As I was playing Skyrim for a bit last night I found some Giants. After dying twice by a giant clubbing to the head(apparently they don't like it if you shoot them with arrows) I decided to just explore the countryside. As I was exploring, a Mammoth dropped from the sky and died. It was an odd sight to behold. I wonder if skydiving was the Mammoth's dream and it forgot to wear a parachute? Maybe it was being ejected from an Alien spaceship? Perhaps it was catapulted by Giants?
Either case it was awesome and random. Oh and I found a cart on a road with cabbages spilled everywhere.
What kinds of strangeness or general awesomery have you experience in Skryim? Catapulting... Read All
As I was playing Skyrim for a bit last night I found some Giants. After dying twice by a giant clubbing to the head(apparently they don't like it if you shoot them with arrows) I decided to just explore the countryside. As I was exploring, a Mammoth dropped from the sky and died. It was an odd sight to behold. I wonder if skydiving was the Mammoth's dream and it forgot to wear a parachute? Maybe it was being ejected from an Alien spaceship? Perhaps it was catapulted by Giants?
Either case it was awesome and random. Oh and I found a cart on a road with cabbages spilled everywhere.
What kinds of strangeness or general awesomery have you experience in Skryim? Catapulting Mammoths? Strewn cabbage?
Tungsten recently mined out the ground under the new user house in our Cheerful Ghost Terraria game. WhiteboySlim, panickedthumb and I are marveling at its awesomeness.
Check it out for yourself, in the caverns under the newb house. Thanks Tungsten, its rad.
For more information on how you can play Terraria with us:
Happy Retro Tuesday!
Tungsten recently mined out the ground under the new user house in our Cheerful Ghost Terraria game. WhiteboySlim, panickedthumb and I are marveling at its awesomeness.
Check it out for yourself, in the caverns under the newb house. Thanks Tungsten, its rad.
For more information on how you can play Terraria with us:
It took longer than two weeks, but it looks like starting in November Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO is going the free-to-play route. According to the article, free players will be able to play through all the class story lines but be limited on what flashpoints (think instances or raids) they can do and have limited access to the auction house.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/175042/After_less_than_a_year_The_Old_Republic_is_going_free_to_play.php
It took longer than two weeks, but it looks like starting in November Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO is going the free-to-play route. According to the article, free players will be able to play through all the class story lines but be limited on what flashpoints (think instances or raids) they can do and have limited access to the auction house.
Warsow is a free Open Source shooter that has been in development for 7 years and recently just released 1.0. It boats a hefty selection of features and looks incredible. I am going to check it out, but I wanted to let everyone know it went 1.0 so you can check it out.
Oh right, did I mention it is free?
http://www.warsow.net/
Warsow is a free Open Source shooter that has been in development for 7 years and recently just released 1.0. It boats a hefty selection of features and looks incredible. I am going to check it out, but I wanted to let everyone know it went 1.0 so you can check it out.
A few Skyrim news bits I thought were worth sharing. Looks like Bethesda is starting to move its 1.7 update patch through the works. It will be released on XBox 360, PS3 and Steam and contains a few notable bits including stability fixes, general optimizations, bug fixes and updates the the dragon shouts via Kinect.
Also looks like later this week Bethesda will be talking about the release date for Dawnguard on PS3 and Steam. Looks like the XBox 360 exclusive lockout window is over and my guess is they will talk about it when they show next week at Quakecon. Well, not entirely my guess a few have speculated about it.
Oh and do phone solicitors bother you? Respond as a... Read All
A few Skyrim news bits I thought were worth sharing. Looks like Bethesda is starting to move its 1.7 update patch through the works. It will be released on XBox 360, PS3 and Steam and contains a few notable bits including stability fixes, general optimizations, bug fixes and updates the the dragon shouts via Kinect.
Also looks like later this week Bethesda will be talking about the release date for Dawnguard on PS3 and Steam. Looks like the XBox 360 exclusive lockout window is over and my guess is they will talk about it when they show next week at Quakecon. Well, not entirely my guess a few have speculated about it.
