The Gamer's Quarter

Huh. There's a lot of really cool-sounding games being announced for the PS3 lately.

Since we're on the topic of card games, I'd like to point out [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangokushi_Tais ...

years ago someone emailed me about another mtf game developer, other than dani bunten, who is higher profile and amazing.
Higher profile than Dani Bunten? How curious! Are you able to say who it is, ...

That's a really good question. He was probably involved in the development of Deus Ex 2, tho he wasn't project lead or a designer on that one either. I'm guessing he was too bogged down with running ...

Warren Spector didn't work on Thief: Deadly Shadows, you know. This thread should be about Randy Smith.

Edit: if i've got my facts straight, spector didn't work on any of the thief titles. i think ...

That Secret of Mana piece is pretty wrenching, especially as I connect to SoM's specific form of co-op nostalgia (though my experience was a great one, with my best friend) and know how affecting that ...

Jumping on the Crawl bandwagon- the tile version really makes this so much less intimidating than all the other roguelikes out there! I still had to print out all the keyboard commands, though.

My ...

Three weeks ago, I finally made my way up to the top floor of Darm Tower and faced off with Dark Fact. Ten deaths later, I concluded that he was completely impossible to kill as each hit from the unav ...

If we accept that games are a postmodern medium, as Scratchmonkey argues (and I think I do agree with his argument), why then haven't we moved past the most basic, archetypal kinds of stories?

mayb ...

Anyway, I think that one of the main points of postmodernist stuff is that it points out that it is only telling a story about one tiny subset of the population. Ie. That it is talking about white ric ...

the best functional definition you're going to get is "describing any number of characteristics which came to be associated with culture and artworks dating after the end of the modern period", which ...

So uh... anybody care to define the term "postmodern"? I used to think I knew what it meant, but reading this thread has me completely confused.

Who's hotter, Vincent from FF7 or Balthier from FFXII?
The answer, obviously, is Basch.

I've reached another road bump- Vagullion. This guy is pure evil. Dodging his bat form is bad enough, but I'm barely even scratching the guy, and I'm at level 9, armed with the silver sword! It's gonn ...

Ys I is really fun! I like how Adol is so bad-ass that he can make the enemies explode into bits just by running into them- even when he's not holding a sword! I haven't had this much fun hacking up s ...

I've just developed an interest in Ys- enough to want to play through the entire series- and am in the process of yarring a copy of I & II Complete. If I like the games enough, I'd like to actuall ...

How's the SNES emulation on this thing?

So there's an 8-player Bomberman game for the DS, and nobody's mentioned it! Does it suck or something?

So does anyone actually name RPG characters after themselves? I'm boring- I just keep the default names (except Link- he's always something else).

Also I had a friend who would name his character " ...

Mexican soaps are also in a class of their own.
As are Indian Hindi-language soaps, which take the general structure (and looniness) of US and Latin American soaps, add a healthy dose of Bollywood so ...

Great multiplayer naming ideas:

Choose a normal name, but mis-spell it to piss off anal-retentive opponents (like me):

Me and a couple friends once played a game of Counter-Strike against a man ...

This thread, along with the Wii game review thread, is slowly eroding my resistance towards buying a Wii now, before Super Mario Galaxy comes out....

On the other hand, I do have a Gamecube. Now if ...

Sounds like Twilight Princess is a back-loaded game in the same way that Wind Waker was front-loaded. Maybe they'll actually create a Zelda that's balanced next!

Is TP more inventive in how it uses ...

So kimkallstrom1 is Tim, the guy who runs that Independent Gaming blog, right? And you are trolling here why exactly? Don't you have a blog to run?

This is one of the things that I love in the new Prince of Persia's, the moments when it seems impossible to go any further.. then you realise that if you do this jump here, then that jump there you w ...

No, misleading title threads are so much better.

I just tried out Elevator Action Returns. It IS pretty bad-ass! It reminds me of Time Crisis in its over-the-topness. I liked playing as the dandy! EDIT: More games should let you play as dandies! Tha ...

elevator action returns has a pretty high badass factor.

