The Gamer's Quarter

[Harveyjames]

I used to love playing Space Hulk! It was like Aliens: The Board Game.

[Dracko]

Harvey, play this version. It's the board game brought to life. It's great to pass five minutes or so.

Everyone else do too.
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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

The second Space Hulk game is much easier than the first, I think because the multiple window display was reduced to just a single first person view making the game look less daunting. I really couldn't handle that multiple windows shit when I first played the game, I couldn't manage that at all, which is why I almost managed to complete the second game. I was only five missions away when I just stopped suddenly for some reason.
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[Cycle]

There were two Space Hulk games, yeah, this one:

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?name=Space+Hulk

and this one:

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?name=Space+Hulk%3A+Vengeance+of+The+Blood+Angels

I owned the second one for the Playstation, I really sucked at it and didn't really know what I was supposed to be doing and eventually sold it.

I played Space Crusade a lot.

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1016

Hey guys, doesn't Duality look like it would be rad?
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[Dracko]

Cycle, play the version I linked to.

Also, cross-posting:

Deus Ex 3, guys! i'm oddly excited about this. I know it's just a teaser, but it looks classy.

More info here.

Cycle, those Duality screenshots don't really say much about the game.
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[Cycle]

They say the architecture was going to be pretty awesome! Just look at that hallway!

Why should I play that version you posted!

I'm looking forward to Deus Ex 3 as much as a kick in the nuts. It did make me smile when I heard the theme music, though, mostly thanks to nostalga!

If they plan on making it not suck, they should just call it "Deus Ex 2: That last sequel was a joke, haha, here's the real game"
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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

I won't be buying it because it will require a more powerful system than what Deus Ex required.
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[Dracko]

[Cycle]

SOUNDS GOOD, DOWNLOADING.
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[Lackey]

[sediment]

sounds kind of like x-com!

...DOWNLOADING
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[Dracko]

Kind of, but with less focus on trying to get your men to survive through everything thrown at them. It will take some getting used to if you're not familiar with the rules of the board game.
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[Lackey]

Oh weird this is actually the version I played, not the old DOS one.
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[kirkjerk]

Anyone remember Steve Jackson's Awful Green Things from Outer Space? I wonder if it's anything like that.

I also wonder if I totally ripped off my Alien Bill "signature" item (as seen in my Avatar) wholesale from that game. Just adding arms. But then Monsters, Inc. did the same to me, adding a mouth and horns, so I feel a little better.
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[Cycle]

[Dracko]

Come on, you know it's true.
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[Cycle]

aesthetics, maybe, but not so in design! ok so it takes its cues from system shock 2, but unlike system shock 2, most of it actually works.

despite useless shit like the aqualung.
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[Cycle]

hey dracko i remember you complaining about jc and the bartender talking about politics in the night club, but hey, JC is a very serious man who means business and plus he just discovered he's been played like a pawn and almost got killed (and his brother might be dead) so of course he isn't going to be in the mood for dancing, and look around the place, its full of dunks and people trying to get laid, so the bartender is probably extremely happy to have an intellgent conversation, its probably the first one he's had in months.

there, do you like deus ex now
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[Dracko]

I wasn't the one who complained about that. In fact, I thought it was neat that the people you'd meet in a game world generally came off as well-read and intelligent, and that clubs and bars were havens for intellectual conversation and referencing. A case of wishful thinking perhaps, but I do like being surprised when I go for a drink or something myself.

NEW GAMES JOURNALISM NO-ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR LIFE, DRACKO
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[Lackey]

So anyway, about Duality? I'm still curious?
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[Cycle]

Huh, I could of sworn it was you. Probably because you're the only person I know who doesn't like the game (apart from daph but she doesn't count).

I CARE DRAKO, TELL ME MORE

I was I was more intelligent and well-read! I've been trying to make up for the latter by reading my books lately and playing fewer videogames. Which has been easy since nothing has caught my interest lately.
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[Cycle]

[Cycle]

ps dracko, you know the hanger 96 tale? its suspected that the secret level created from the hex code is infact, hanger 96:




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[Dracko]

I've heard bits of it. Tell me more!
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[Cycle]

Oh, also, some of the terminals that lead to the failed endings feature missing chapters in the stalker tale.

