No Quarters

BMF Presents NQ – Blood Dragon Special

NoQuarters — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:56:09 +0000

In this very special episode of No Quarters, we’re joined by the crew of Bad Movie Fiends to discuss a match made in heaven in game form. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is the game that feels like it was specifically made for us. Warning: After a short bit of general talk, we will get heavy into spoilers.

NQcast49 – Presented By Chicken Kickin’

NoQuarters — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:01:31 +0000

This month we break down and talk about video games! All the latest and greatest video games like Injustice: Gods Among Us, Bioshock Infinite, Guacamelee!, Sleeping Dogs, Forza Horizon, the original Bioshock, classic pinball machines and… okay so only a couple of them are late and great. But we have fun talking and therefore you’ll have fun listening! SO HOP TO IT.

NQcast49 – Presented By Chicken Kickin’

First half!

1:20 Injustice: Gods Among Us (Terrible title, great fighting game! As if you expected different from the Mortal Kombat team. Harlo even likes Aquaman!)
14:15 Bioshock Infinite (Buy the ticket, take the ride. Or something. Maki praises then rants then praises then rants about it. It’s bipolar, like the game!)
38:44 Guacamelee (Harlo & Maki enjoy this PSN Metroidvania co-op game. Just remember that stereotypes can be racist, too!)
46:38 Tomb Raider (Harlo doesn’t like it nearly as much as Chuck and Maki did. Just don’t go for the collectables and challenges!)
1:00:08 Forza Horizon FreeLC (Chuck loves all these new free challenges, even if he didn’t buy all the new DLC cars.)

Second Half! (1:05:58)

1:06:10 FTL: Faster Than Light (Harlo wins! He actually beat FTL! He also succeeded at not getting fired from work in the process!)
1:09:45 Sleeping Dogs (Chuck makes a very specific analogy between this game and GTA4, specifically. It’s no Saints Row The Third, though!)
1:19:15 Just Cause 2 PC Multiplayer Beta (Harlo plays Just Cause 2 with up to 5000 people. Holy crap.)
1:23:58 Batman Arkham City GOTY PC (Just like the console version, you have to play the intro before you can unlock Batman. Also, it looks GOOD.)
1:25:27 Tribes: Ascend (Harlo returns to the world of Tribes and loves it.)
1:28:56 Civilization V (It’s back down that rabbithole for Harlo. We wax nostalgic about the Civ series for a bit. Just one more turn!)
1:34:27 Bioshock (Chuck cracks 100,000 gamerscore with this current-gen “classic.” He doesn’t agree with the rest of the world about the story being the selling point, though.)
1:4:37 Pinball Corner!

1:45:11 Pinball Arcade PS3 (Genie and Big Shot entertain Harlo!)
1:46:39 Pinball Arcade iOS (WHITEWATER IS IN PINBALL ARCADE.)
1:49:00 Real Pinball Tables (Sopranos and Addams Family are played at a pool hall! Also, we jukebox trolled a pool hall.)

1:52:58 Playstation Plus Corner!

1:53:23 Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention (The game seems really cool until we all realize it’s a tactical strategy RPG. Then our enthusiasm drains. Bummer.)
1:56:00 Resonance of Fate (Not a PS+ title, but Chuck won it and couldn’t play this style of game anymore, either.)
1:59:50 Demons Souls (Harlo is tempted to go down the difficulty rabbithole.)

2:01:43 Mobile Corner!

2:01:57 Injustice: Gods Among Us iOS (We just want unlocks for the console version! Unfortunately you have to deal with a free to play card game Infinity Blade style thing with microtransactions. Hmmmmmmm.)
2:07:15 Little Things (It’s a cute little picture hunt game. Just don’t bother trying to play it on your phone.)
2:09:16 Rockpocalypse (The Rock in an Infinity Blade type game! What could go wrong? Oh, you didn’t get The Rock to record new phrases? And the controls suck? Oh.)

Listener Mail! (2:12:32)

2:12:46 Alan lets us know about Youtube ads for Train Simulator 2013! (Farming Simulator is coming to consoles. HOW)
2:15:17Jens wants to know what we think of Gearbox these days after some terrible recent games? (If it’s their property, thumbs up. If it’s anybody else’s license, forget it. If the next Borderlands is officially an MMO, we’re out, though.)
2:26:46 Dave AKA Robop1g wants to know if we think deathmatch will ever return to the non-unlock style of Quake and older games? (Indies seem to get it, but the big guys don’t anymore. Tribes Ascend might be your closest thing.)

Music

Title, Break and Outro music by listener Musim. Check out more music from him at listentomusim.bandcamp.com!

NQcast48 – Relationship Status With PC Gaming: It’s Complicated

NoQuarters — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:31:23 +0000

While there are plenty of console games discussed this episode (including Tomb Raider, Mass Effect 3 Citadel, Far Cry 3, Dead Space 3, Defiance Beta and more), we continue our love/hate relationship with PC gaming. This month, Harlo re-enters the world and has more success than BJ did last month. Titles include SimCity, The Showdown Effect, FTL, Arma III, Planetside 2 and so many others. 3D gaming is pretty great too, but you gotta pay for it. You don’t have to pay for this podcast though, so get to listenin’.

NQcast48 – Relationship Status With PC Gaming: It’s Complicated

First half!

