The Gamer's Quarter

[Harveyjames]

[Cycle]

[Harveyjames]

Yeah I didn't say it wasn't brilliant.

[Cycle]

I DIDN'T SAY YOU DIDN'T SAY IT WAS BRILLIANT.
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[Harveyjames]

Cycle are you getting fresh with me

[Intentionally Wrong]

Going on a road trip to Fort Worth, Texas for the next few days, so I hope to play as much of the Phoenix Wright series as possible with my sister on the way there and back. Should be fun!

[sediment]

Orcs & Elves is continuing to be awesome!

The controls for it are very effective for the phone I'm playing it on (I have a razr v3m, so the version of O&E I have is for BREW. all the screenshots on the official website look completely different from the version I've got, which is good because mine looks better.

Most of the extra weapons I've gotten are of really specific utility. The standby weapons - various forms of sword and your wand, Ellon - have proven most effective in nearly every circumstance. I've also picked up a crossbow (and upgraded it to a war bow), phoenix eggs (which are like grenades), dragon's breath (a flamethrower!) and gotten sword upgrades to a flaming sword, and a vorpal sword. Currently I'm in the process of acquiring a warhammer that uses the same reserve of magical energy that Ellon has.
You'll note half of my weapons are fiery in some way.
Less than half of the foes you fight take extra damage from fire. There are a few that take less damage from fire, too.. and relatively few take bonus damage from wand.

But yeah, the graphics are really simple, but nice - Carmack said in his blog he intended for this game to not be too taxing on the average cellphones, at all, and judging by the file sizes of other games I've got on my phone he was aiming for really solid compression too. It loads quickly and gives me something to do at the barber, or the mechanic, or at long stop lights, or really any time.

(I'm at the end of the Throne Room. That's like... level six? Yeah, six. There are three more portals in Gaya's lair so I think I might be leaving the dwarven fortress? Or there'll be some area not on the normal map. Or something.)
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[bleak]

[Winged Assassins (1984)]

I have played a little Super Mario Galaxy (as a second player) and have found it fun. Boy, if I have this much fun controlling a pointer alone I just can't wait until I control Mario for myself. If I was to explain the job of the second player to anyone I would say it's sort of like Tails in Sonic 2 and 3; you are there to help player one collect things and to give them an additional leg up to access areas just out of their reach. I used the term "sort of" as it's not much of a leg up but hey, you can collect star bits and go "ooh, ahh" at the really really nice graphics and talk about the wii Shopping Channel's twee elevator music with your chum. Seriously, these graphics are the nicest I've seen on these current batch of consoles, why isn't anyone else doing this with the wii?

Oh, yeah, lazy developers.
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[elvis.shrugged]

I'm glad to see Super Mario Galaxy getting some love here. I enjoyed it, and was surprised when the reaction at that other forum was filled with disappointment.

[helicopterp]

Actually, playing Galaxy as a second player is more than y'all are making it out to be.


You can freeze any non-boss enemy, big or small, by grabbing them. For large, rolling balls, often this means that one ball will roll into the stopped ball, causing both to break into collectable star bits. Also, if you click on Mario you make him jump, or, if he's in mid-air, execute a spin attack.

My cousin and I have saved each other numerous times using both of these features.
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Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one.

[kirkjerk]

[Cycle]

the darwinians are wearing santa hats it also snows during christmas, apparently.

how the hell do i move darwinians across islands! stupid lack of a real tutorial!

AMAZINGLY, there isnt even a faq on gamefaqs!
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[Shapermc]

[Cycle]

Yeah, I updated to the latest version of the game and it seems to have fixed the problem. Actually, the patch did so much! The game plays much better now, and the visuals are much more clear, though they don't look as radtastic... maybe I just need to adjust (plus I don't know how the other levels look with the patch). still very beautiful!

