The Gamer's Quarter

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:24 am Post subject:

i would need to get that too.
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Isfet · . Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 107 Location: A New York

well, i'm probably going to get it.

maybe today, even.

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:57 am Post subject:

well i will get it if it means the gamer's quarter bomberman shennanigans.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I'll probably get it tonight myself.

What's your gamertag isfest? I want to say I know this answer, but I can't recall offhand.
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Isfet · . Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 107 Location: A New York

my tag is Isfet0, but i'm pretty sure you and i are already friended each other.

anyway, just downloaded it. i'll try it out and then maybe tonight we can give it a go?

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Hell yeah, I'll be on at about/around 5:30pm central time after work. I'm tring to convince Dess to get it too...
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:26 am Post subject:

bleah. i bought bomberman and a gold account. bomberman is ugly and the level selection is pretty uninspired (the game is notably missing a conveyor belt stage and an everyone starts fully powered up stage) but, woohoo, it's live.

matt, call me when you get home cuz i might be sleeping.
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SuperWes · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:01 pm Post subject:

I got this today and played it a bit at lunch. It's good! My preferred setup is random stage selection with three rounds to win. The only thing is, I'm not sure Bomberman's a good match for online play. A big part of the enjoyment comes from playing with other people in the same room. In some ways it's a game of skill, but the main draw is the company, not the victory. I'll probably play if you guys get on, but I'm thinking that I'll probably play it more with the suckas at work and my friends at home.

Can I recommend worms again?

-Wes
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject:

wow, bomberman is great online.
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Isfet · . Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 107 Location: A New York

yea, that was a really good time. let's all do that again.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

SuperWes · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:24 am Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:26 am Post subject:

TOLD YOU.

shaper and i might be playing later. you should join us! we will explode!
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elvis.shrugged · . Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Stratford, CT

I bought Devil's Crush on the VC yesterday. It's so good!

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject:

i hear shiren's out on the japanese virtual console now.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

is this guy retarded or what

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x40/Sturryz/Marathonreview.jpg

you know what REALLY sets doom multiplayer apart from marathon multiplayer? marathon multiplayer is fucking playable.

i'm buying this game just to spite this review, now. what a douche.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject:

i read up to the words "we all worship" and couldn't read any more. i think that was the first sentence.

cycle, we must play marathon together.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

What magazine was that for? The writing was horrible (as dess has pointed out)! That was a terrible review man.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

official xbox magazine
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject:

wing commander arena seems boring. and has nothing to do with wing commander, of course.

i'm still amazed i'm the only person i know to have bought missile command. doesn't wes buy anything they'll let him? i checked the leaderboards today, and i'm in something like 150th place.
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SuperWes · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject:

ApM · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject:

The inevitable end of the world is pretty horrific, yeah.

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject:

wes, you own sneak king. and like a billion shitty digital eclipse ports.

speaking of which, everyone should download the super contra demo just to see how utterly hideous it is.
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SuperWes · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:50 am Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:02 am Post subject:

upcoming games for xbox live arcade.

sensible soccer will apparently be released on august 29th. no doom II, but final doom? ikaruga? every extend is coming out in august. durandal must be. metal slug has been announced; so's the incredible machine. oasis could be interesting - i beta tested it but havn't played the final game. space giraffe remains in limbo.

they need to get around to putting out some of these games already.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Marathon and Spyglass Board Games - this week!
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:51 am Post subject:

oh, hot.

anyway, i ended up buying alien hominid, not for the main game (which is a kind of bland metal slug clone) but for the pda game. i figured, when's the next opportunity i'll have to play a cleverly designed single-screen platformer on my xbox? not until n comes out. i downloaded all the level packs, including the two "classic" packs (the levels from the original release) so that i can get rid of my copy of the gamecube version.

so far i've played through the first forty stages of the "starter" pack, which is unique to the xbox version. it takes about twenty stages to start getting good, but it does in fact get really good. and in the game's defense, you can start from stage 20. and hey, there's online multiplayer in case anyone other than i cares about this game.

someone has to figured out how to get around the copyright issue and put super mario war on this thing. maybe call it "super giana war"?
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:09 pm Post subject:

so yeah i'm liking these levels but i'm annoyed the behemoth didn't bother to fix any of the bugs in the game or improve the collision detection.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:27 am Post subject:

well, i assume there is for the regular, boring game but i was referring to the single-screen game, which is the non-boring one.

EDIT: though i would be down for playing through the normal game with you with an mst3k-like running commentary.

final doom is two super-ambitious doom II level packs that were designed by fans for free before john romero bought them and released them commercially. it's pretty interesting that those have been announced but not doom II.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Final Doom is an expansion to Doom 2 that adds two new episodes.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Uhh, that's just really weird.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Final Doom sucked pretty hard. I don't consider it canon!
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:11 am Post subject:

achievement unlocked: bigger guns nearby!

all the achievements on durandal award points in multiples of seven. ha!

anyway, this rocks my socks. right now, for one fleeting glorious moment, i'm somewhere around fifty on the leaderboards. this will not last. i'm in volunteers, the second chapter. i just flooded the lava factory. there's also a fabulous survival mode, where you fight off continuously-spawning phfor troops on deathmatch stages. i don't last very long, but it's exactly the sort of bonus mode i expect in a live title.

cycle, crosshairs or no, you will be playing this with us. i will brook no argument.

i have that power of seven song stuck in my head now.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:52 am Post subject:

i changed the thread title. i hope that's okay. we talk about live arcade games a lot here.

it's weird to think that the xbox live durandal will be a lot of people's first experience with marathon. i'm kind of worried they'll try to play it like it was doom.
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boojiboy7 · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:55 am Post subject:

I am waiting on playing through the single player for a bit to see if Goose wants to co-op it with me. But oh god is it pretty.

And survival is an awesome little bonus game. It makes me remember the part of State of Emergency I liked, that whole arcade don't die feeling.

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

if goose is not available i am totally down to mess up some phfor with you.
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boojiboy7 · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:04 am Post subject:

awesome.

this is my first time playing marathon 2 though, so do you think co-oping it would ruin it?

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:10 am Post subject:

depends on whether it's the other person's first time also. maybe play a little by yourself then come online for some deathmatch?
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Lestrade · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:18 am Post subject:

Oh! I would like to play this. But I can't right now. :-(

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:21 am Post subject:

:(
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Lestrade · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject:

:```(

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I can't really play this tonight Sad

It will be my first Marathon experience because I could never get that aleph one shit to work. Anyways, I'm psyched even if I probably won't be playing it until this weekend or so.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Frick yes I am downloading this tonight.

Also I've heard from arcade champions on the original that the "new" Missile Command is pretty good once you come to terms with it so I might check that out as well.

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject:

i swear it's a good game.

so i guess the gamer's quarter marathon tournament of sexy friends commences this weekend. be there or begone.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

you would all be destroyed if I had an xbox.

also, can you turn crosshairs off? I'd still kick ass without them.

also, I wouldn't co-op with me, since I know the game like the back of my hand and speed run it without even reading the terminals these days.

i'm getting a 360 in early october if all goes well.

also i guess i'll go finish that article now. shaper, when would it be printed, if i get it in before this issue goes out?

PROTIP: there is a shotgun on the first level
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

survival mode is so good. my current best is 12,912.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

mine would be like 15.

million.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject:

i see.
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