1:27 Tomb Raider (Bad jokes about the name aside, it’s a really good game! Might be too gory for it’s own good but it’s still worth playing!)
24:24 SimCity (More like SimNeighborhood Can’t Connect To Server AMIRITE?)
39:18 The Showdown Effect (The follow-up to NQ favorite Magicka isn’t quite what Harlo wanted. Also, multiplayer only, so buyer beware!)
45:57 Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC (This is what would happen if Mass Effect 3 was made into a 5-jox ‘80s movie. Chuck and Maki recommend it as highly as they possibly can.)
59:11 Dead Space 3 Awakened DLC (Maki says it’s more Dead Space 3. If you liked DS3, you’ll like it! If you didn’t, well… You’re probably not playing it anyway, right?)
1:01:12 Dead Space 3 (Chuck beats it and ends up hating it by the end of the game. Sad face.)
1:07:25 Far Cry 3 (BJ beats a video game and loves it! If you hated the ending, you probably played it wrong. Real talk, people.)

Second Half! (1:21:57)

1:22:20 Halo 4 (Maki plays Spartan Ops. Even he doesn’t know why. )
1:27:05 Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (BJ experiences the joys of a 3DTV but it doesn’t make him enjoy playing the game or the ADHD storyline.)
1:35:26 Bioshock & Bioshock 2 (It’s better than Maki said it was last month, but it’s still not great. Especially the last few levels. Bioshock 2 is more of the same. Great, huh.)
1:39:35 Innovation In Games (A question from Greencapt leads to a discussion about innovation vs. iteration this generation, along with a whole bunch of other issues.)
2:03:11 PC Gaming on a 3DTV (Harlo pays $40 to get new Nvidia drivers to render games on his 3DTV in 3D. Well worth the $40.)
2:11:15 Arma III Alpha (Harlo declares this one of the most beautiful games he’s ever seen. And it’s still in alpha!)
2:15:41 FTL (None of us have beaten it. Still. Yet Harlo is still addicted to it.)
2:18:41 Torchlight 2 (It’s more Torchlight! Except this time with honey badgers.)
2:20:34 Planetside 2 (FTPMMOFPS! Harlo likes it so far!)
2:23:15 Star Control 2 (Harlo and Chuck love going back to the past and playing this space sim that was way ahead of its time.)
2:29:48 Batman Arkham Asylum PC (Maki gets disoriented by playing this game at 60fps and with hi-res textures. And he loves it.)
2:37:40 Pinball Corner!

2:37:40 Pinball FX2: Star Wars tables (Maki loves Empire Strikes Back, everyone else likes it. Clone Wars is ok, Boba Fett? Meh.)
2:40:17 Pinball Arcade: Star Trek Next Generation (Harlo redeems it for PSN and feels like he’d be a master of the real version now!)

2:41:34 Playstation Plus Corner!

2:41:34 Closure (Dark and light makes us wonder how programmers figure this stuff out.)
2:44:27 Defiance Beta (Harlo tries out this MMO tie-in to a new TV show and recommends it. Especially since it has /dance in it.)
2:47:37 Lumines: Electronic Symphony (Maki finally has a copy that doesn’t need to keep it in the Vita drive anymore.)

2:48:20 Mobile Corner! (description)

2:48:20 Mortal Kombat Vita (Well worth it, and there’s a LOT to do.)
2:48:39 4 Pics 1 Word & Iconmania (Harlo likes both these free games, as long as they don’t get pushy with the ads!)
2:50:02 Bloons TD5 (Engineers with turrets!)

Listener Mail! (2:45:51)

Josh from Corpus Cristi wants to know why gamers think so many bad games are the WORST GAME EVAR and not just average. (This leads to us talking about reviewers we trust, binariness and mob mentality on the internet and a bunch of other stuff.)

Music

Title, Break and Outro music by listener Musim. Check out more music from him at listentomusim.bandcamp.com!

NQcast47 – Malaria Guns Pizza Party

NoQuarters — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:51:33 +0000

If you happened to watch our live stream of the recording of this episode, you know that it was a giant mess of a show with technical snafus, pizza deliveries, code reds and the potential birth of a found footage movie as we all get murdered by phantom knockers. However, this audio recording features none of that since editing is a wonderful thing. In its place, we talk about Aliens: Colonial Marines, Dead Space 3, Lollipop Chainsaw, PC gaming, and the announcement of the Playstation 4. Come, join us.

NQcast47 – Malaria Guns Pizza Party

First half!

Playstation 4 (The next generation is officially almost here and we have strong words to say about it. Also, dumb words. Also, pizza.)

