The Gamer's Quarter

What Mr. Mechanical said. "Just delete it," I told myself in darker hours. "Or move it into your 'Infrequent Updates' folder, at the very least." I wound up not doing either, and I'm glad, because I'd ...

I've kept TGQ on my favorites list against exactly this sort of eventuality.

The plan was to hope everyone in those old threads had email notifications turned on so they would all get emails and come back here. Didn't quite pan out, though.

People actually do this?

All of a sudden I've been just playing the hell out of Little Big Planet and Spore. Both games were kind of over-hyped, both focused on custom content as the major selling point*, and both vanished fr ...

I tried the very beginning but never got very far. Need to give it another go.

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I guess it's pronounced the same? Whole thing's stupid. I spent far too much time trying to make a joke about going the Mass Effect route by changing to "SaFo" and alternating their current lineup w ...

So hey, what are the "must play' stories?

From Saltwater Breachtoday. With areas by LegatoB, Herr Toups, dessgeega, OGC, Boojiboy7, Zaratustra, SuperWes, Skelethulu, The New Ska, and myself.

I really enjoyed the Magician's Palace and Killdozer levels in the campaign world of Little Big Planet.

We're doing NXE, huh? Well, okay:

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This is pretty accurate!

Been playing Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. This game compares favor ...

Really? I haven't hit a single one of those yet; so far, I've mainly been running into Shadow of the Colossus knock-offs. Ran into an interesting "Olympia" level that would have been incredible for ...

Is there a decent tutorial for the editor anywhere? It seems needlessly cumbersome.

[url=http://www.thaiwonders.com/design/images/stories/services/KS_Editor_Tut_v110.pdf]This is a PDF. It's pretty ...

Is it conceivable to play Mother 3 without having played Earthbound or any other prior games in the series?

With school, I don't have tons of time but with all of the hype around Mother 3's transla ...

Xboxified? How badly?

Sucks about the drive issues. That kind of thing is why I'll most likely be getting this on a console, ironically enough.

I noticed my saved games were preserved, albeit with gibberish character names. Kind of disconcerting to jump in to the end of Chapter 7 and be assaulted by English Text on all sides with no appropri ...

The POP: Sands of Time team have admitted to being heavily inspired by Ico, which means both of the following games are also derivative. Likewise Uncharted, and also (I would argue, though perhaps to ...

I'm trying to organize another collaborative Knytt Stories level [url=http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=16213]over on Select Button. Sign up today!

My interpretation is below. Since I'm assuming Gur zvar, gur pbzcyrk, naq gur fgnghrf fhttrfg n inavfurq pvivyvmngvba. Whav vf gur bayl navzngr yvsr va guvf ivfvba bs gur jbeyq, naq gur nccrnenapr b ...

I like this second-best of all the stories you've done.

you say that about all my stories.

It might seem that way! (The order of preference today: Under The Crack followed by Fossil, and then t ...

That seems about right!

I played Fossil--this is pretty great! But I think my appreciation for it was dulled somewhat by my forgetting that you have to stand on that kind of button for a couple se ...

homemade?

The web 2.0 version of [url=http://www.disasterlabs.com/comics/chicanery/pages/comic.php?page=137]sprite comics.

I really hope somebody makes a plug-in for Google Chrome that hotlinks the banner identifier again.

I'm pretty sure you can still use the old LISP like syntax with Inform. If worse comes to worst you could track down Inform 6. It's plenty solid.

It's worth noting that Inform 7 still contains th ...

You mean like a real-life Nethack?

Oh God. Wouldn't that be amazing? Why hasn't some MIT nerd come up with this yet?

[url=http://eblong.com/zarf/capture-flag-rules.html]It's not QUITE the same, ...

Hi, I'm Jason, representing Wichita, where We Don't Really Matter (Unless You're Affiliated With Aircraft Manufacturing). It's kind of a one-track city.

In 2004, I knew of only one dedicated arcad ...

whoa, the playthisthing writeup of braid is precisely why I have to be a screaming maniac.

Yeah, I love playthisthing (anything that gives Emily Short another soapbox, really) but every time the99t ...

Alright, I think I'm done with my first real level. It's stupidly hard because I'm not good at shooter design; I just plop enemies down wherever seems appropriate and if the result is unplayable, wel ...

Bounce-Break / Bounce-Break, actually. Once I really internalized the fact that Bounce shots have minor homing when they bounce near enemies, I pretty much used that as my main approach to every leve ...

IW: I think it's impossible to not have liked at least some of the puzzles in Braid, though each time I've had someone defend the game it's been a process of diminishing returns "well you must", or " ...

I'm still trying to decide what I think of Braid. Let's work this from the top; spoilers abound.

The game looks good and animates beautifully. Many people have praised the visual design and artis ...

Finally got this to work! Interesting map, Shaper. I... don't understand how you've modified enemy size as much as you have. I can get it to paste normal and 2x as large, but nothing else. Is that ...

Very minor spoilers in this response to Worm.

Is the demo just the first available world? Because if so, yeah, that's easily the least interesting world in terms of concept. It's just a tradition ...

Finally finished for the first time, and I'm pretty sure I got the good ending. 14,380 bucks.

I'm excited!

last night i communicated to other death players, through my corpses, that i am an asshole.

YOU were behind that? Fucking hell. I got to that level, threw myself at every hazard I could find, and ...

It's surprising, how many people that read select button who feel that it consists of themselves plus a single, mostly-homogenous mob.

I mean, if anything, this is the predominant schtick on the fo ...

If you're the kind of person who loves tactics-style RPGs and doesn't mind a bizarre game convention or two, the Metal Gear AC!D games are pretty fun.

Lumines was a pleasant diversion for, like, an ...

Minor Cave Story spoilers follow (only relevant to the discussion at hand).

You guys are getting your conditions crossed. Booster 2.0 is only necessary to get the "real" ending; you can save Cur ...

Incredible. Take one character model with another character's moveset.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZDgjjDnWLM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmoY1RmoZFA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuLHui ...

My girlfriend's computer is a Mac.

As of today, it's a Mac with internet access.

My first action was to download [url=http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Inform%207.html]Inform 7. My second was to ...

What's "turtle"?

What are you talking about, I'm like the only person in this thread willing to offer criticism

I was about to object, but looking back at what I'd written originally, I guess it does come across on ...

What happened, Chris. Sad

I'll send it on to you, Parkbench.

You see how the first three levels she made are far more satisfying from a narrative point of view, though, right?

No. I don't see any narrative difference between this and the oubliette. In both y ...

I don't really see what you're saying, harveyjames. I mean, there isn't really any conflict in any of dess's levels. There's hostility, maybe, and EVERY level she's made contains the possibility of ...

Since we're venting: there are trade schools and there are trade schools. One phrase, two connotations. A trade school is a place you can go to learn a trade, yes, but THE GUILDHALL AT SMU is not a ...

Word from a friend is that My Life as King is not worth it unless you're willing to sell your soul and/or first-born child via micropayments.

Is that a Metal Gear type walking tank in that alley? Looks like something out of War of the Worlds. Or maybe it's just a lightbulb thingy.

It's a strider from Half-Life 2. This was also posted in ...

I also read Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore and it was utterly fantastic. I don't read non-comics often - I think the last book I read was Harry Potter 7 - but man, oh man, did this one make me w ...

WHY IS NO-ONE TALKING ABOUT DESSGEEGA'S LEVEL

(I still haven't played it)

Oh, hey. I thought this was a reference to the Oblivion mod.

The Lighthouse is clever. If you're familiar with the ...