The Gamer's Quarter

Actually, Wes, the internet has given up on me lately. So much for siphoning off the free stuff.

Loving the library, though.

Dracko, I think NIN has made it a mission to supersaturate your ear-market so that no other bands can possibly fit inside.

Quarterers, I'm selling my Xbox360 and all its games. I just moved, and I don't really have room for it anymore. You or your friends interested? Here are the specs.

-Xbox360 with all its wire ...

vs. dead air? i don't think that one's on the box yet.

•Except those "games are my anti-drug" ads. Because gamers consume more marijuana per capita than any other advertising niche.

snowboarders?

Yes yes yes and yes. Another one of those advertis ...

I was just thinking about that. You don't see a lot of non-game ads on 1up.com•. It would probably be smart for some of the smaller titles to advertise elsewhere, and for people to realize that peop ...

Wale's "The Other Warwick Avenue" is up on his myspace page. Duffy's song has the best motown/burt bacharach production since motown/burt bacharach. Naturally, it can be made into a killer beat. Na ...

On the online magazine front, related to EGM--any idea what logic there was behind the list of fired editors at 1up?

Nick Suttner and Matt Chandronait brought a lot of smarts and perspective to the ...

Two from Condemned 2:

-Grizzly Bear
-hallucination in the police center

Do we have a "Justify my PS3 purchase" thread kicking around somewhere? Looking now.

http://www.gamersquarter.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2327

Or maybe it's just asking more from the player than we're used to. Should we call it a toy?

Of course, this is still all pretty speculative since it isn't released.

World of Goo can perfect anyone's gaming experience.

ps love you back more.

Gears of War 2 cooperatively with a cousin of mine.

It doesn't let you go for very long before it stops you, does it? Every time I start to get into any kind of rhythm the game changes very obtrus ...

The Neil Young live album just released.

Whole thing is wonderful. Track 1 is a knockout.

Love hearing him mess up playing Classical Gas.

What's rhythm dungeon?

It probably depends on the person. She tried to go in as unintimidated (by 3d movement, by lots of buttons on controllers) as she could, and in general she likes figuring things out. "Endeavor" is a ...

I think this is new because I only just discovered it:

On the elevator in No Mercy, there's usually some pretty funny banter. The other day I heard a new one. Zoey just starts rambling, "And what ...

http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3171810

I think this is going to be an important game. Apparently it may shirk extrinsic objectives completely. This means that there will be two motivating for ...

Interesting. I started going through Ico yesterday with my girlfriend. She doesn't really play games, so she asked for something that played like 2d Mario. We decided on Paper Mario, but didn't get ...

I would add Stage 3 from Dead Air: Start up the van, climb through the baggage handling machines, out into the open, and then between two floors of an enormous parking deck. The tank always knows jus ...

Bluegrass group the Steeldrivers are great. My friend Trey heard them playing at a Kentucky barbecue festival, so he gave me some of their songs. Listen to "If it hadn't been for love" from their my ...

Dracko did you finish the road?

Dhex did you finish pale fire?

Both are books I always want to talk about, but I don't want to be a spoiler.

You're so lucky!

Hope it makes the grade! ha? ha? fellow pale fire readers? ha?

because there is no hope for rabbit kind

Max Roach: Percussion Bitter Sweet. A couple of these cuts are very good, but mostly the album is hard to get excited about.

The Walkemen: You & Me. I have trouble dealing with all the harsh ...

Yeah, I get that they want to be seen as a single body of opinion. But why would they want to? Personally, I'd rather think of them as a diverse group who are comfortable with each others' differenc ...

After a few short minutes of research, I think I originally based the actionbutton.net portion on the first few reviews I ever read there. On the whole they aren't as trashy as all that. Woops!

B ...

Trashy writing is trashy writing. I thought the purpose of NGJ (not the mode, but the purpose) was a migration away from game reviews as either a) consumer reports, b) objective statements that signi ...

I would add Stage 3 from Dead Air: Start up the van, climb through the baggage handling machines, out into the open, and then between two floors of an enormous parking deck. The tank always knows jus ...

Of all the Brawl stages, of course you pick the most boring one.

This is an unnecessary thread, but it's for a good cause: the chance to remember and record the finest single levels in games of 2008. It seems to me that levels do not receive their propers often en ...

First listen to 808s and Heartbreak. Kanye has built something very interesting. Who knows if I like it.

I noticed the images that popped into my head upon reading the achievement title "101 Cremations" was less than savory from an animal activist point of view.

1. You're right on, Wes.
2. 360 also has single player. Plus, there's a "quickplay" feature, and no substance to the plot whatsoever. There's nothing to get caught up in. The only way to play this ...

I have seen the light. All hunting rifle. All the time.

I like that it does more damage zoomed in, so if the tank gets distracted by other people, you can back up and really hit it hard. Big if, ...

There's aim assist, but without any kind of PC experience, I'm not sure how big a role it plays. What it amounts to, I think, is the fact that even though analog sticks rarely stay dead center if the ...

king of the mortal kombat is every day south of the equator

Oh, and I still crack up every time I hear something like, "Oh no....Zo--Hey health packs over here!!!" as my character stands over a teammate's corpse.

Two great moments:

1) In No Mercy, I was killed by an exploding gas station. I couldn't have felt safer the moment before.

2) Dead Air, in the terminal. We clear the area when all of a sudden ...

the two split-screen players then can connect online via only one live account. Although, I think only one of them gets full mic use (?)

if i remember right, that's better than halo.

Just die ...

That means a lot to the homey who can't be with you.

I'm not sure anything can beat out Brawl for my '08 of the year. It's more rad than rad. But I guess I'll see once I get to the rest of the levels in Left 4 Dead.

Having said that: I can't run St ...

Redeye, I think the variation comes from the random-ish enemy deployment and player-generated spontaneity (is it fair to call the latter a design feature in this game?), not from the layout of the lev ...

Well, they waddle until they decide to eat you. Then they're fast zombies.

I think I'm hooked. Valve really nailed a way to get players to work together.

Here's a Left 4 Dead thread. I'm going to start the demo as soon as it finishes downloading.

What else should I get that isn't likely to come to Virtual Console anytime soon?

Excitebike 64 is my answer for everything.

And Majora's Mask.

Finished World of Goo. The final three or four stages (before the epilogue) are positively brilliant. I am shocked at how wide the narrative cast its net.

The epilogue challenges were pretty grea ...

Really it's more like an 8.3 I can'tbelieve you overrated that total crap game i mean it's pretty good but comeon, 8.5 it's not like game of the year, plz 8.3 ftw!

Two chapters down in World of Goo, which proves that puzzles and physics are swell, but context can be everything. The music alone in "Red Carpet" gave me giggle fits.