Second Half! (29:14)

29:29 Dead Space 3 (Maki and Chuck sever some microtransactional limbs and shoot dudes that are not monsters for some reason. They like it, but don’t love it.)
43:32 Aliens Colonial Marines (Chuck basks in the anger, sadness and complete idiocy of this utterly broken game. The word garbage and many variants are used.)
58:29 Far Cry 3 (BJ joins the fold and enjoys it as much as his beloved Far Cry 2 and comes up with a casowary extinction plan.)
1:09:51 Lollipop Chainsaw (Maki can’t figure out if he likes this crazy Suda 51 cheerleader fighting zombies game or if he doesn’t. This is not a review!)
1:15:06 PC Gaming! (BJ attempts to create a rig and fails as Maki attempts Big Picture mode and kinda-sorta succeeds. Will PC gaming make a triumphant return?)
1:32:52 Midnight Club: LA (Chuck grabs his T-Mobile Sidekick and enjoys the polish and personality of this Rockstar open world racing blast from the past.)
1:37:54 Ratchet & Clank HD (Speaking of blasts from the past, Maki is shocked at how modern this game feels.)
1:42:12 Assassin’s Creed 3 (Maki finds some fun in all the random stuff that’s not story-related.Well, aside from the stalker fetch missions.)
1:47:08 Red Dead Redemption multiplayer (BJ and Maki crush some posse with friends and enjoy shooting zombies and bandits down in Yeehaw Gulch.)
1:50:21 GI Joe: Rise of Cobra (Chuck shockingly enjoys the hell out of this GI Joe cartoon nostalgiafest. It’s not as bad as you’ve heard!)
1:54:48 Bioshock (Maki discovers that nostalgia only takes you so far, as he struggles upon his return to Rapture with modern eyes and ears.)
2:01:21 Spec Ops: The Line (Harlo wraps up the story and his opinion of it descends even further.)
2:08:02 Sniper Elite V2 (BJ wraps up the storyline and wishes they’d stuck with what they’re good at instead of turning you into Rambo every mission.)
2:12:35 XBLIG Corner!
- 2:12:52 Arcadecraft (Harlo and Chuck create their own arcades in this mashup of SimCity and Game Dev Story.)
2:21:17 DLC Corner!
- 2:21:22 Dead Space 2 Severed (Maki and Chuck play through and like it alright. It’s kind of missing a middle act, though.)
- 2:22:44 Rock Band DLC (Pour one out for the greatest DLC effort we are likely ever to see.)
2:25:24 Playstation Plus Corner!
- 2:25:36 Persona 4 Arena demo (Harlo is utterly confused since he’s never played any of the Persona games.)
- 2:29:12 Quantum Conundrum (Yes, it’s by one of the makes of Portal. Yup, it plays a lot like Portal.)
- 2:31:41 Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus Vita (Maki is reminded that the Ninja Gaiden games are SUPER HARD.)
- 2:35:01 Closure (This puzzle game’s visual style doesn’t necessarily sell Harlo on it, but the gameplay does.)
2:37:13 Mobile Corner! (description)
- 2:37:24 Bloons TD 5 (Maki laments his wasted life until he learns how much more time Harlo has put into this game.)
- 2:42:07 Temple Run 2 (More of the same. Move along.)
- 2:43:07 Need for Speed Most Wanted (We’re amazed at how smoothly this game runs on our iOS devices.)
- 2:44:07 Avengers Initiative (It’s Infinity Blade with the Avengers! Harlo approves.)

Listener Mail! (2:45:28)

2:45:51 Sunny California wants to know what we think of the new Skylanders, and offers help in EVE Online. (We like Skylanders still, I guess? We create some insane combinations. And BJ doesn’t have a computer anymore, so no EVE!)
2:50:42 Jay is excited about the PS4! (So are we! Also, towels.)
2:55:20 Blair wants to know what we think of the new Xbox machine supposedly needing internet and one-time codes. (We’re worried but don’t think Microsoft would commit suicide like that.)

Music

Title, Break and Outro music by listener Musim. Check out more music from him at listentomusim.bandcamp.com!

NQcast46 – R. Kelly’s Wii Game

NoQuarters — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:57:41 +0000

We survived the (non) apocalypse but can you survive our first episode of 2013 that covers every game ever? That’s right, the No Quarters crew is back with Sad Tales of Skyrim, Anarchy Reigns, Dishonored, Space Team, Frog Fractions, Halo 4, and every other game ever made. They’re all covered in this episode, so sit back and commit to a full day of joyous game podcasting!

NQcast46 – R. Kelly’s Wii Game

First half!

Anarchy Reigns (5:37 – Chuck and Harlo discover it’s Beating Up Waves Of Dudes: The Game! Just don’t play as Bayonetta in multiplayer. Trust us.)
FTL: Faster Than Light (14:22 – Harlo and Chuck learn that Oregon Trail in space is the best and worst of roguelikes! They realize this after hours pass without them noticing.)
Far Cry 3 (23:45 – Maki, Harlo and Chuck try out some co-op and journey back to the jungle to hunt more animals and kill more pirates with VD. Also, Harlo’s future gaming is ruined by this game.)
Hitman: Blood Money (38:23 – Harlo realizes you can’t go back. Older games want you to play the way they want you to play them, even if you don’t want to play them that way. Sadness ensues.)
Dishonored (45:01 – BJ, Harlo and Chuck sneak around and eventually give up pacifism and murder EVERYONE. Because no-killing is LAME. Also, Chuck discovers he doesn’t have the patience for stealth games.)
Spec Ops: The Line (1:12:34 – Maki, Chuck and Harlo discover that killing people in games is a bad thing, but sometimes the game won’t give you any other choice. At what point is the story more important than the gameplay? Or vice versa?)
Halo 4 (1:32:15 – Chuck gets bored while he tries to care about the story. He fails.)

