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I was so excited to get in to Diablo 3! I rushed character

I was so excited to get in to Diablo 3! I rushed character creation so I could start playing right away. Something I noticed very early was how easy it was. It was so easy that I actually lost interest in making new characters for a while. I wrote the difficulty off to being scaled down for testing purposes, but I don't think that's the case. To prove my point I had a co-worker watch as I stood in the middle of three cold enchanted zombies and let them beat on me. Keeping my cursor over my health we noticed I was actually regenrating life faster than they were damaging me. Lame.

Well the other day I found that lots of other beta players agree with me on the lowered... Read All

Minecraft Legos? Awesome.

Minecraft Legos? Awesome.

http://legocuusoo.posterous.com/announcing-lego-minecraft-micro-world-the-thi

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/16/2012 at 05:55pm

I really want one of those little creepers!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/17/2012 at 03:34am

Its pretty cool. I like how the legos are not typically what they build. Nice to see some variety from that company.

Travis Admin wrote on 02/20/2012 at 04:43am

This is a brilliant tie-in, but I do wonder how big a demographic they have for these. I haven't seen any stats on Minecraft players though, it could be much larger than I think.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/20/2012 at 05:15am

Minecraft players seem to love to build. If they know they can put something on a shelf that looks like what they have In the game, I think that will do well.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/23/2012 at 06:28pm

Last count there were 5 million paid Minecraft users, and several more million playing the free version. So there's quite a fan base out there. Even if a tiny fraction of those people buy the Lego set I'm sure it'll be worth it for Lego (and Mojang.)

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/23/2012 at 06:29pm

Forgot to post my source: http://www.minecraft.net/stats

Travis Admin wrote on 02/23/2012 at 08:25pm

Jeez, I didn't know it was that popular.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/24/2012 at 03:09am

I think some people will buy it not even being minecraft players.

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Yes, I have been invited to the beta. I was one of the lucky

Yes, I have been invited to the beta. I was one of the lucky 100,000 in the last round of invites. I have played through all available content on a few characters now and haven't taken the time to level everyone up to max level.

I was a pretty hardcore player of Diablo 2 online. My best friend and I always played the ladder and even hardcore mode. We would spend so much time after a ladder reset trying to be in the top 10. Saying I have some emotional attachment to the Diablo IP would be an understatement.

I've decided to split my D3 beta impressions into a bunch of focused mini-posts to mitigate my scattered thoughts. So feel free to comment and ask questions, I'll do my... Read All

Wanted to post my current stats for Dont Run with a Plasma

Wanted to post my current stats for Don't Run with a Plasma Sword.

Time played: 24m
Games Played: 27
Total Kills: 168

Best Distance:
Easy: 2578

Trying to get over 3000 for my best distance but I need to adopt a better strategy on jumping because it seems later the game starts making the levels harder by making you jump all the time on small platforms. Since you can only tap on a circle to jump and the circle isnt large, often times my tap to jump isn't registered. Or at least, thats what I tell myself :)

A frustration I often have with phone games, analog sticks always registered my taps on the physical buttons.

Gem Keeper is a fun iPhone tower defense game I have been

Gem Keeper is a fun iPhone tower defense game I have been enjoying lately. I picked it up for free on special as I don't tend to buy many iPhone games. The game starts simple and then adds more towers gradually in the first single player set of levels.

Ive enjoyed the tower that slows enemies down and the bomb tower. I am playing the game on easy and find that sufficent diffculty to be interesting. Ive just unlocked endless mode which is pretty diffcult on any level because you are going to lose, its just a matter of how long you hold out.

I have a feeling Ill be writing about this game a lot

I have a feeling I'll be writing about this game a lot lol.

I'm really impressed by the physics in this game! Maybe it's standard now, I haven't played a "new" game in a while, but the water is just amazing. Rivers have actual flow, that will pull you along. Swimming with the flow will move you faster, swimming against it slows you down.

Randomly, in the middle of nowhere I saw a cart (like what you'd hook up to a horse or ox) just bobbing along a river, slowly moving towards a waterfall. I helped push it along and watched it fall down the waterfall, then got swept down as well. The cart was still just bobbing down the river. I know it's just random, but I found it... Read All

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/14/2012 at 04:43am

Cool. /jealous

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/14/2012 at 05:09am

Try putting an apple in the river.

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 02/14/2012 at 05:37am

I shall toss one in tonight!

