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(Quantum) Breaking the norm.

For all the mixed reviews it got, Quantum Break aimed to make use of Microsoft's original vision of the X1. Combining games with other forms of media. Originally there was going to be a television show that aired alongside Quantum Break, instead, they put it in-game between the chapters. You can opt to skip these, but they show an interesting view point, which is Monarch's side of the main story and the internal struggle going on there.

This is your typical Remedy game. That means it's not very long, but the story, visuals, sound, gameplay, controls.. All of it is top-tier. You play as Jack Joyce. A man who, through an accident, gains the ability to manipulate time in... Read All

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/28/2016 at 11:46pm

Quantum Break is an interesting game that seems to be lauded by some and critically panned by others. It reminds me of older Phillips CDI games with live footage mixed with gameplay. QB seems to do that all better, but it's a kind of genre I haven't gotten into beyond the camp affinity I have for Sewer Shark or Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. And truth be told, I haven't played those games either but I sort of appreciate them and how they sit in the retro community.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/28/2016 at 11:46pm

Oh, meant to ask. How did you play QB? PC or XBone?

Maxxiumus_Prime Post Author wrote on 05/28/2016 at 11:48pm

I actually played it on the X1. I didn't take advantage of the pre-order offer to get a free Win10 copy, due to my comp limitations.

Travis Admin wrote on 05/29/2016 at 02:57am

I hadn't really heard much about this so I looked it up. After seeing the cast I'm disappointed that the show never happened!

This is something I'm not willing to gamble on at $60, but it looks intriguing enough to buy it when the price drops or there's a sale. Unfortunately, it's not on Steam (only the Microsoft store) so it's not as likely to get deep discounts as frequently.

Maxxiumus_Prime Post Author wrote on 05/29/2016 at 04:53pm

That's true. but E3 and the Summer Sale are just around the corner, so keep your eye out! The show is embedded in the game, and happens at the end of each chapter. It changes slightly based on your decisions, which is pretty cool. Originally, the show (from my understanding) was going to happen based on the most popular outcomes of each chapter, which would have been pretty cool, but I like how they did it instead. You can steam them, or you can download a free 75GB episode pack, which includes all outcomes and choices so you can view them offline.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/29/2016 at 05:33pm

Do you need to have bought the game to download the episodes?

Maxxiumus_Prime Post Author wrote on 05/29/2016 at 06:29pm

You shouldn't need to, no. Worst case, you can check them out on Youtube.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/30/2016 at 12:19am

Awesome, thanks.

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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.

Your Own, Personal Combat

The first project from Ubisofters-gone-indie, Sloclap, Absolver is touted as being an online, melee-combat driven, action-RPG. Players take the role of a Prospect, vowing to follow the path of the Absolvers, an elite fighting corps, charged with maintaining stability in the world. "Monitored by the Guides, the new rulers of the fallen Adal Empire, players will wander these forsaken lands and encounter other Prospects online in order to learn their place in this world and eventually become Absolvers." Fight techniques Are accumulated in the form of cards, which you can arrange to the desired execution (build your own combos?). It sounds like these cards, as well as... Read All

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/27/2016 at 04:59am

Couple things. First off, this game is really interesting. Devolver Digital is one of the best Indie publishers around and they keep finding these really cool games to publish. It's really pretty impressive. Secondly I like the idea of a different kind of brawler but i'm not entirely sure what kind of gameplay this would be. That said, I am also wondering in what way the online is required for the game? I guess maybe I just want to know a heck of a lot more

I wonder if anyone in the game can choose to take off the mask?

scrypt Supporter Post Author wrote on 05/27/2016 at 04:03pm

It appears that the online requirement is for co-op gameplay, as well as the PvP stuff. Specifically how that's going to play out is an interesting question, indeed. Will it be like the Souls games, where you can invade other people's environment? Maybe more like Destiny, where you might find yourself in the same play space as another player? The copy on the site alludes to instances of questioning the intent of the players you meet. Will they be friend or foe? I'm with you, Jon. I want to see how deep they take it.

jdodson Admin wrote on 05/28/2016 at 02:08am

> It appears that the online requirement is for co-op gameplay, as well as the PvP stuff.

Ah, good to know. It seems to be heavily pointing to online, I wondered if that were a requirement or not. Either way, that's fine with me if the gameplay is solid.

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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... Read All

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... Read All

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.

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I Heard The Whisper And Serve C'Thun

By the time it was official Blizzard was releasing a new Hearthstone expansion I was excited as I thought the game was getting a bit stale. When Blizzard first talked about standard mode, I was interested and liked the constant rotation of cards entering and leaving the game. I was heartened when they said everyone was getting a free C’thun, some support minions and a few free packs. Like many I also had reservations as they were removing the Naxxramas expansion and Goblins VS Gnomes and placing them in Wild. As a huge Naxxramas fan this was painful but after finally playing Standard mode and the new Whispers of the Old Gods expansion I can firmly say this is the best... Read All

Jacket Is Calling and He Wants You To Buy The Hotline Miami Collectors Edition

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Hotline Miami is a violently strange game about someone that gets phone calls from a person wanting you to commit massacres against the local Russian Mafia. The game is similar to early GTA games but differs in that you die more and everything is way more bloody. If you loved the game and want a special collectors edition version Devolver Digital has just launched something you might love. Not sure if i'll pick this up but it might look neat next to my Starcraft II Battlechests.

"HOTLINE MIAMI and HOTLINE MIAMI 2:WRONG NUMBER on DVD (you'll also get Steam codes for each game) along with a cassette tape containing highlights from the soundtrack, a pack of five Cameo... Read All