Greetings lovers of the Irish and all things green! If Warwick Davisâs Leprechaun taught us anything is that you donât 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? THATâS SO CRAZY! The luck of the Irish wonât 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 donât buy a ton of green beer but buy a ton of green beer AND Starship Rubicon too!
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Greetings lovers of the Irish and all things green! If Warwick Davisâs Leprechaun taught us anything is that you donât 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? THATâS SO CRAZY! The luck of the Irish wonât 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 donât buy a ton of green beer but buy a ton of green beer AND Starship Rubicon too!
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
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.
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 03/15/2016 at 04:10am
Oh damn, that's in a week! That seems sooner than I expected although I'm not sure when I expected to see DLC. That does look cool. I wonder what the most effective weapon would be against them. There certainly seems like a great variety of robots! I might jump in and take a look at it, we'll see. I did order the Season Pass, so it will definitely be mine.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/18/2016 at 04:35am
Yeah, me too. Seems like all this content is coming soon.
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 03/25/2016 at 03:31am
I thought I ordered the Season Pass, but it doesn't look as though I did.
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 03/29/2016 at 03:53am
I can't remember if I decided not to get the Season Pass or if I decided to wait. I just know that later, I thought I got it, but I apparently didn't. So, I missed out on the special price, but I decided to go ahead and get it anyway. I spent a couple of days playing this new DLC and I pretty much finished it. There is still a mission left for me to do, though. I'm not sure if it's a radial mission, but I assume it is. I do like the new companion, Ada. I particularly like her because when Travis and I were in college together, our programming classes were based on that language, Ada. I enjoyed getting components to upgrade her using the new robotic crafting station. Although, I didn't have the required perks to give her many of the upgrades, so I missed out on some. I did change her paint to blue, though she was pretty much already blue. I think her default color was cyan or something else that's bluish.
Travis must be quite busy this semester. I'm surprised that we haven't heard anything from him regarding this new DLC. Oh and I was wondering what would be the most effective weapon against robots. Well, it seems that a shotgun is definitely a really good weapon against them. I seem to recall Travis mentioning something like that in another post.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/30/2016 at 12:55am
> I can't remember if I decided not to get the Season Pass or if I decided to wait. I just know that later, I thought I got it, but I apparently didn't. So, I missed out on the special price, but I decided to go ahead and get it anyway. I spent a couple of days playing this new DLC and I pretty much finished it.
I picked up the season pass. So far I haven't played any of it. I tried playing Fallout 4 the other day and for whatever reason, didn't continue. I hope I find the drive to finish the game as I really enjoyed up to the point I got.
> Travis must be quite busy this semester. I'm surprised that we haven't heard anything from him regarding this new DLC.
Last I heard he played it but yeah, i'd expected a full review by now too
> Well, it seems that a shotgun is definitely a really good weapon against them.
I am not too high level but the shotguns have been a staple of my gameplay so far. The shells are easy enough to find and they pack a huge punch. I try and pick off smaller guys with the handgun but when things get crazy, out comes the shotgun. Recently(or when I was playing it) I got an automatic shotgun which does a bit less damage but can really rip out the shells.
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 03/30/2016 at 02:19am
>I picked up the season pass. So far I haven't played any of it. I tried playing Fallout 4 the other day and for whatever reason, didn't continue. I hope I find the drive to finish the game as I really enjoyed up to the point I got.
Yeah, I regret the mistake I made of not getting it when I thought I had it and it was cheaper. I could have saved some money, obviously, but ah well, mistakes a part of life. Haha.
Yet again I'll repeat myself, pretty much, haha. I believe I have suffered from anxiety with this game, which makes playing it a bit frustrating. It easily and quickly overwhelmed me. There are a huge amount of weapons to choose from and tons of ways to modify them. Armor is pretty much the same, although I find it much easier to choose what to use. I pretty much stick with whatever's better than I have. The perk system also overwhelmed me and, like weapons, continues to do so. Now that I can make and modify robots, there are perks I need to get better mods for them. That goes with armor, too. I haven't really messed with weapon mods, though. I did go ahead and get the Armorer perk and I think I have it to level 2 now. Almost all of my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats are maxed, except for the last two. I'm still level 50-60ish. There's still a lot I can do in the game, which is good because I can get those other perks I need for mods.
