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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

During the Steam Christmas sale I decided that picking up

During the Steam Christmas sale I decided that picking up Dungeon Defenders for really cheap was probably a good investment. This is my first tower defense game and I am very pleasantly surprised! I thought I would share my thoughts on the game after spending way to much time playing it already.

Graphics - The art style is very stylized. Though it looks a little childish with the oversized proportions and funny dances, it performs very well. Even with several hundred monsters and towers firing as fast as they can, I have yet to encounter screen lag. The color palette is aesthetically pleasing and I can honestly say I have no problems with the art direction.

Gameplay - I... Read All

Magical Games That Never Leave You

If I had a list of games that impacted how I think about art and life, The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening would be on my list. I come back and play this game every three years or so simply because the story is absolutely stunning. I plan on writing more during my next playthrough on Cheerful Ghost, so expect more at some point.

I was never moved more by any video game ending than this one. Plenty of games brought me to thinking about life in certain ways, like Final Fantasy III and how frail humans really are. But this game sticks with me as a game that really made me feel invested in the world and I cared what happened to it. Being that the game was on the Gameboy... Read All

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 02/10/2012 at 08:52am

Watching that video took me back! It's been forever since I played it. But it was so rad.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/10/2012 at 04:54pm

I know, it is!

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 02:12am

From someone who grew up with a Gameboy (yes the very original), and one who got this game when it was released, I greatly appreciate this post! =) I'm not sure I have it anymore, but in recent years as I was playing through the Zelda series, I played this game again on the emulator.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 01/24/2014 at 02:22am

This game is on my list of games to play again this year. I think I am going to play it after Pokemon Blue.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 02:31am

That's awesome, Jon! I remember my college years, I set out to play Final Fantasy VIII at least once each year. Well, that lasted a few years. The last time I played that game was pretty interesting because I now have a 50" Plasma and played the game on my PS3, although I didn't finish it. It is awesome that there are certain games that we truly cherish, that mean so much to us. You're making me think of the days when I lived in Texas and was playing this Zelda game, I really enjoyed it and I really enjoyed having a Gameboy. I wasn't fortunate enough to have a NES or SNES until I got older, the Gameboy was my system. I think my old Gameboy (along with my sister's Gameboy) may still be around here. It was such an amazing thing when it came out. I believe this Zelda game did get a remake for the Gameboy Color, maybe that's the version I played in recent years in an emulator.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 01/24/2014 at 04:48am

Yeah, this was one of those games that really stuck with me. Still does.

Have me thinking that the next time I play this one, I should play the color version. I've only played it black and white, but I heard the color version comes with an extra dungeon that has some color based puzzles.

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