Recently I was on vacation visiting the Grand Canyon and other sights in Arizona and took a few pictures of things I thought were interesting. I snapped a pic above of a green porcelain pig at a Native American Store. Couldn't help but want to throw a bird at it.
At the same store I came across some computer mice that had Spiders, Scorpions and Beetles encased in them. I don't know, its kind of cool but this would creep me out.
At the Grand Canyon I saw a rock formation called "Isis Rock." This might just have been my nerdy side thinking but.... Well yeah it reminded me of the Wind Fish Egg from Link's Awakening.
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Recently I was on vacation visiting the Grand Canyon and other sights in Arizona and took a few pictures of things I thought were interesting. I snapped a pic above of a green porcelain pig at a Native American Store. Couldn't help but want to throw a bird at it.
At the same store I came across some computer mice that had Spiders, Scorpions and Beetles encased in them. I don't know, its kind of cool but this would creep me out.
At the Grand Canyon I saw a rock formation called "Isis Rock." This might just have been my nerdy side thinking but.... Well yeah it reminded me of the Wind Fish Egg from Link's Awakening.
Note: Picture is from Bryan Lee O'Malley's blog. Here was the attached description: "this was drawn specifically for me by Aaron Ancheta, junior assistant on vol 6."
Scott Pilgrim vs. Smash Bros.
Captain Falcon is not impressed!
Note: Picture is from Bryan Lee O'Malley's blog. Here was the attached description: "this was drawn specifically for me by Aaron Ancheta, junior assistant on vol 6."
Timogorgon Member Post Author
wrote on 06/22/2012 at 07:58pm
You know, I kind of don't think of Captain Falcon as an F-zero character anymore. I know that's where he started but I primarily know him as a Smash Bros. staple character now. Besides, this is clearly a "Falcon Punch / 'Show me your moves' " reference. :P
"Attack Speed bonus values on weapons and armor have been reduced by 50%"
Heard for quite sometime people should stack attack speed, I guess Blizz thought it was too overpowered.
"Magic Find will no longer be considered when looting objects in the environment such as chests, barrels, vases, pots, and corpses"
Doh!
"The item quality of all components needed to craft the Staff of Herding, as well as the Staff of Herding itself, have been changed from Common to Legendary (i.e. their item names will appear... Read All
The new Diablo 3 1.0.3 Patch dropped a few days ago. More details here:
"Attack Speed bonus values on weapons and armor have been reduced by 50%"
Heard for quite sometime people should stack attack speed, I guess Blizz thought it was too overpowered.
"Magic Find will no longer be considered when looting objects in the environment such as chests, barrels, vases, pots, and corpses"
Doh!
"The item quality of all components needed to craft the Staff of Herding, as well as the Staff of Herding itself, have been changed from Common to Legendary (i.e. their item names will appear orange in color)"
I have a Staff of Herding now and this doesn't seem to effect it but I don't quite understand this. Can someone with more knowledge chime in on this change? Does this mean all the items drop as non-white or orange? I hope its not harder to get, it was tough as it was.
"Combinations for these ranks now only require 2 gems, down from 3"
This is the best change in the patch.
Many other changes are in the link above, so check it out if you play. Do you think these are mostly good or is this just the long arm of a Blizzard nerf cannon?
The components are now orange... i.e. less likely for you to ignore them :) I've still only found the black mushroom (accidentally very early on in the game, and I almost didn't grab it... because it was white) and purchased the cow bell. One day I'll farm out the rest of the items.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 06/30/2012 at 05:28am
Yeah farming them isn't too bad but does take time. I had a bear if a time farming the recipie in act 4.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 06/30/2012 at 05:28am
I think I got all the stuff with help from panickedthumb for some if it in 6 hours?
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Ok so I'm not sure if this game qualifies for "retro" but it is pretty old at this point, so I'm busting it out for Retro Tuesday.
If you're unfamiliar with the Harvest Moon franchise, this series of games usually revolves around working on a farm and turning it from a rundown field of rocks and tree stumps into a profitable ranch, all while trying to get married and make friends with your neighbors. It sounds really lame but the games are actually a lot of fun. It's one of those rare games that is fun without any kind of fighting at all.
