The Gamer's Quarter

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:05 am Post subject:

i'm really excited about it. it's going to be compatible with the ds paddle controller, which is releasing with arkanoid ds next week. (arkanoid and the paddle can be bought seperately, by the way.)

ALSO, they finally replaced the terrible cover art for beggar prince.
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:12 am Post subject:

chris kohler's impressions of the aforementioned psp dungeon making game.
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:47 am Post subject:

lawrence and co have translated the comic included with the famicom disk sytem.

Pink Teddy Bear · . Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 180

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/02/activision-and-vivendi-merge-in-18-billion-deal/

I didn't even know that much money existed in the world.

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:05 am Post subject:

art design in team fortress 2. nothing new if you've read the pdf, but laid out with some nice concept art. found through rock, paper, shotgun.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Did I mention how ridiculous i find it that the design team keep citing Norman J. Dinkleheimer and P.J. Winklewurst and all these 100-year-old illustrators I've never heard of as the inspiration for TF2's art design when it's obvious to anybody with eyes that they just looked at Pixar's The Incredibles and decided to copy it?

By the way, I just got my Wii back! The Mii Contest channel is (o^^)b

I entered the Robinson Crusoe contest. I'M GONNA WIN, TOO

Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

The Leyendecker referencing doesn't seem that ridiculous when you see the initial concept art, the Pixarish look seems to have appeared in the process of refining the models. It does seem like an elephant in the room though.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Plus, Gabe Newell and his team do not watch movies.
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject:

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I must say I think the character designs in TF2 are nothing short of brilliant.

Man, those other people's Robinson Crusoes are so bad. I'm gonna walk this contest.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Yahtzee sure took a Hell of a lot of time to decide being funny.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

dracko what the hell are you talking about, you posted this over at selectbutton too
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I mean this.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

fuck that, i ain't going to the escapist site!
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bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

I would trust Yahtzee as a reliable source of unbiased and well thought out gaming rhetoric.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Ok, so there was a Steam Client Update and I don't fully understand what this means:
"Added an in-game third-party CD key display for games without automatic Steam key integration"

please help me on this.
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject:

umihara coming to psp. the official website has nothing on it but a release date, but these screens make it look like umihara kawase shun with a fixed perspective.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Trailer tomorrow???

Teaser image:

http://www.shacknews.com/images/image-o-matic.x?/images/sshots/Screenshot/8915/8915_4768484983d88.jpg
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject:

His arms look like veiny cocks!
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject:

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

What engine are they using now? I can't remember if it's DooM 3 or Unreal 3.

I'd still buy it if it came out tomorrow Sad

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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject:

I predict that Chinese Democracy will be finished before Duke Nukem Forever.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject:

trailer for n+.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

yeah I got sick of that trailer pretty quickly!
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:08 am Post subject:

Holy crap! After being on my list of "e-mail me when the price goes down" games at Play Asia for something like 2 years, Blokus Club: featuring Bumpy Trot is coming out in the US by Majesco. Insane.

Too bad this link makes it look horrible:

http://kotaku.com/335783/hands-on-with-blokus-portable

I'm still pumped!

-Wes
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Ok that Duke Nukem Forever teaser does not fill me with confidence. The game appears to be all one colour, a little bit like Doom 3. Also, remember when 3DRealms got lambasted by Bruce Campbell for nicking his catchphrases? Well, the trailer reveals our first glance at their own efforts at writing such iconic dialogue, namely:

sediment · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:26 pm Post subject:

oh wow kirby
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dhex · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:10 pm Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Man, (Solid) Kirby fucking owns.

Oh shit, I want to see the Sonic version.

As to Duke: They've got an ungodly budget and can more or less afford to take asmuch time as they care to. So either it will be stunning or one of the biggest, saddest jokes in the industry.

But hey, Team Fortress 2 was vapourware once too.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah, I just want to see where those 11 years went.

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject:

Into rendering his veiny cock arms I'd wager.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Wii VR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

pretty bitchin'
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah, that kid is a genius!

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

There is a pretty killer sale happening on Steam right now, goes until the 1st of January.

All three Introversion games for $27!

Orange box for $37!

id superpack for $52!
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

If you bought the introversion pack last week it was only $20. I bought it fully expecting to get Defcon to gift out to someone else, but it turns out I just got to pay for it twice...

yay!

Also, i bought STALKER from this sale.
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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!"

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

The Neptune is alive and kicking!

Actually, that's kind of an awesome mod, although not really worth the effort since so few interesting/good 32X games exist.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-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: Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject:

line rider ds: now with less line riding.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I'm not even sure what the hell is supposed to happen in that game now. It would be pretty neat if it converted your lines into landscapes though.

Honestly I remember wondering how line rider was going to make it as a console game anyways, considering that it's basically just a physics toy.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

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

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

My favorite piece of news ever:

CAPTAIN OLIMAR JOINS THE BRAWL!
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Lasa · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 128

I don't know how to feel about this piece of news:

VADER & YODA JOIN THE CALIBUR! ONLY EACH ONE IS EXCLUSIVE TO A CONSOLE!

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject:

So Namco can't think up any more characters so they have to use other people's?

Or is this a pandering to nerds thing?
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

It was handled fairly well the last time.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Normally I don't agree with more than like 20% of what Yatzee has to say, but with SH: Origins, I pretty much am 100% with him.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

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

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

I'm with you. By the way: Pikmin games + Majora's Mask = "the best games," proving harveyjames's point.
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D-A-I-S · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 123

Dessgeega have you seen this

(I'm not sure if it's real or not - the 64DD is a thing of mystery to me and many others)

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Wow! It's the true genesis of Warioware!

Speaking of 64DD, did you know Doshin the Giant was originally supposed to have a spherical world like the ones in Mario Galaxy? That would have been pimp.

D-A-I-S · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 123

Oh hey, here's a better recording of the same minigames:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nShk242IQc&feature=related