Moreso than the original?

Oh, definitely, and once you've figured out how to tackle it, so does the Metal Slug series.

Yeah, Metal Slu ...

I've always thought of it simply as "badass factor", and it's present to some degree in most of the games I truly enjoy.

I'll second DMC3, Zone of the Enders, and Ninja Five-O/Ninja Cop (if it's to ...

Shhh, don't give it away, Swimmy!

Tony Hawk: American Wasteland had some Parkour in it, but it wasn't executed too well.Sad to hear. I would think that if anyone, besides the PoP team, could pull off parkour well, it'd be Neversoft. S ...

I'm looking for a game that can evoke a certain kind of feeling- the kind I get when I watch a really great martial arts fight (I'm thinking of the coolie, tailor and cook versus the axe gang fight in ...

TV basically seems to shows off the worst of any culture.

and yes, i'm talking about the lol japan game shows and stuff where everything is made of plastic including the people and shiny and cover ...

Nice call on the Neverhood, dess (thanks for the text dump on your site too!)! Great, unique game, which also happens to be a biblical allegory. The game's creator, Doug TenNapel (his choice of spelli ...

Guys I just watched Fox News (yes, that shit is broadcast all over the world! we don't get any other American news channels, oddly enough) and some MTV the other day...

Forget modern Japanese pop c ...

What would that answer be, in your opinion? As far as I can tell, at the very, very source, rights come from whoever has the might to enforce and the cleverness and charisma to impress them upon other ...

the singapore dollar is far more colorful than our own, but i presume there are laws against defacement and destruction of it - as well as counterfeiting?
Yeah, I think the laws against defacing mon ...

You read Grant Morrison and/or Alan Moore, don't you?

I still want to try KOTOR 2 since the Planescape go wrote the story.
What? I need some opinions now from people who hated the first game.

I second this notion. I somewhat liked KOTOR, despite it's ...

To take this idea further, I don't think it's so very far-fetched to postulate that the vast majority of humans who have survived through the ages are ones who have been more likely to try and make se ...

I don't regret playing any game, because playing a bad game, at the very least, helps me appreciate better ones, and is quite useful to a game designer in the same way that identifying bad art can be ...

The idea that religion will somehow fade away in the next few hundred years, battered under the onslaught of scientific rationalism, is foolishly optimistic. You're forgetting an important fact here- ...

Hoo boy. Sorry for calling you a fuck-face, Dracko! I was ah, pretty drunk when I posted that! No hard feelings, I hope. Well that's the last time I post about religion while drunk! Ha!

Oh, so the ...

Islamo-Buddhism is pretty sweet.
You, sir, are a fuck-face. Just what the hell is islamo-buddhism? Speaking a muslim (not by choice, mind you, I'm an atheist, but if I admit that in real life they'll ...

Killer 7 is basically Snatcher.
Oh, I thought it's an on-rails FPS kinda thing?

And Snatcher is brilliant (barring the third act)! If Killer7's anything like it, what's with all the hate? Confound ...

Do you need a notebook, Guardian? If so, then get a MacBook. I've been using an iBook for almost 4 years and I gotta say, this thing beats every Windows-based notebook I've ever seen for sheer lasting ...

Scrivener looks wonderful! It's a big step up from the multi-tab text editor I'm using anyway. Are there similar writer's tools for the PC?

So that's why they never went back to the moon...

Beyond Good and Evil is worth playing if only for the amazing first ten minutes.

QFT. The rest of the game is a big letdown after that. I think I might be the only person who was vaguely offended b ...

That's what I was wondering, too. Here's the I would like to send my condolences out to Catherine Altman, Robert Altman's wife, as well as all of his immediate family, close friends, co-workers, and a ...

All of Cagliostro is wonderful (for a movie made in 1979, it's hardly dated at all!), but two action scenes stood out for me: the opening car chase scene, in particular the bit where Lupin drives his ...