(On a side note, I hate the numbering system between the Japanese versions and the American versions! It confuses me to no end!)
My ring-tone is the battle theme.
I seriously suggested that we name our first born son Cecil.
That's so rad!
Just use the japanese numbering! They're almost all worth playing.
I loooooove FF4. Watch Out For Fireballs! is doing a music episode. If you have some thoughts about the music, specific songs, and such, lay'em on us! http://duckfeed.tv/contact/
But I grew up with the American numbering lol!
I did too but then I went and found the in between games. If they were all shit, I'd be fine pretending they didn't exist but FF3 and 5 are both pretty good.
Like Adym I got confused with the numbering myself, but have come to later accept it as you can't get the right information on Wikipedia without knowing the right game. That and other game sites, so it sort of makes sense to learn it.
And the other games exist and are good, which helps.
@Tungsten that's a good idea for a boys name, if you make it happen ill give you a special trophy "Named Son Cecil" or some such. :D
Adym, if you liked the music from FF4 I suggest you check out http://ff4.ocremix.org/. I'm pretty sure ocremix has been mentioned on this site before, but it's basically a bunch of musicians who love video game music. They made a full album dedicated to FF4. I especially like the track "The Skies Hold No Angels for Us".
Thats a great OCRemix album. My only beef is that its not tagged properly and really hard to manage. If you can fix that, its a great set of songs from the game!
That's sweet, I'll have to check it out!
It did look good and I almost picked it up when it was on sale on steam. But I had picked up too many recently and had to pass this one over. I'll probably eventually come back to it, but good to know it is as fun as it appears.
Hmmm, should I get this on my phone or Steam?
I spent plenty of time playing PuzzleQuest on my iPod touch. Is it similar to that?
Not really like PuzzleQuest (which I *loved*). PQ had a story that was funny and was a more traditional match-3. 10M is VERY fast paced and you can drag as far as you want left/right or up/down to make matches, so it feels quite different from a traditional match 3 (where you only swap adjacent tiles to match). 10M's rpg elements consist of "Quests" to eventually level up, 3 of which are open at any one time (and are replaced on the next run when you complete them). They are quite straightforward though, e.g. get X points in a run, collect X wood in a run, make X match-5's in a run, make X triple matches in a run, etc. The other rpg elements are upgrading, you open and upgrade several rooms to improve your character/equipment i.e. upgrade magic, sword, etc (I'd list the rest but it's slightly spoilerish).
So you complete quests to level up, get resources to improve your character, and just get better at playing to get better scores for each run.
Oh, and by run, I'm being literal -- your character runs across the top of the screen and encounters random things you have to kill/unlock by doing matches.
The goal is to hit 10 million points in a single run. I'm now up to where I've hit 4.5 million in one run (and have maxed most of the stuff possible, and I think I have just one more level to go)
Not sure what happens then (i.e. if you get to continue or what) there are several steam achievements that would suggest you get to...
Seems awesome.
Wasn`t that surgeon simulator game part of this? That game is hilarious and fun.
I'm very disappointed I missed the Jam! Sounds like it was pretty awesome.
The game has a really interesting concept. I agree with you about the intro videos too, they were effective but could have been a bit better.
The core game looks really strong though. How did the base platforming feel?
As I am watching this I am wondering how similar to Trine this is? At a superficial level it seems Trine-ish.
Cake or death... :D
The platforming is a little cumbersome. This is definitely not what you'd call a highly polished game, but at the end of the day it's meant to just be fun. It definitely doesn't handle as nicely as Trine. The Co-op makes this game though.
Awesome, good to know. Thanks Sig!
WoooHoo! Congratulations Jon, on such a fine site. Just so you know, I have it set as my homepage on my phone :)
Thanks @BR I am glad it works out in that way. I also have CG as a little icon on my phone home screen too :D
You did a good job and I'm glad to be here. If you need any help with it moving forward don't hesitate to ask.
Glad to have been a part of it. Thanks for bringing us together.
I'm really impressed how far the site has come in just one year. It's been a fun year, and it'll only get better!
Thanks guys, it has been fun hanging out with you all.
@SignalWarden, ill email you about it. Love to hear your ideas.
As an aside, this trophy is being retired today:
http://cheerfulghost.com/trophies/59/awarded
:D
It was really fun doing the interview!
Also, when I say "this comic comes to mind" that was suppose to be a link to this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/8/26. My bad. :)
Fun interview!
@WhiteboySlim, I added the comic link to the interview.
You never played FF8 did you? It's more under appreciated than 9 imo. 8 is among my favs for the FF series.
Never got around to 8. I might look into getting it used for the PSOne since I can play those on my PS3. :)
Yeah, can play PS1 games but not PS2. Uhhh, sure ok. Wondering what the PS4 will be compatable with?
I agree with you, mostly, regarding the newer generations of Final Fantasy. I, too, loved IX. VIII is my all-time most favorite, and is the one that was introduced to me (by Travis) and I totally fell in love with it and Rhinoa. Although a lot of people seem to hate on X-2, I loved that one as well. After that, the series went downhill for me. XI was difficult as I'm more of a solo gamer and that game pretty much sucks for solo gaming. I was lucky enough to find someone who helped me through it a bit.
I need one if you don't mind steam Id is amorales2005
Sent!
