The Gamer's Quarter

dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:58 am Post subject:

far cry 2 vid:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/118821.html

dunno if this was posted before. looks really nice.
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daphaknee · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:19 am Post subject:

the end boss was hard but i had to beat it to SPITE THE WORLD

Ethoscapade · . Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276

i can 1cc metal slug too and i'm by and large not very good at videogames.

(other games i can 1cc: NES contra, 3/5 of ikaruga, gradius v until the stage 5 boss...)

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

It sounds like you're better than about 95% of people who play games.

Cossix · . Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87

Jonathan Blow can BLOW A DICK GET IT BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF HIS LAST NAME I'M SO CLEVER

I really wanted to play his game a lot but then I read about the Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom and it sounds like it's going to use time mechanics in ways that could be a lot more interesting.

Also I don't think I can 1cc anything except Ghost Squad and I think I'm pretty good at video games and it sounds like you're better than I am!

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:37 am Post subject:

someone tell this guy that i've already written this story.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

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

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

Some dude has just publicly released a bunch of prototypes. Like, for Mega Drive, Saturn, Master System, even Gamecube... I had a quick look and to be honest none seem too interesting to me, just earlier versions of games that were eventually released, but there might be a few special things in there. Plus it's interesting seeing how some of our favourite games changed during development (apparently a few have different features, levels, etc).

http://www.hidden-palace.org/?news/c/15
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject:

cycle will like this. nick montfort on why the passage is better than portal.

also interesting, the eff's patent-busting project has announced its intentions to try and overturn nintendo's patent on handheld emulation.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I saw that earlier today and was going to read it after I played Passage. Guess I'll play it now!

Here's another article citing another game better than Portal (though I'm not sure I agree with it... has made me curious about the game he mentions, though):

http://theangrypixel.com/blog/2008/01/25/an-impossibly-immortal-defense-aka-why-we-were-wrong/

I, myself, have started work on an article expressing me feelings towards Portal. It started as a simple CRITIQUE and somehow ended up as the most awesome thing I've ever written. I'm not going to finish it until I get the Marathon article done though... and that's on the backberner while I look for a job. NOT ENOUGH HOURS IN THE DAY.

EDIT: Man, that article sure has some shithead comments. Turns out Portal also spawned a legion of twats!
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject:

portal really is a breath of fresh air compared to most of the tripe the industry produces.

account of sakurai's gdc presentation on smash brothers brawl, courtesy a classmate of mine. we're trying to organize a launch party on the tenth with a giant projector screen.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I only like the trophy mode in Smash Bros. I think the sticker collecting looks neat too, just because I like a lot of Nintendo's Promotional Art. I dunno that I'll be buying the game though. I think it looks like Kingdom Hearts took a shit.

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

HANG ON, WHAT

Passage ain't that good.

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

Neither is Portal!
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

But get this thought I just had out of my brain, right: The fact that people are falling over themselves to write 'x is better than portal' articles means only one thing: Portal is really, really fucking good. I don't see anyone writing 'x is better than Passage' articles. Why: because they're not worth writing because no-one gives a tinker's cuss about Passage.

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

It's because Passage isn't nearly as over-hyped and over-covered like Portal is, which had a major company backing it! It's also an easy way to grab attention, like the article in question.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah that's true, I guess

I really like Portal, but I guess not every game can be MARATHON(G)

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

Also note that I didn't say I agree with the article in question!

There will be no other game like Marathon. There can be only one.

Excluding Marathon 2 and Infinity.

I wish I haven't made myself such a joke on these boards Sad

I need to get my cred back.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

It'll take a grand gesture!

I suggest you express your newfound humility in a sig and avatar change that reflects your new positve outlook.

sig: 'I'M SORRY :('

avatar: Sad

You need to keep it like that for three months.

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

What, only if you do something to make up for all the times you've been a jerk. Especially to Faithless.

EDIT: OK, LET'S STOP CLOGGING UP THIS THREAD HARVEY.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Faithless is that girl you don't like, right

Ok, I'm done in this thread

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

Harvey, I like every girl.

We really need our own area.

ALRIGHT, moving on!
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:25 am Post subject:

Man, an article about both Passage and Portal, it's like attack of the pretentious hipster artfags in here now.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Well, not really. I mean, if the product had lots of man hours put into it and it has lots of features and functions better than other ones, why not charge for it? I mean, you're not paying to run roms you don't own, you're paying for the program that does it. If you get what I'm saying.

Sorry, I'm pretty tired, but hopefully that's clear enough.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:35 am Post subject:

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

There's that, too.

The only emulator I know of that costs money AND is better than free ones is that PCEngine one.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:40 am Post subject:

I totally got Magic Engine from a torrent site.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Me too, I'm just sayin' is all.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:43 am Post subject:

You say an awful lot of things.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Well my life is in limbo right now, I have lots of time to say lots of things.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

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

GHOST POST

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Maybe it's different overseas. In the U.S. we have people who actually read Pitchfork, and then repeat the things they read there.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

True confession: I'm teaching a music criticism unit with my 11th graders right now. Today we're looking for trends in Pitchfork reviews.

Another true confession: I like pitchfork. Despite all the snark and the general idea that they are somehow the purveyors of cool, it's a very thorough website, and if you actually read the text of the reviews, they stuff them with interesting information.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

When ever I read one of their reviews, they spend three and a half paragraphs talking about how cool they are, and then talk about the album in the last half of the final paragraph.

I've only read about six reviews but it was the same case with all of them! They feel more like vehicles for the writers rather than, you know, something worth reading.

I hardly ever hear them mentioned though (like three times, including this time) so I find them easy to ignore.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah I like Pitchfork reviews, they always seem to be on the money. There was one for a guy I know, Toog, which was a perfect lampooning of him and his music. I like Toog's music ok but this made me laugh out loud.

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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Utterly interchangeable.
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Mr Mustache · . Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 167 Location: Queens

That's really not true. I'm not a huge fan of Pitchfork, but they do some good work and are generally well informed.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:59 am Post subject:

new blast works trailer. it looks as though there's enough new to justify this game's existing. plus it comes with gunroar. sold.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Whoa, that looks boss!

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Ok, Pitchfork rant time.

Read this review.

Maybe you'll think it's not representative of their content. But if you think it's a good review, congratulations, you're a pretentious hipster, because this is the most meaningless bullshit ever written.

First and foremost, what is up with every Pitchfork reviewer insisting that you know how much they hate music? And why is the logical consequence of this that anything with a fast tempo (except Britney Spears' "Toxic") is beneath their listening standards?

And it just gets worse from there. "I See a Darkness is not music" because, hey, it's pretty good, and music is pretty bad, amirite? Then. . . Christ:

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

Yeah, ok, but that's just one writer. I think it's safe to say there are writers at Pitchfork who are dongs and writers that are not. I normally assume stuff like that is intended ironically because no-one could possible say any of those things with a straight face, but maybe I'm too much of an optimist. ALSO, they don't hate everything with a fast tempo at all. They just gave a really good review to Daft Punk's Alive 2007, and I remember they reviewed a lot of Vitalic's stuff very favorably.

BUT I GUESS IF IT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF go ahead and believe that they are all just pretentious dongs and nothing they ever say is of value, god knows demonisation of the 'OTHER' is what makes america great amirite guys

(I'm just playin baby)

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

ApM · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject:

Pitchformula.

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

Ok, I'm sending the Pitchfork discussion here.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Are you guys going to comment on Dessgeega's game, or what?