Second Half! (1:38:32)

Sniper Elite V2 (1:38:56 – BJ and Harlo snipe lots of dudes but realize the game isn’t nearly as good when they force you not to be a sniper. Also, the Kill Hitler DLC disappoints us greatly. The out Harlo’s review video!)
Skyrim (1:55:34 – Harlo begins his adventures into Sad Tales of Skyrim™. We blame the Dawnguard DLC, vampires and lockups.)
Dead Space 1 & 2 (2:06:54 – Maki and Chuck catch up on a couple of the best games this generation before Dead Space 3 comes out. The sound design is still unmatched. Playing on the hardest difficulty makes it an even better game, too!)
World of Warcraft (2:17:02 – BJ goes to Azeroth for reasons unknown and the rest of the podcast members berate him for this. Eventually we talk about Eve Online and other MMO craziness.)
Frog Fractions (2:28:28 – Maki and Chuck experience the weirdness that is Frog Fractions. We will say no more and pass you the link.)
XBLA Corner! (2:31:32)

Mark of the Ninja (2:32:08 – Harlo plays as a ninja named Mark. We think. It’s a MARKed step up from Shank. Ha! See what I did there? I’ll see myself out now.)
Deadlight (2:36:15 – Chuck loves 1/3rd of this game, hates 1/3rd of this game and is ambivalent towards 1/3rd of this game. Guess which section is which!)
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit (2:41:14 – Harlo plays this SEGA throwback side-scrolling slice of insanity. “If Sonic had guns,” sound about right?)

DLC Corner! (2:47:55)

Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock’s Big Hunt (2:48:03 – Harlo finishes it in one sitting and decides this is the first truly optional B2 DLC.)
Asura’s Wrath: Lost Episode 1 & 2 (2:50:51 – Maki BURSTS with anger as he plays this pointless Street Fighter 4 themed DLC.)
Batman Arkham City: Harley Quinn’s Revenge (2:54:41 – Harlo finds the storyline stuff ok, but hates the challenge rooms. And looking for balloons.)

Playstation Plus Corner! (2:57:51)

Payday: The Heist (2:58:06 – Harlo’s description: “Despicable.”)
2:59:44 NBA Jam: On Fire Edition (Harlo remembers the cheapness on NBA Jam but eventually learns to deal with it after unlocking some political teams. THANKS, OBAMA.)

Mobile Corner! (3:08:34)

Space Team (3:09:28 – We all experience the joy of shouting random controls out to each other in this free to play iOS game. )
Wordament (3:13:42 – Gamerscore points on an iOS game? Our minds are blown. Also blown by how quickly the fun ends.)
Jetpack Joyride (3:17:14 – We play the PS3 and Vita versions. Why no buttons on the Vita and only touchscreens? Ugh. At least we now know his name is Barry Steakfries.)

Listener Mail! (3:18:40)

Ryan wants to know the worst things to hunt in Far Cry 3. (3:18:51 – Aside from man, everything deserves to die. Actually, he deserves to die, too!)
Dave AKA Robopig asks if we watch The IT Crowd and what our all-time favorite weapons in games are. (3:20:37 – We like that show and we like weapons.)

Music

Title, Break and Outro music by listener Musim. Check out more music from him at listentomusim.bandcamp.com!

NQcast45 – Seeking A FOTY For The End Of The World

NoQuarters — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:58:38 +0000

If you’re reading this before December 21st, 2012, hurry the eff up and listen to our Favorites Of The Year episode before the world ends! Be quick and hear us debate the merits of The Walking Dead, Borderlands 2, Forza Horizon, Far Cry 3, Spec Ops: The Line, Asura’s Wrath and many, many more. There’s not much time left, so be sure to make this the last thing you put in your ears before kablooey times.

If you’re reading this after December 21st, 2012… well then everything is obviously fine so please listen at your leisure. Sorry for that letter we wrote to you calling you all kinds of names, figuring it would never get delivered since we were all going to die. Why the hell did we mail that thing…

NQcast44 – Wii Scream U Scream

NoQuarters — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:54:17 +0000

In our penultimate episode of 2012, the No Quarters crew decided to stop screwing around and finally talk about games. Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and The Walking Dead get a lot of time, as do Dishonored, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Borderlands 2, Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed and Playstation Plus. B-tier games like Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier and NeverDead make guest appearances. Also, 0% of the crew are interested in the Wii U and yet 25% of the crew bought one. Hear that exciting story and more coming up next (well, whenever you click play) on No Quarters!

NQcast44 – Wii Scream U Scream

First half!

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 (We like CODBLOPS2! We hear it has multiplayer. And zombies. And single player, too? Also, like an hour of credits? SO MUCH GAME!)
The Walking Dead (Chuck and Maki love the hell out of this game. Yes, it’s a game. The only spoiler is that it will be on at least 2 FOTY lists this year!)
Wii U (Chuck bought a Wii U. We don’t understand it either. It’s finished updating the firmware, at least!)
Borderlands: Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage (We spend way too long debating swearing in video games before saying how much we enjoy Mr. Torgue!)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Harlo gets frustrated by the amazing difficulty of this game. At least Dark Souls doesn’t lull you into a sense of safety first, right?)

Second Half! (1:26:21)

Dishonored (BJ enjoys the atmosphere and powers in this cool game! Listener Ryan sends an e-mail and gives us these pro tips for the game!)

