The Gamer's Quarter

I'd love to see it happen, but unless it's actually announced, I'd prefer not to have people repeating anti-knowledge.Fair enough. I'm surprised I even heard it at all given I'm not keeping up with 36 ...

It's the PlayStation version.
How do we know, and why? That's just stupid. A whole nother character and more castle areas, gone!Playstation is less complicated to emulate, and all these ports follow ...

There was a PC port of MGS, and I've read there was a Dreamcast port in progress at some point, so it isn't really a Sony game.
You might be thinking of Bleemcast, the game-specific emulators for PS ...

People mentioning Out of this World got me thinking of Flashback, which fits as well.

Legend of Kain: Soulreaver 2 (disclaimer: this game is broken.)

They've made money on Gamecube hardware since just after launch. As have Sony with PS2. The "consoles are loss makers" thing is mostly a myth, only Microsoft or suicidal companies (Saturn-era Sega, fo ...

To your comment, Wes: I think the most important thing about this announcement is that it seems Playstation games won't be exclusive to Playstation consoles anymore. This is exciting! Could MGS, for e ...

This is a series of small freeware games by TheAnemic (a.k.a. Biggt). Very small--each takes less than five minutes to play.

Hadn't come across those, thanks.

I've had this too many times to count. Even the image names don't help.

Sad

They are. One came with the PC version of Puyo Puyo 4, I believe. I did look into it at the time but it was going to be around £30 for the pad on its own, which is/was just too much.

Can't find muc ...

I think he meant STV, being the Saturn arcade hardware.

Unless there's a system/genre I don't know about either.

I think that was pretty much his point. Anyway, while Sega and Famicom get away with it, a name like E3 says to me "there are three Es here, and they stand for something". Calling the new show E3 Expo ...

I really enjoyed BG&E. A lot of people complained about the length, but I was pretty much done with it by the end, it didn't need to be longer. A sequel would be nice, though unlikely given the fi ...

That kind of sums up what I do too. When I'm not listening to Venetian Snares I'm listening to Bach or Chopin. Works for me.
Venetian Snares doesn't do much for me. I really do enjoy Funk's classic-i ...

Assuming it's legit:
The CPU in the Gamecube is ~485mhz, the new one is 729. Not much improvement.
Same graphics chip as Gamecube, but faster
Same amount of memory as the original Xbox (though fast ...

I was certain you were going to talk about Excel's [url=http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/eastereg.htm]various easter eggs. The Excel 97 one is really impressive.

This is the main reason I'm wishing I had a PSP. There isn't much else on the platform that really grabs me/can't be had better elsewhere, but Loco Roco looks like a joyous experience.

I'm not discounting them as games,* I'm just trying to find out about other titles that don't follow the same "repeat after me" gameplay, be it volleys of commands like Parappa or a constant stream li ...

Axelay
Umm, I would have to disagree on this one. I mean, I only played it for the first time earlier this year, but it was pretty bad.I'll not hear such things! It's one of the most beautiful games ...

After some recommendations for games where the player is literally and properly involved in making music or rhythm. Examples: Rez, Electroplankton, ?
Not examples: DDR, Vib Ribbon, uh, Quake.

I'm ...

Plus I guess I remember reading early reports how shooters on the SNES tended to have a lot of showown. I don't know if they figured out ways around that or what.Without wanting to get too in-depth/of ...

I was a late comer to the SNES, but since then I've discovered Tetris Attack, Donkey Kong Country (besides being pretty and fun, is one of the best co-op modes for a gamer to walk a newbie through), S ...

Neon is VLM 3, which went into Xbox 360, and was based off his work on Gamecube. VLM 1 was Jag CD, I think, so Nuon would presumably be VLM 2.

Fantasy Star, Wonder Boy, Alex Kidd - top titles.

First two Sonic SMS games - fantastic. Chaos is bearable but Blast is a sin (only released in Brazil, anyway)
Master of Darkness - capable Castlev ...

Tempest 2000!
Tempest 3000!Yeah. Jaguar followed by Nuon, Minter certainly chooses the obscure ones (current 360 affiliation notwithstanding). Perhaps he likes being known for the "best game on syste ...

