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Online gaming - why and why not?
Xbox Live, online PC games - why aren't more people getting involved?
:: STARTED BY E. Randy Dupre
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:48 30.08.05
PC Games: Current Toplist
A thread for discussing, with details, the current good games for this system.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:20 25.08.05
Passenger Games
Games to play on long journeys, like spot-the-red-car, poke-the-sibling, make-up-a-story etc.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:45 25.08.05
Shenmue
Discussion of parts 1, 2 and hopefully beyond of Shenmue, Yu Suziki's opus.
:: STARTED BY iamus
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:09 25.08.05
The Escapist
New gaming magazine that talks about gaming and doesn't just reviews games. Has an article on how Paranoia XP was created this issue.
:: STARTED BY invisible_al
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:58 24.08.05
Insylum and The Ransom Model
A free new game from Dennis Detwiller all about 'He who shall not be named' funded by a ransom paid by 'a mysterious patron'.
:: STARTED BY invisible_al
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:29 22.08.05
The Chaos Engine and The Bitmap Brothers
USE THIS THREAD for discussion of The Chaos Engine and The Bitmap Brothers.
:: STARTED BY Stoatie's power level is >9000
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:45 19.08.05
Next Generation : What's New?
So, a new era unfolds - an era of ... nice texture maps? What sort of revolution, if any, are we about to see?
:: STARTED BY rising and revolving
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:29 18.08.05
Petanque, Boules, French Bowling
That game with the metal balls that they love in Marseilles. Jouez vous?
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:45 15.08.05
Players as Assistant Storytellers
Roleplaying games are, on one level, a group of people gathering to tell a story together. What elements lend themselves to enouraging further participation from everyone involved?
:: STARTED BY rising and revolving
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:39 15.08.05
Does 'Fantasy Football' sully your love of the beautiful game?
Fantasy Football and the feeling of self-loathing it generates as you secretly will your real life team to lose so that your fantasy team does well.
:: STARTED BY Future Perfect
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:08 14.08.05
It's all about the story- or is it? (I'm trying to keep this one SPOILER-FREE, or at least WITH WARNINGS)
To what extent does giving the player freedom over the progression of the narrative help/hinder the story's development?
:: STARTED BY Stoatie's power level is >9000
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:28 14.08.05
Computer games: The RTS (Real Time Strategy) Genre
A discussion of the genre's plusses, minuses and future.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:26 13.08.05
Rez
Tetsuya Mizuguchi's abstract shooter. Evolution, wireframes and zone gaming.
:: STARTED BY I'm Rick Jones, bitch
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:52 12.08.05
Excessive Gaming
You play too much, too often, and for too long. But is it a problem? When does a healthy interest become an addiction?
:: STARTED BY Tezcatlipoca
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:59 12.08.05
Otogi, Otogi 2
Swords, explosions, old school slashing action and neon Japanese underworlds.
:: STARTED BY I'm Rick Jones, bitch
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:23 10.08.05
Steampunk games
Is it a genre or a style, an alternate history treat or a lazy cop-out? Chaos Engine, Bitmap Brothers, Thief, Thief 2, Arcanum, Myst and others
:: STARTED BY E. Randy Dupre
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:18 08.08.05
GTA San Andreas secret sex scenes rumpus
Never mind the senseless acts of violence, gang warfare and fucking shit up in general, it's people having sex that will corrupt our youth! At least, that's if the brouhaha surrounding Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is anything to go by.
:: STARTED BY Hattie's Kitchen
:: 25 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:34 08.08.05
3pm, a hush across the land...
A thread for the new football season, 05/06
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:17 07.08.05
The Chaos Engine and other Steampunk games
Discuss Chaos Engine and other Steampunk games. Is it a genre or a style, an alternate history treat or a lazy cop-out? Keywords Chaos, Engine, Bitmap, Brothers, Thief, Thief 2, Arcanum, Myst
:: STARTED BY Peach Pie
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:47 05.08.05
A moment's silence for Seth Johnson
Seth Johnson, formerly of Leeds United, Derby and England, has been released from his contract. Jermaine Jenas is valued at £10 million. What happened?
:: STARTED BY West Baltimore Hausing Project
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:08 05.08.05
MMO's and Society
Most are hack and slash, but small communities still thrive, can they play a part in changing the future?
:: STARTED BY Reiland-Yutani
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:00 04.08.05
Online MMORPG's and their real world economies
Unbelievable article in The Independent on Sunday about online RPG's and the real world economy springing up from them...
:: STARTED BY Scrambled Password Bogus Email
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:57 03.08.05
Campaign Writing
When you're writing running tabletop adventures, how do you do it? Do you dream up an elaborate plot? Think of a situation and then struggle to get the players there? Are your adventures carefully planned out in several notebooks, or done on the fly?
:: STARTED BY charrellz
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:23 02.08.05
Stronghold 2
Building, besieging, attacking and defending castles with lots of middle ages activities.
:: STARTED BY Alles Mist!
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:18 26.07.05
Sport as a means to political and social influence/change
In what ways have sports: professional, amateur, organised, casual, been used as motors for social and political change? How is sport a useful/dangerous force/narrative in these terms?
:: STARTED BY Goodness Gracious Meme
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:59 25.07.05
Le tour
o boy o boy o boy! le tour, live every night for us aussies - is anyone else excited?
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:00 25.07.05
Info on Xenosaga
Xenosaga, Xenosaga 2 or even the original Xenogears
:: STARTED BY quinine92001
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:17 24.07.05
Copy Protection Question
I've lost all my Starcraft junk except the disc- No serial number.
:: STARTED BY Jake, Knight Of Kennett Square
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:12 21.07.05
Pen & Paper RPG's
For discussion about Pan & Paper RPG's such as Dungeons and Dragons, World of Darkness, Legend of the Five Rings, GURPS, and any other RPG system that people fancy.
:: STARTED BY Tom Tit's Tot: A Girl!
:: 57 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:57 20.07.05
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