It’s worth noting that the bone charms seem randomized, in my stealth run I picked up a “faster choke dudes out” charm which helped immensely though in my future runs never saw it again.
Want to drop assassinate a dude but don’t have a ledge above him? No problem! You can use blink to teleport above him and then bury your sword into his throat as you fall.
The upgraded agility allows you to jump *just* high enough to assassinate tall boy riders.
Placing a mine on a rat, possessing said rat, and running it into a few guards is an effective and hilarious tactic.
Weepers are people too and count towards your killing total, the game hints at this (I think) by having them warm themselves by fire and other “human” things they’ll do.
If someone sees you but isn’t fully alerted yet you can blink behind them and either sneak away or choke them out without raising an alarm.
The quieter boots upgrade is almost game breakingly good.
And finally the fully upgraded pistol could carry out an entire genocide on its own, it seriously wrecks face.

Asura’s Wrath (Maki and Chuck play and enjoy the hell out of this utterly insane Japanese combination of Bayonetta, Space Harrier and God of War.)
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (Chuck has fun soldiering in the future with this Bad Company-ish third person shooter. Everyone else just wants to build guns with their Kinect!)
Neverdead (Chuck tries out this dismemberment simulator game… thing.)
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (Ok, this cart racer is just weird. And totally random with Sega references. No Seaman level, though.)
Assassin’s Creed 3 (Maki continues, but Harlo sells his copy and never looks back. This is what happens when your game has no hook to keep you playing it.)
Need For Speed Most Wanted: Non-Razor Callahan Edition (Harlo, Chuck & Maki play some online and have some fun with it, but little compels any of us to stay in this game single-player.)
Forza Horizon (We talk a lot about the music in these games, but the fact of the matter is Forza does basically EVERYTHING better than NFSMW:NRCE.)
Pinball FX2: Marvel Civil War (Chuck gets bored with the arcadey-ness of the new table. Are we done with non-sim pinball games?)
Pinball Arcade: Twilight Zone (It’s out for iOS! Will we ever get it on 360?)
Mobile Corner!

Gravity Rush (Despite the generic name, Harlo has a ton of fun with this gravity shifting crazy game on Vita!)
Dikembe Mutombo’s 4 ½ Weeks To Save The World (An 8-bit arcade game in Flash starring Dikembe Mutombo. That seems to fit our sensibilities exactly.)
Vectrex Regeneration (Vector games emulated on iOS? Yes, please!)
Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube? (Spoiler: Your wasted life.)

Listener Voicemail! (2:41:53)

Sonny California asks us about a new variation on Skylanders involving ice cream. (Our tiny brains can’t comprehend Skylanders crossed with ice cream. This leads to idiocy. As usual. Thanks, Sonny California.)

Music

Title, Break and Outro music by listener Musim. Check out more music from him at listentomusim.bandcamp.com!

NQcast43 – Optional Kudos and Socks

NoQuarters — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:06:31 +0000

Holy crap, games! Time to get serious as only the NQ Crew can as we talk about vroom vroom games like Forza Horizon, Need For Speed Most Wanted and Ridge Racer Unbounded, games for AMERICA like Assassins Creed 3, and then some games featuring everyone’s favorite womanizing secret agent, Jimmy Bond. HOLY CRAP GAMES!!

NQcast43 – Optional Kudos and Socks

First half!

Forza Horizon (It’s awesome! We totally didn’t expect this!)
Need For Speed Most Wanted: Non-Razor Callahan Edition (It’s good, but flawed. We totally didn’t expect that!)
Ridge Racer Unbounded (Chuck binds or unbinds things involving illuminati and racing or something. We don’t know. Unbounded.)
Assassin’s Creed 3 (It should have been like Red Dead with more murdering. But it isn’t. One big long sigh of frustration is heard ‘round the globe.)
Assassin’s Creed 3 Liberation (An interesting main character can’t save a lot of poor game design decisions. Let’s play dress-up!)
WWE ’13 (Remember when wrestling was good? Ok, not good but tolerable? Good, because that’s the wrestling you will do! You will do it with Attitude!)
Halo 4 (Maki enjoys his initial impressions of it. Who cares about the story, though, it looks great!)

Second Half! (1:32:30)

Medal of Honor: Warfighter (Chuck Fights a War, Honorably. It’s completely average (aside from its beards), but worth a rental, maybe?)
Dishonored (BJ & Harlo give their initial impressions. Honorably. You MIGHT end up in a sewer. It’s a Bethesda game, after all.)
007 Legends (Chuck and Harlo hate this game! Retcons for hte sake of retcons are a bad idea.)
Quantum of Solace (Chuck thinks this is the Bond game you should be playing instead of 007 Legends! And it’s only $2.99 used!)
Borderlands 2 Scarlett’s Pirate Booty DLC (We beat the main game, BJ & Chuck go through the DLC and Maki suffers the wrath of progress-erasing glitches!)
Walking Dead Episode 4 (Chuck continues the tradition of playing one of the best games of the year! It’s still messed up! BJ also makes a pledge.)
The Baconing (Harlo continues the Deathspank series and continues to love it!)
Pinball Arcade (360 still doesn’t have many tables, iOS gets caught up and we enjoy most of the new ones that are out!)
Mobile Corner!

