The Gamer's Quarter A quarterly publication    FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Search found 99 matches The Gamer's Quarter Forum Index Author Message   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:11 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread I bought SPORE. I don't know whether it was a good purchase but the game looks neat. I don't hate it like (apparently) everyone over on selectbutton nor have I suffered these crashes. My second spor ...   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:00 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread It's Team Fortress 2 free weekend as of this afternoon. I am hoping to both drink classy drinks and play the crazy game tonight, we shall see. It has been a while since I played an online first-pers ...   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:55 am   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread I just picked up Everyday Shooter (for the computer) which is pretty great. I'm a sucker for interactive music sort of games, though, so I may be biased.   Topic: LOL MIDWEST Fred Replies: 8 Views: 8585 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:31 am   Subject: LOL MIDWEST ain't nobody left living in Cedar Rapids no more. Shit is ridiculous. My happenings are all dry but it's a good thing I have no trips planned because all highways are swamped, save the internet. ...   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:01 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread I had been waiting a long time for a translation of the sequel to the Capcom/SNK Card Fighter Whatever game on the old Neo Geo Pocket. And now lo, [url=http://cfc2english.blogspot.com/]it has been re ...   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:07 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread so now that classes have finished i've finally found time to finish BARKLEY, SHUT UP AND JAM: GAIDEN. it's a parody of the jrpg, and the reason it's such a success is that it is sharper, better-writte ...   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:01 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread So hey dudes I tried going back to FFXII for the first time since about the time I made [url=http://www.gamersquarter.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1205&start=50#31383]this post and I just can't get ...   Topic: I want to appreciate horizontal scrolling shooters. Fred Replies: 38 Views: 30700 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:42 am   Subject: I want to appreciate horizontal scrolling shooters. G Darius Despite being an anagram and derivative of Gradius... I don't know. I guess it's exactly like Gradius but easier; and there's a branching set of levels instead of a linear progression; an ...   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:50 am   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Wow, I didn't know such a thing [url=https://store.playstation.com/store/instructions.vm]as this existed. Thanks, that's great news! I guess I know what I'm doing with my holiday bonus now... (.. ...   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:55 am   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread I know back-quoting is passé but I've been out of town and I just want to say to this: For a game with such a highly-touted physics engine (and to be fair, I've just finished slogging my way through ...   Topic: Somebody make a TGQ Steam Community Fred Replies: 24 Views: 17485 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:16 pm   Subject: Somebody make a TGQ Steam Community I joined! ...my name isn't actually Fred, it's Robert. I guess you know my secret now. But I don't have TF2 so you can't shiv me over it.   Topic: Medical and dental care for poor people without insurance Fred Replies: 20 Views: 24333 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:18 am   Subject: Medical and dental care for poor people without insurance There's been a lot of talk on med student forums from kids doing ER residencies dealing with the treat-and-vanish... basically, people who don't have insurance but do have a minor injury needing treat ...   Topic: A WANDERER, A WEASEL, AND THE TRIP THROUGH IMPASSE VALLEY Fred Replies: 602 Views: 510427 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:26 am   Subject: A WANDERER, A WEASEL, AND THE TRIP THROUGH IMPASSE VALLEY i don't know how i feel about vaguely realistic-looking character models in a roguelike. it'd be awkward to see these huge polygon models running around a tiny grid, and if they decide to make animati ...   Topic: I know this has been talked about already. Deal with it. Fred Replies: 31 Views: 26477 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:09 pm   Subject: I know this has been talked about already. Deal with it. Rez has a problem and the problem is this: the game is a fucking failure. It's a failure because the music mostly is generic and forgettable. If they'd carried through and got Underworld's seal of app ...   Topic: Recording Games (aka "Dear Dessgeega...") Fred Replies: 11 Views: 11004 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:10 am   Subject: Recording Games (aka "Dear Dessgeega...") I don't mean to frivolously bump an old thread, but there's an Adaptec video capture device for eight bucks shipped on [url=http://www.woot.com/]Woot RIGHT NOW. You have maybe a half-hour to get it. ...   Topic: Requisite Photo Thread (56k users beware!) Fred Replies: 405 Views: 443509 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:54 am   Subject: Requisite Photo Thread (56k users beware!) I just found out about Gamma Bros.: http://www.goopy.org/gammabros.jpg That last boss is pretty tough.   Topic: hooking nintendo to projector Fred Replies: 2 Views: 3927 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:57 pm   Subject: hooking nintendo to projector You need an RF demodulator to do that. I don't know of any major company that sells them now, though. Probably just easier to get a cheap VCR or cable tuner that has S-Video out, as Ethos has said, ...   