Oh and do phone solicitors bother you? Respond as a citizen of fair Skyrim and transcribe it:
I have Skyrim on the 360, I've purchased Dawnguard for Skyrim on my 360, and yet I'm waiting for the PC release to play it.
I fired up Skyrim on my 360 to see where I was and clear a few dungeons just to get back into the swing of things and... just... it's so much better on PC.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 08/01/2012 at 12:37am
Yeah, I tangled with a few Giants today and couldn't imagine that going any better on the PS3. Not that it went well either of the times, it didn't :)
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Any of you guys ever found the Development Hell level? Just a fun little easter egg I stumbled onto the other day.
As a conversation starter then, what are the best easter eggs you can think of? Did you find them yourself or did you use a guide?
Any of you guys ever found the Development Hell level? Just a fun little easter egg I stumbled onto the other day.
As a conversation starter then, what are the best easter eggs you can think of? Did you find them yourself or did you use a guide?
The Legend of Zelda Link to the Past I found an easter egg. Well or a bug, I don't know. I was able to do it a few times and my cousin was able to do it on his system as well.
What you did was go through the game normal and get the sword tempered. Then save the game and quit and start a new game. Go up in the rain to the left and talk to the guards blocking the exit. They will reveal mostly all the text that everyone says in the game. They will just keep feeding it to you, its kind of neat. Didn't know if that was an easter egg or a bug. Either way, it was awesome.
Tungsten Post Author
wrote on 07/30/2012 at 06:17am
It's random, but apparently it shows up more often in the higher difficulties. I found this in nightmare. BTW: that is not my screenshot. I tried to take some, but was unable to recover them.
Tungsten Post Author
wrote on 07/30/2012 at 01:52pm
You know when you are looking for the royal crypts? If you ever see four doors open instead of three, one of them is "Development Hell". It's really just a normal crypt but all the zombies have the names and titles of the real people that worked on the game and the Lead Designer is an Elite.
Tungsten Post Author
wrote on 07/30/2012 at 01:54pm
Were you ever able to get into the secret room in link to the past that was made for the contest? Know what I'm talking about? It's named after the kid who won the contest and you have to do some ridiculous dash to get into it. (I never was able to pull it off, so I'm no help there."
I was able to get to the secret room in Link to the Past as well. There wasn't really anything in there but some rupees, but it was a cool easter egg. Here's some other fun easter eggs: In Mega Man X you can learn Ryu/Ken's hadoken. :) In Fallout 3 you can find a vault 77 jumpsuit, which is a reference to the Penny Arcade comic about the Puppet Man. In Dungeon Siege there is a secret chicken level, which is a spoof of Diablo's cow level. In Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, if you beat the final boss immediately after starting a new game + you get the developers ending, where you can talk to NPC's based on the developers.
One of the games I worked on Dr. Muto had several easter eggs/secret characters. I.e. the artists had fun modelling each other, the programmers, and other fun stuff. (here's a somewhat complete list I quickly found http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/cheats/PS2/dr_muto.html although I'm pretty sure we also had MADDOG which was the initial lead programmer)
Usually there's lots of extra bits we throw into a game, but most get yanked out before shipping as they aren't appropriate to the age level of the game (another game I worked on Looney Tunes Racing had some really funny carts making fun of me that the artists created, but they were definitely not appropriate for the games rating... so they didn't ship with the game)
This morning I read a really interesting article about the rise and fall of Curt Shillings 38 studios. A few things I learned from the Article:
1. 38 Studios bought Big Huge Games. Big Huge Games created Rise of Nations and Kingdom of Amalur. 2. The studio got a loan of about 50 million dollars from Rhode Island government by moving headquarters.
I wonder if this means the state of Rhode Island owns Rise of Nations, Kingdoms of Alamlur and the other 38 studios IP?
1. 38 Studios bought Big Huge Games. Big Huge Games created Rise of Nations and Kingdom of Amalur. 2. The studio got a loan of about 50 million dollars from Rhode Island government by moving headquarters.
