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.

2753 Posts

Just heard about a new upcoming SyFy show called "The Heroes of Cosplay." Looks pretty interesting and I really want to check it out. Thing is, I cut the cable cord along time ago and just do the online video and Netflix. Hope this is available to Stream in some form.

Really hoping they give equal billing to Comic and Video Game Cosplayers!

What do you think, does this kind of thing look cool or meh?


"Pay what you want and get the urban warfare open-world adventure Saints Row: The Third; the prequel open-world action-adventure game Saints Row 2; the swashbuckling fantasy action RPG Risen 2: Dark Waters; and the hack-and-slash RPG Sacred 2: Gold Edition. Pay over the average and receive the survival horror RPG Dead Island: Game of the Year Edition and Saints Row: The Third - The Full Package, which includes a bunch of DLC. And if you pay $25 or more, you’ll get the sequel to Dead Island, Dead Island: Riptide."

An interesting Bundle here including some pretty popular games. I have heard great things about Saint's Row the Third and the Dead Island series. This is also a pretty good deal considering you get Dead Island: Riptide + everything else for $25 and Dead Island: Riptide is $40 on Steam straight up.

Anyone picking this up? This Bundle is Steam Keys/Windows only.

http://www.humblebundle.com/


"BioShock Infinite is a first person shooter where players assume the role of former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt who is sent to the flying city of Columbia on a rescue mission to save Elizabeth, who has been imprisoned since childhood. Through the powerful bond they form, Booker is able to augment his own abilities with her world-altering control over the environment."

This upcoming Bioshock Infinate DLC looks awesome but can some explain to me how Booker and Elizabeth show up in Rapture? Unless its spoiler territory I am curious what your thoughts are.


http://i.imgur.com/4FZ9ZT6.jpg
I picked up the Steam early access of Mercenary Kings last week and have been very happy with Tribute Games latest shoot fest. Since the game is an early access release it lacks some of the features and polish that it will showcase when it reaches its final launch. That said, the game is very playable and very fun.

Mercenary Kings is a 2D side-scrolling shooter in the style of Metal Slug. You start at your home base and from there can go on missions, craft guns, purchase items, form multi-player teams and more. The aspects of the early access version that shine for me are the gun crafting and missions.

During each mission you kill a swath of bad guys. Randomly these bad guys drop loot such as lead, polymer or acid. You can use these drops to craft gun components. You can use the components to make a gun build that suits your fancy. This is a cool feature because instead of crafting a gun and then scrapping it for another one later, you can just rebuild your gun to meet your new specs. So if you want a pistol with 80 rounds one mission and a shotgun the next you can do that.

The missions are fun and offer some nice variety. As you complete the missions under your current level sometimes you unlock other missions where you go back to a particular level to accomplish another task. One feature I really liked was the ability to go back and replay a mission as many times as you want. I found that useful for collecting cash and resources to craft certain gun components I wanted before tackling harder levels.

So far, I have run up to one boss and it was very fun. All told it wasn't too difficult, but it was the first boss I found and I am still a low level.

Right now the only controls supported are with a USB controller and I believe the best support is through the 360 controller. I recently read a blog post that mentioned keyboard support is coming in a patch soon so if you are keyboard bound it won't be a problem for long.

If you are looking for a great retro flavored 2d side scrolling shooter with a few rough edges, I heartily recommend Mercenary Kings.

http://www.mercenarykings.com/


As shown in the vidoe above, YouTuber Lore creates some great fast fact videos for popular video games. In this episode she covers the new indie game, Don't Starve.

