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Arlo Reviews Nintendo in 2019

I recently discovered Arlo, a gaming YouTube channel featuring a puppet and shared a video a few days ago about Arlo's predictions for 2020. He just released a new video cataloging Nintendo's accomplishments in 2019 and not surprisingly, Nintendo had a really full year. The standouts for me were the new Pokemon game release, Link's Awakening and I've also been hearing a lot of good things about Ring Fit Adventure. I think we're looking at an even stronger 2020 and if the rumors are true we are in for two Wii U game ports to launch soon. I'm fairly certain Super Mario 3D World is one of the games but the other one i'm less certain of.

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The History of Quake -w Tim Willits

Video game documentary channel Noclip recorded an incredible documentary about Doom 2016 and while they were at iD headquarters also shot a short with Tim Willits about the history of Quake. Quake is a pretty special game to me because it's the first shooter I played over a LAN with my friends. At the time I only had the demo which meant we could only get about 3 people in the game at a time but it was a ton of fun anyway. Later on Half-life and Counter-Strike dominated LAN parties but until I was able to buy Half-Life Quake was my LAN shooter of choice.

Tale of the White Wyvern Season 1 Starts Tonight!

Tonight at Midnight PT the first season of Tale of the White Wyvern begins. This game will run alongside our main Wyvern game and see some changes to the base rules that make it a bit different. The biggest change is that our first season game will end on March 1st when the winners will be forever immortalized in-game.

There are a few other posts about the new season game as well as a podcast we recording talking about it. Check those out below and we'll see you January 1st 2020 for our first competitive season game!

https://cheerfulghost.com/Travis/posts/4294/the-state-of-the-wyvern-december-2019-fishing-for-seasons

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The Nerd Reviews Majora's Mask And The World Didn't End!

The Angry Video Game Nerd has reviewed many games some consider classics and when I saw that he recently released a video reviewing Majora's Mask I figured it would be another review praising it. While Majora's Mask has been enshrined with nearly universal acclaim it's a game I picked up and played recently on 3DS but didn't get further than the first full dungeon. One of the Nerds biggest complaints is that if you go over time the whole dungeon resets and when that happened to me I was quite surprised and stopped playing it. I thought I did something wrong and the dungeon reset really caused me to instantly lose interest. Now that I know that part of the game I think... Read All

Nab These 3DS Games While You Can (Metal Jesus Covers Some of His Favorites)

Now that Nintendo has focused all of it's attention to the Switch many people are clearing out their old 3DS libraries and systems and because of that, if you collect for the system now is your time. I've been collecting DS and 3DS games a bit at a time and have nearly everything I need. The games I have yet to acquire are mentioned in this video such as Bravely Default and the Ultimate NES Remix. I'd also love to get Shovel Knight on the 3DS but I have it on PC and Switch so it's not essential yet the collector in me really wants to pick it up and compare it to the rest of the versions I have. Any 3DS/DS collectors out there looking for anything hard to find?

Arlo Predicts What Nintendo Will Release in 2020!

I've recently discovered a new gaming YouTube channel by the name of Arlo. The premise is Arlo is a puppet that is into gaming. Arlo's puppetry style is akin to Sesame Street and the humor and puppetry is top notch. That said, Arlo has focused a bit on Nintendo in the last few years and recently dropped a prediction video that is very specific about what Nintendo will do in 2020. It all seems entirely plausible and the prediction that Arlo makes that I'm most keen to see happen is a port of the Super Mario 3D World from the Wii U to Switch. Arlo notes, and I totally agree, that it seems like we should have got many more Wii U to Switch ports and also predicts this is... Read All

Cheerful Ghost Radio Episode 74: The Rise of Skywalker

It's been four years since the Star Wars sequel trilogy began, and with The Rise of Skywalker, the trilogy concludes. If you've heard any previous episode of this show, you likely heard a tangent about Star Wars, so it's no surprise that we are talking about this, one of the biggest events in recent Star Wars history. Come join us as we discuss the film, and share thoughts from some members of the Cheerful Ghost community as well.

