The Gamer's Quarter

Yeah, that blurb makes is sound like it's going to be pretty limited.

Actually, if you already know Java you might be able to pick up ActionScript 3.0 pretty easily, I'm told they're very similar l ...

I would avoid classes that advertise teaching 'Flash' because they'll probably be visually focused. Look for a class that teaches ActionScript, the scripting language for Flash. Also, make sure that i ...

Actually, discovering the cloud bridge was one of the more memorable moments from the game for me. I was just running around the level wonder how to get the piece, I jumped just for the hell of it and ...

Hmm, yeah, I guess I didn't think they were that complicated. A lot of them I figured out in a second, some of them I was really stumped on but only because it was something obtuse, and some I actuall ...

It sounds like I had a similar experience to Worm's.

Portal isn't a matter of screwing around until you stumble upon something, I think that there are legitimately multiple ways to succeed at any ...

To be fair, a lot of the folks who went after the stars at first didn't know whether or not it added anything to the game (which it does).

Also, the two hour wait isn't half as bad as the star that ...

By the way, has everyone seen David Hellman's blogpost about screen size in Braid?

http://www.davidhellman.net/blog/screen-size/

Apparently I was missing a lot of the framing when I played. Make ...

There are 8 stars to find that fill in the constellation outside the house. They're basically super-tough puzzles that almost all involve getting up past the edge of the screen on particular levels.
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Hmm, see, I started in on the speedruns right after I got all the stars and found that the solutions were the same, I just had to be more efficient with my time. It's true that this sometimes forced m ...

Haha, yeah, I can see what you're saying about 'labcoat' level design from Valve, but wouldn't that kind of work in Portal?

I guess for me when I approached a puzzle in Braid I either knew exactly ...

I was disappointed that the game's puzzles were so linear, all the way up to the very end. I never really felt like I was working through anything, it just felt like I had finally guessed what Jon Blo ...

I thought they gave bonuses to the army but were themselves not very powerful, especially after you load the regular patapons with nice armor.

I believe Passage is heteronormative because it's quasi-autobiographical.

I actually like Passage a lot, I think it's genuinely sad and also a little clever in its use of traditional video game ic ...

As far as I've figured out the regular patapons get more powerful than the special ones (I think they're called rarepons) when you equip them with the right armor and weapons.

I agree with you tha ...

I would recommend the Rules of Play Reader, I'm not a big fan of the authors' original book (Rules of Play) but the reader has a lot of good stuff. Also, anyone interested in games should read The Amb ...

I'm playing through it right now and I'm having a great time. There have been several times when I thought it was about to get old, but they've managed to consistently throw in little twists that keep ...

Is Bioshock too easy an answer?

To tell the truth I think I would like most of the games I've played more if they were only 2/3 their length.

Working in the industry isn't all bad, you just have to be careful where you work.

I work at really small place in NYC that does a lot commercial web games for clients. While I might not get to do ...

I believe Warriors of God, by James Preston is the one you're talking about. It's good, though it covers a very specific portion of the Crusades.

Yeah, the game in general is pretty glitchy, even on the 360.

My complaint isn't that religion is depicted horribly. My complaint is that it's depicted limply and rife with the sort of secular rhe ...

I guess 'mythology' was too strong a word. I just mean that someone seems to feel that 'rescue the princess' isn't a good enough exposition anymore, so now you have these long sequences explaining the ...

I've always been of the opinion that the world of Mario was really inspired placeholder art. Bizarre and meaningless so that ultimately it wouldn't distract from the gameplay, it would just disappear. ...

I feel like the endings wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't come so abruptly, and after such a disappointing final boss.

I've mostly been playing through campaign, but I played a few multiplayer games last night as well and was having terrible issues. It actually said that there were only ~250 people playing Team Object ...

Actually, I'm looking forward to whatever Matsuno is [url=http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3153639]working on.

Well, there's always the ones everyone talks about. The Metal Gear Solids, the third being my favorite, The Silent Hills series, of which I recommend the second. Beyond Good and Evil. If you haven't p ...

Here here!

I think that it's more like the relationship between mythology and theatre in ancient Greece, where everyone generally knew the stories and what had and was going to happen, so the creativity of a pla ...

I think people underestimate the effects of having gameplay at all, even when it's as ineptly used as in the average jRPG. The gameplay may be boring, and it may poorly reflect the story, but it stil ...

I think that the only thing that's going to stop the predominance of sequels is if somehow individual developers get better known/more credit. Right now if a developer leaves the franchise they helped ...

How does it compare to the original book? By which I mean, which would you rather spend your time consuming?

Any storyline, characters etc shown and it wouldn't be "pure".

That seems about right to me. In fact you could make the argument that music in games isn't pure unless it's algorithmically generated ...

I've often thought that cut-scenes were analogous to waiting for another player to finish her turn in a board game. It's a time when control and input is taken away from you and you can pay attention ...

Hmm, I don't know if I agree with that, dark steve. 'Pure Cinema' is a very specific term that covers a lot of stuff that I can't really sit through too many times. I mean I'm glad it's out there maki ...

Yeah, but how many people really enjoy the purest form of cinema?

Seems like a hell of a roundabout way of saying it.

His backpedalling though, doesn't make any sense. Who reads criticism about things that they don't care about? I don't watch TV, why would I want to read a critic's opinion of Lost?

The more intere ...

Is it just me, or are the flowers shaped like d-pads?

I agree with Ketch that the crix of the problem is 'total wish fulfillment'. I think that games shouldn't always give the player everything they want. The most recent example of this that I can think ...

I understand that I took a lot of the things I quoted out of context, but I wasn't really trying to make a point, I just wanted to voice my concern and see if it was warranted. Apparently it isn't.
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Double Dragon II was really the beginning and the end of beat-em-ups for me. I've played some since then and had a good time, but they all did indeed lack something that I can't quite put my finger on ...

This is my first topic post, so I apologize if it comes off a little awkward. Anyway, I've been following gaming news recently and I've become nervous about what I've been reading. Between David Jaffe ...

I think that the problem lies in the fact that Blizzard's main concern is the integrity of what they consider the 'magic circle' of the game. I think you can see this position in everything from their ...

I'll second Toups on REmake. I think I'm actually one of the few people on Earth who likes it more that RE 4 (and it's good to finally have some company David). But between those two and everything el ...

I wouldn't think that they would retire the Game Boy, if for no other reason than that the GBA still sells really well.

For the most part I like the redesign, but it seems like it will be even mor ...

It's like having... pants that randomly explode...

That right there is my new favorite analogy.

Does anyone know if there's any truth to the rumor that Miyamoto gets paid about as much as a secretary by Nintendo?

Techniques for creating meaing in video games is a big and interesting subject, but I think what Ketch is saying is something we could all agree with at least in part. There don't seem to be a lot of ...

Yeah, Happy Holidays everyone, no matter where you happen to be stuck.

Ketch, I think the problem you're having is with most games linearity, not their interactivity.