The Gamer's Quarter

What's everyone's SSBB number? I'd like to play some multiplayer with folks who I know, and I hate the Wii's rigid multiplayer buddy registration setup.

Mine's 1977-0117-3519.

Dang, nice work James. This was the purpose of the Japan trip then?
Well, the interview kind of happened on the wayside. I discussed why I was in Japan during the podcast, though. (I'd iterate it he ...

http://www.kjp.konami.jp/gs/hideoblog_e/2008/03/000153.html#more

Jackpot.

Here's specifically what I'm running:

Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

I'm running it on a laptop, if that makes any difference.

How can I fix this so the game will work?

quick question: what version of windows are you running?
WindowsXP, though I won't know the specs until I get home to my laptop in a few hours. I'll post ...

Posted this over at SB, but didn't get a response, so please help anyone.

Whenever I try to load the game, I get this:

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/Adilegian/Unexpected.jpg

How can ...

I am crazy addicted to No More Heroes.

I'm reading through The Video Game Theory Reader, and it's pretty clear where most of the writers' philosophical and cultural biases lie. (Postmodernism, counterculture, and so on.) Many of them seem ...

This might be a bit off the mark from what you are looking for, but I thoroughly enjoyed "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner to be a great read. It's a very insightful look not only at the development ...

Can a novel succeed without acknowledging and welcoming the excess inherent to the genre?
Hemingway? Maybe?

Hey where? And do you share your stuff?
Numma 1: The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Numma 2: Not really. Unlike my prose writing (which I like to subject to all kind ...

a classmate and i were expressing our mutual dismy at the fact that so many of our classmates' experience with videogames does not seem to extend far beyond world of warcraft.
This isn't too uncommon ...

There's Stephen Kent's book about Doom 3 which is pretty interesting even though I don't like the game.

There's also GAM3R 7H3ORY (which was supposed to turn into a book): http://www.futureofthebo ...

A glorious trainwreck is a game which is simultaneously ludicrous and visionary; a game whose mere existence causes you react in amazement and disbelief. A poke through the "What the fuck, they made ...

I've seen this term appear more than a few times, and I still haven't been able to get a clear idea of its meaning from context. Can anyone help?

well, there's a little magazine called the gamer's quarter.
Well duh! Wink

Figured you guys might know who else occupies your neck of the game-critical woods.

EDIT: Just bought me a few issues. ...

Heyo!

I'm doing some research on print publications about videogames, and I've already got a pretty good lead on some general theoretical writing (namely Jesper Juul). I figure I'll just check out ...

In Oblivion on the PS3, I would enter shops expressly for the purpose of dancing on the tables and knocking everything onto the ground. I would then pretend to be embarrassed and ashamed of myself, ap ...

I will always and ever <3 the games of john calhoun.

I just read this whole thing last night and let me tell you—LET ME TELL YOU—I thought it was spot-on awesome.
Thanks! It means a lot to me.

After the initial surge of reader traffic (mostly coming ...

If we're opening the floor to rhymes other than perfect rhymes....

"Tall over." E.G.:

I told her my name was Oliver.
At six feet two, she stood tall over
me.

Then you can switch out whateve ...

You are counting ACiD2?

there's a marionette boss in acid 2?
I think the marionettes are just in AC!D, but they're not bosses, I think. It's been a while since I've played it, though.

You know what Konami needs? They need an English translator with balls—balls enough to tell Kojima that his patented technique of looking up names in his English-Japanese dictionary verbatim is gettin ...

make me a list of games you want. this is the last week i'll have all this time on my hands for a long time and i'd love to be helpful.

edit: ok, do me a favor and see if
Sent you a PM!

Oh, Go ...

i can probably make something to that effect happen if you'd like..
Yes, please! How?

I put the CD into storage after I stuck the contents on my HD so I could play the game on my laptop, so I have ...

Is there anyway to get ScummVM to run on a console? I'd love to play these games on my TV, especially since my wrist has started to hurt while using the comp.
It looks like the
I'm very, very happy ...

Is there anyway to get ScummVM to run on a console? I'd love to play these games on my TV, especially since my wrist has started to hurt while using the comp.

So, in my view, the point of the setting is to provide a degree of 'differentness' and alienation for Chris Redfield the Character, not Chris Redfield the Extension of the Player's Identity.
I agree ...

Well, to be fair, the game doesn't even have analogue support.
That's true now. It's easy for me to forget how frustrating that can be as a step backward. I got over that hump after the first couple ...

Responses!

The preconceived notions of analysis on MGS2 basically point to this being an analysis on the story and you don’t quickly enough let the reader in on this.
I see.

I don't intend to c ...

I can also imagine complains from that angle too, though. Kind of like how I heard someone calling for the removal of To Kill a Mockingbird from school reading lists because he didn't want black kids ...

You know, now that I think about it, the international settings factor into the Resident Evil series' accidental criticism of corporate America.

Everything in the series has pretty heavy-handedly ...

here at the gamer's quarter, we like words.
And that's why I like TGQ!

^_^

Hey! (I haven't been ignoring this thread, in case my absent posts had implied as much. I just haven't had much time to respond with the depth I'd like.)

by the way, ]NeoGAF found this.
Yeah, I ca ...

to my eyes I saw such a disparity between the original holy-fuck trailer to this real-time demo that I felt a bit cheated.
This is one of the unfortunate side-effects when you make a pre-release trai ...

Vamp survival as the Harrier's pilot recalled Liquid's survival as the Hind-D's pilot.

Seems small now, but rather confused me at first.
OH.

I read that ten times and didn't understand what you ...

ps, sorry if you felt like i was trampling on your work. i know what it's like to have a labor of love and it sucks hearing shit like that about it. but i wouldn't be saying it if i didn't think it we ...

I felt that it wasn't warranted to make the reader feel like they were wandering for 8 pages or so.
Noted. I've shown your suggestion to a few other people who know my writing, and most of them agree ...

Hey!

I don't have time right now to read any more than the preface and the terms... but I definitely bookmarked the site for further reading when I have a bit more time. Looks interesting.
Thanks! ...

Hi Dess!

i've only skimmed this thus far, but i think the use of the past tense really weakens your analysis of the game. i think games need to be considered as existing works, which persist in our ...

I've written an analysis of Metal Gear Solid 2 over the past month, and I've subconsciously had posters of SB's and TGQ's likes in mind as an ideal audience. I've finished this beast at last--I take a ...