are seeing right now?

Check more on the upcoming Hearthstone changes below and let me know what you think of these matches? Should I have played differently or is there a deck you have been having fun with I need to play?

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/19995505/a-new-way-to-play-2-2-201