Also, the new interface would be fine if it didn't have those stupid circles on the side all the time to show you which units you have going, so i just went back to gestures which makes it go back to the clean, immersive interface. yay! had to restart the level I was on, but atleast I know what I'm doing now.

so yeah. yay!

guys i lost my credit card, where did i put it?
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[Harveyjames]

[Cycle]

well, i gave up on darwinia! I really wanted to like it, but I just had far too many problems with it. I enjoyed the initial few hours I spent with it, but I just don't think I can take this relationship further
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[kirkjerk]

[Shapermc]

Hunting Ground is pretty brilliant. It's so simple and engaging. I fished my first level and now I'm just decking the halls. I'm a bit shocked at the simple design being so engrossing.
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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!"

[Cycle]

Hunting Ground? Never heard of it!
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[Shapermc]

I guess the full titled is Dungeon Maker: Hunting Ground
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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!"

[Cycle]

Oh, that!

So I finally downloaded my FREE COPY of Half-Life 2 Deathmatch which is kinda fun. The best part is that everyone is created equal. You all start with the same weapons, once they're gone they're gone, but it doesnt matter since everyone uses the gravity gun anyway. Also, no retarded power-ups.

The server I was on was way too crowded, though. Often I died half a second after spawning. I'm hoping there are options for like TEAM SURVIVOR which would work much better, because plain ol' deathmatch seems to miss the point of the rest of the design.

Also, what should I buy off steam during this sale? The only thing I bought was Sin episode 1 because it was like $8 and came with the original sin (lol!!). Some of these other games look very interesting but I don't know if I want to shell out for them.
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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

[Cycle]

BY GOLLY, i hope so!
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[Cycle]

OH SHIT

RERO

ANY OTHER AUSTRALIAN

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Fraz4OhNh48

!!!!
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[Lasa]

Bullet Witch is pretty awful.

[Shapermc]

So I had a gift card for games and I used it on Uncharted for two reasons: A) I figured I should buy at least one game for the PS3 this year, and B) because ryan and Wes were loving the game up so much.

Huge. Fucking. Disapointment.

I was talking with Wes about it right after he got it and I kept saying "It looks like it'll just be Tomb Raider, but with a Guy." And I was assured that it was better than this, and different. All kinds of other things were assured too like a really awesome believable plot.

Seriously, this is Tomb Raider if it controlled like Shadow of the Colossus and starred a guy. That's IT. Not much really separates this from other cliche ridden adventure games (or movies) involving treasure hunting. Top that off with awful gun play and I find myself exceptionally bored with this game. The only thing that separates this game from most other games is that the voice acting is pretty good. Too bad it's squandered on such a game.
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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!"

[dhex]

the high point of blacksite was this:
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/161107_video_game_alex_jones.html

everything else really fucking sucks.
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[dhex]

dropped blacksite, installed crysis, and i'm only going to bed now.

wow.
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[dessgeega]

the more i play the tank game in wii play, the more it feels like a nes game with analog controls. bullets could be easier to track, though.
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[kirkjerk]

[Scratchmonkey]

The tank game in Wii Play, if fleshed out, given more options (like possibly the addition of checkpoints) and with online play, would be worth $20 bucks as a Virtual Console game.

Unfortunately it's pretty much the only really awesome part of Wii Play.

[kirkjerk]

[Cycle]

I found ALL the games pretty entertaining, apart from that retarded POSE!! one. I'm not fond of fishing either. But the others were fun. But yeah, game would have benefited from some more depth, but then again it was a free game.
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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

Is it a controller with a free game or a game with a free controller?
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[Cycle]

controller with a free game

well, at some places. most places these days charge an extra $10 or so for the pack, but when it first came out, JB HI-FI sold it cheaper than buying a remote on its own.

so like, I know people with three copies of the game.

rero, did you watch that episode of THE ZONE? it even has a commercial for hey hey its saturday
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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

Yes I watched it. Boy memory lane is a fun place to go for a walk, especially when your tapes have so much fucking snow on them you can't make out jack shit.
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[Cycle]

Remember; he's muttley and you're not.

