The Gamer's Quarter

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Yeah, screw you.

there's probably an i ching casting worth quoting on this, were someone inclined to craft aphorisms from ancient chinese games of chance.I'm not a big caster of aphorisms from i ching, but I have del ...

To be clear, I wouldn't use schizo unless I meant literaly schizophrenic, or at least exhibiting the traits of a person who was literally schizophrenic.

I would have liked to have seen Rocket: Robot on Wheels, but Halverson's taste in mediocre platformers skews heavily Xboxwards. It did have some fun physics-based puzzles, though.I liked that game. I ...

I don't think anyone had any question about why you dislike MMO games. There are plenty of reasons why not to like them. We had an article in issue #5 of TGQ about it actually. The real question is ho ...

mr. goodwin, stop being a cock or just leave already.I've been advised that you're a lunatic and that I shouldn't listen to you.it would still probably help your popularity if you stopped being a cock ...

Well, in that case, I should offer up my official "The Outfit" faceplate. You could only get it by preordering the game.

Note that I said, preorder. Once you have the swag, there's nothing they c ...

Ok, well let me get this straight again... PKD is writing VALIS under veil of a veil of truth, and really is Horselover Fat? Because that was the assumption under which I have been reading it.

So, ...

Well, it's not like that's unprecedented.

In the middle ages, people who had psychological problems were often viewed as being set upon by demons. These people were then sometimes subjected to tre ...

It really goes back further than that though, he was trying to deal with the ... events of February and March 1974. It comes up in pretty much all his books from Flow My Tears... on, but it's not nea ...

Radio Free Albemuth does, IMHO, a better job with it than his first two attempts (Valis and Divine Invasion). Or at least, it does it in a manner more consistent with what people would normally expe ...

So what would you define it as, puzzle? Strategy?Yeah, puzzle game. When you're going for SA ratings, the game is about finding an optimal path. Which makes sense, the controls are pretty flaky for ...

To be fair HL2 was set up before hand to do the survival horror bit (headcrabs aren't new) and it is only one part of the game. The game throws so many different parts at you that one in the first hal ...

farcry is its own beast, a monument to the 1980s cold war one man against the world type movie, and despite its teeth-destroying difficulty near the end, i cannot say i think valve's hand could have h ...

Kameo can wear out its welcome fairly quickly, unless it's been a while since you've played an average game, then you might find it pretty exciting.I brickwalled on the demo, then I bought it anyway w ...

Note that you don't need Gold to play MMOs. You need silver plus whatever fee that you pay to the MMO provider. For example, you can play FFXI with a silver membership. You just have to pay your du ...

So, wait, no one has argued Kameo yet. I have pretty much ignored the game based on some small tidbits of comments I have heard, but it is pretty damn cheap now and I have always been a little curious ...

Does the story start to take some kind of narative soon, or does it remain as just a psycho/theological discussion platform?No, it's pretty much the latter. If you're looking for anything like a narr ...

No seriously, what the fuck. I've read your posts in other threads. You're clearly an intelligent person with considerable gaming experience. Why the fuck make such a retarded comment and then play th ...

mr. goodwin, stop being a cock or just leave already.I've been advised that you're a lunatic and that I shouldn't listen to you.

When I first played Hitman (Silent Assassin), I wasn't terribly impressed. Then I figured out that it wasn't an action game or even really a stealth game. Love that series now. Blood Money is a bit ...

I find it astonishing that Blinx (which seems to be widely regarded as a solid but decidedly average platformer) is up there ahead of some real classics like Jet Set, Prince of Persia, etc. And Bonk' ...

That makes me think: Penn Station would make a sublime FPS/Survival Horror level.

Also: I seriously wish Valve would lend some of their artists/writers to Monolith and Crytek, cause both FEAR and F ...

He has a writers convention or similar that he helps organize. This year the topic is religion and there are a number of (depending on your perspective) high profile religious persons who are going t ...

