The Gamer's Quarter

I agree that there ARE weak games that probably use random levels becasue they are too lazy hand craft creative one, but that being said I'M SO TIRED OF THE "RANDOM LEVELS = LAZY/CHEAP DESIGN" crap!
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Which funnily enough, is kind of what Passage is trying to get to.
There's a bit more to the game than that.

Once you start exploring up and down, you get some nuance. There's also a thing about ...

i've been mostly playing subspace emissary. i like a lot of what it's doing so far: things like the mine cart rides remind me that it's a sequel to kirby super star, which is a fairly perfect marriage ...

dessgeega, i'm looking forward to playing your game as soon as I get to a computer that runs windows. i hope you don't feel ignored by me!

I just wanted to agree with this. Thought you'd like to k ...

If you can say without using spoilers, where are you in the game, Hospital Zone?

I took a year of Japanese, and while that isn't enough to begin to understand anything, it's helpful to be able to r ...

the great thing about mother 3 is that strategy and timing will always allow you to compensate for lack of experience levels.

I'm playing though Mother 3 too, and because I can't understand a lic ...

I'm frustrated enough now with every haircut I get in my military-cut/prom-night town that I'm going to start trying to do this myself. Homebrewed haircut. I'm excited and scared by the glory of wha ...

Breath of Fire Five: Dragon Quarter. It demands that you play for a while, die, then start from the beginning with some of your levels. Apparently you have to do this a few times to make it near the ...

I'm afraid not - his character design was completely redone, and he's pretty much unrecognizable in-game.

I think you might get to see him parachuting from the sky in his boxers if you beat the gam ...

The intro and first 15 or so minutes of the game are still the most awesome EVER, but the battles are getting in the way too much, so I'm thinking of using game genie codes to make my character uber-p ...

new xiu xiu is disappointing

Really? How so? I've only heard the cover of Under Pressure, which was alright (not great). I haven't gotten around to the whole album yet.

Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood counters most of the images on screen--or at least, it appears to counter the images on screen until the second half of the movie. It's big, off-kilter ...

People use to fawn over the DC with nostalgia pretty much instantly after it was "dead", but since then many of the games that made it amazing have since been released on other consoles, or have been ...

Oh man, I just caught wind of this game called Rainy Woods which, for the most part, looks like it's borrowing heavily from many of David Lynch's films, and from his general aesthetic.

Suda51 is ...

I feel like I need to bring up another side of things: there are a bunch of games that I would probably never have bothered with (or maybe even heard about) if not for being pointed toward them by peo ...

Heck yeah, I can deal with 'for kids' aesthetics if something else is going on underneath.

I got a little further into the game, and found that they were trying to go for a story that was closer ...

Yeah, I definitely liked the GBA versions best for their art styles. I can agree that they probably went this way to look bad-ass for kids, rather than adults. When I think of the standard cartoon f ...

To the game's credit, the battles and tactics were polished out, and found a balance that the last two titles lacked. CO powers are a less devastating, but still help for a push while in a crunch. A ...

I hate it when Nintendo tries to act like they're hard core.

Hey, I'm new, so forgive if I just jump in. I've decided to stop being a voyeur and participate, cause I like reading around on this si ...