> Last I heard he played it but yeah, i'd expected a full review by now too
Well, like I said (don't you love all this repetition?), he seems to be extremely busy with this semester. However, he'll be done in the next few months, so I'm sure he'll post his input later.
>I am not too high level but the shotguns have been a staple of my gameplay so far. The shells are easy enough to find and they pack a huge punch. I try and pick off smaller guys with the handgun but when things get crazy, out comes the shotgun. Recently(or when I was playing it) I got an automatic shotgun which does a bit less damage but can really rip out the shells.
Yeah, I like the shotgun, too, it's a very effective weapon. However, I've used it so much that I've actually run out of ammo and have had to try other weapons.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/31/2016 at 12:11am
> Yet again I'll repeat myself, pretty much, haha. I believe I have suffered from anxiety with this game, which makes playing it a bit frustrating. It easily and quickly overwhelmed me.
Makes sense. For me I think it just wasn't clicking with me and I don't continue on if things aren't fun.
> Yeah, I like the shotgun, too, it's a very effective weapon. However, I've used it so much that I've actually run out of ammo and have had to try other weapons.
I've been buying it from vendors but I use the shotgun VERY sparingly.
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"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 Hearthstoneâsimply 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."
The first three heroes in Hearthstone cost $10 so it's nice to see one that you can unlock for free. World of Warcraft... Read All
"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 Hearthstoneâsimply 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."
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.
"Itâs been a long time coming, but today weâre 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.
Weâve also begun working to improve our cheat-detection and hack-prevention... Read All
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.
"Itâs been a long time coming, but today weâre 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.
Weâve also begun working to improve our cheat-detection and hack-prevention capabilities. Thereâs still work to be done, but weâre making improvements every day."
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!
It works really well on Mac, so far. I powered through to level 3 and it was smooth.
I don't know how to make it run windowed, though. The option isn't in there where you'd expect it to be. They haven't patched resolutions so you're still limited to 640x480 and 800x600 so in fullscreen it's skewed on widescreen monitors.
OK so, you can run in windowed mode by pressing cmd+m
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/14/2016 at 08:09pm
Nice thanks for letting me know. It should be easier to do the widescreen thing with War 3 than D2 as I believe the enemy patting and affronts keyed off what you see.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/14/2016 at 08:09pm
Or keyed to what you should see within a 800x600 field of view. Maybe they can change that?
As of the last War 3 patch you can play it widescreen at least semi-natively with registry settings, so really it's just a matter of Blizz adding the menu options.
Ah, never mind. As of the latest patch, the widescreen resolutions are present in the menu already, so this upcoming patch won't have to worry about that.
OK reading more about it, it may still be stretching the image. I'm reading conflicting things about that. If so it doesn't look as bad as it does on Diablo II, perhaps because of the different way the isometric camera works.
Also, I wonder if Starcraft 1 will get this same treatment. I imagine they still have demand for it.
OK so, trying out War 3 on Mac. Oddly, if you're in fullscreen it's going to stretch regardless, but if you're windowed you can't set the resolution. :/
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 03/15/2016 at 06:35pm
Having War 3 on Mac means I am going to play this more. I had an old save from the holidays, now I can keep going! I am currently in the Undead missions, which are super fun.