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/15/2012 at 07:07pm

Man, I want this game really bad but I haven't even finished Oblivion or Fallout 3 yet. Plus my current computer can't handle it and I'd rather have the PC version over the PS3 version. (if only they did something like Portal 2 did where I could buy both at the same time...)

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/16/2012 at 02:55am

I agree, I want the game + steam key so I can play it where its best served. Im thinking of picking up Skyrim on the PS3 after I hear how the latest PS3 patch shakes out.

Travis Admin wrote on 02/20/2012 at 04:46am

The water physics are great. I was so impressed when I dropped in the water the first time and realized I was being pulled by a current.

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As per @Chowda s recommend I downloaded the Dungeon

As per @Chowda 's recommend I downloaded the Dungeon Defenders demo off Steam. Rolled a Mage and went with all the defaults. Tried single player as I didn't want to be eviscerated as a noob.

The intro didnt say a ton about how things worked and over the first few waves I figured things out. Basically it's a first person tower defense game. Graphics are good and the play control in confused me a couple of times.

Survived well into the last wave when an Ogre spawned. I focused on the Ogre way too late and he killed the eternia crystal, which is what you are protecting so game over. Spawned in a tavern and the game explained what that was all about.

I like the art of the game... Read All

By now everyone who loves Borderlands may have seen the

By now everyone who loves Borderlands may have seen the Borderlands 2 gameplay footage that someone took with a shaky cam. If not, check it out! I am now even more excited about Borderlands 2.

Dual wielding? Epic.

I got the game a couple days ago, and am totally hooked.

AdamPFarnsworth gives this an astounding "Must Play" on the Ghost Scale

This achieves something special, and it would be a shame to miss it.

AdamPFarnsworth gives this a "Must Play" on the Ghost Scale

This achieves something special, and it would be a shame to miss it.

I got the game a couple days ago, and am totally hooked. It's so open-ended that it can be difficult to choose what to do!

I was stealing some stuff from a shopkeeper's basement. He heard me and came down and attacked. I beat him up and he fell to the ground, then his adult daughter came down, attacking as well, and I killed her. Later, I came upon a quest where I found a treasure (a Golden Claw), and had to figure out who it belonged to to give it to. Turns out it was the shopkeeper's. So I gave it to him (he didn't die from our fight), but he just said "I just wish my daughter was here to enjoy it." Man, what a downer!

But, I ended up stealing a "dragonstone" from his... Read All

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/12/2012 at 12:05am

Sounds awesome. Can you harvest more stuff from animals than butterfly wings?

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 02/12/2012 at 02:18am

I haven't bothered with too many animals, but it looks like you can kill most anything and get pelts from them.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/12/2012 at 04:13am

You should kill a mammoth!

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 02/12/2012 at 09:20am

Oh I've tried! Haven't got one yet. One of my quests is to deliver a mammoth skull to someone lol.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/12/2012 at 05:19pm

Hmmmm. Do a barrel roll?

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 02/12/2012 at 10:16pm

LOL! Well I took down my second dragon today, so perhaps a mammoth will die soon.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/12/2012 at 10:20pm

Awesome.

Travis Admin wrote on 02/20/2012 at 04:50am

Mammoths aren't that bad, but the giants that guard them can give you a free trip to the stratosphere in earlier levels.

But Jon, in answer to your question, butterfly wings, torchbug thoraxes, wolf pelts, bear skins/claws, mountain lion pelts/eyes/claws, and meat from just about everything.

There's a random stat in the player stats section called "Bunnies slaughtered" so I haven't killed any rabbits to find out what they have. That stat makes me feel preemptively guilty for bunny murdering.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/20/2012 at 05:13am

Adym was showing me Skyrim and killed a Goat. It wasn't great, I was like "NOOOOOO!"

Travis Admin wrote on 02/20/2012 at 05:26am

I have to admit to enjoying FUS-RO-DAHing a goat or two down a mountainside.

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Been recently spending time playing another iPhone runner

Been recently spending time playing another iPhone runner game called "Don't Run With a Plasma Sword." I like the game because you can play in a story mode or a endless running mode where you try and get further each time. You can upgrade your abilities as you collect experience as with other freemium iPhone titles you can pay to upgrade immediately.

The game has a really fun style in that its styled after a old sci-fi B Movie. Before each level you are bestowed wisdom on how to handle your plasma sword such as "Don't stir your coffee with a plasma sword," "Don't shovel with a plasma sword" and "Don't duck and cover with a plasma sword."

Its fun and its also free so no... Read All