The Gamer's Quarter

Somebody else has to have heard of [URL=http://www.kongregate.com/games/Kongregate/kongai]Kongai already, but let me mention it anyway. I guess you could call it a cross between Street Fighter and P ...

I'm tooling around with this as well but so far the nuts and bolts of fortress mode seem pretty much the same. Also, I didn't get a history file after world gen, which is sort of odd. I'm waiting to ...

To play the game, you at least need a list of the stands, since the books that power up your equipment (like the scrolls in Shiren) require you to know which part of the series each stand appears in. ...

Although this is old news, that Jojo roguelike is awesome and somebody with infinite time and programming savvy needs to get to doing an English patch for it. I love the slavish love Jojo games have ...

How's this Shiren different from the SNES version? The blurbs say it's heavier on the story, but not much else.

There's also vacuum scrolls, which empty a pot's contents onto the floor around you, but they're pretty rare. (spoiler wikis say you can find them in the main dungeon, but I never have)

Talking t ...

OK, so, just to pitch in a random two cents on Mishima.

Mishima's another artifact of the cultural fallout from Japan's crazed nationalistic era. On the whole, Japan did an amazing job of processi ...

X-com Apocalypse was reasonably fun, but squad-based tactical stuff was sort of hard to do right in real time. It also had some really, really hideous art direction.

There are people out there usi ...

Hey, so there's now a bunch of dialog events with the Smith's apprentice in the Bamboo Village. She moves around a bunch in the town, so you'll have to search for her occasionally, but if you talk to ...

All I'm doing is reinforcing your choices here, but the Metal Slug games and Faselei are a lot of fun. You shouldn't expect Faselei to be anything like Shadow Hearts, though.

Yeah, whatever you put in first becomes the base item and retains its base strength.

Something I'm thinking about now that I've opened up the third freaking take-items-in dungeon is that you can ma ...

For Kechi, first you need to run into him in Table Mountain once and let him try accupressure on you for 200 gitan. (You've probably already done that.) After that you can find him cornered by a bunch ...

Pesides Pekeji, there's Oryu (the woman who blinds you), Kechi (the blind masseur), and one more you supposedly unlock after clearing Fay's Final Problem, but I'm not even close to getting that one.
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Man, so, the Food God Shrine. (only there's no "Shrine" on there now, I don't know why) As a quick summary, it's a dungeon based around monster meats; you get a weapon which sometimes makes enemies d ...

You can also try shooting arrows in hallways if you're worried about gazers. You're told a monster's name if you hit it, and whiffed shots will just fall in the hallway. Knockback staffs do the same ...

Just beat Table Mountain too. Couldn't get my hands on the Bufu staff in that run but the sloth staff is already pretty nuts. Swimmy, I am pretty awed that you did that good having never played the ...

Sorry, the radish enemies do still show up at the marsh. And they are still jerks. I'm glad that the game seems to be a lot more generous with chiropractic pots, because I generally go through a lot ...

I have this theory that a lot of the difficulty change has to do with the new enemy selection. For starters, there are no more ghost daikon enemies, (the walking tubers that poisoned or confused you, ...

Picked this up today. In addition to the big changes I am pretty thrown by a lot of the little monster and item tweaks, like:

-Things besides weapons and shields can be cursed
-Rusting monsters t ...

I'm surprised to hear the elves got taken out so easy. Maybe I should worry less about pissing them off by clear-cutting the forests. Also, I'm kind of impressed that you build coffins for non-noble ...

Toady posted a link to a [url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3549/interview_the_making_of_dwarf_.php]really great interview on Gamasutra yesterday. They spend a lot of time discussing the nuts ...

As the owner of a chunky laptop myself, jacking down the framerate is really the way to go. You don't lose out on much visual information and things run at a decent speed.

I'm guessing it is a cav ...

That's pretty hot (hyuck hyuck) and I look forward to copying something like it whenever I get to the magma on this new site. Right now I'm just hoping these damn dwarves can stop eating, drinking or ...

I think I lost 10 dwarves in the siege and dragon attack. That was still plenty enough to freak everybody out, though. It got to where something like 30 of them were in jail, surrounded by puddles o ...

Yeah, speaking of clusterfucks, I slayed the dragon with a six-dwarf dogpile, although that was not my original intention.

What the dragon did was chase some poor wood burner or something back to ...