I wonder if this means the state of Rhode Island owns Rise of Nations, Kingdoms of Alamlur and the other 38 studios IP?
The Stash Is Persistent Customize Your Character (shown in image above) Beautiful Aurora Borealis in Pandora's Frozen Tundra (I enjoy awesome environments that immerse you in the game.
Some people felt the enemies in Borderlands were easy so 2K made them much more difficult. A recent article on Joystiq draws a picture of how much harder they can be.
Snip:
"New baddies include Threshers and Foreman's personal favorite, the Goliath. Goliath is a monstrous enemy with the singular focus to kill you.... Read All
Recently read a cool article on Mashable about 10 awesome additions to Borderlands 2.
The Stash Is Persistent Customize Your Character (shown in image above) Beautiful Aurora Borealis in Pandora's Frozen Tundra (I enjoy awesome environments that immerse you in the game.
Some people felt the enemies in Borderlands were easy so 2K made them much more difficult. A recent article on Joystiq draws a picture of how much harder they can be.
Snip:
"New baddies include Threshers and Foreman's personal favorite, the Goliath. Goliath is a monstrous enemy with the singular focus to kill you. Literally – all Goliath variants wear helmets that give them tunnel-vision to destroy whatever is in front of them. Shooting its helmet off will send a Goliath into a blind rage, and it will punch the nearest character, even taking down another Goliath, a Marauder, a teammate, your grandmother, whatever"
Sick. No literally, sick, the picture of the Goliath is kind of sad and disgusting. A robot head and human body? Wow.
I'm going to be getting this on PS3 as well. Can't wait to adventure on Pandora again! Although I still need to go back and finish the last two expansions for the first Borderlands :P
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 07/31/2012 at 03:44am
I need to beat any expansion, just never had the time. Can't play it now as my friend is borrowing it. That said, ill prob go back and play them some day.
The server will be open for business starting today(6/27/2012) at 8PM PST at the following location:
terraria.cheerfulghost.com port 7777
I decided there will be a game password, so hit me up in the comments or on Steam for it. I want to limit it to our direct friends to protect against any kind of griefing. Understand I want anyone that wants to to be able to play, so just hit me up or anyone else playing for the password and you can get it.
See you at 8! Oh and the image above is the starting newb zone. I wanted to welcome people to the game and I won't spoil whats on the signs on in the chest!
Hey.
The server will be open for business starting today(6/27/2012) at 8PM PST at the following location:
terraria.cheerfulghost.com port 7777
I decided there will be a game password, so hit me up in the comments or on Steam for it. I want to limit it to our direct friends to protect against any kind of griefing. Understand I want anyone that wants to to be able to play, so just hit me up or anyone else playing for the password and you can get it.
See you at 8! Oh and the image above is the starting newb zone. I wanted to welcome people to the game and I won't spoil whats on the signs on in the chest!
The wonderful people behind the Humble Bundles are doing something different this time-- Music!
A few of the albums are video game related, some directly, some tangentially. All albums are available in MP3 or FLAC, DRM-free.
I wonder what their next foray into electronic media for charity will be. Movies?
The wonderful people behind the Humble Bundles are doing something different this time-- Music!
A few of the albums are video game related, some directly, some tangentially. All albums are available in MP3 or FLAC, DRM-free.
I wonder what their next foray into electronic media for charity will be. Movies?
Yeah its an eclectic mix for sure. I think id rather just video game scores honestly. Not so say I don't like Rock and stuff, just wasn't a fan of what I heard.
I thought the missile turned into a whale, not a mammoth.
But dude, that's crazy, and rad.
A mammoth falling from the sky might be the greatest, most random bug I've ever heard of. This should become a feature of the game, lol.
Then again, there is a logical explanation for the flying animals...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8jGqdE2iw
The falling mammoth happened to me as well. Such an odd bug but one I my favorites.
So far, my favourite.
This reminds me of a video I saw on YouTube about various interesting Skyrim bugs, including dragon skeletons that appear to grow from the ground.
Yeah, the bugs in Skyrim are better than most as they tend to be very strange and interesting.