The Gamer's Quarter

i speak white.
both of em.

The DS G&W collection is pretty sweet.

I always wanted a copy of the Zelda G&W game due to the nostalga value, but it's always so pricey Sad

myeah.
im pretty much only interested in the ...

for years npw ive told myself that one day, ONE DAY, i would start collecting G&Ws.

so...why? why pick a time period not very popular in terms of the public imagination in the west, and then proceed to strip the most interesting things about it right out of the game?

because Ubiso ...

x-ray specs.

the medium is wider than the industry.

such an elegant way to put it.
im really glad our little excuse-to-get-drunk-in-pittsburgh managed to stir a little bit of shit in your classroom.

really. ...

i saw them live and it was the best rock n roll show ive ever seen.

i was literally covered in the band's blood, sweat and spit.
bass wolf had somehow cut open his hand and was bleeding all over t ...

i have a lot of problems with NMH, grasshoper and Suda51.
lots.

im enjoying the combat, and some of the weirdness, but most of it comes out to me as just trying too hard.

i simply cannot stand ...

i met him at GDC, at the IGF pavillion.
took a good 5 minutes before it was revealed to me exactly who he was.
so i took him to my booth where i started fez to show him the 3 wooden crates RIGHT nex ...

i appreciate smash for the amazing fan service blowjob it is.
i have fun with it for a while whenever a new one comes out and always eventually lose interest.

some guys at this place i used to wor ...

i love crackdown so much.

YOUR SHIT IS AMAZING.

i wasn't so sure about it when all id seen were screen shots, but then when i saw it moving at the experimental gameplay session last year i was blown away.

i talked about ...

yeah but crackdown had the crazy jumps.

if they could just make a game with JSR amazing style, art and personality AND crackdown's crazy jumps, id fucking split in half in happiness.

right in th ...

i like em both and a want a new one.
set in alternate 1969 tokyo.

JET SET RADIO RETROOOO!!!!

hey, will the music in the levels of Fez have slightly different instrumentation or arrangement depending on which of the four angles you are viewing the level at?

(will not sue)

no.

but sing ...

now thats just plain creepy.

(i was at the 1up offices right after the IGF, watching jenn frank write a post about the IGS on a computer, while i read 1up on another. it was a true gaming journalis ...

in like a year?
we're barely just done prototyping around.

i talked to you wes?
you should have introduced yourself as "superwes, from TGQ's"

artist's statement: my throat was sore.

also, thanks.

i have to say, the 1-up guys and gals are pretty fucking legit.
they feel the love.
hardcore.

also, this past week was by far the best ...

first time breaking a mil in geometry wars.

so much screaming.

its a resetable process.
if at any time you fail any kind of certification, the process starts over.
you can spend months submitting new builds without ever getting to the end of it.

also, MS has ...

i just had to quit my job in order to attend GDC.
boss wouldnt let me go.
tried everything to have him change his mind.
but he wouldnt budge.
so resigantion it is!

fuck that new style.

FUCK IT.

anything with a modern day military setting.
ie: call of duty 4.

anything realistic.

man, game school was so much fun.
i miss it.

i once did 2 consecutive 32-hour shifts with only 6 hours of sleep ( on 4 chairs aligned straight) only to have an ubisoft interview imediatly after ha ...

EAT SHIT AND DIE, WHALE.

u kno it.

ill be at the IGF pavillion booth-thing for most of the 3 days.
also attending IGS.
and parties.

wouldnt it be neat if we knew exactly what made things successful.

moar:

in montreal people move around a lot.
one year you're at ubi, the next you're at EA, the enxt you're at eidos.
good rotation.

but i noticed something special about ex-ubi designers.
eve ...

i was working on this horrible trainwreck of a game, open season, based on the mediocre movie.

it was such an incredible clusterfuck. we just kept starting over and over again.
we had 3 parties te ...

game school was the best year of my life.
yes, just one year. very intense program.
also not exactly in the same league as the guildhall.
far less academic. much more practical, production oriented ...

you could shoot out any light source in escape from butcher bay.
another starbreeze game where it was tied to a game mechanic.
they even gave you a tazer-gun-thing that which primary function was to ...

this thread gave me a killer idea.

1. Portal
2. Super Mario Galaxy
3. Rock Band
4. Crackdown

edit to change my mind.

here, in french canadiana, i often hear game execs and producers refer to these mysterious core gamers.

what are they the core of?
do they, themselves, have a core?
are they a core?

it is a my ...

i once almost won snatcher for cheap on ebay.
then it stopped being cheap.

i was really excited about playing it.
someday.... someday.

give or take a year.
we're really just getting started.
we barely made the IGF deadline, and what we shipped is pretty much our FPP.

i so...forget about it so as to not hype yourself then be diss ...

well i asked Jon, and he said the fact that crush was there last year wouldnt automatically rule me out, but the Fez demo as it is (he played it) isnt innovative enough from a strickly gameplay perspe ...

if it wasnt for the fact they had CRUSH last year, id give this a shot with Fez.

but you know... lol looks like crush.

GH3 is CRASS.

you should have said "EDGE?"

in retrospect, yes.

EDGE used to be my bible.
as a kid, my dad bought me one of the very first issues saying "this is the bets gaming mag money can buy".

and i agreed.

but now it is totally lame.
an EDGE 10 used ...

its about psychic SnM sniper lesbians in hell, right?

EDGE gave the Orange Box a perfect score in issue 182.
2 tens in 2 months.

that annoys me somehow.

re:controls

i have a harder time shotguning a zombie in the face at close range, lets say.
but other than that, its fine.

plus i loathe mice.
i spend enough of my waking life pushing one aroun ...

lets gordon makes it to the boat, and he finds the device there.
i think the boat would be a closed-enough environment to allow for some portal puzzles. as opposed to white forest or city 15.
if all ...

i think its very neat how they tied in the borealis with aperture the way they did.
if you read HL2's art book, there's a section in there about how there were originaly planning to have a fairly lar ...

i just realized that last sentence made very little sense.

so what's on the borealis?
a single portal device?
a huge portal device? that portaled the ship out to the middle of nowhere?
GlaDOS?
...

its GlaDOS just neurotoxined everyone.

i bumped into romero once.
he's a tiny man.

vagina gun.