Topic: Hilarious crap found on Google Video Fred Replies: 953 Views: 682464 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:14 am   Subject: Hilarious crap found on Google Video It's not at all hilarious, except maybe in an unintentional way, but since it's been about ten years since it came to the States I'd like to remind everyone about [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z ...   Topic: games with lighthouses Fred Replies: 26 Views: 23968 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:24 am   Subject: games with lighthouses I think Shaper is right about Myst. I want to say Okami too. I know Breath of Fire III had one in the big "cross the ocean" super-mini-game part. Secret of Mana had a lighthouse that served no pu ...   Topic: Big Effen Playgrounds Fred Replies: 27 Views: 22045 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:15 am   Subject: Big Effen Playgrounds Mario 64 really was one of the best games for that sort of thing! I can't think of any other platformers that did the large-world thing that well. I've been trying to find a game like this myself la ...   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:37 am   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread White Saturns are cool, but they're not thirty dollars at the local used games shop. The games are the expensive part of the deal anyway. Dunno about you, but I have so little time to play videogame ...   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:31 am   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread I had the Mana Sword! Relic of legend and distributor of three times its former damage! Motorcycle turtles and sneezing yellow floating heads alike all fell before me! It was an unstoppable power! ...   Topic: Got PSP? Fred Replies: 46 Views: 31502 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:13 am   Subject: Got PSP? My main problem with the PSP is the design of the system itself: my hands cramp up after about 15 minutes of play. Call of Duty kind of beat that out of me though - painful, painful experience. I w ...   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:51 am   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread I picked up the new Taito Collection, played G-Darius for two levels and had to quit; that game is pure overstimulation. In a really good way, with an incredible amount of stuff going on in the backg ...   Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread Fred Replies: 4229 Views: 3007798 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 3:50 am   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread http://iosys.tv/flash/IOSYS_foe.swf That was impossibly cute. Thank you for posting that. Incidentally, I think thirty dollars just mysteriously disappeared from my wallet and turned into a package ...   Topic: I just got bit by a fucking pit bull! Fred Replies: 28 Views: 25051 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:31 am   Subject: I just got bit by a fucking pit bull! Wow! I've been away for a while but I must say, that whole story is really fucking fucked up! And I thought I was having a horrible month. Um, good luck with your poor dog and blighted skin and t ...   Topic: Getting rid of an accent Fred Replies: 15 Views: 13104 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:06 am   Subject: Getting rid of an accent Well, the thing is, it kind of flares up. I was talking with someone from IC once and it happened, "Little bit of Louisiana, huh?" So I will double my efforts to watch out for the "Little bit of Louis ...   Topic: Getting rid of an accent Fred Replies: 15 Views: 13104 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:01 am   Subject: Getting rid of an accent Just be conscious of your diction. It's all about--and let me channel my old speech coach here--your LIPS, TEETH, TIP OF THE TONGUE. Say that ten times fast, and don't drop any syllables. Anyway, d ...   Topic: GameTap + Sega Saturn = Yipee! Fred Replies: 16 Views: 15720 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:55 am   Subject: GameTap + Sega Saturn = Yipee! There were only about 10 Saturn games ported to PC and released in the U.S. But that list includes DARIUS GAIDEN so either way, you win!   Topic: i'm leaving on a jet plane. Fred Replies: 27 Views: 25934 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:03 am   Subject: i'm leaving on a jet plane. That was the destination! I spent spring break in Brooklyn and The City, and had a return flight on Sunday out of LGA. A whole week searching for a decent Galaga cab besides the one at the PABT, and ...   Topic: i'm leaving on a jet plane. Fred Replies: 27 Views: 25934 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:42 am   Subject: tangential Greetings from the secure area of the LaGuardia'D' terminal. In the outer lobby here is a pair of those nice 10th Anniversary Galaga combo cabs. The high score on one is 999,610; the other has five ni ...   Topic: i'm leaving on a jet plane. Fred Replies: 27 Views: 25934 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:42 am   Subject: tangential Greetings from the secure area of the LaGuardia'D' terminal. In the outer lobby here is a pair of those nice 10th Anniversary Galaga combo cabs. The high score on one is 999,610; the other has five ni ...   Topic: andrew toups plays sigma star saga. Fred Replies: 5 Views: 6515 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:03 am   Subject: andrew toups plays sigma star saga. There were worse than Street Fighter! Anyway, I had never heard of such a game. I was expecting awesome Super Star Soldier gameplay videos, for some reason, which I guess is something to look up o ...   Topic: Issue #5 Now Available Fred Replies: 41 Views: 96669 Forum: Issues   Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:54 am   Subject: Issue #5 Now Available I don't know what is the appropriate venue for trading out-of-print issues, but I have one crisp Jackson to barter for a hard-copy of issue #5 appearing at my door.   