This was the first Harvest Moon game I ever played and from what I've read on-line it's considered by a lot of fans to be the best in... Read All
Ok so I'm not sure if this game qualifies for "retro" but it is pretty old at this point, so I'm busting it out for Retro Tuesday.
If you're unfamiliar with the Harvest Moon franchise, this series of games usually revolves around working on a farm and turning it from a rundown field of rocks and tree stumps into a profitable ranch, all while trying to get married and make friends with your neighbors. It sounds really lame but the games are actually a lot of fun. It's one of those rare games that is fun without any kind of fighting at all.
This was the first Harvest Moon game I ever played and from what I've read on-line it's considered by a lot of fans to be the best in the series. Growing your crops and raising your animals is surprisingly fun and so is trying to squeeze as much activities into each day before either time runs out or your character collapses from exhaustion. The pacing in this game is really done well. The days are just long enough to let you accomplish several tasks each day but short enough to keep you rushing from one activity to the next and keeping the game moving quickly.
There's also a constant feeling of progression which is nice. Whether your expanding your house, adding more animals to your barn, leveling your tools, increasing your characters energy, training your horse and dog for their respective races. or wooing the eligible ladies in the village you constantly feel like you're accomplishing something to improve your character or your farm. It's also very easy to get wrapped up in the game and not realize a couple hours have gone by.
Unfortunately this game hasn't made it to the Virtual console, so if you want to give it a shot you'll have to track it down on amazon or eBay for the N64. Of course there are other means to acquire the game, but you probably already know that. :)
I remember hanging out with you a few times and you showing me your farm. Did you ever play the SNES version?
Anyways, this game always looked awesome to me but I never had the chance to play it. I guess I played its distant cousin on Facebook, Farmville but from what I played of Harvest Moon it always looked better to me.
Wonder if they will do a web/online version, it would be pretty fun and less lame than the waiting aspect of Farmville.
Timogorgon Member Post Author
wrote on 06/21/2012 at 09:05pm
Never tried out the SNES version. I have one of the PS2 games and the futuristic spin off "Innocent life" but neither game seemed as fun as the 64 version, so I didn't play them much.
Oh, and Harvest Moon != Farmville. Harvest Moon is creative, different, and fun. Farmville is just terrible. :P
Yeah, Farmville had a few days of play value for me and I agree, its un-great. I was just musing that Farmville is in some way, a distant cousin to Harvest Moon. :)
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For Retro Tuesday I am going to nerd out on a game from a galaxy far far away.... Queue John Williams please....
In a world where movie tie in games go horribly wrong Star Wars is one franchise that does pretty well for itself. More recently with the Knights of the Old Republic MMO Star Wars has had good luck with its tie-in games. One such game I played was Super Star Wars on the Super Nintendo.
Super Star Wars is a fast paced action side scroller where you played Luke Skywalker starting the game with a simple blaster. As you progressed you could upgrade your blaster and after meeting Obi-Wan you got the lightsaber. At one point you can play as Han Solo but I never... Read All
For Retro Tuesday I am going to nerd out on a game from a galaxy far far away.... Queue John Williams please....
In a world where movie tie in games go horribly wrong Star Wars is one franchise that does pretty well for itself. More recently with the Knights of the Old Republic MMO Star Wars has had good luck with its tie-in games. One such game I played was Super Star Wars on the Super Nintendo.
Super Star Wars is a fast paced action side scroller where you played Luke Skywalker starting the game with a simple blaster. As you progressed you could upgrade your blaster and after meeting Obi-Wan you got the lightsaber. At one point you can play as Han Solo but I never opted to use him as Luke could use the blaster and lightsaber and all told the lightsaber was too good to miss.
One thing I really liked about Super Star Wars was that for two missions they tossed out the sidescrolling elements and you took a first person view for a Landspeeder run in Tatooine and ended the game in the Death Star trench in Lukes XWing. The Landspeeder run in Tatooine was fun as you spend your time collecting items and shooting Jawas and bullseying Wamprats.
