The Gamer's Quarter

I converted the latest issue into JPG suitable for reading on PSP, its available at [url=http://pingus.seul.org/%7Egrumbel/tmp/TheGamersQuarter-PSP/TheGamersQuarter8-PSP.zip]TheGamersQuarter8-PSP.zip.

Is the fishing really that hard for people playing the GC version?
Its not really hard, it just that it is totally pointless. On the GC all you have to do is pull the C-stick back once a fish bites, ...

They need to be presented with full player freedom and apparant non-linearity,
Practically speaking full player freedom just doesn't work at the moment, theoretically you could of course have some su ...

I think the biggest problem with the Wii currently is that it is missing its Mario64. So far no game could proof why the controller is so great and why I should just give up any technical advances for ...

Perhaps action games 'suck' because they are based around repetitive actions?
Its fine for an action game to be based around action and its also fine for a Tetris to be about falling blocks without a ...

So you feel uncomfortable killing things. Why here and not in any other game, regardless of character motive?
In SotC every boss is uniq, after you killed it, he is dead. In basically every other gam ...

I absolutely agree. The two games aren't structured similarly at all, nor do they need to be. Shadow of the Colossus works because it's only 6 hours long, but if it were 40 hours or more they'd need t ...

Once you get the whistle, the game falls apart again. The owl fetch quest was a complete waste of time. Besides padding the game time, I don't see why that was necessary. Stupid.
I actually liked tha ...

i'm glad i'm not the only one who found it stupidly formulaic and easy.
I would go a step further and say the whole game is far to formulaic, not just the boss battles. While I like that the dungeons ...

There are also third party GBA adapters around that work with by pluging an adapter into the memory card slot.

Peter Moore made the following statements in a recent interview:...
While I don't fully agree with Peter Moore, I can't deny that there is some truth in what he says either. For me backward compabili ...

Who the hell recommended Nanostray?
Nanostray isn't exactly the best shooter ever invented or especially original, innovative or anything, but its still a nice little fun old-school shooter with pret ...

While Metroid and Castlevania are similar, I would set them appart. Castlevania builds quite a bit more on RPG-like grinding to collect soles, buy better weapons and stuff., while in Metroid and Zelda ...

What games would you say were more about creating an "experience" rather than providing what we normally would call a game?

Another World/Out of this World
Noctis
Seiklus
Myst
The Last Express

How well does wine perform on more recent titles?
Performance isn't the problem, the problem is that most games will already refuse to install, with a bunch of hacks, cracks, patches and try&err ...

Games I have never touched intentionally are Prince of Persia:WW and TT. I liked PoP:SoT a lot and from all I have seen of the successors, they do nothing but ruin what the first part established, kin ...

I think that this quote summarises the difference between games and movies very well, and highlights the difference between Half-Life 2 and most other games.
I don't think Half-Life 2 is much of a so ...

I wish I knew what kind of data is transmitted from the Wii remote to the console. Do they project spatial coordinates or something?
The Wii Remote has two sensors, one is simply a IR camera which fi ...

Little recreation of the opening scene of Another World:

http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/md5/21040d0181fe035f5a188fa3973bbd13-anotherworld.jpg

I would recomment:
Mario64, while only a remake, it is still probally the game with which I had most fun on the DS
MarioKartDS, second best MarioKart after the one on SNES, nothing groundbreaking he ...

Except great video games have no where reached the caliber that is great films or music.
I disagree. Sure in terms of storyline most games are weak and even those that aren't might not be a match aga ...

You're right, I don't play many FPS games and haven't for years. When I did it was mostly the online multiplayer kind anyway. But! This game has continually been compared to non-FPS games as well, so ...

And instead of presenting the game as "this is already here, deal with it" it would pretend that the player had summoned the enemies.
I wouldn't like that much or at least I have never liked it in al ...

Basically, how hard is too hard, and what is the difference between a hard game and a challenging one?
The trouble with a hard game is that it can easily become a frustrating one, i.e. if you have a ...

I did a little update, by converting the PDFs to Postscript with Acrobat before converting them to JPEGs with Ghostscript I was able to solve the anti-aliasing issue with the fonts, so those pages tha ...

If we were to do a front page news post about this would you rather if we re-hosted the image, or would you like to keep it on your webspace?
For the moment I would prefer to leave it on my webspace, ...

Hi,

I converted the GamersQuarter PDF files for viewing on the Playstation Portable. Just unzip into the PSP/PHOTO/ folder on your memory stick and you should be able to view them with the build in ...