That guy was such a bogan, but he was the best of the lot. The host was a wanker but atleast he sound enthused most of the time, watching everyone else was about as interesting as watching paint dry.

Wish I could find more episodes. Needs a DVD release!
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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

When Adam left it really started going round the S-bend which was a shame. I think after the show ended is when Muttley started appearing on Totally Wild or something, I know he went onto another show. Dave was the voice of the SEGA cheat hotline and everyone disappeared into obscurity.

Cycle, I am feeling old now.
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[Cycle]

Yeah, I remember the last few episodes which were real garbage. They were trying to do sketch comedy and it just wasn't funny and half of the time it wasn't even game related. The little conversations between Muttley and Adam were probably the most entertaining part of the show (before he left) and then they brought that chick in who didn't really help matters.

After watching it, I wondered where all of them are now. I guess most of them went on to do real jobs, though I'd be interested in knowing where Adam and Muttley ended up. Also, Amos Wong... he also wrote for Nintendo Magazine System which I still have a few issues of (from way back when Super Metroid just came out and such, and a few post N64 issues).

Great, now I feel old, too.
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[dhex]

crysis update: crysis is fucking awesome.
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[Shapermc]

[dhex]

i've had one weird graphical glitch (body double, basically, like a visible shadow always a little bit behind my movements) but no crashes or whatever. the motion blur really adds to the effect quite a bit more than one might think.

other weirdness: boats falling on you are deadly! so are a lot of things. i've had buildings fall in on me after they'd been rocketed and a few times i just couldn't get out. another time i was killed by a shelving unit. what gives?

man i spent the first part of the game just sneaking like a motherfucker. playing predator: the game without being predatory for the most part.

i like the explosive charges too. cloak, run up to tank, run away and BOOOOOOOM.

i imagine it's much harder if you don't spam the cloak but the combat is fairly ridiculous on the default settings. or perhaps i just suck.
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[Shapermc]

I got killed once by a body that I shot very close range with a shotgun: it bounced up then off a tree, then landed on me and killed me.

I also saw a few floating stains of blood in the air.

That's it though. No crashing and I get about 45-55 FPS with a custom mix of mostly high with a few medium settings.
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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!"

[SuperWes]

[Shapermc]

I love The Temple of Doom! The others are ok, but they need more awesome stuff like monkey brains.

Also, theme doesn't stop the gunplay from being terrible!
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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!"

[SuperWes]

[Shapermc]

I'm mostly talking about aiming the gun sucks. The cover system is fine. The coversystem has nothing to do with the aiming and firing guns at people: which is the gunplay. I believe I'm playing on normal.

Also, having explosive barrels to make giant columns blow up and fall to create a bridge is awful. More so than anything that most adventure films do, even the bad ones. That seems to me like an exceptionally lazy oversight to leave in that could easily have been corrected by giving the character C4 or something as all the puzzles are so fucking obvious anyways. On that note, the puzzles are pretty bad so far too. They're all completely obvious, or the answers are literally told to you, and you spend more time than you should with the only goal being to get up to the top corner of the room which you can see, but not reach, so you can press a "button" that the residents of the ancient civilization made.

With Ryan being a history buff you'd think he'd be more inclined to nitpick like this.
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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!"

[seryogin]

So I beat Killer7.

I dug it up because of a youtube video of a Hispanic man playing Russian roulette with the President, who promises to tell him "how to hit on women and never fail" if he wins, and because there was an anime sequence with some Power Ranger clones called the Handsome Men who are drawn by a man named Trevor Pearlharbor (coolest name I'd seen all year), followed by a battle against said Power Rangers with booming Mega Man music.

I figured if the rest of the game could be as great as that sequence then I'd be worth checking out at the very least. This wasn't the case, though.
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[Shapermc]

That's like the intro to a really great review. Tell me more.
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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!"