Also: Does anybody want an XBox 360 faceplate? It's pretty and blue and I won't have any use for it at all for some time. I won it by knowing Dana Plato was the star of Night Trap, but I was also th ...

This morning, I was on the train, and the train sounded like the tremelo opening to that Psychedelic Furs song that I can't remember the title of. This morning, I could only hear the opening, now I c ...

Question for all of you who own said box: can I play any games online with the standard Silver membership? Can I play, say, Street Fighter II online? Halo 2? Advice is appreciated.You can buy and play ...

Even the negatives (the absolutely omnipresent and nasty-looking BAWLS and some serious overcrowding problems, to name a few) weren't enough to put a damper on the events. I take it Bawls isn't a comm ...

In the UK, the 360 just dropped to £199.That's pretty much equivalent to the Japanese price, assuming that we're talking about the console with the hard drive and not the core system.

I'm seeing a ...

I think posting one-line discarding criticisms of an entire genre is itself uninspired and uncreative. It's not clever, new or old. I question whether it's even worth posting.How true. Thankfully, I ...

remember that gradius movie which played a bunch of replays on top of each other. thousand cars simultaneously.

from Saw that on Kotaku this morning. Awesome. Just...truly a work of art.

The 600/800 was a quality games machine...well, until SEGA showed up with their damned arcade conversions and .... ugh ... R.P.G.z

Janey Samm is a slut and should just shut her whore mouth.Oh god, you too? This is so embarassing.

Which school?I went to SNU up in OKC.Southern Nazarene, baby! Yeah, my brother-in-law went there too. It's a good school.

When did you go? I think he went about five to six years ago, approximately ...

I think writing about MMOs is uninspired and non-creative fanfiction, not journalism, new or old. I question whether they're even games.I think posting one-line discarding criticisms of an entire gen ...

I felt that way a while back.

Now I've embraced it. Dig up a copy of Tengai Makyo Ziria for PC-Engine and sit yourself down for some old school enjoyment.

Hey J.Goodwin care to write an article about that for us?No thanks, I think the manic-depressive swearing indian has the lunatic fringe all wrapped up for you already.

I think writing about MMOs is uninspired and non-creative fanfiction, not journalism, new or old. I question whether they're even games.

I think the reason it's funny is that it's made under the very vocal assumption that people don't enjoy actually doing stuff that's fun. It's sort of like saying people are going to stop playing Baske ...

Which school?

I went to SNU up in OKC.

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Apparently, this fellow ran a competition for flash puzzle games. These games are playable via links from this site...something like 20+ of them, so at least a few are proba ...

(even though, yet again, they're saying it will be).That's not true at all. They said that the Wii will be their last console if it doesn't do better than the Gamecube did. But they're pretty much alr ...

Also, I am kind of tired of people claiming that long term play on the Wii will make your arms tired. Seriously.The best is when analysts use that as an argument for why the wii will fail.Well, if it' ...

Preferably not in Canada. Canadian French is like ... Deep South English. tremendously rich and varied?Something like that.

Mike D.

Yes, that Mike D.

Be careful with the language minor.

I intended to take a French minor in college, but when the prof bumped me from the intro classes (damn my middle school and high school french classes!) into int ...

You made Doom maps in elementary school? Jeez I'm old.I was thinking the exact same thing. I think I last played Doom over the network at university. We had to go to the computer lab since it was the ...

TOEFL passing =/= proficiency, but most schools at least require that.

Still, it's probably worth noting that I was born, raised, and live in Massachusetts (though I've lived other places), and I'm ...

I think there is an argument to be made about the regulation of products that are sold in pharmacies, imply medical efficacy (even though they have to show a disclaimer), and look like medications tho ...

I couldn't find more Commander Keen episodes, however.

Back in elementary school, our computers used to have games like Midnight Rescue! and other Super Solvers games, but we were usually more occu ...