I also have plenty to give away.
If you run out, I got 5!
Nice, we should keep people playing :D
This game is my obsession...I also have a bunch of invites.
Funny...8 months ago this game was my obsession....today, even more so lol. I played 6 games between Tuesday/Wednesday night and I just want to go home now and play allllll day.
You should post some basic strats for this one, personally I like DoTA 2 but I don't know the basics very well.
Yeah, I can do that. I tried getting Tim into it...but unfortunately the game we played he got steam rolled and it understandably burnt him. I've always been into competitive PVP style games though. From FPS, to MMO, to RTS, and MOBA (Multiplayer online battle arena).
This game is definitely not good to new players, but everyone starts somewhere/sometime. I actually started playing dota2 by myself (I had played dota 1 quite a bit) and frankly, it's rare to ever see another player again. That maybe adds to the bashing you may get because players are so anonymous, but it also made me feel comfortable learning and being a noob too. I would give a disclaimer that I'm pretty new. I just took any hateful comments and shrugged them off, I didn't care, I told them I'm learning and often times if you are playing by yourself new, the other players are either new too or on re-rolled smurf accounts. Either way, no one will seriously hold it against you and you won't see those players again. It gave me a blanket of not caring what they thought of me.
Now when you group up, you get equalized a bit in the matchmaking. I've played with a new guy and we got matched against new guys that I then just stomped...and it was nice for him to be able to learn w/o the pressure of needing him to make good plays lol. But other times we've been pushed up closer to my skill range and then he gets creamed and as a team we get creamed because he "fed" the enemy and they got powerful.
Bots and solo que are a pretty decent way to learn. There's a tutorial now too, but I haven't gone through it. There's also tons of websites dedicated to giving useful info. Another super useful thing now is being able to load a hero build. So I use these all the time when I play heroes I don't have my own strategies with, you just open the menu and look at some popular builds (skill and item builds) and then as you level it'll highlight the skill you should learn next (and they often put in some text to give you tips on using those abilities) and same with items. They'll be prioritized as starting equipment, core items, situational items. That's real handy to save time trying to read everything and pick the best option while also trying to play the game.
The most important thing to learn is to not die. Play conservative if you have to, but dying is the worst. It obviously happens, but each death gives the opponent heroes more xp and more gold to increase their advantage over you and your allies.
I think DoTA 2 is easier to get into now. WhiteboySlim and I played it a few times and adding the bots in helped. Because of the community I am not really interested in playing online with anyone other than friends. I now this means I might not be any good, but i'd prefer to have fun than get annihilated by a-holes verbally.
That said, League has done some nice stuff to address this. I kind of hope DoTA 2 heads that direction, it would be pretty nice.
Well...I report players for being A-holes and so do other people. Then a week later I get a notification that they've taken action against one or more players I reported for bad conduct.
Also, to add to the whole "anonymous" thing. I go to dotabuff.com to see better stats and I played a game last night and I was checking stats on the site today. Not everyone's name shows up on this 3rd party website because you have to enable it, but some of my opponents had it enabled. With someone's name/profile I can click on them and and it will show me their stats but also show me how many games I've ever played with this person.
And this is how I can say you rarely see the same person twice. Only twice so far have I seen more than 1 match with someone (I haven't clicked on everyone I've played with obviously). This guy, I played 2 matches with, one last night, other one 8 months ago lol.
I just went back 51 games played, which put me to August 28. I clicked on everyone that wasn't private profile and blocking 3rd party apps. Probably average of 3 people to look at each game. That's 153 profiles I checked. There was 5 people I've played 2 games with. Everyone else, only 1. And FYI, my total matches played is 712. So, it's not like in some games where you may have a reputation and have like a persona or presence in the game....you really are 1 little drop of water in a huge pool.
Huh, thats really good to know. Ill check it out a bit more, interesting someone made an app to do that.
Surprisingly cute and not as exploitative as I thought it would be.
Yeah it was. Kind of has some heart and whereas I didn't really respond well to "Jimmy Olson" its a fun set of shows.
Made by the same folk that do Game Shop.
Whoa? Thanks for sharing, starting to think about things now.
We'll read your stories and play your songs! We just want something substantial about how a piece of music or sound design affected you, contributed to the experience, reinforced the narrative, etc.
I think I can do that. Already had a few songs in mind for a bit now, so I just need to write it up.
Rad, when do you need submissions by?
Thursday, 5pm PST! Thanks, guys!
Do you want our stories here or through the contact form? Both? Either?
I have a thought.
Contact form is easiest for us.
Ok submitted my stuff. 4 songs in total. Hard to nail it down to a few.
Sweet, thanks Jon!
No problem Gary, it was fun to do. Hard to break it down to a few and it was strange because I had to wrap my mind around "this isn't songs of the year." :D
So far I just submitted one... it's a little obscure, but so rad. I'll see if I can think up anymore before today's deadline!
I want to know what one, but I also want to hear the episode and be surprised... :D
It's from a Genesis game! Which just made me think of Sonic the Hedgehog. The music in that game wasn't that memorable, but all the sound effects were! Collecting coins, jumping, busting through things/enemies... for some reasons those sounds make me nostalgic :)
When will the episode drop?
Thursday, listener response episode the following Thursday!
Sweet :)