The Gamer's Quarter

Patrick Alexander · . Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 123 Location: various

GAME CENTER CX YES.

It's a wonderful and amazing game, and it's hard to put into words why.

I'm glad you're enjoying it, Dess... It seems kind of made for you, actually.

The main thing about Game Center CX is that it presents retro games in a retro context, which I think is positive and significant. (Replace 'retro' with 'historical' and it'll sound more valid.) You can't separate (by elevating it, all too often) an artwork from its context; from the experience of that artwork, and Game Center CX embraces that fact in a really enjoyable and interesting and worthwhile way.

Play it you guys!
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Patrick speaking of games you are playing why are you not playing OUR DRAWING GAME

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

is there a us version of it yet?

edit: i mean game center cx, not that drawing game
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ApM · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject:

Nope!

But if there's a decent translation FAQ out there, I'd love to hear about it.

dessgeega · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject:

i'm up to guardia quest, but i havn't dove into it yet. instead i've just been playing ninja hagureman 2 over and over on free-play. this game.

also work time fun.

army of two is unplayable.
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Cossix · . Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87

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

I'm stuck at what feels like an impossible situation in SH:O which I've gotten myself into. Grrrrrrrr.
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Lestrade · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:17 am Post subject:

My wife and I played co-op Mario Kart Wii online last night. THESE WHEELS ARE THE RINGS ON OUR FINGERS AND THEY BIND US

It was tear-inducing joy, it was.

dessgeega · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 1:52 am Post subject:

i finished the rpg. or rather, i finished the first dungeon, which was enough to unlock the last game: ninja hagureman 3! i love how it's so utterly different than the original two (which i am utterly in love with). and it captures the sensibility of nes action platformers so well. i love that the most dangerous enemies are birds. i just cleared episode two. i'm still working on hagureman 2.

work time fun is some brilliant shit. i will write in more detail later.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

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

Hey, so like, SH:O wasn't anywhere near as bad as I initially though. In fact, despite what should have been a failure, it wasn't all that bad!
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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!"

Cossix · . Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87

Work Time Fun is amazing. It includes a game where all you do is cap pens. Over and over again. And sometimes the pens are upside down so you have to flip them over.

dessgeega · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject:

here's my analysis of work time fun and game center cx.

i finished ninja hagureman 3 this morning and great fuck is it getting knocked off platforms: the game. it's really amazing the sense of 8-bit action platformer design they manage to capture and it's also pretty amazing that i was able to get through it at all.
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D-A-I-S · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 123

work time fun and gccx are both interesting insights into games

it's rather a shame that they actually charge money for the former, though.

Patrick Alexander · . Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 123 Location: various

I very much enjoyed reading your analysis, Dess! And not just the bits where you mentioned my name. Although I did like those bits.
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Lestrade · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 11:53 am Post subject:

Shaper, in his infinite pessimism, always doubts me. To anyone else who's thinking of playing this game though, I'd recommend the PSP version over the PS2 port.

dessgeega · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject:

there's a ps2 port of work time fun?
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Dess: No, he's talking about SH:O

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

I've been getting up to a little mischief in EVE.

This is the provocation for the above image

This was made by someone named Scramp while I was busy getting myself banned for giving away free shuttles. "Free Shuttles! Getchyer freee shuttles!" I left them right outside the docking perimeter of a very busy mission-running hub. 20 of them. It was funny seeing the conga line of battleships bumping the shuttles, sending them caroming off of other ships.

My creation and Scramp's, like sides of a cube framing the only jumpgate out of the Umokka system. Umokka is a very busy cul de sac. ( Jita is even busier - jumpgates in many directions and stations loaded with goods, services, and all sorts of mission agents.. The recent placing of a high level mission agent in Umokka led to the new name.

In EVE you're supposed to make your own fun.

So I did.

Big Plans.

Next: Kakabuni's Kestrel Korral !
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

You know, you actually make EVE sound interesting. At least from a social infrastructure standpoint.
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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!"

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

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

I just played a flash game which allows you to torture a human ragdoll. If you've ever wanted to rip a guy's limbs off, chop them in half and mutilate them until they are just red meaty bones, tie them with ropes to his head and then hang him from the ceiling by his neck, and finally cut his head from his torso so upon death he becomes a human spider, then this is the game for you!

http://666games.net/violent/flash/play/601/the_torture_game_2.html

In a sense, it's the essence of videogaming.

