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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Suikoden V: if I…should stay…I would only…be in…your way
The stakes are fairly low in Suikoden V. The whole game is about a botched coup in a single country. Godwin’s forces don’t even look like Death Knights. They look like some third world army with their fruity berets. And … Continue reading
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Weekly Little Big Planet: this goes to 11
About a year ago we started featuring levels from the game LittleBigPlanet 2 that were designed by players of the game, levels which the designer of the game, Media Molecule, dubs Community Levels. We posted daily levels for a couple … Continue reading
Suikoden V: the bathhouse at Sodom n Gomorrah Castle
Getting a headquarters for your army is a Suikoden series tradition. The HQ is where all the recruits hang out, each with his own one or two line spiel that reflects his personality/backstory and changes in the plot. As you … Continue reading
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Qt3 Games Podcast: the battle against MMO fatigue
Bill Abner joins us this week, bringing a report from the front on the war against MMO fatigue, where Jason McMaster is still valiantly fighting and Tom Chick is engaged in a mostly successful flanking maneuver. Casualties are heavy all … Continue reading
Suikoden V: 108 samurai. Or knights, ninjas, riflemen, whatever.
From a gameplay perspective, saying there are 108 characters in a Suikoden game really means there are 60 to 80 benchwarmers once you subtract non-combat, non-support characters who are just there to serve as shopkeepers and other RPG jobs for … Continue reading
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Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone violates videogaming Hippocratic oath
The first rule of writing for a videogame should be “do no harm”. If your writing, characters, dialog, and plot actively make me not want to play, you have done the worst you could possibly do. For instance, the follow-up … Continue reading
Suikoden V: New Game Plus’n it
One of the reasons I prefer the PS3 to the 360 is that I can copy saved games to and from the system with a USB stick, no need for some third party doo-hickey (caveat emptor: PS3 games won’t let … Continue reading
The worst thing you’ll see all week: Pitch Black
I honestly can’t tell you how I ended up watching Pitch Black on Netflix. It’s one of those things that just happened, not unlike waking up in Bangkok with a tattoo on your face or a shaved head. I might … Continue reading
Suikoden V: to hell with Elder Scrolls V
Wait, is this one of those games where androgynous teenagers save the world? Yes, thank you, wise ass. We’ve all heard that joke a million times. Suikoden V does have a pretty-boy teenage lead. Freyjadour Falenas, as he’s officially known … Continue reading
Qt3 Movie Podcast: Tintin
The director of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull paid an extended visit to Weta’s motion capture studios. The result, Tintin, is exactly what you’d expect from Polar Express meets a Belgian comic book. This week’s podcast … Continue reading
Happy holidays from Quarter to Three (and Rift!)
Happy holidays from all of us at Quarter to Three to all of you on the other side of this monitor! Here’s me hanging out in front of one of the holiday decorations sprung up around the world of Rift. … Continue reading
Weekly Little Big Planet: gone viral
The full name of the level is The Virus: Chapter 4 – Part One – Forgotten Dreams. I don’t know, maybe this is an homage to the goofy title formatting of the Mission Impossible movies. The good thing about having … Continue reading
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Ascension: Return of the Fallen: Sam breaks the rules
There are two kinds of cards in Ascension: non-monsters that you buy to put into your deck, and monsters. When you beat a monster, it’s banished from the game and you earn some victory points. In the basic Ascension cards, … Continue reading
The bounce effect of Minecraft’s physics
Here I am, nearly a year after first hearing about it, finally giving Minecraft a shot. My first attempt didn’t go so well. When night fell and the zombies came out, I retreated to the back of a cave to … Continue reading
The worst thing you’ll see all week: The Sitter
With The Sitter, Director David Gordon Green obviously intended a latter-day Adventures in Babysitting. Take a charismatic lead, add a handful of adorable kids, and send them out for a night on the town where they run afoul of criminals. … Continue reading
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