The Gamer's Quarter

Wow, good luck and congratulations!

All I played of the first Resistance was the demo, which was simply awful. But yeah, the second one has been fun and far more imaginative. Running through a clearcut meadow full of invisible instagi ...

rhymes with "Hyphy"?

This coming exactly at the point they finish their one mature show, huh.

Ooh. So that Aethenor gets to be my first favorite album of 2009. Delicious! And a perfect continuation of both their work and Tibet's. The free drumming that drove the last album gets far more tr ...

Hey, your game producer's good! I was surprised.

I'm not caring much for the new Antony, except the last 3 (i think) tracks.

Aethenor's new album with David Tibet should arrive any minute now! ...

yes they were totally the wrong links.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/bioshock?q=bioshock

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/fallout3?q=fallout%203

(when yo ...

Oh! I'm not sure. The server I was playing on just suddenly launched us into Dead Air. I didn't realize it might have been a hack. I'd heard they were doing that officially "soon" so I just assumed ...

Well, looks like the second two maps are up on VS. Dead air is tricky! All those rooftops.

Which album? I picked up an older used one cause Young God, but resold it pretty promptly.

Give God's Money a chance before you write off Gang Gang Dance though.

I think Animal Collective's pre ...

Old or new? I thought Saint Dymphna was terribly boring, but I remember liking God's Money quite a bit.

Also boring: new Animal Collective. Looped to shit and back, boring trendy pseudo-hippy Bro ...

I went back to that Flying Lotus and couldn't really find that range you speak of. It bored me a little, really.

Right now I'm listening to Nahvalr, which is the dudes from Deathconsciousness asse ...

I need to play more Dead Air. I always play random levels and it's only come up for me a couple times.

A couple from Left 4 Dead:

Stage 3 in No Mercy, with the gas station, which by the sewer section gets punishing, and then you have to jump out of the manhole outside the hospital where you're sudde ...

There's a Gamers Quarter group you can join, though I haven't seen many of us on there. You can check the online ID thread up top too- I've compiled a list of Steam (and Live and PSN and Wii) account ...

Let Me Be A Woman (1995) is an Albini production, An Evil Heat (2002) is probably their best overall, but I think I prefer The Narcotic Story (2007) as I think the band's tightest there, even if it's ...

Tons of African stuff- Analog Africa, Soundway, Strut, Vampi Soul and Sterns Africa have all put out FANTASTIC compilations this year. [url=http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/1635/]Here's a free mix f ...

The biggest challenge is GameCube games. Oddly enough, no one in the history of the world seems to have made a binder for mini-CDs or mini-DVDs, other than that little Nintendo wallet that only hold ...

1. Is it possible to chain xboxes (with separate TVs I guess) LAN-style?
2. Is there no "join game in progress" option on xbox?
3. There's a lot more teamwork and tactics involved in the full versio ...

Also, the hunting rifle: great in open areas, completely fucking useless in a tight spot. Automatic shotgun all the way - basically guaranteed kills, and really ammo-efficient.

I still don't get ...

It's not as useful in the swarms at the end of each chapter.
I've found the ability to kill two in one shot makes up for it, myself.

Simplicio, are you playing pc or the box?

PC. I generally play with the hunting rifle, and I can't imagine it being effective with an analog stick. Is difficulty adjusted to compensate?

I po ...

Tried my hand at expert on a couple levels last night; got a really nice group and plowed through most of Blood Harvest before getting disconnected at the last stage.

Argh: Blood Harvest officially ...

I enjoyed Things That Go Bump in the Night, which was included on an Subconscious Communications compilation I stumbled upon about eight months back.

What LPD albums would anyone recommend? I remem ...

I plugged away at Valkyria Chronicles a bit. It's alright; even though I like the "book" format for presentation of cutscenes, they're still bad anime cutscenes. I'm such a total sucker for tactical ...

Just starting off the single player, and I'm finding this a little hard to enjoy. The controls are probably the first barrier; it's slow, too weighty and the multiple planes aren't very well handled. ...

Motorstorm: Pacific Rift is pretty much ExciteTruck extreme.

I certainly didn't get that from the demo I played. Unless by extreme you mean the silly mindset of extreme sports and truckathons, b ...

So Crysis finally decided to work for me! But now that I've played a bit of it I'm not so sure how much in love with it I actually am. So far the environment seems less compelling to me than either ...

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhqGQTmtVSE]Royal Shakespearean Sextape

I'm enjoying this pretty mightily. Just freeform driving around offroad is a lot of fun, loosely heading after the next objective, maybe stopping off at a safehouse or guardpost, maybe picking up a d ...

I never played the first Far Cry though. How similar was it, structurally, to this?

Not at all. Far Cry has a linear plot without side missions; it's got sort of an open environment with multipl ...

What it lacks in lean, I think it kinda makes up for in bushes. Crouching seems to be a pretty reliable tactic in the bush.

I can't tell yet if there's ever going to be people out in the wild who ...

Nepal's pretty into it.

See, I prefer Meteos, though I never fell in love with it. I like the blastoff mechanic and use of physics there, and I thought the wild diversity helped the game, even if the music wasn't as good.

I'm with the "not getting Lumines" camp. Some people are so into it that I assume it's worthwhile, but yeah, squares.

Yeah, throw that shit on ebay right quick.

Added a whole bunch of stuff and had to work it up with prices to post over on Ars Technica, so I'm just cross posting that here:

PC: (PC games include discs, all original jewel/paper/dvd cases and ...

PMs posted.

I should add that I'd be particularly interested in trading for Metroid 2, the GBC Motocross Maniacs, hard copies of Crysis or Warhead and maybe FFTA2 (maybe.)

[url=http://ds.ign.com/objects/142/14209935.html]Fire Emblem DS coming to America.

I think that's a remake of the first one?

Here's some stuff. Cash preferred! Trades considered.

Misc.
A first party PSP case for the original large PSP
That Castlevania pack that came with Portrait of Ruin preorders, with Castlevania m ...

I never went back to playing after being machine gunned upon entering the Cordon, but I didn't find it buggy. Playing Far Cry though I've been used to autosave-only (I really like that!) so I've lost ...

I'm sure there are some other rappers out there looking to transition into film careers.

I'd love to see Snoop as a Somalian pirate. I'd pay money for that.

You could get Chiwetel Ejiofor and Djimon Honsou too I guess. Mos Def?

But maybe there's hope for Die Hard 5?

what's tages?

just got the Rockstar pack through Steam. I like these 50% off developer weekends; I'm bummed that I just missed out on the id one.

BLAST WORKS

I had no idea this existed. Just ordered from gamefly for $9. Thanks thread!

the end of far cry, even less so. dear god there is a sequence that is maddeningly cheap in particular, but the whole thing is break your nails difficult.

the pre-volcano thing where you have to ...

So continuing onward with Far Cry, as Crysis continues to fail me and reboot my computer:

I really love this game. Even when the trigens come in! Maybe even especially; there's so much space to p ...

I just got into this with both Fallouts; no DRM makes me happy, running games from HDD makes me happy. I'm hoping these guys might take on Riven? Cause Gametap won't play nice on 64bit anything.

Excite Truck remains my favorite game on the system.

I don't think it's even a "real world" thing. I just fail to derive enjoyment from them. I think the immediacy of a lethal headshot brings me into the action more than the beeswarm effect of Unreal ...

And team fortress 2. Still. Was daphny's suggestion that we get a game together a threat or a promise?

I think I just don't get games where it takes a bunch of bullets to do someone in. Things ...