The Gamer's Quarter

it's what puts me off about most point-and-click adventures: the protagonist just hurts, manipulates and steals from non-player characters, because they're nothing more than puzzle elements to our " ...

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/hostl2heatherposter.jpg

The poster of Hostel 2.

I'm thinking of replaying EP1 trying to play the 1 bullet rule (I think you can use grenades, rpgs etc though??). Should be interesting, may need a thread if any areas are really tricky.

Rennes-Metro systrem, totally reminded me of the Half-Life tram systeim. I kept expecting to see vortigaunts.

I loved the antlion battle in ep2 even if it reminds me of space invaders... this is the intensity that it should have.

I think it would be funny if they acknowledged what a rail shooter it really ...

ICO meets Half-Life 2 via Another World.
Ie, gordon freeman with just a crowbar and modified gravity gun freeing prisoners of the combine. I reckon with enough hacking something really clever could ...

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adventure

I really enjoyed it when I first played it, but it was over too quick ?. Also I felt it wasn't intense enough at times, the horror element was diminished realative to HL1. Basically it was a game I di ...

[extreme sarcasm mode on]
Half-Life 2, is the most overpolished piece of rubbish that I have ever seen, I cannot believe that they would build such a cheesy appalling game, that smears rubbish on the ...

Here is the thing: He was responsible for pretty much all the cool, amusing and fun design decisions in the first game! Not least the hornet gun, the snarks, and the alien soldier with the chompy mo ...

I find it amusing the way you get a tick when you complete one of the extra sections which just reinforces the hamster / extended training exercise-ness of the it.

Some thoughts on this
Half-Life 2 vs Doom 3. I bought Doom 3 as a stop gap,in many ways it is awful, simplistic AI, rubbish scripting, too many monsters jumping out from behind you. But I found that ...

In as much as she is the only fully sentient company? I personally reckon that it is just more twisting the knife and lies, the same as the rest of the game.
Favorite line (have I lied to you, I mean ...

I guess these plot elements serve to make GlaDOS a more sympathetic character (she really does love you!), but it negates all the dramatic tension.
Whaaat? Glados is a full-blown psychopathic AI, w ...

always feels like the shallowest puzzle box. characters come up to you on the street and say "HEY DOC, HOW'S ABOUT TRYING YOUR HAND AT THIS PUZZLE I JUST CAME UP WITH". it's so shamelessly artificial ...

Global Defence Force on PS2. Is better than I expected it to be. Very tense at times, and plays how I hoped HL2 strider battles would play ie glorious full on chaos in a wide battle arena.

For starters developers need to stop doing final thirds set in completely different environments. ie Xen, the body of the many.

ShaperMC 'I hope you've played Raw Danger`
No , I followed its progress. but it was pulled in the UK ,4/10 OPSM score Raw Sewage can't have helped. Or the flooding.
Apparently it was released in Fr ...

Are there any games that you like but which you wished were shorter and more focused?
God of War ][
Half-Life 2 !
GTA San Andreas
Manhunt would be better without 1/3 of the levels.

Disaster Report awesome idea detailed production, let domn by graphics,voices and framerate. I love it though and want to buy every copy I see but don't.

wish this sterile (if volatile) environment would open up to the aperture science repertoire. Yes, I can see that if they confined the use to certain areas then it would make a wonderful addition, ...

How about Portal, creepy as hell, or amusing black comedy depending on which camp you fall into and bonus only a few hours long!

Earthbound should be an adventure game! I got to the desert before giving up on it. Love the style don't like the play. I`ve had enough of epic games. If only there were more `short story` games. Or a ...

The idea of an apocalyptic multiplayer zombie game is one that both fascinates and appals me with its godless depressing nihilism. take the atmosphere of STALKER, the weapons of Dead Rising and the ra ...

it is this years SOTC

Portal is dead creepy like having a psychopath whisper in your ear that you're their friend while you jump around in a fascist experiment chamber.

http://www.doublefine.com/news.php/minigames/My_Game_About_Me

I love the idea of games that try to show the workings of the mind via visual metaphor. Psychonauts was a great idea, but I think that ...

could it be so that there are some exclusive titles?

uncharted drakes fortune sounds like it could be good ala Lara Croft. who knows.

Yes, it feels as if there should have been a nightmare mode where you were chargyed for each resurrection.. and if you ran out of that resource game over. Ie. Just like the harder modes in System Shoc ...

Yeah my local Gamestation (a Uk STORE) has F1+F2 for 5 pounds. Thing is I won't be buying another copy. I started out doing like 1-hour a night but ended up doing about 4-6 a day. I'll still buy FO3 ...

This isn't playing wrong exactly, but I like fireballing people's bookshelves and stuff in Oblivion to see everythinng fly away.

If they ever introduce a new human character into Mario he should be ....

Mental pinball art btw.

So, has anyone noticed that in the Godfather they call someone a goombah.. so it is actually an ...

Man those masks remind me more of Mickey Mouse clones- disturbing or what?

I tried to play Killer 7 yesterday because I haven't played it ever (I'm deprived) but disc 1 is missing and Daphny doesn't know where it is and I checked all the cases so now I have to go out and buy ...

I'll bet they had the police open their suspect packages... awesome work though! I'd like to see a similar thing for Ico/Shadow of the Colossus.

I've always wondered why Oni, and No-one lives forever, for PS2 are the cheapest games in game / gamestation. -Except for out of date football games obviously. Are they that bad (NOLF was great on PC ...

God of War 2, In easy mode. Loads of good (albeit gory) popcorn moments. Very well paced, slightly annoying puzzles where you know what you have to do, but take ages trying to find the bits you need ...

Everything that happens - and I mean every tiny, little thing, lends itself toward the game's story.

Funnily enough this is what I think about Manhunt, and what impresses me the most about it. It ...

They should have a "Scarface" style ending where all your enemies are gunning for you just can't win, and then you have to watch your characters funeral. They haven't got the stones for that though.

Didn't you realise that God of War was meant as a satire of the discovery of the americas? Kratos is a parody of the conquistadors.

http://www.bowdoin.edu/pushmepullyou/newUser.jsp

The twoheaded Pushmepullyou from Dr. Dolittle seems like a good analogy for the relationship between game and player, and the give and take between ...

but by doing this you're shown that the level is more than just a level. It has a place in the world of the game and if foreshadows what you'll be doing in the future

I've been thinking about stor ...

I'm confused as to whether DS is officially current or next-gen. If it is eligible then I'd add Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training due to the way it uses the DS and tracks your progress, and the multiuse ...

Ok, how about Pheonix Wright:AA then?

and it's easy to get stuck on the platforming in this game because it's not terribly good. the developers really had no clue how to make a platform game, so they cribbed from the 3d platformers they ...

Well, I just typed in the cheat code for arrowheads, and the cheat for 1000s of lives.

http://www.arrod.co.uk/archive/concept_vroom.php

Victor Vroom's expectancy theory seems to be extremely relevant to the field of videogames even though it is mainly about the field of work. Becaus ...

nana gave me her copy of the pc version of psychonauts (five discs!) because it won't run on her computer. i've been playing it (i just finished lungfishopolis). it's pretty much exactly as apm descri ...

Okami and Shadow of the Colossus are the two games that come to mind most on the issue of 'abstract orbs'. Okami does well because it tends to integrate the rewards into the setting even though they ...