In this episode, Jon references this GamesRadar article:
https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-jj-abrams-rian-johnson-reaction-last-jedi/

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 12/25/2019 at 05:26pm

I'm imagining an "Emperor Hunters" series, where there's a big industry after RoS, where bounty hunters and assasins have been brought into a new Emperor Hunter Guild. They track down possible clones of the Emperor, all over the Universe, capture the possible clone, perform a DNA test, then either kill them, if they're a clone, or let them go, if they're not a clone.

The main protagonist is your "Average Joe" Emperor Hunter (I'm imagining a middle-aged Bill Murray for the role), who has been on the job for years, but is depressed because the thrill of the job is gone. Now he's basically a government employee who does mostly paperwork and every once in a while has to go check the DNA of a baby.

The show would follow the Average Joe character as he deals with living a mundane life, having a family, but longing for the excitement of the hunt, but probably being too old and out of shape to be able to *actually* hunt down a dangerous clone... until he gets a random tip and starts following it to a secret cloning lair, where he has to figure out a way to not get caught, and destroy the cloning apparatus.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 12/25/2019 at 09:25pm

What if the original incarnation of The Emperor is Elon Musk?

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 12/25/2019 at 10:19pm

(Because of his battery technology)

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 12/26/2019 at 05:55am

If you want some New Hope hype, here's a reaction video just released today. 3 people that had never seen the original movies (but are watching The Mandalorian, and have some knowledge of the prequels lol) and one that has. It's super fun :)

https://youtu.be/Xnq5lIh8lX0

jdodson Admin wrote on 12/26/2019 at 09:00pm

Elon Must is definitely one incarnation of the Emperor.

That's an interesting idea for an Emperor Hunter show. There are so many Emperor clones that the job is very rote and boring sounds kind of interesting but a show about nothing would NEVER WORK! 🤣

jdodson Admin wrote on 12/26/2019 at 09:33pm

In the crawl for The Rise of Skywalker it says "THE DEAD SPEAK" and it's a reference to The Emperor sending out a transmission to the galaxy in Star Wars which Kylo is hunting him down from. Apparently that transmission was sent from within Fortnite!

https://www.slashfilm.com/listen-to-emperor-palpatine-message-in-fortnite-cut-from-rise-of-skywalker/

jdodson Admin wrote on 12/26/2019 at 09:35pm

ALSO

Kylo Ren was on Mustafar at the beginning of Skywalker, which would have been an incredible thing the movie could have told us.

https://www.slashfilm.com/the-rise-of-skywalker-opening-scene-location/#more-595160

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 12/27/2019 at 05:35am

I kind of assumed it was mustafar and looked it up later.

Also that the scene with the Death Star wreckage wasn’t on the forest moon of Endor, but the ocean moon of Endor.

jdodson Admin wrote on 12/27/2019 at 02:35pm

👍

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 12/31/2019 at 12:45am

Another good pod y'all! I loved The Rise of Skywalker. I feel it will add to The Last Jedi on future viewings. Especially around Luke's interaction with Rey.

I feel overall TROS fits in well with the other trilogies. The core of each trilogy is around a Skywalker and a Palpatine, and this makes this trilogy have a similar story arc.

It also felt like a return to Star Wars for me. While I love TLJ, it does not feel like a Star Wars movie to me. The filming and story of TLJ felt more removed from all the other films.

I really loved the last scene of the movie. It really felt like Rey had finally found a home with the Skywalkers. As an adoptive parent, this really struck a cord with me. Family doesn't have to be blood.

Nitpicks:

The second transport with Chewy on it. This seem convenient for the story. After the movie, I was wondering how nobody saw that there were two transports.

The dagger also seemed convenient. Maybe I didn't understand its origins correctly, but I thought it was an ancient Sith artifact (older than the death star). The fact that it points to the Death Star and the fact that the wreckage fit perfectly within the outline of the piece of metal that slides out of the dagger made it feel like Abrams and Terrio didn't really have a good way to tie this artifact in with the story. Maybe someone added the piece of metal that slides out, post death star exploding?

I did not feel like the kiss between Kylo and Rey was earned. It seemed a little too on the nose for me, but my wife loved it!

Overall I loved this ending. Then again, I have loved all Star Wars movies.

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 12/31/2019 at 01:23am

Jon, I think all these shows are coming to Quibi, not Disney+. Buy into the Quibi hype!

jdodson Admin wrote on 12/31/2019 at 02:04am

> I feel it will add to The Last Jedi on future viewings. Especially around Luke's interaction with Rey.