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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... Read All
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:
I just wanted to let you know that our beloved game, Terraria, is coming to the Wii U and 3DS very soon. In fact, the 3DS version will be released on March 15th (in 5 days!) and the Wii U version on April 12th, according to Amazon. I have ordered both versions to give to my son, Vinny, for his birthday. He's stated interest in at least the 3DS version. Unfortunately, it seems the 3DS version is quite limited due to the surprisingly low specifications of the 3DS. It only comes in one world size, which seems to be the same as the mobile version. Different companies are working on each version. Both versions are expected to have all 1.2 content and more upon launch with... Read All
I just wanted to let you know that our beloved game, Terraria, is coming to the Wii U and 3DS very soon. In fact, the 3DS version will be released on March 15th (in 5 days!) and the Wii U version on April 12th, according to Amazon. I have ordered both versions to give to my son, Vinny, for his birthday. He's stated interest in at least the 3DS version. Unfortunately, it seems the 3DS version is quite limited due to the surprisingly low specifications of the 3DS. It only comes in one world size, which seems to be the same as the mobile version. Different companies are working on each version. Both versions are expected to have all 1.2 content and more upon launch with further updates planned.
I just finished reading the post in the official forum and I suggest that you give it a read, too, especially if you have one of these Nintendo systems. One of the biggest things I got from it was stated at the very end, "[w]e have a few more surprises in store for this coming Holiday season, but we will save those for another time." I really wonder what those surprises are. I kind of hope it's not Terraria Otherworld because I thought we should be expecting it soon, but that may be the case. Maybe they'll announce Terraria 2, which I want to see. Feel free to speculate in the comment section below.
Anyway, I still miss playing Terraria and want to play it more, so I'm definitely looking forward to this.
Terraria does seem like a natural fit for the Wii U and 3DS.
Azurephile Super Member Post Author
wrote on 03/30/2016 at 02:52am
So, my son's birthday was a few days ago and Terraria for the 3DS seems to be one of his favorite gifts. I also got him the Legend of Zelda Windwaker HD and Twilight Princess HD for the Wii U. He's enjoying all of them.
I found out that the 3DS version of Terraria saves your characters and worlds on your system and not on the game itself. This means, for example, my son can create characters and worlds in the game using his 3DS and I can do the same on mine. So, his stuff isn't on the game when I'm using my 3DS.
One of the things I took notice of when looking into the 3DS version is that the 3DS really isn't very powerful. However, the "New 3DS" has better hardware than the previous models. It seems that they *might* create a version of the game specifically for that 3DS model, but we'll just have to wait and see.
The Wii U version will be here in a couple of weeks, it seems. However, since I've now played the game on my Kindle, PS3, 3DS, and PC, I can say with certainty that the PC version is the ultimate one. Using the keyboard and mouse just makes everything better, to me, particularly switching between a tool and a weapon. I like using the touch screens to mine, although the mouse does a great job of that, too.
I may post later after I've tried the Wii U version. I expect it will be very much like the current console version, yet a combination of that, the mobile, and 3DS versions.
> I may post later after I've tried the Wii U version. I expect it will be very much like the current console version, yet a combination of that, the mobile, and 3DS versions.
FULL REVIEW! FULL REVIEW!
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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.
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.
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.
Physical copies came with a code. If you pre-ordered The New Order on Steam, it should just unlock for you when the time comes, but if you got it digitally somewhere else, you should have been emailed a code.
Get your BFGs ready, folks. The Doom beta is coming on March 31 and will last a whopping four days, ending on April 3!
In addition, there's a new multiplayer trailer to gawk at.
I'm just interested to find out whether my PC can run the game at all!
Physical copies came with a code. If you pre-ordered The New Order on Steam, it should just unlock for you when the time comes, but if you got it digitally somewhere else, you should have been emailed a code.
Yeah. This seems like a distant afterthought to me. Kind of nice we will get 4 days with it but... I don't know, if they advertised "Wolf: New Order with pre-order bonus of a 4 day Doom beta" maybe i've have thought... eh whatever. I'll take it.
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The emulator basically takes the sprites and attempts to figure out what they'd look like in 3D. This works with some games more than others. Contra and Dr. Mario look great, but Super Mario Bros 3 and Mega Man are a bit rough. But the possibilities here are exciting!
The emulator basically takes the sprites and attempts to figure out what they'd look like in 3D. This works with some games more than others. Contra and Dr. Mario look great, but Super Mario Bros 3 and Mega Man are a bit rough. But the possibilities here are exciting!