The folks that brought us Gary's Mod are working on a new game, Rust. Its an open world multi-player shooter similar to Stalker that contains Werewolves & Mutants.

http://garry.tv/2013/06/21/the-story-of-rust/

PC Gamer recently featured Rise of Nations in its "Reinstall" series. Rise of Nations has been installed on my PC for years and I still play it with some of my friends, I *heart* nukes.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/07/14/reinstall-rise-of-nations/

Falskaar, a pretty awesome Skyrim mod was released. Alexander J. Velicky, the mod creator hopes it will draw the attention of Bethesda to land him a paid gig at the studio.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/07/16/behind-falskaar-a-massive-new-skyrim-mod-and-the-19-year-old-who-spent-a-year-building-it/


http://i.imgur.com/6ptbiXk.jpg
"It's with a heavy heart that we announce that FEZ II has been cancelled and is no longer in development. We apologize for the disappointment"

That wasn't something I had expected to hear this morning. But yeah, Fez 2 has been cancelled. It seems this has been brewing for sometime and recently came to a head for Phil Fish, creator of Fez. I don't want to outline the series of events here, there are plenty of gaming websites dedicating themselves to cataloging each bit of information. If you are interested in reading more, i'll provide a link.

That said, it seems Phil Fish is leaving gaming entirely and I find that sad. I saw Indie Game: The Movie and he seemed like a guy very concerned with making the best game he could. I wonder how well I would do under similar circumstances myself, but I think the final product speaks for itself, Fez is a beautiful game.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2422377,00.asp

I hope this doesn't effect Fez coming to OSX or Linux, it would make this whole thing even more unfortunate.

** EDIT 7/29/2013 ** Polytron has confirmed, Fez will still be ported to Mac and Linux. Very happy to see this. https://twitter.com/Polytron/statuses/361976275088310272


http://www.capybaragames.com/images/S+S_infographic_sitesize.jpg
"With over 1.5 million copies sold, it’s pretty obvious that #Sworcery has been a resounding success. And we’d like to share a few details of that success with you. There’s not that many titles out there that began on iOS and made their way to this many other platforms over time, so we hope that this info is helpful in some way/shape/form."

Good for The Superbrothers & Capy. It's cool to see great games find an audience.

http://www.capybaragames.com/2013/07/a-sworcery-infographic/


Recently I downloaded the Call of Juarez Gunslinger demo off Steam and recommend you give it a try. Not too many demos hit Steam, so its cool to get one worth checking out. I previously picked up Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood used at Gamestop and had such a bad time with it I actually resold it.

That said, Ubisoft did a great job with Gunslinger and absolutely nailed the western feel. The shooting is top notch and I love the way the different six-shooters feel as you use them. The game features a recharge element where you can pause time and the game allows you to one shot bad-guys as they freeze. This is really useful for busting in to a room to freeze everyone and then shoot them all in the face quickly. At one point you have a rifle and do that and actually seems like you are charging in, western movie style.

I wasn't particularly in love with the way the game presents the story. It starts by someone telling a story and you are playing through the descriptions he gives. I felt this was a bit off and just wanted to go at the game alone for the most part.

Since the game is a free demo download on Steam, I seriously recommend you give Gunslinger a try.


I always wanted Adventures in the Magic Kingdom. The game looked amazing as I loved going to Disney Land so the game had to be just as good right? No surprise the top 2 are Rescue Rangers and Duck Tales.

Good video and covers some of the awesome Capcom games. I would have put Tale Spin somewhere in a top Capcom Disney Game list too, but it doesn't get quite as much attention.


I am happy to bring you The Cheerful Ghost Roundtable Innagural Edition. Featuring awesome community members such as WhiteboySlim, CapnCurry, Travis and myself.

In the first episode we talk about the games we are playing, some site news and our roundtable topic: THE INDIE GAME REVOLUTION! Loved the way it turned out, but since its our first episode there are a few rough patches.

So check it out and let us know what you think about it and ENJOY!

The Roundtable features people from the community so if you are interested in joining us, hit me up.

The Cheerful Ghost Roundtable uses Google Hangouts on Air so the next one will be live which means you can watch it as it happens. We will plan it and talk a bit about the discussion. Even if your not in the roundtable we will provide an area for you to submit stuff we can discuss in the roundtable to keep it awesome, so stay tuned!

scrypt made the bumper graphic for the episode and if you want a ultra huge sized version to set as your desktop, nab that here:

http://i.imgur.com/Tip4yIn.png