Anyway, here is all of the hanger 96 stuff:

[Cycle]

lolz, my magazine just told me I can write about Marathon! Two pages! I have to write about Maniac Mansion first (which was also my idea so I'm cool with that!)
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[Dracko]

List of stuff flashing during the Deus Ex 3 teaser:

Studies of the Shoulder and Neck, A Study of the Spine, and Detail of Anatomical Studies of the Muscles of the Neck, Shoulder, Chest and Arm by Leonardo da Vinci
Lower case greek letter phi (φ), the golden ratio in mathematics, art and architecture
Leonardo Da Vinci's application of the golden ratio to the human head
A diagram of a logarithmic golden spiral whose growth factor is related to φ
A diagram depicting the arc of the golden ratio
A depiction of Hell
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt
An unknown image
Augmentation detail
Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper
An x-ray image of a human chest
A USG image
An x-ray image of a human skull
An image of a couple, with the girl having a mechanical arm
Prosthetic limbs in a box
A ballot box for "Biopolitic Vote 2027",with a voting card with a red X being inserted in it
A sign saying 'Augmented people enter from the back'
A sign saying 'We do not welcome augmented people here'
A blurred picture of a street
Photo of riot police
An unknown building
Roman numbers III, IV, V and VI, possibly a reference to the decalogue
A lowercase italic letter 'h' and a plus sign in brackets, a symbol used for Transhumanism

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[Harveyjames]

[kirkjerk]

[Harveyjames]

Yeah, it's never interesting for its own sake, but it's good to have a knowledge of the theory behind why we find certain images appealing and others not. It's the difference between something like Carl Barks' Donald Duck comics and everyone else's Donald Duck comics. Even though they're all drawing the same Donald Duck there's something that makes Carl Barks's comics better. It's good to be able to understand exactly what that is rather than it just be an intangible quality you're never going to understand. Obviously this doesn't only apply to Donald Duck comics.

[kirkjerk]

[Cycle]

[Harveyjames]

Cycle are you getting fresh with me

[Harveyjames]

By the way I did some experiments and reseach concerning golden rectangles and so forth. I DON'T think it's a magic formula for aesthetic beauty. However, I DID discover another man-made thing that is made according to the golden ratio. Here's a hint- you probably look at one every day!

[sediment]

is this made-made, man-made, or maid-made?

i know that 8.5x11 sheets of paper come very close to subscribing to the golden mean (don't they?)

and also my skull
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[Harveyjames]

Whoops

Yeah maybe

Is that A4 paper? I tried that, it doesn't. Also I saw the Da Vinci skull thing, it looked pretty made-up.

You look at your own skull every day?

[sediment]

i have been called disturbed by parents, teachers and relatives.

so i'm not entirely sure what you mean because i see a lot of stuff every day

and anyway, nothing is a magic formula for aesthetic beauty; everyone has developed their own aesthetic concerns, usually having some derivation from their native culture, though not always.
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[Harveyjames]

Ok, it's the 16:9 format screen, which is a golden rectangle.

Although I don't believe this is the magic formula for aesthetic beauty, and today I read about experiments you can try out yourself which basically prove it isn't, I still think there are some things that are universal to all human beings, and these can be distilled and utilized in art. What they are is another matter.

[bleak]

16:10 is closer to the golden ratio than 16:9 fyi

65535:40500
32767:20250
...
256:158
128:79
64:40
32:20

so like! yeah!
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[Harveyjames]

Well I took a picture of a golden rectangle, cropped the file to fit and resized it to 16 pixels in width with the 'constrain proportions' box checked and photoshop gave me '9' for the height, and I have no idea what those numbers mean

[bleak]

the golden ratio is 1:1.618fffdsafaklsvgfda some irrational number so all you do to find out if you're close to it is replace the colon with a division symbol, then put that into a calculator
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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

Oh look, ROTT DS. To hell with ratios, this is all the gold you need.
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[Slonie]

[Harveyjames]

[Dracko]

It is pretty grand. A multiplayer edition exists, but I've found no info about it so far. Not even sure who made it in the first place.

Kieron Gillen muses on Deus Ex 3.
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[Cycle]

[Harveyjames]

Yeah, probably. I always thought ROTT was pretty fun, but I see where you're coming from.

Hey Keiron Gillen raises some interesting points in that article! He posted on my blog once! Because I amended his wikipedia article to say I thought he was a 'dick' :( Actually I've since decided he's alright.

[Winged Assassins (1984)]

The appeal of ROTT is running around really fast whilst dodging the environment and killing fools with the coolest bazookas anyone has ever made whilst blood explodes everywhere. And eleven player deathmatch. And turning into a dog. And John Romero (sort of).
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[Cycle]

So, I guess my theory is pretty much correct then?

Also, Gillen writes for RPS? UNBOOKMARKED.
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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

Basically that.

And ninety degree walls.
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