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

That game's freaking me the fuck out. Seriously.
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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!"

Cossix · . Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87

Yeah that's pretty disturbing. Daphny might like it I guess.

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Remember in Erik the Viking where they had the woman tied to a wall and they were throwing axes at her?

That would be a cool minigame for a fantasy game or mmorpg.

Viking Raider, I would pay $10/mo to play you.

sigh
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

(You have pillaged and raped!)

Mount & Blade has a similar message, though it just involves destroying villages. The Rhodians are based off of Vikings, so you might pretend for that extra inch of infant tossing and farmer killing.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

That torture game really needs a female option. Also the dude needs to react more, otherwise it may as well just be a rag doll. Besides that, though, you can't fault it from a conceptual standpoint!

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:33 am Post subject:

That torture game really needs a Hellraiser option.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

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

Awesome! They could retool it as a plug-in for The Sims or Sim City.

Lasa · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 128

Well, it finally happened.
The xbox I bought in August 06 is now dead. GTA destroyed it's fragile infrastructure after Assassin's Creed did a pretty good job of maiming it by causing the system to overheat unnaturally quick. Oh, and I guess GTA was fun while I was playing it.

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

So there are a number of interesting challenges in that game. It's possible to remove his feet simply by plucking them off, but if you chainsaw off both feet he dies. Likewise, you can completely remove his pelvis without killing him, but chainsawing his middle kills him instantaneously. So, can you cut him clean in half without killing him? It has to be a single break, you're not allowed to damage the body in any other way.

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

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

Oh hey, I almost forgot, I took screenshots of me playing the game at work today:

ApM · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Irony in EVE:

I am at the end of this account period

I was going to suspend account right after setting a 20-day training block for a skill

Then come back and continue
(skill set to train at end of time period continues training while account sleeps)

I refreshed the "New Jita mega-sign" (from above post) right before doing this
(the cargo containers I made this ASCII creation from expire every 30 days unless accessed)

Took 45 minutes to fly around and do it

Then:

GM Spiral > Good morning
Kakabuni > hello
GM Spiral > We see that you have a large number of secuire containers around the gate to Ruvas in Umokka.
Kakabuni > oh, yes
GM Spiral > Please remove them within 24 hours.
Kakabuni > there is no lag [edit: due to the containers]
Kakabuni > can you destroy them?
GM Spiral > If they are not gone in 24 hours we will pursue further actions against your account.
GM Spiral > Thank you for your cooperation.
Kakabuni > sorry
GM Spiral > No permanent note of this will be on your account if you can comply with this. Please submit a petition to us if you have any questions.
Kakabuni > is there a way for you to just make them all dissapear at once?

Damn...

I got amazing help from strangers in removing the sign
(after unanchoring them so others could act upon them)

Still took 2 hours

Sad

eh

fuck it
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Did anyone get the SNK PS2 collection? I've noted that most of my PS2 library has dwindled down to compilation discs - Genesis, Street Fighter, Midway, etc. - and wouldn't mind adding this one to the stack. The last few emulation-type releases have been pretty good, so I have high hopes for this one.
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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

Nearly every game on the collection has absolutely horrible slowdown. We're talking 75% normal speed Shock Troopers and Last Resort, here.

dessgeega · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject:

so now that i've got my computer back, along with my steam account, i've finally played trackmania. shaper's been trying to get me to play it for a long time.

it's great. what hooked me was the fact that the controls screen was just the word "drive" pointing to the arrow keys. i love that some tracks are full race courses, some are obstacle courses, and some are just simple little setpieces. i guess i'm going to be making levels for this.
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject:

shadowgrounds: survivor, on the other hand, is just another boring game about shooting aliens. the protagonist's nickname is "marine". his nickname is marine? really?

shaper, tell me what you see in this game.
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Mr Mustache · . Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 167 Location: Queens

I am playing Mario 64 and it is surprisingly stressful.
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject:

it's all the narrow ledges, isn't it?
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daphaknee · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject:

this thread shoiuld talk about work time fun more

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

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

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

I quite enjoyed the original Shadowgrounds. It was like an overhead DooM 3. And more fun than said game!
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