I can't wait to watch it again. That said, with my schedule and the fact it's not on home video, i'll have to. 🤣

> It also felt like a return to Star Wars for me. While I love TLJ, it does not feel like a Star Wars movie to me. The filming and story of TLJ felt more removed from all the other films.

❤️

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 03/19/2020 at 07:28pm

There's a cool behind the scenes video that shows off many of the ships we saw in that large fleet. I didn't recognize all of them when I first saw it, but since then I've watched more Star Wars (including Resistance and Rebels), so it's cool to see these ships in there. I thought you'd enjoy this, so here you go, it's short: https://youtu.be/Hgkt9jTx-bM

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Doom Eternal Release Date Announced

Doom Eternal now has a release date of March 20, 2020. You can now put it on your Steam wish list. It won't come to the Switch on that date, but still supposedly in the same year. Doom (2016) was a cool game and it runs surprisingly well on many PCs. The sequel looks at add some new features, which seems exciting.

Are you planning to get this at launch? What do you think about it? I'm not sure if I'll get it at launch, I might wait. I guess it just depends on what I'm doing or playing at the time.

Check this link for more details: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/doom-eternal-release-date-multiplayer-modes-demons/1100-6461012/

Travis Admin wrote on 12/24/2019 at 04:13am

This will be a launch buy for me. I was so enamored with Doom 2016. Spoiler alert-- it's on my list of the top ten games of the past decade, coming in the next episode of Cheerful Ghost Radio

Azurephile Super Member Post Author wrote on 12/24/2019 at 04:43am

Awesome! I really enjoyed it, too, more than I thought I would. Since then I've been impressed and surprised to learn just how well it runs on even non-beefy systems. I think that's mostly due to Vulkan.

Travis Admin wrote on 12/24/2019 at 06:32am

Vulkan is pretty spectacular. It’s such a huge jump in performance over open GL

Azurephile Super Member Post Author wrote on 02/26/2021 at 01:48am

I just found an interesting article on GameSpot I wanted to share. It talks about the possibility of adding a female slayer, which I think is interesting. I wonder what a female slayer would look like. However, I really wanted to point to a part at the end of the article that references the release of the second DLC in which it states that "hints from id seem to suggest that it should be coming out in the next few weeks" (in March). I'm looking forward to it. Check out the article here: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/doom-eternal-may-add-female-slayer-to-the-series-in-future/1100-6487908/

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/27/2021 at 04:48am

I heard about that, I think it’s an interesting idea and I hope they keep thinking about how to keep Doom fresh moving forward.

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Send In Your Rise of Skywalker Thoughts!

On Sunday we are going to record our Cheerful Ghost Radio review of Rise of the Skywalker and if you want us to read your thoughts on the show, private message me directly on Cheerful Ghost! In the comments i'll have a thread open where you can tap or click the message icon to send me your thoughts directly and make sure you focus them down to some easy to read on the air!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/20/2019 at 08:44pm

Hey everyone, it's me! Send in your thoughts i'd love to read them out during the show.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 12/20/2019 at 09:48pm

Sent! Does contain spoilers!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/20/2019 at 10:03pm

I've seen it so send all the spoiler thoughts to my private message box!

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 12/20/2019 at 11:51pm

Rock on, I've sent in my thoughts!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/21/2019 at 12:05am

❤️

Travis Admin wrote on 12/21/2019 at 07:01am

I was shocked when Jar Jar showed up to save the day.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/21/2019 at 08:09pm

I cheered.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 12/22/2019 at 07:31am

Long have I waited!

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 12/23/2019 at 06:44pm

I loved the movie. The worst movie in the Star Wars saga was Solo IMHO, and even that is fun.

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Cheerful Ghost Radio Episode 73: Alyx <3 Maclunkey

In this episode we discuss Valve's announcement that a new Half-Life sequel is coming to VR and the newest addition to Episode IV that makes it a super special edition, Maclunkey! And we talk about what we've been playing and watching over the past month, as is tradition.

Note: In this episode we incorrectly conflate Rob Thomas, the TV producer, and Rob Thomas, the lead singer of Matchbox 20. Apologies to both Rob's.