The Gamer's Quarter

Wait, what was so hard about this elevator sequence in Ep.1? I can't recall getting hung up on any elevators. I was killing myself in the underground parking with barrels and on the hole-blocking sequ ...

Where you had a lot of pattern-based Hard in ye 'olde days, we now have more computationally advanced AI to play with/against, the juxtaposition of scripted and physics-based environment hazards and y ...

Valve had already done plenty of culling with HL2: Deathmatch in mind. Some of these module assets (all based on the campaign maps’ architectures) were apparently used by Taito during the slim down pr ...

Not 100% the case. First of all, you can upscale a 480p image on a 1080 set without shittifying it, else a whole lot of people with expensive upscaling DVD players would be pissed. Second, some Dreamc ...

I enjoyed my wolf pet. She was dark grey. I tamed her at the edge of a forest.
Since I didn't fish or cook, I usually fed the wolf raw meat taken off animals we'd slain. That, or I'd purchase a stack ...

I'm not so sure about the XRGB3 now. For the cost, it's lacking ports. Time to locate a better solution. The good ones aren't cheap, damn. The perils of HD: all the fucking accoutrements that come wit ...

Yes, Mario Galaxy has wonderful play.

My personal is Smash Bros. I look forward to playing that with other people. Should be quite silly and awesome. I foresee playing it (and quite a few other Wii ...

The Sharp Aquos handles PS2 quite nicely, btw. Even non-progressive.

That said, I mean to buy one of those fancy upconverting boxes like the XRGB3. Use it to push the PS2 and Wii up to 720p. And to ...

Don't worry about VGA so much. If you're still using a video card with VGA-only...dear god, it's time for an upgrade.
First off, it's a laptop. Second: Dreamcast!

Third, I said to keep it in mind ...

Wes,

I picked up a new 32" Aquos last Christmas. It's awesome. I did LOTS of research. Go with Sharp or Samsung for cost and price on high-def LCDs. Both of them have massive contracts with liquid ...

There are really nice moments in MMOs when everything is clicking. An experience no other genre can deliver. The feeling of completing a 2-hour dungeon in a great co-op group of 6 highly-skilled playe ...

Has anyone here actually played World of Warcraft? It's actually a really good game. Much, much better than FFXI could possibly ever become unless they added about three times the content. I played it ...

God, Ep.1 is so well designed. I was late to play it, having spent summer in a late alpha purgatory. I had actually just completed Prey the day of its release, and decided it was 'OK'. Certainly worth ...

Most of those games probably require the updated Direct X components in SP2 to run. On another note, most of those games will run very poorly on your iMac. And further, Bootcamp isn't so hot for conte ...

You know how the word "unplayable" is horribly misused by so many of the gamer folk.

Any minor negative element can instantly transform an entire game into "unplayable", according to legions of Hul ...

Boiling Point is a disaster at retail. It received a couple of "This is the last 45 days of development time we asked for" patches in the month and bit following release, and if you start by playing t ...

Hey Disneyland!

1 GB of ram is a must. And at minimum, a GeForce 6800/Radeon X800.
There was this cool deal from EVGA where you'd get a free motherboard with the purchase of a GeForce 7800 GT. T ...

They say everyone has a god they would kill for, but they all have different names Crying or Very sad

Shigs is the one who insisted the plug be pulled on Twilight Princess' '05 release.
He wants full Revo compatibility. Not a bad idea.

I think he's a very intelligent, passionate and gifted man th ...

Mega Man 2 totally > MM 3.

I mean, comeon -- Inafune himself says it's his favorite game in the series. That game was such a sweet sequel. The team loved what they were doing on Mega Man 2. Bett ...

Also be sure to play Contra 3 again. Play 4 levels, at least.
I'm serious: go play four levels of Contra 3 right now. Thanks.

You can feel every Konami team member on that game saying, "Yeah, this ...

In Gens: Options > Change CD Drive. Choose drive with CD loaded.

If that doesn't work, try mounting the physical Popful CD on your virtual drive, then select that drive from the Options again, a ...

Sega and NEC both took advantage of the CD-Rom format and both had very different ideas of what a CD-Rom should be used for. The Turbografx often used the CD to increase the amount of content (hu-card ...