The original Defender made loads of sense to me when I was a kid, playing it on the BBC Micro. One of the earliest game experiences I can remember.

I did hear about Defender 3D on Cube but didn't l ...

In a novel, you can always flip to the final pages, but gameplay creates at least the illusion that to you, the route to understanding everything is as uncertain and intimidating as it is to the chara ...

Well, my wife played it. She claimed to kind of like it.Under the surface it was reasonably capable, they'd spent money on decent middleware. I can remember thinking how surreal it was though, because ...

Disney's Atlantis for PC. A dreadful FPS. The most lifeless implementation of the Lithtech engine I've ever seen.

Why? I got the CD for free somehow (thrown in accidentally/purposely with some ebay ...

I've got Perfect Dark and Future Perfect, and I can't say I noticed much similarity in the levels, but then I don't know Perfect Dark all too well. The engine is very similar, but if you've played TS2 ...

I've never played either Fallout (fetch your pitchforks and burning stakes and hound me from this place), but... people who're prepared to go out of their way making fan sites almost always end up ass ...

I was so disappointed with the "freakout" effects in Eternal Darkness that I think it discoloured my appreciation of the game a bit. I'd deliberately avoided reading about how they worked so they'd be ...

Well... it bugs me because they give you the option to do something, but if you do it you "die". You're rewarded for your curiosity by instant death. It reminds me of those old Sierra adventure games ...

3-Demon sounds pretty horrific. I may give it a go later with the lights off, if DosBox is feeling friendly.

I think the core of survival horror is prolonged anxiety. That's to be the main uniting ...

Come to think of it, Pac-Man is basically survival horror already.I was going to say that, but was unsure whether other people play Pac-Man in a carefree manner that I'm not capable of. It terrifies m ...

A bad way of stopping the player from undermining the story is by just having the screen fade to black whenever someone important dies, with a message to the effect of 'OMG GAME OVER YOU WERENT SUPPOS ...

While it's hard to deny that the FF series is one big Anime rip-off, it's harder to deny that every US RPG is essentially a Tolkien/D&D ripoff. cRPGs recycle the exact same overdone, boring fantas ...

I don't think that's true! As I said, a game CAN have text and cutscenes and all that noise and not explicitly suffer from it. HOWEVER. Within a game, the best cutscenes in the world won't have the ...

I don't think Mario ever got a movie in Japan. Don't think Sonic did either.The both got 60-minute animes.

Pure cinema isn't a big deal at all. It's just "show, don't tell." A pure game just has to express itself through play above all else.Does a game have to be pure to be fun though? I mean, sometimes ...

I suppose I'm in a minority in that I didn't play it when it first came out. None of my friends at the time really had Playstations, and the ones that did weren't playing RPGs anyway. Mostly we were a ...

Even if you're not interested in id software at all, Masters of Doom is well worth a look.

I got a horrible chill imagining things like this being the next YTMND. The internet is already without redemption as is...Ooh, that site. At some places on the internet it seems to have become accep ...

I have a friend who does nothing but play WoW all day, his girlfriend right along next to him. Should be "I had", I really haven't seen him since it came out because he never leaves the house. When we ...

The notion is self-indulgent and unoriginal, which isn't to say worthless or a waste of time

I don't know about the second half of that quote.Well, if it's developing the abilities of the author an ...

As an outsider, it's always seemed to me that fanfiction was more for the enjoyment of the author than the reader. The notion is self-indulgent and unoriginal, which isn't to say worthless or a waste ...

Are there more tragic games out there in a similar vein? Can tragic stories really work in videogames without upsetting many gamer's expectations of what an ending should be?The first games that come ...

Ohh... makes more sense when you read the embedded quote.
/pays more attention

Huh? I didn't play it at E3. I have Paper Mario 2: The Thousand-Year Door for Gamecube. The first Paper Mario game was for N64. Both of them were woefully under-reported, so I can see how you could ha ...

Dinosaur Planet represented some crazy ass idea the Rare people had, dropping Star Fox characters into it probably ruined both the original idea as well as the Star Fox franchise entirely. Then again, ...

So what would happen if someone lowered the used game profit margins to something closer to that of new games? More people would shop with them, bringing their sales numbers up and making their profit ...