The Gamer's Quarter

So I guess we've all seen the latest PoP and the way it "borrows" heavily from Ico's and SotC's style, right?

Which, of course, brings everything full circle!

you know what's awesome?

playing Shiren, ending up in a monster house and realizing you have an Airslash Scroll :D

But I guess some people can only feel like they're an individual by affecting outre positionalites and opinions on popular media. That's the problem when you define youself by what you like and not by ...

it's about as obtuse as any Sierra game. The only upside is that you can't die. But once Chapter Two rolls around you're given such a wide area to roam in and such a large goal to complete that it fee ...

Yeah, it does. I probably should have stressed how fucking hard Harvest is, and how often unfairly so. I really wish it WAS easier, because the story is worth playing for; the difficulty clashes with ...

it was incredibly rushed, that's why the ending sucked so badly.

ApM: perhaps the same could be said of many adventure games...

like fucking MI2, what a mess. I want to love it but it HATES ME S ...

i am comfortable saying, though, that telltale's sam & max is better than lucasarts's.

how do you figure? just curious since I haven't played the newer games and Hit the Road, at the very least ...

O Dess, I liked your Lighthouse level a lot more when I realised there as a secret ending, and the you as a player had choices and dicoveries to make. That elevated it considerably.

there is? you d ...

That giant man-Pikachu looks really bizarre and awesome.

EDIT: However, Spider-Toon Link is terrifying.

For those of you out there not brave enough to withstand the horror of ED, I sneaked into the ENEMY BASE and pulled out this awesome comic:

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1061/soniccharacterssu ...

(btw the ED article is hilariously un-hilarious and boring, unlike the comic posted)
Oh God, ED. I don't even wanna... Don't even get me started on ED.

I like a good no-items match once in a while ...

Well sure, there's the fill-in-the-blanks thing, and EarthBound has that too. I mean, that's why you get to name the hero and his favorite food and his friends. You kind of invest your personality int ...

Note how different the atmosphere of the game is from Earthbound, though. The title music... the use of colors. It sets a very different tone. The oddly straight-faced translation helps this.

Also, ...

I think my favorite moments are the little things that happen. Like... try walking on the train tracks for a while, some time.

Man, this game frustrates me. There are so many cool things I want to ...

I was going to wait, but I lost patience and played it with the translation guide. It's a little limited, sure, but I still came away from the experience feeling like I'd just played the best jRPG eve ...

This, No More Heroes and Mario Galaxy (which seems good despite disappointing my expectations) mean I now have a reason to get a Wii. It's all a matter of funding now.

I believe you get an achievement in the XBox 360 version for getting through Ep. 1 only using that one bullet. But that's not the point!

In New Pork City (I tihnk that's the title of the city in Brawl) there's a pink rinoceros thing that one hit kills anything it touches when it arrives on the map. It is awesome.
THE ULTIMATE CHIMERA! ...

And the hero of the first Pokemon game looks a lot like Ness! But that's probably mere coincidence...

Did you know that the regions in the Pokemon games are based (geologically speaking) on real re ...

Maaaaan Harveyjames it's funny but I was just playing through this series again recently! You can check out the recently played games thread to see some impressions. But I will contribute to this thre ...

I love how the first half of Ravenholm basically loses its scariness after about five minutes once you get the hang of the Gravity Gun, and you feel really awesome and godlike.... and then you step ou ...

That is truly the spark of ingenuity that games have been waiting for.

Mother 3 cleared.

Time: roughly 19 hours
Final levels: Lv. 61 for everybody

The ending was indeed remarkable. Less kuh-raaaayzy post-modernism than Earthbound, but far more emotional resonance. ...

Whenever I play Earthbound a lot (liiiike... recently), I start thinking weird things. Like, I eat a burger and think "oh, just restored some health!" Also whenever I see a baseball bat pick it up and ...

Man, I love jumping puzzles. And Metroid! Did you try Dess's levels? They are very good. "Torchlight" is my personal favorite. Not a lot of "jumping puzzles" in there. "The Oubliette" is a little roug ...

I guess one of the few upsides of being an unchangeable antisocial recluse is that I stopped talking about video games with my voice after the fifth grade.

I... really can't tell if you're trying t ...

Yeah, but the helicopter isn't sitting on top of a pier! :(

this reaction honestly baffles me more than anything else involved with FFVII
What? I just don't think "Aerith" rolls off the tongue very well. Not that "Aeris" is much better. "Ugh" is pretty much w ...

Oh right, the gun. I have to wonder why Valve thought it was a good idea to make us steer and shoot at the same time. I kept crashing into things because I was trying to shoot at targets on the left o ...

Well, the problem is that a lot of later enemies like to use group damage/group status attacks, which move slowly. Getting hit by a blast of PK Fire really sucks, especially if some of your friends ge ...

I liked the boat section; it was the jeep section that I hated. And that chapter (Highway 17) was otherwise amazing - climbing across the girders under the railway bridge was one of those big awesome ...

The Aeris/Alice thing reminds me (ugh, Aerith)... wasn't "Cloud" originally intended to be "Claude"? But they changed it to sound COOLER and more MYSTICAL.

The best parts about HL2 (other than the surprises!) were the ones where you were alone and desperate.

There's a weird sort of wavy flow to HL2; at times you feel empowered and able to take on the ...

I bet! The first two also had killer finales.

I destroyed one nasty boss (nehehehehehe!), but then I came up against that damn cyborg and it was back to square one. Lifeup Omega is a beauty, though ...

Ordinarily I would wait until Mother's Day, but a sudden desire for DQ styled RPGs has led me to put off DOOM and pick up the Mother series again. I've beaten the first two previously, and my file in ...

Same here!

I just played Half-Life 2 for the first time recently and man, it was like a revelation. I love the constant "oh shit!" moments it throws at you. Like, you'll run to one place, and catch ...

I dunno, I just felt like I kept running into wall after wall when it came to the puzzles. Then I'd look at a solution after a while and kind of say "Oh, that's how?"

Maybe it's just me?

I just got done with playing Rock Band at a friend's house for probably eight or nine hours!

It was awesome. Really fun. Basically it's guitar hero with drums and vocals added. The GH2 guitar is co ...

Some ones people haven't mentioned:

Grim Fandango is top-notch in everything but the puzzles; they're too obtuse and difficult. Grab a spoiler-free walkthrough and play through it if you ever get a ...

Love this game; even having to use a translation FAQ didn't bother me too much. I got stuck on a tricky part in Chapter Seven, but I should pick it up again.

Great details/moments in gaming (spoile ...

Soymilk is very delicious. I prefer vanilla to chocolate soymilk, but chocolate is good in just about any context!

I've really enjoyed this game so far but I'm starting to understand why people around here have some issues with it. I really wish the sidequests were less "find bugs, kill the fuck out of Poes (isn't ...

Hi. I just joined like two minutes ago. I like video games (durr) and drinking soda. I named myself after a can of name brand soda, you know. I also like drinking chocolate milk, and stroking my nonex ...