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Creative Assembly huh? They'll probably spend 5 years on it but forget to program the AI to know how to jump.

My difficulties were more map based. I couldn't figure out where to go after killing the gargoyle. I even fell victim to a message that read "Try Jumping."

The PAX demo of this had a huge Octodad display where the 8 button is, complete with directions to the Octodad booth "if you like Octodad so much." There's some pretty awesome fellowship between indie devs these days.

Mother $%%^*%$* Sen's Fortress.

It went from Ironic to invested surprisingly quickly.

I guess we can just hope that the success of one will help fund the other.

It feels like a lot of the newer card games are aiming for about 10 minute games. Seeing that WoW CCG played is crazy how fast a round goes by. Regardless, I have this on my Kickstart watch list now.

I saw it at a distance at PAX and it interested me enough to bookmark it. It has a really striking art style, but games were taking forever so I couldn't stick around and wait to play myself.

As far as I know, there have been no official posts about it. I imagine with Dark Souls 2 on its way, they might just let this die. Edit: There haven't been any official statements that GFWL is being decommissioned either, just a "leak."

I cheesed the big dragon and got to the Sun Altar today. I also found the guy who makes magic weapons, and upgraded my Estoc to a Magic +4 weapon through judicious farming in the Depths. Finally, I made it all the way through New Londo right to the gate where you can lower the water, but since I don't have the Lord Vessel yet, I can't get the key apparently. I also died twice in a row to ghosts, losing the 5 humanity I had been walking around with. Thankfully, I have 20 humanity items stored up from running through the Depths repeatedly, so I can afford the loss.

Hmm, beat Quellag twice, once as a phantom and once for real. Finally get to enhance my Estus flask.... and I seem to be missing two Fire Keeper souls, one of which is the one I need to start the Firelink shrine back up. I guess I'm going without this game. I don't know where they would have gone. >Edit: Nevermind, I guess you don't get her soul until I kill Lautrec.

Yeah, but 1000 gold could pretty easily swing the balance back the other way. Watching Crispy (who is one of the folks playing with Brad over at Giant Bomb) he routinely gets up to 5+ kills in a row. He was already getting nervous about dying and giving up too much gold after the last streak breaker gold buff. I can't imagine what it would feel like to run around with a 1000 gold bounty on your head.

I love drinking outside. Too bad our drinking outside weather in Seattle is pretty much over. I need to get to Las Vegas some time so I can walk down the street with one of those two foot tall margaritas.

I don't know about everyone else, but that's certainly what *I* do in Spelunky

Is that because of character specific buffs being stronger than the overall jungling XP nerfs on those characters, or am I misreading something in the patch notes?

Remember that Dwarf Fortress was only one floor for a long time, and Minecraft was partially based on the 2D mining genre of games like Terraria. Regardless, you never know what kind of discussion might be helpful/informative to the developers. I've been really surprised at the amount of input the fans have had on Massive Chalice, and I'm happy to ride along on this as well.

I think that's intentional. They really don't want you to know what exactly is going to happen when you touch a summon sign. I kinda like it, or I would if it didn't fail so much. I've finally gotten to the level of confidence in my abilities that I walk around as human most of the time, with 5 or so Humanity with me. It's an interesting surge of adrenaline when you get the invasion message, and I had a lot of fun assisting another player to kill the boss of the depths. I'm going to join the Sun covenant as soon as I score a couple more co-op boss kills and find my way to the not-so-easy to get to altar.

worship the porcelain god?

Oooh, splicer is a good idea. I still have no clue what I'm dressing up as, which is a bit disconcerting. I was thinking maybe going as an Alien victim with a chest burster

Contrast is awesome. I played some of it at PAX.

Just finally getting to reading these patch notes. What's the point of the Buyback change? Were people really using it to just go and farm more? Edit: Hmm, using an item or ability to commit suicide when you have a x10 spree seems like a good idea. Edit2: And jungling took a major hit. No sweat off my back because I never did it much anyway.

I have a friend who worked on Infamous. That's part of the reason I finally bought a PS3, so I could play the games he made. So far, I'm having a lot of fun with Infamous 1, but I don't get nearly enough TV time and Dark Souls/FF14 have been eating my life.

I found the talk about the Xbox "180" very interesting on the Giant Bombcast. It sounds like a lot of the laymen, people who just play a couple games a year, never got the word that things changed after Microsoft's initial announcement. If that's true, that could explain the increadible popularity of the PS4 at launch, but that might go away quickly. Obviously, an even race benefits us all, so hopefully Xbox sales pick up.

You can't place or use summon signs in Fire Link, no.

IE, enough people program enough machines with buy and sell orders that trigger at a certain price point, and then pandemonium ensues when too many trigger at once.