The Gamer's Quarter

Silent Hill isn't about "jumps", though. It'll scare you shitless through sheer atmosphere alone.

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Hello, Cybernator.

Agreeing with Toups that fall is pretty much the best season for videogames, and not only because that's when all the best/biggest titles are usually released. I guess fall is pretty much the best se ...

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So, Darkthrone already have a new record completed and set for release in September. It's called F.O.A.D. and it will include the cover version of "Bad Attitude" by the '70s punk band Testors, which ...

Stop me if anyone has posted this before, but this cyriak dude has tons of crazy shit on youtube.

Just to clarify, Sunn O))) don't do the black metal thing specifically. They dress like this:

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My understanding is that the black metal scene took it more from Hellhammer and King Diamond of Mercyful Fate than Kiss, though in the context of rock music you could probably trace it back to there. ...

I found this on some black metal forum and it made me laugh.

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A brittle, chilly tone emphasizing the treble of icy texture over fullness and warmth, basically.

x-posted from SB mainly because I thought the Winged Assassins might be interested:

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This is GALLHAMMER. They're a trio of young lad ...

Exactly, heli.

Fucking hell god damnit. They always have these awesome sales when I'm unemployed and/or too low on cash to go spending all sorts of money on stuff like this. I've been waiting for an opportunity to ...

Very nice! Yeah, I hadn't thought that far ahead, either, but that's a perfect example of the sort of redemption I was hinting at.

I haven't been interested in the DS for over half a year now, but this looks really cool. It's a new game by indie developer Renegade Kid called Dementium: The Ward — a first-person survival horror g ...

this made me cry for some reason

And the music gets stuck in my head.
Do you hate good music?

You may want to check out Subsistence if you played the original MGS3. It's almost a new game.

I was going to suggest Second Sight ...

Man, I really need a mod/plugin that either eliminates friendly fire (so to speak) or keeps NPC companions from jumping in front of me during battle. "I'm on your side!" "I'm on your side!" Yeah, y ...

So this guy wants me to become his fellow VAMPIRE HUNTER. He seems very sincere, but I don't know if I can take him seriously.

Pffhaha. So I'm working through the bit where you bring Brother Martin from Kvatch to the Weynon Priory, and along the way some dude happens to be dismounted from his horse, fighting a wolf or someth ...

It wasn't the color palette that bugged me. It was that everything moved like it was made of wood, faces were all fucking butt-ugly (this has been mostly remedied in Oblivion), when you went over ste ...

Well, I suppose I'll have to reserve further judgment until I've put in a good 10-20 hours, then.

I can certainly understand why people feel Oblivion is generic, but I have to admit that find the whole beardy fantasy aesthetic really charming. Man, this game is beautiful once you set foot outside ...

Morrowind is about 20 times better than Oblivion.

Okay, that wasn't very helpful.
I always hear this from people around here and SB, but I remain unconvinced. I might play more of Morrowind if I ...

The lack of large encounters was probably due to the demanding nature of the Doom3 engine at the time, but all the same the series went from being an ultra-violent bloodbath to a horror FPS.
I don't ...

Hey, so I'm about to try Oblivion in hopes that it's not as hideously wooden and clunky as Morrowind. Are there any mods that I should just go ahead and apply? I've heard there are lots that can vas ...

Yeah, I mean, nobody ever complains about Doom or Doom II being too repetitive. They're just as guilty of the "monster closet" thing.

Totally agreed on the handling of the computer screens. They ...

I don't entirely disagree, but I think the flashlight toggling keeps it engaging (and creepy).

See, my feelings are exactly the opposite. I was a little bit afraid that it was going to try to be a System Shock sort of game at the beginning, when the PDA was introduced and I thought I might get ...

So, contrary to all the ambivalence I've encountered I'm really enjoying Doom 3!

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Anyone still using LJ, please feel welcome to join up ...

Well, look at it this way: You can play MGS3 as slowly and carefully as possible, savoring every moment of sneaking through foliage, savoring the atmosphere, getting completely wrapped up in the game ...

OK, so I found what I needed to find (those other stashes I was looking at weren't anything I needed for the job I was on, they were just some random empty stashes), and I've moved on to the Bar. Pic ...

Yeah, blah, I'm at a total loss. I've found Strelok's little hideout where you take a ladder up a pipe to find a small room with some new items in it, and then the game tells me I'm supposed to find ...

Well, there was another item that I was supposed to find stashed in a pipe nearby, but there wasn't anything there either. Then I realized that there was more that I had to do in that underground are ...

Played for a bit more tonight, and I think I'm finally getting the hang of killin' dudes. What I did was I killed one guy at the top of some stairs at the end of a hallway, grabbed his gun, and took ...

Antitype, is this game ok with an original Saturn pad, or do I need to track down an analog pad for the full experience. I'm playing Azel on an actual Saturn here.

Haven't started it yet though!
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OK, so it seems like that took care of it, but man, this thing heats up again fast. I guess I'll just copy my music files over to my main HDD and just store music and other large media on the externa ...

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Basically, LJ/SixApart decided (or were pressured to) delete all journals deemed in support of child abuse, pedophilia ...

Well, my computer is set up in my bedroom, which is not the coolest room in the house, but it's where there's space. And I've got the external sitting upright next to my computer case, with a few inc ...

It's not a constant, sustained whine, but a sort of sporadic sound. Nor is it very loud, but enough to concern me. Is this something I should be worried about, and it is something I can fix?

It's ...

Nice. The robot forest one is now my desktop wallpaper.

Weird, I wonder what happened to it. Yeah, that sucks.

dhex, I never saw that copy of Project Snowblind. You haven't still got it around, have you?

If not, it's cool.

I'm considering trading away my WCIII Battle Chest, WoW, and The Burning Crusade, ...

I might like to pick one up some time later this year or early next. We're still expecting No More Heroes to be interesting, yes? Or at least of us who liked Killer 7.

I mean, I expect to be havi ...

OK, I'm done. I failed to capture any of the spectacular imagery at the end of the first disc (only three hours in!), so you'll just have to see for yourself.

I promise I won't do too many. Unless someone wants me to.

I think I might just continue to amuse myself by posting nice (non-spoiling) PDS screencaps!

Well, there are other areas where the Saturn's limitations are more apparent. Lots of places have a static "wall" not too far off in the distance to avoid nasty draw-in or a hideously cut-off edge li ...

Nevermind! I just gave up and restarted my computer and now it's running fine again.

Still, we could use this thread to discuss Saturn emulation, if anyone cares to.

As for PDS itself, well, pl ...