Borderlands iOS (Maki blows $5 on this and warns people to only get it on iPad, and even then, it’s not very good.)
Army of Darkness Defense (Harlo and Maki love this free-to-play tower defense game using AoD voices! If you have an iOS device, get it. Trust us.)
Jaws Revenge (Eat people! It’s fun!)
Nyan Cat (Harlo continues to return to the craziness, where they keep adding new fun stuff!)
Punch Quest (Super-fun free-to-play using the same model as Jetpack Joyride equals success!)
Earn To Die (Maki enjoys this 99¢ zombie smashing car driving mad max type game!)

Listener E-mails! (2:46:39)

Zach asks us our favorite GBA games! (We give a few suggestions from this somewhat-forgotten system.)
Eric wants to know why we haven’t played Resident Evil 6! (Trust me, it’s not RE6, it’s us.)
Jonathan asks us which games he should get for his new PS3! (Get Playstation Plus. For sure. Plus other games. Definitely!)
Matt asks our favorite James Bond games! (007: Everything or Nothing is great, but No One Lives Forever takes that cake. Those games are AWESOME.)
Dave AKA Robop1g asks us what giant mech games we like! (Sadly, we haven’t played Hawken or the new Mechwarrior, but we talk a lot about Steel Batallion.)
Macksimus Pryme asks us our favorite games of this generation! (Video games. We like video games.)

Music

Title, Break and Outro music by listener Musim. Check out more music from him at listentomusim.bandcamp.com!

NQcast42 – References

NoQuarters — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:11:34 +0000

This month we talk Borderlands 2 (shocker!), Tokyo Jungle, Starhawk, Jet Set Radio HD, The Splatters, Fire Pro Wrestling and plenty more. If you wish to skip the lengthy BL2 talk, check the show notes to see where we stop going on and on about our latest passion. Enjoy!

NQcast42 – References

First half!

Borderlands 2 (We kinda like it.)
Tokyo Jungle (Jump to 43:53 to hear us talk about this INSANE old-school throwback roguelike animal survival game on PS3. Pomeranians!)

Second Half! (58:09)

Fire Pro Wrestling (Chuck unlocks avatar awards and fights Wrestling Bagg in this XBLA title!)
Paying for DLC crap (We rant and rave for a bit about the price of NBA player bling as stat-boosting DLC, real-world money auctions in Diablo 3 and Xbox’s Chain Reaction sales.)
Starhawk (Harlo dives into the single-player campaign, thanks to PSPlus. Mech mode and Jet mode mean FUCK YES THIS GAME.)
Jet Set Radio HD (Maki revisits his Dreamcast past and is reminded of how relentlessly hard video games used to be.)
The Splatters (“Like a colorful Incredible Machine.” Chuck likes this puzzle game where you play a sentient puddle of paint!)
Avengers Battle For Earth demo (Harlo gives his Kinect a workout with this terrible fighting game demo!)
Pinball Arcade DLC (Creature From The Black Lagoon and Black Knight look good and play well. Black Knight is still super-fast!)
Zen Pinball 2 (Harlo tries out the 3D support while playing Tesla and other tables not in Pinball FX2!)
Mobile Corner!

Dead Trigger (First person shooters don’t work on iOS! Especially when they have microtransactions.)
Vote! The Game (Infinity Blade with Obama and Mitt! Hey, it’s free. Leave us alone.)

Viewer E-mails!

Jay asks if we’re getting the Wii U and whether or not still playing Pokemon is dumb. (Spoiler: nope and nope.)
Dave asks if we’ve seen Indie Game The Movie. (Spoiler: nope.)
Matt tells us an awesome story and asks us what types of survival horror we like. (Spoiler: lots.)

Music

Title, Break and Outro music by listener Musim. Check out more music from him at listentomusim.bandcamp.com!

NQcast41 – Grimlogs

NoQuarters — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:13:45 +0000

This episode of No Quarters is finally about video games. You demanded it and so we listened. The NQ crew discusses Rock Band Blitz, Soundshapes, Sleeping Dogs, The Walking Dead, and everyone’s favorite sports management sim MLB Front Office Manager. Then, pinballs of both the real world and virtual variety are talked about in detail, because you love it.

NQcast41 – Grimlogs

First half!

Rock Band Blitz (We wrap our feeble minds around the craziness of this arcadey music score attack DLC thing and like it. For the most part!)
Sound Shapes (Get it for the Beck levels. Seriously. It’s great!)
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Maki breaks his yearly rule to play this TF fan-service third-person shooter. Also, it has Grimlock audio logs! We think, maybe!)
The Walking Dead (Heartbreak and misery await. And we love it!)
Sleeping Dogs (Harlo redboxes this open-world brawler, but wants less realism, more crazy!)
Yakuza 4 (Listener Jens gifts Harlo this cutscene-laden japanese brawler, where wrecking dudes is the order of the day!)
Mass Effect 3: Leviathan DLC (Maki says to save your money!)
Pimp My Ride (BJ really wants to ghostride the whip, but his pimping is limited by technical issues. Oh no!)
The Force Unleashed (BJ lays waste to everything before being turned into a child in the mother of all abiliteases!)

Second Half! (1:11:28)

Pinball Corner!

Real Life Pinball (Chuck and Harlo are now the proud owners of real-life, honest-to-god pinball tables: San Francisco and Big Guns!)
Pinball Arcade DLC (Gorgar & Monster Bash arrive, but stuff was screwed up. As usual!)
Pinball FX 2 (Plants Vs Zombies arrives and it’s way, way too easy!)