A few months into owning the game I discovered an issue of Nintendo Power that dropped a hint on a secret area of the game where you could collect unlimited lives. Getting all these lives allowed me to replay certain hard levels to master them. After I mastered some harder levels beating the game with the standard life set wasn't too hard. The game didn't allow a continue at the level you left off at so losing all your lives was pretty annoying.
I really dug this game and as far as side scrolling action shooters go its one of the best I played on the Super Nintendo. I didn't pick up Super Empire Strikes back or Super Return of the Jedi though. Always looked cool to ride a Ton Ton though.
Downloaded this demo on the PS3 after hearing in a podcast that the game was exceptionally violent and gory. It is. The first few seconds of the demo shows your enemy knocking rail road spikes into your hands while you dangle on a cross. Some vivid imagery and then the game pulls you into a flashback.
The games tone is very Godfather-ish but the voices are as if people are mocking Italian Americans. The demos first few minutes are not too hard as you just hit X a few times and try to kill a few guys though I missed most of them and it didn't seem to count against me.
If you are familiar with The Darkness, this game is similar. You are the host to "The Darkness" which is... Read All
Downloaded this demo on the PS3 after hearing in a podcast that the game was exceptionally violent and gory. It is. The first few seconds of the demo shows your enemy knocking rail road spikes into your hands while you dangle on a cross. Some vivid imagery and then the game pulls you into a flashback.
The games tone is very Godfather-ish but the voices are as if people are mocking Italian Americans. The demos first few minutes are not too hard as you just hit X a few times and try to kill a few guys though I missed most of them and it didn't seem to count against me.
If you are familiar with The Darkness, this game is similar. You are the host to "The Darkness" which is a spirit that possesses you giving you evil super powers. You can shoot out tentacles that can grab on to bad guys and rip them apart. You can have the tentacles nab a car door to use as a bullet shield or toss things at guys to knock them down.
The shooting in the game is good but its meant to be played as a shooter/grab stuff with your tentacles game. You get bonus points for more gruesome deaths and its kind of fun to see how creative you can be.
That said, the game has a few tones and they are all scary dark. I don't mind the gore but games that are just one style throughout wear on my pretty fast. That said the demo was pretty interesting and if you loved The Darkness this looks to be more of that with a Godfather like feel to it. It's also very apparent to me it's a 2K game as the character models look Borderlandsy. It has the same drawn look just not as pronounced.
In the end I stopped playing the demo because it just kept adding bad guys to make it more challenging. Fun but I wasn't blow away by it. You should download the demo and check it out if you are interested it's worth a look!
Traveling this week and without PC and console wondering what games people are playing on their phones? Ive been playing Sword and Sworcery, Harbor Master & Ticket to Ride in the down moments between stops. Harbor Master is fun as my wife and I play it a bit before bed and on flights to pass the time. Harbor Master is a game much like Flight Control where you tap a route for boats to unload cargo. There is a free demo for Harbor Master on iOS.
Still playing Tiny Tower off and on, that said it has lost much of its appeal after a few weeks intially. I have about $650k and growing if I put a few days into it ill have a cool million. No real reason, just hoarding... Read All
Traveling this week and without PC and console wondering what games people are playing on their phones? Ive been playing Sword and Sworcery, Harbor Master & Ticket to Ride in the down moments between stops. Harbor Master is fun as my wife and I play it a bit before bed and on flights to pass the time. Harbor Master is a game much like Flight Control where you tap a route for boats to unload cargo. There is a free demo for Harbor Master on iOS.
Still playing Tiny Tower off and on, that said it has lost much of its appeal after a few weeks intially. I have about $650k and growing if I put a few days into it ill have a cool million. No real reason, just hoarding because I have a pretty large tower as is and don't have much incentive to build a taller one. Still fun every so often. Tiny Tower is a free game on iOS and Android.
WhiteboySlim clued me in on PewPew a really fun space shooter very similar to a modern Asteroids twitch shooter. Many game modes to keep you interested for sure. Oh right, its free too.
Are you having fun with any of these games? Any game you love I should check out?
I picked up the humble android bundles not long ago, but I think I spend way more time doing crosswords than anything else. I use the Shortyz crossword app, and it's pretty good.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 06/19/2012 at 12:11am
I'll check that out, thanks!
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