GSQ IV: Galactic pesticide
09 September 10 | 22:30 | Posted by:
Space Empires IV
I'm sorry to admit that I have very little stamina when it comes to extremely involved simulation games. Nevertheless, I'm endlessly fascinated by their intricacy and scope, so I find experiential pieces about the genre absolutely captivating. That means that this article -- yes, this one right here! -- is pretty much the most satisfying way I could ever possibly experience
Space Empires IV.
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GSQ4: Rail Love
07 September 10 | 10:24 | Posted by:
Panzer Dragoon: Rail Love
I haven't really played a lot of Panzer Dragoon games in my life -- mostly
Saga, and only a little bit of that -- and based on this impassioned retrospective by Wesley Fenlon on the series' final (or at least most recent... but, yeah, probably final) entry, Orta, I feel like I've sadly missed out. I feel a powerful urge to call a mulligan on life after this one.
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GSQ4: Tiny terrors
06 September 10 | 09:56 | Posted by:
Monster in My Pocket
This week is a perfect time to work my way through the backlog of older
Quarterly content that remains to be posted before moving on with our "NES history" book. Today we have Monster in My Pocket, a game that hovered at the periphery of my awareness for years and confused the heck out of me when I started hearing about this crazy phenomenon called "Pocket Monsters" back in the mid '90s.
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Nintendo's lucky break?
04 September 10 | 08:23 | Posted by:
So you think
Metroid Other M is sexist for the way it reduces the formerly stoic and above all self-reliant Samus Aran to being the petulant, feeble, girl-child subordinate to a squad of manly men? Well, good news, everyone!
Duke Nukem Forever actually exists, it's playable, and it's a potent reminder to all us emotionally fragile Metroid fans of just what it really means to be sexist.
Shortly after playing this demo, my friend the yeti and I killed and ate a tsuchinoko.
This game is really weird for me, because I feel like I should be offended by its
crassness, but I just can't get worked up about it. That's not to say I thought the strippers and oral sex and the kicking of a field goal with the bad guy's brain were awesome, but somehow DNF failed to activate my moral outrage center. Maybe I was just numb from the shock of seeing the stupid thing in action after all these years.
Also, I just noticed that you can't spell "sexist" without "e-x-i-s-t." This means something. This is important.
(STAGE DIRECTIONS: Parish wanders off to boil up a massive pile of mashed potatoes)
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GSQ5: The secret best Retro Game Challenge article
27 August 10 | 09:53 | Posted by:
Kid Culture on the NES
OK! So with this posting, I've done a pretty good job of carpet-bombing the site with a spread of
GameSpite Quarterly 5 content. I think now you have a pretty good picture of what's inside the issue now: Short game retrospectives, lengthier game retrospectives, bite-sized gallery retrospectives, and articles like this, which are game retrospectives masquerading as something else.
Anyway, you get the picture. It sounds like people who shelled out for rush shipping are beginning to receive their copies of
GSQ5 already, which is nice. They also seem not to hate it, which is even nicer. I spend so much time with these things that I lose all objective perspective on their quality by the end of the production cycle and honestly can't tell if they're awesome or wretched. So far we seem to be trending toward the former rather than the latter.
Meanwhile, I have already immersed myself in the next issue, because I'm stupid like that. As it happens, I need one more contributor to round out the ranks for
GSQ6! Specifically, I need someone who (1) wants to write, (2) writes well, and (3) wants to write well about
Panzer Dragoon Saga. If this sounds like you, I think it would be pretty great for you to drop me an email sometime today to express your interest. I mean, you're certainly under no obligation to do so, of course. I'm merely putting it out there as a suggestion. You know. If that's something you'd be into.
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GSQ5: Obligatory joke about sucking
26 August 10 | 10:02 | Posted by:
Kirby's Adventure
I know that every joke about Kirby has been made, including "lol this game sucks geddit" and various oblique references to Jack Kirby. So I won't bother. But man, wouldn't a game about Kirby's Fourth World be amazing? Sure, it would probably end up being a minigame collection for Wii ("Can you outrace the Black Racer?"), but a man can dream. Of course, this game is pretty great, too.
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GSQ5: A new ambition
25 August 10 | 08:24 | Posted by:
Mega Man 4
Another entry in this week's all "
GSQ5, all the time" mandate brings us a look at
Mega Man 4. Don't worry, I promise there's more to this site than just posting content its print iteration. Next week, GameSpite will go back to its normal charter of musing about game history, being nostalgic for the NES, and griping about Mega Man -- a welcome 360-degree turnaround from today's material.
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