Plants Vs Zombies (Maki gets all the achievements and then retires from PvZ!)
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Series (Maki is done! All 1000 points! Everyone rejoices, except the achievement creator who he will one day hunt down and torture!)
Mech Corps (Harlo plays this crazy giant mech pod simulator thing at Dragon*con!)
Burnout Paradise (BJ and Maki take themselves down to the Paradise City, where the grass is green and the Australian children are complete assholes!)
Just Cause 2 (Harlo shows how much he enjoys this game by playing through it AGAIN!)
MLB Front Office Manager (Chuck makes baseball even more boring, somehow!)
Operation Flashpoint: Red River (Chuck becomes Front Line Manager in this strategic shooter!)
Mobile Corner! (description)

Persona 3 Portable (It may not make any sense, but it doesn’t make any sense in an entertaining way!)
Scribblenauts Remix (Funky bridges abound!)

Music

Title, Break and Outro music by listener Musim. Check out more music from him at listentomusim.bandcamp.com!

NQcast40 – Singing Chickens

NoQuarters — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 01:10:09 +0000

It’s a pinball summer on this episode of No Quarters, as we have no games to play and are left with no choice but to head south and check out Game Warp, a classic video game and pinball expo. You might have heard us talking about this in our last dozen or so episodes. Eventually we break down and play some “modern” games like Tony Hawk and Ticket to Ride, which is actually a board game. It’s our geezer-est episode yet! Get off our lawns and listen!

NQcast40 – Singing Chickens

First half!

Tony Hawk HD (Can’t wait for those DLC reverts! And more Extra Large Pegasii(?) music! And Brojectives!)
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (Superman may be a dick, but he’s awesome to play in this game!)
Front Mission Evolved (Rocket shoes and giant mechs and a dead dad and wait… Did you say Front Mission or Lost Planet?)
Syndicate (Electric macing and ripping out microchips is fun, but the co-op is HARD.)
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon (Pure alien insect craziness, pure arcade game, pure not quite pure fun!)
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (It’s a pretty good puzzler! Where you shoot things! We also prove we are the opposite of experts on the Tomb Raider universe.)
Playstation Plus (Harlo subscribing to Plus leads to a big discussion about how Microsoft sucking has allowed Sony to fail upward in its online implementation.)
Game (Description.)

Second Half! (53:02)

Gamewarp 2 (We all celebrate the world of pinball and classic arcade games at Gamewarp in Orlando, FL. We talk about our favorite tables, which ones we’d own and how we’d all go down that scary road of pinball table ownership!)
Funspot (We answer Dave’s e-mail asking about taking his son to Funcom in New Hampshire. At what age do kids turn into cynics?)
Pinball Arcade DLC (We love the new tables! We just hope FarSight has learned from their mistakes. And Microsoft’s mistakes. Why does it cost money to patch a game, anyway?)
Pinball Hall of Fame (BJ destroys a bunch of wizard goals and is just a few goals short of all 1000 points. No jokes about it, that’s impressive!)
Eragon (Chuck fights dragons. Or are the eragons? Can you play as E.Honda?)
Assassin’s Creed Revelations (Harlo beats it and is ready to play AC3 now!)
Puzzle Quest 2 (Maki says just stick with PQ1. This one feels like a Flash game!)
Plants Vs Zombies (Maki can’t beat Endless Mode!)
Beijing Olympics 2008 (Chuck has already deleted it from his profile, if that gives you an idea of how good it is!)
The Price Is Right Decades 360 (Bet $3, Chuck! DO IT.)
Mobile Corner!

Ticket To Ride (It’s an analog board game! And an iPad game! And true to form, explaining the rules to parents every turn happens.)
Small World (Harlo plays the the board game with the robotic kids. And you pass the iPad to play it!.)
Jurassic Park Builder (Maki discovers it’s Farmville with a Jurassic Park skin! What a disappointment.)
Virtua Tennis 4 Vita (Harlo plays some portable tennis! And Buffalo Bills himself into the game!)

Pimp My Ride (BJ promises to finish this game. It’s in writing now!)
Dark Souls (Wait, BJ still has it!? Maki wants it back!)

NQcast39 – Sexual Nintendo

NoQuarters — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:08:06 +0000

This month’s No Quarters is all about games. We talk about the new ending for Mass Effect 3 (mostly spoiler free), The Walking Dead Episode 2, pinballs galore including more hype for Game Warp in Orlando, FL, and then a whole bunch of garbage. Hey, it’s summer, there’s nothing to play.

NQcast39 – Sexual Nintendo

First half!

The Walking Dead: Episode 2 (Continuing the long-running 2-episode tradition of this game being good! Well, other than your choices in the game, which are all HORRIBLE. In a good way!)
Mass Effect 3: The Bettering (It’s better.)
Pinball FX2: Marvel Avengers Chronicles (Norin Radd drops by to play some video pinball. They all have a unique mode, which helps offset wonky physicsness.)
Pinball Arcade (Harlo & Maki are pinball wizards! And still hate Black Hole! Also, Vita and PS3 support is great!)
Real Pinball Pilgrimages (BJ & Harlo take road trips to take on some real-life tables. Also, we actually explain the definition of “framp”!)
Sniper Elite V2 (BJ does what an elite sniper does. Shoots dudes. Also, gets shot.)
Call of Duty Black Ops (Maki beats it! On Veteran. He’s dumb. The story is pretty good, though!)
Nail’d (It’s an arcade ATV rac’r! Listen to some Stain’d! DLC achievements nev’r unlock’d! It’s not goo’d!)
Pimp My Ride (Chuck gets us all incredibly excited about GHOSTRIDING THE WHIP.)

