The Gamer's Quarter

This is/was the most active Stalker thread I know of, so I'm bringing it back for my own purposes. I recently built a new computer, and Stalker was a very high priority, so I bought it on Steam for a ...

[url=http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1331]This is a really excellent interview. David, I could listen to you talk for hours.

And, uh, an added bonus is footage of Braid that I had not seen befo ...

apollo justice is a game about chasing a fifteen-year-old's panties.

did maya get too old for the moe set? was that was this series had to be rebooted?

the stench of double-entendre permeates ev ...

EmX, I thought you saved your nasty responses to my enthusiasm for SB.

My only exposure to Aeon Flux is from the live-action movie, which did little for me. I guess there's a reason why the franch ...

This is awesome! Since I grew up with PCs, I have had very little exposure to Mac games at all. The variety of visual styles in these screenshots is really impressive! But I do know a few of these: ...

The SNES game is all I know of Phantom 2040, and it was really cool back then. Doesn't hold up too well, unfortunately, but it's worth a try if you get the chance.

I'm a really big fan of TAS. I ...

Adilegian: This is really great so far! Though I haven't yet gotten to discussions of content and thus haven't reached those aspects that interest me most, you're doing a great job at plotting out th ...

I was really hoping for something else from this thread. Sad

Me too. The other day, I was playing Half-Life 2 and a woman of about fifty years remarked that she couldn't understand how someone coul ...

Yeah, I figured something like that. Even knowing it, watching such a thing drains my excitement away. I tossed it.

or perhaps the game sucks and we've been lied to?

Nah, the 22 (I think) minu ...

I've been watching more Bioshock videos. A 7-minute gameplay vid recently went up that shows a string of unrelated action segments. It's really just the player carelessly attacking enemies with godm ...

I'm definitely steering clear of LJ and getting a Wordpress account after I plan it out. It seems more respectable in every way.

Shaper, I know that WP features nice import/export tools, according ...

http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html

http://draves.org/pix/kdn/

My goodness; you have exquisite taste. The other two links are great too, but thank you very ...

Hoh, a CYOA? But.. it's by Steve Meretzky, right? So is it great, or what?

Besides Lone Wolf, which stretches the definition, [url=http://plover.net/~bonds/creatureofhavoc.html]Creature of Havoc ...

I'm extremely curious about the insides of the Mother Encyclopedia and the Meretzky Zork book.

Also, I have the three 1up zines. They're lovely! I hope they aren't being bent even a little by any ...

it's awful.

every reason everybody had for not liking kotor (i like kotor), rolled into one.

bioware makes me so goddamn angry

It bugs me because I don't know if they've incorporated it.

And with all their talk of emergent gameplay and creating a credible ecosystem, they'd gain so much if it is.

I'm pretty sure that, th ...

oh man

i am such a SCUMM sucker

what to do

Metroid . Uh, the one specifically featured in Super Metroid.
You mean the one that isn't anywhere near as important if you haven't played Metroid 2?

I played the Super Metroid a couple years befo ...

The fusebox is not clever. The fusebox is terrible. Touching the DS in two different places at once registers one touch directly between them, making the task obvious but impossible. I only managed ...

Thanks, I'll be sure to look into both of those.

I've been reading through IGDA's Ivory Tower column -- which is the stuff that made me angry -- and [url=http://www.lostgarden.com]The Lost Garden. ...

Do any of you actually remember what this thread was about?

I've been working on some basic definitions for interactive media, and I took a break to search the web for writing regarding the need and criteria for such a discourse. I also asked selectbutton, bu ...

What particularly interests me is the thought of this huge world whose places and peoples exhibit all of these different works of literature -- all coexisting and overlapping. That's what makes me re ...

Actually, after reading the faq thoroughly, this seems sort of exciting. He's created a huge adventure-game world, including real, historical, sci-fi, and fantasy locations, and using different art s ...

reading and looking through the website made me throw up in my mouth.

however.

it looks like it could, possibly, maybe be a good thing with a vomitous website. can anyone confirm?

I like the sky dungeon.
and the water dungeon.

i think it's because they have real architectural structures. or maybe it's the way the whole level is sort of a puzzle involving its item. or ma ...

I didn't realize how much I was loving Hotel Dusk until the end of chapter 4. No real reason, that's just when it clicked for me. Hard.

I was passionately in love with Pheonix Wright for a long t ...

hm that is a difficult question as i cannot relate to your situation there

uh

MAYBE

hey do ya'll reckon there's a spectrum running between IF and adventure games?

I couldn't figure out how to get a coin for the vending machine!

But yes, I did keep track of the sticker numbers.

Big deal.

Nah, nothing I said was at all spoiling. If you're referring to the codebreaker puzzle I mentioned, that doesn't reveal anything. Don't worry. Also, the reading comprehension level in this game is ...

I finished Hotel Dusk last night. I really really really really really liked it! It has recognizable roots in Trace Memory's design, but it's a longer and more serious game and story. I can't be ce ...

I loved the original Advance Wars, but I felt strongly that the "wildcard" aspect of CO powers was to the detriment of the game's chess-like appeal. Simplicity is a good thing. I haven't gotten ahol ...

I finished the game. Case 4 was really great; it put me in an interesting and rather adult position that I never thought the series would try to explore. And, as always, Edgeworth and Wright's relat ...

The fourth case is really good so far! Thank goodness!

Please and thank you!

...where am I?

!!! M-Mia?! You were there this whole time??

Hmm. Well, the first thing Mia ever taught me was the importance of believing in your client, so

You're off to a good start, Pheonix!

is what she would say. Probably.

Ooh Hotel ...

I can't believe this obviously useful idea came up against so much resistance. I have a lot of links that I've saved, and I'll be pleased as punch to share them when I get home.

I can no longer think of Nana and Maya as two different people.

I had to stop playing last night to get angry at the president, but before that I was going through the court thing with Acro and it ...

I mean, yeah, Nana/Nick/(Dick)Gumshoe banter makes me smile as much as ever, but I feel much more frustrated and much less touched than I did on even my third time through the first game.

Thank god for the reassurance about case 4. I'm halfway through 3 now and this game is really disappointing. I just replayed through the original in preparation, so the contrast in quality is breaki ...

There are various versions of the Supercard and M3 Adaptor, but these can be unreliable at times, because the drivers used in ScummVM DS have been reverse engineered from the device itself. This is be ...

Pyramid Head?

Wes: Ah, I see. That must be a cool experience.

Yeah, I feel you. There were a number of mysterious elements in the game that had my imagination run wild, until I learned that they were very, very banal gamey modern zelda things. =(

I do love ...

I have never and never will think that FF:CC is a game I would like.

I did. It sucked.

Yeah but like did you find anything? Are there bugs there?

edit: nevermind

Oh, question! Are th ...

yeah, that was pretty fun, wasn't it?

did anybody go back and explore that whole area on foot? i thought about it.

Oh.

Well, yeah. I mean, that's the appeal of the dungeon, inasmuch as (almost) every dungeon has some kind of appeal. I just wasn't very impressed because the mansion was laid out a bit too gamey ...

Dhex, in order to be useful, how quick a turnaround do you need on the surveys?

I'm going to have to be in the right mood to remember and reflect upon that day properly, I mean.

Oh wow! Introversion has a [url=http://www.introversion.co.uk/blog/index.php]dev blog now!

Maybe some of you knew this already and that's where you found out about Subversion, but man I can't wait ...

Yes, it's a linear process. It's GREAT to be doing that stuff rather than seeing a pre-stage briefing video, but I agree with what you're saying. So, just imagine this awesome hypothetical modern ad ...