Topic: £425 for a free Second Life wannabe? Fred Replies: 10 Views: 8991 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:40 am   Subject: £425 for a free Second Life wannabe? Actually the style of architecture in the "lobby" made me wonder if had contracted the design out to Sega--the big curved railings and circular hub-type architecture seem to belong on Pioneer 2, not i ...   Topic: £425 for a free Second Life wannabe? Fred Replies: 10 Views: 8991 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:42 pm   Subject: £425 for a free Second Life wannabe? This is true! But I'm afraid I'm not interested unless there are space chairs that pop out of your bum as in PSO: http://www.rapidfish.org/rob/pictures/space_chair.jpg I watched that trailer ...   Topic: A WANDERER, A WEASEL, AND THE TRIP THROUGH IMPASSE VALLEY Fred Replies: 602 Views: 510427 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:36 am   Subject: A WANDERER, A WEASEL, AND THE TRIP THROUGH IMPASSE VALLEY I'm still playing through it, but I can echo what everyone else said. Izuna cleaves closely to the design methodology that DS games should be easy to pick up and play, for just a few minutes here a ...   Topic: I play, you play, we all play... Fred Replies: 12 Views: 10341 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:02 am   Subject: I play, you play, we all play... It would be better if it used WiiConnect to compare your high scores with your friends, or even if there were a leaderboard ranking the people who play the game on the same Wii. Oh well. It's pret ...   Topic: A WANDERER, A WEASEL, AND THE TRIP THROUGH IMPASSE VALLEY Fred Replies: 602 Views: 510427 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:44 am   Subject: A WANDERER, A WEASEL, AND THE TRIP THROUGH IMPASSE VALLEY I hope I don't derail the ongoing conversation, because it is very helpful. However, if I may sidebar:As much as I don't want to, I'm still going to buy Izuna anyway Izuna is supposed to be out no ...   Topic: one of the more underrated Final Fantasy games (FFV talk) Fred Replies: 14 Views: 13903 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:41 am   Subject: one of the more underrated Final Fantasy games (FFV talk) I loaded up my old save file, out of nostalgia, and oh my, the ninja is quite handy. If you can get a physical character to master that and archer, well, you have someone what can hit eight times per ...   Topic: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread Fred Replies: 977 Views: 756011 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:55 pm   Subject: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread I am okay with there not being many good games coming out this month. Maybe by March I can finally get to the second stage in Kid Icarus!   Topic: TGQ could use a little more character. Fred Replies: 29 Views: 20708 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:37 am   Subject: TGQ could use a little more character. I know it's cliche, but Delita Hyral fascinated me as a teenager. His running narrative was a wonderful analysis of a sociopath politician I more often associated with Shakespeare than with video gam ...   Topic: The Mobile game thread Fred Replies: 15 Views: 11530 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:09 am   Subject: The Mobile game thread Dudes, seriously, Galaga. (Mind the drunken four-in-the-morning photography, now.) http://www.goopy.org/galaga.jpg It plays remarkably well for a tiny, palm-of-your-hand vert shooter. Plus i ...   Topic: NEWS FLASH: News Channel active! Fred Replies: 25 Views: 17420 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:48 am   Subject: NEWS FLASH: News Channel active! That's what hegemony is all about, baby!   Topic: NEWS FLASH: News Channel active! Fred Replies: 25 Views: 17420 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:53 pm   Subject: NEWS FLASH: News Channel active! This is neat, but I can't shake the feeling that right now, somewhere in the world, Leonard Downie Jr.[url=http://www.amazon.com/News-About-American-Journalism-Peril/dp/0375408746]* is losing his shit ...   Topic: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread Fred Replies: 977 Views: 756011 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:57 am   Subject: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread Nintendo has a press release out stating that it will be the Super Nintendo Zelda game, but it wasn't up on the shop site when I checked it just now. Also--how did I miss XEVIOUS coming out last we ...   Topic: i haven't had the internet in about a month. Fred Replies: 24 Views: 18791 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:49 am   Subject: i haven't had the internet in about a month. You got back just in time for [url=http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ChewyLSB]crazy Trauma Center gameplay videos! (Centre?) Come watch, and join me in feeling inferior for using the holida ...   Topic: Dess's new front page. Fred Replies: 14 Views: 12924 Forum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:23 pm   Subject: Dess's new front page. That made my night, right there.   Topic: DWARF FORTRESS Fred Replies: 300 Views: 274706 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:59 am   Subject: DWARF FORTRESS Today I found out, as per a post by the developer in the forums, that DF is beerware. Right, about that, seems that analogy has [url=http://superflex.net/projects/freebeer/]gone and reflected itsel ...   Topic: being a smart ass about naming your character Fred Replies: 49 Views: 41843 Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:53 am   Subject: being a smart ass about naming your character Also, one of the banners for the forum is from someone I know who named everyone in FFVII an emoicon. Oh, yes, I was looking for that the other day. http://www.gamersquarter.com/banners/tgq462.j ...   Page 1 of 2 Goto page 1, 2  Next All times are GMT - 6 Hours Jump to: Select a forum The Gamer's Quarters----------------Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual MediaQuarterly DiscussionNickel and Dime Game DesignArticulate Analyses Site Related----------------Site ResponseIssuesStaff  Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group