The Gamer's Quarter

I played Minecraft finally. It's good, but too time consuming now that I'm an adult with kids and stuff. Man, it's strange to see what we were saying about Minecraft in 2010.

-Wes

That's... a lot of pages!

I started cleaning up manually, but holy shit, no. I'll have to dig into the database or something.

Same here. Need db access.

-Wes

Me too. What have you been up to Rya?

-Wes

I've been living a lie! I always thought it was 1990 for some reason. The naming convention for your guide is a little odd since you're covering the entire spam of the Genesis under the 1990 subheadin ...

Where's the SNES? it came out in 1990 (and I was always an SNES dude). Does this book cover the console wars?

-Wes

Fixed! Sorry for the omission Cycle. You are the best!

-Wes

Mikolai,

1. The Gamer's Quarter was a unique magazine that helped kick off and establish the New Games Journalism movement. The magazine lasted from March 2005 to February of 2007. Our goal was to ...

I'll get back to you tonight or tomorrow. Sorry for the delay! Busy weekend.

-Wes

Spambot reminded me of this thread.

I wanted to mention for anyone that was interested in this game that the Japanese Playstation version is available via PSN on the PS3/PSP in America for $6. It s ...

You can probably safely blame this on religion.

-Wes

It's been bothering me as well, but we didn't have a very good version control system and I think the only instances of the final inDesign files live on Matt's desktop of his old computer.

Basicall ...

It looks like people worked on it in 2008 and are now getting around to working on it again. Kind of lame to have a 2 year hiatus, but who is TGQ to talk Wink

At least we released something!

-Wes

A Spammer pointed out to me that this thread exists. I never saw it before. Where can I get a copy? Sounds pretty awesome!

-Wes

This is what I told the Internet I feel about it:

"It's well edited and well done, but I have a feeling it has nothing to do with the game. Apparently it's an FPS. Unless it's legitimately a first ...

The Internet seems to like it. What do you think about it?

-Wes

I've been mostly a lurker around here since I joined around the time things were dying down but if you guys ever need any art related help I would be more then happy to help out!
Do you know how to m ...

Totally pumped to have all of you. Feeling overwhelmed lately though. It'll happen eventually though!

-Wes

I think you're spam without the bot part. Please enjoy this advertising and come back to post the results when you're finished.

-Wes

So I guess I never commented on this!

The other day I heard via twitter that
I got Ghost Trick! It's not as good as I'd hoped.

But thanks Apm! I figured you'd be in Wink

-Wes

I'm down for this. I don't know if I could contribute writing, but I'd love to see this forum revitalized.
Do you know any PHP, html/css, and/or have you used wordpress?

-Wes

I do love that a spambot is defending a spambot.

-Wes

So the reason I haven't updated this lately is because I've been doing my completion log at [URL=http://www.SuperWes.com]SuperWes.com. Check it out! And feel free to comment!

In the future TGQ (if ...

I've kept TGQ on my favorites list against exactly this sort of eventuality.
So does this mean you're not interested in something like this?

-Wes

english and film? i hope you're not paying out of pocket.
That's not me! It's Matt's Editorial from Issue 8.

And no. I'm pretty sure he's using the GI Bill or something.

-Wes

I'm working on it in secret in my spare time. Check out: http://www.gamersquarter.com/newtgq/

If anyone knows how to theme things in Word Press and would like to help, let me know!

-Wes

I'll talk to Matt and get a secret install going. I'll let you know when it's up and we can figure out what exactly we want.

(assuming he's down)

-Wes

I had a grand vision that I shared with Matt about a year ago regarding making The Gamer's Quarter into a site where people could share TGQ-style game writing, game art, and actual games by creating a ...

Tried it for a tiny bit. So far it's surprisingly deep, with really nice production values for a joke, but I chose to view the tutorial, which is really long and awful. The best part so far was a mome ...

Downloading now. This looks awesome.

-Wes

If someone creates a TGQ server I will (try to, if my computer allows it) play and I'll convince Matt to play.

That statue is sweet.

-Wes

so if it didn't tell you "mission xyz failed' when you decide to play by your own rules, you'd like it more?
I don't think so. It's more about the motivation to make the choices you do than anything ...

I set this aside to play some Fable 3. It's strange how they found a way to dumb it down from Fable 2 to a frustrating degree, almost to the that the actual adventuring seems like meaningless busywork ...

Yeah, I don't dislike the multiple quest chains, I just think the place you do them in is boring. I'm sure I'd have no problem if it was interesting, but the world and people in it are too mundane.
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This pretty well echos my experience with the game so far. I liked Fallout 3, and this seems to be a more unimaginative version of it. I mean, it's great that your decisions have weight to them and th ...

Why can't all PC games be sold through Steam Sad

Talk to Valve I guess. Paypal gets the guy more money per sale than having the game on Steam would.

-Wes

I don't know it yet, please explain!

Also: Yay dhex!

-Wes

The day is now, apparently. I'll talk about Halo: Reach first, which I finished last weekend in co-op on Heroic, then I'll come back and make more posts about the other games.

Reach was, as expecte ...

At some point I should talk about Metroid: Other M, Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, and Splinter Cell: Conviction, but with Halo Reach coming today I'm not sure when that will be.

-Wes

Windows 7 and Steam.

I tried everything, even changing some shit in a config file and downloading a performance mod, but nothing helped. It's just my combination of components. Also my video card i ...

AMD Turion 64 mobile?

Don't know for sure, but it's on a laptop and I don't feel the need to buy a faster computer.

-Wes

My computer wouldn't run it. So congrats!

-Wes

Have you tried lying to it?
Pretty sure I did! No luck. It wasn't a bad frame rate either, the game just ran slow. It was odd.

-Wes

My computer wouldn't run it. So congrats!

-Wes

What bizarre manner of spam is this
I thought it seemed pretty cool.

-Wes

Wanted: Weapons of Fate

Finished it.

It was pretty good!

Of what I've played recently, the game Wanted most reminds me of is 007: Quantum of Solace. It's full of gratuitous explosions and lea ...

Scott Pilgrim complete!

I'm a huge Scott Pilgrim fan. I read the books, bought the game, and saw the movie asap.

I initially didn't care much for the game. The characters start out with too few ...

Beat Castlevania: Harmony of Despair last night, though it wasn't really through much of my own effort. The final three levels were played as a party of 5 and I spent the last two boss fights simply t ...

Beat Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands last night. I'm still trying to piece together my feelings on it, so this may come off as rambly. For the first hour or two it seemed like a low-budget, rush ...

I'm not sure if anyone else here is from St. Louis, but if you are and you are interested in making videogames, make your way to the St. Louis Game Jam next weekend, August 13th-15th, 2010.

http:// ...

I liked Fallout 3 a lot, but Obsidian being on the project is the only thing that scares me. They seem like talented people, but they have yet to actually finish a game before releasing it. KOTOR 2, A ...

That is pretty sweet, even if it is old.

-Wes