Speaking of HL2, [url=http://www.ragdollkungfu.com]indie goodness coming on the 12th via Steam, Valve and Lionhead.

The DS interface: "gimmick" concept?
Gamasutra on Dawn of Sorrow:

The chief flaw brought up by all the reviewers was the game's use of the touch screen, often cited as getting in the way of the o ...

Ignoring this, take a look at the Dreamcast! You could really feel the developers' lust to take advantage of the new technology with games that just weren't possible before. And I'm not talking about ...

In the West, the release of Animal Crossing: Wild World has been delayed, making Mario Kart DS the first available Wi-Fi compatible game when it is released in North America on November 14th and in Eu ...

Why do people say that Nintendo is going down?

They clearly aren't paying attention to the 7 million DS systems sold.

I hear Sony Europe is farming out all of their pimp mapping assets to a Russian graphics sweatshop. Sad state of affairs.

< Huge online player, on all platforms. Obligatory, granted, but I do love it.

Despite rampant idiocy.

Nintendo's DS plans are looking great. That entire infrastructure will be in place befor ...

"Is Disneyland a joke account?"

"basically."

Oh you guys, always with the love.

I'm happy to have stirred the ire again. My sentiments are not part of a joke. They are a much-needed dos ...

The real issue is "what kind of new things can the 360 and the PS3 do for us that the old systems can't? And, fuck, why should I care about those things?"

It's good to care about anti-al ...

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

I also hope they don't go down the MMO route, as I point blank refuse to be sucked into online gaming. That, and I can't get broadband where I live.

Well, I would agree, being that I used to be a M ...

Seriously, that outdoor level--"Rebellion", is it?--with the Trigens and troops going at it, while you (optionally) fly overhead on a hanglider watching the carnage below...yeah, that was damn memorab ...

Ahh, you have one of those Asian keyboards with a key for every letter of the Cantonese alphabet.
Zang!

Wow, that's pretty amazing. Didn't know the engine had a Dx7 fallback mode. Thought you needed at least a Dx8 card for basic shaders. Source is one hell of a flexible engine.

Namco's also doing Mage Knight Apocalypse on PC. It was early and chuggy at E3, but they had some good ideas.

By the way: single player demo for F.E.A.R. goes public this Friday.

The multiplayer has some amusing novelty like universal slow-mo effects, but the single player game is the attraction. Seems lik ...

FPS games make me nauseous on consoles. So far the only one that has not was Halo. Everything else has. HENCE why I said PC, not: Boy I wish it was out for the xbox already. I mean, I knew it was co ...

Doom 3 sucks. Don't waste your time with it. The last boss will make you cry, because he is very sad.

Mr. Toups, your logic makes me tremble. Why would you play a game all the way to the end if ...

Recent PC games that I enjoyed spending time with -

Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich (Irrational). Fun, silly, well-voiced. Good length. Best pure RPG on *PC this year.

I'd say Riddick, because ...

dude, that makes me think we got off lucky. at the least the public perception of "computer/gaming nerd" veers toward skinny, clean and generally well dressed (albeit skinny-tied) young guys rather t ...

specialization is hard for others to grasp.

Yeah, for real. Last night I was playing a Genesis game with a friend. Emulated, but we were using two of those beautiful USB Sega Saturn controllers ...

A lot of my list would be Saturn stuff.

I mean, come now: Nights, the Panzer Dragoons, the Treasure titles, the Capcom ports, the last, best, pure 2D Bomberman, Darius, Dragon Force...

Fucking h ...

You are true. I've been in on some really eye-opening sessions at GDC. And here on this forum for example, ideas tend to be explored that I would otherwise not devote as much thought to--and I reall ...

Indeed. No event-style free pass. More like a workshop scenario fee.

I don't do workshops. They bite into my free time. Free time is when you catch up on the other games, to help widen your per ...

Hopefully we can figure out what makes him so conscientious in his effort to shut down what we see as acceptable entertainment.

Allow me:

*rolls index finger in circular motion around side of ...

disneyland: Enters the

Whoa, that LD48 stuff is cool. Can't believe I didn't know it existed.
I did something like that once for OCremix, but the timeframe was 24 hours. Created a little drum ...