Yeah, ask away. Everybody has a horrible time with the interface in the beginning, and it really takes practice and help to get over that.

Had my second siege. This was about fifty goblins, with ...

Wait, I thought skill just determined quality of booze? I think the only reason you get large "stacks" of alcohol is because brewers sometimes brew bunches of plants at once. Generalized labor setti ...

What'd she go crazy from? Couldn't find the materials for an artifact?

So, it turns out that while you can zone bedrooms down to just include the bed, they still count the door somehow. And proba ...

Well, in a rare appeal to aesthetics I'd decided that the dwarf shelters should be in areas less likely to result in giant dogpiles of sparring dwarves swarming over the part-time workers as they slep ...

New version was released today. It's the first one for the army arc but there aren't actually armies in fortress mode yet. The biggest thing seems to be that world creation now incorporates a whole ...

Another, buggier solution (and therefore one which won't be this good forever) is to look at objects with "k" and then use "d" to mark them for dumping. Dwarves will move that stuff to an activity zo ...

Animal traps work OK, but you always get "vermin"-sized animals: rats and small birds which aren't worth much meat or skin or bone. Catching bigger animals actually involves setting up a cage trap an ...

Yeah, hunting is probably what killed your ranger. The hunting AI is pretty horrible, so right now you're better off turning the hunting labor off for anyone you don't want to die.

Your sheriff ca ...

The only fighter I think you're missing is Tobal 2nd. For RPGs, I second the Tear Ring Saga nomination, but read an FAQ beforehand and be prepared to hurt. The early Atelier series games (Marie and ...

It's not a bug; making coke from coal counts as smelting, so it takes fuel. You need a piece of charcoal (or magma, I guess) to make your first batch. After that you can just use coke.

So in addition to the farm bug there's been a fix to world generation which produces less economic ore and more of other things. I guess this means I should wait until the next release, since I'll ju ...

That's a huge bug, although I seem to have lucked out of it by putting my farm plots two levels below ground.

I've been running DF in the background lately, since I can't really do anything ambitio ...

A military really is a hassle to get running. It takes a lot of metal and leather to make equipment, and a whole mess of bone or wood to get your marksdwarves trained. I guess the early sieges are t ...

Had my first siege recently. It was the usual size for your first one, 15 or so goblins. I'd heard that there was a bug that stopped sieges from actually, yaknow, sieging, and that said bug got fixe ...

Hey Scratch, was your previous fort near an "evil" area or some kind of named landmark? Or do hydras and other giant monsters just show up wherever they please?

My fort did indeed get mauled by zo ...

Recently I heard there are zombie whales out there, and have been trying to start forts on "terrifying" or "haunted" beaches to find one. Unfortunately, that always means dealing with an aquifer as w ...

That sounds right. I remember there was a PC RPG called Betrayal at Krondor that had some decent fantasy writing in it, only that meant you had to skip past a page of prose every time somebody got po ...

What I'm trying to get at is for the most part exemplified by Japanese, where in many instances a single word can be written in multiple ways, and the various kanji available can each bring different ...

Fuck the "genuine" article. I like the kind with peppers, provolone, tomato, lettuce, onion, beef, some kind of sliced roll.

I'm with you on everything but the lettuce and tomato, since in my exper ...

What part of Philly are you going to be in? I went to college there, so I'll admit my knowledge is kind of old and college-centric, but:

South St. is a good Haight-Ashbury-type area. It's worth a ...

Prinny's in the trees? Frag the lieutenant?

Yeah, sorry, what I meant was that the weirdness was what made it fun. Yeah. That and getting to just jump in and talk semi-complicated stuff in Japan ...

I like to think the real draw of that place wasn't the free booze or hip hors d'oeuvres or chocolate fondue fountain, but just its weirdness as a whole.

So, uh, it's OK to talk about the old Shiren still, right? I finally beat the main dungeon. Mostly by being lucky; I started out in the same room as the stairs for the last three floors and had a bl ...

Re: Pattern Recognition, I've heard that it's actually closer to the kind of thing Gibson's always wanted to write. I thought that was pretty depressing to hear, myself, but some people really dig th ...

the first season explores the ideas of technology's influence on society

Yeah. The TV show does a great job of exploring Masamune's ideas, with pacing and class that he's incapable of.

Also, fi ...