Second Half! (1:09:37)

Forza Motorsport 4 (BJ knocks out some racin’ before his computer dies. Or his car, from driving backwards. Shame the Porsche DLC costs so much!)
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Maki just can’t get into the driving in this game. Still. Most Wanted preorder cancelled!)
Need For Speed: Most Wanted: Razor Callahan Edition (Maki & Chuck go back to race this arcadey FMV-ridden slice of ridiculousness. RAZOR!)
Assassin’s Creed Revelations (Harlo gets WAY into training his assassins. Like too much. He’s also tosses coins like he’s in a canadian strip joint.)
Puzzle Quest (Maki draws Harlo back into the massive investment of time required to complete Puzzle Quest. Just don’t call it Bejewled!)
Final Fight: Double Impact (Guy just wants to beat up dudes. He’s a simple fellow, with simple needs. Also, Magic Sword is a REALLY long arcade game.)
Fight Night Champion (“Singlehandedly, the best storyline in a sports game I have ever seen in my life.” -Chuck “I’m gonna get to punch this asshole in the face!” -also Chuck)
Trials Evolution (We explore the user-created tracks and find a LOT of fun there. We also feel super-dumb trying to make our own levels.)
E-mail Question from Ryan From Dallas (Name the hardest games we’ve beaten, and the hardest ones we’ve given up on! We name a lot of old games.)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Harlo apparently doesn’t understand how to play this game. More self-preservation, less Mulder!)
Diablo 3 (Whimsyshire is the only thing left Harlo can play solo in the game. He has reached the end of Diablo.)
Skyrim (Harlo mods it up, though somehow doesn’t install the Macho Man mod? Lunacy!)
Quantum Conundrum (Too similar to Portal? Harlo thinks so.)
Chuck’s Game Vacation!

Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood (Better than the original in every way!)
Green Lantern (A well-done beat-em-up where Ryan Reynolds gets to play himself!)
Homefront (You must retake the Tiger Direct. This is of utmost importance.)

Mobile Corner!

Plague, Inc. (Catch The Funk on this iOS disease simulator.)
Zombie Gunship (Did you like the gunship levels in CoD4? Then get this!)
Pocket Planes (The guys from Tiny Tower make a more complicated airport/airline simulator. Your mileage may vary.)
Hot Shots Golf Vita (It’s really good until you hit a brick wall late in the game.)
Baseball Stars 2 (From the SNK Collection on PSP. Subbing in your good guys to replace your bad guys is just good coaching.)

Visit Gamewarp.org and play pinball and classic video games with us July 27-29, 2012!

NQcast38 – 8 Bits For The Troops

NoQuarters — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:24:11 +0000

It’s another very special episode of No Quarters this month, but this time we really mean it! After a first half talking about Diablo III, Minecraft for Xbox 360, Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, The Witcher 2 and other notables, we interview Jack Laughlin about Game Warp II, a classic gaming and pinball convention in Orlando, FL coming up July 27-29, 2012. Then in the bonus third half we just get punchy. I mean, we talk about Game Room for pete’s sake. GAME ROOM!

NQcast38 – 8 Bits For The Troops Show Notes

First half!

Cards Against Humanity (We love us some degenerate Apples To Apples!)
Diablo 3 (Harlo & Maki make the journey back to Tristram… Until their connection drops. Eventually the game gets compared to a hot girlfriend. You kinda had to be there.)
Torchlight 2 Beta (BJ betas out the other Diablo-type game and enters gamer mecca. Kinda. Except with ferrets. You had to be there!)
Minecraft on Xbox 360 (Maki relays stories of Legos and murder and digging and house floods and other assorted insanity. You kinda had to be th… Never mind.)
Witcher 2 (Chuck is almost done with it! It’s lost a lot of steam as it goes, sadly. Now it’s all about the Whore Tents.)
Batman Arkham City: Harley Quinn’s Revenge DLC (Remember Batman? It’s more of it! In basically the same areas. The short version? DON’T BUY THIS.)
Dr. Who: The Eternity Clock (Chuck makes the trip to the PS3 for a side-scrolling platformer without combat or checkpoints. Wait, what!?)
Pinball Tables! (Harlo visits Pinball Mecca in Las Vegas! Chuck plays AC/DC! BJ plays Playboy and Simpsons at a lesbian bar? Okay! They all play lots and lots of pinball!)

Second Half! (1:21:41)

Interview with Jack Laughlin of Game Warp II

GameWarp.org

ArcadeFlorida.com

Third Half! (1:58:46)

Pinball Arcade (Theatre of Magic, Cirqus Voltaire, Twilight Zone Kickstarter and many more pinball things are discussed! We might even bring up that evil table known as Black Hole!)
Nexuiz (Chuck plays this multiplayer-only shooter that has nobody playing!)
Blood Drive (Chuck plays this blood-related value game that some people have compared to Carmageddon!)
Anomaly Warzone Earth (We debate whether this $4 XBLA game is a DOTA or RTS or tower defense or what the hell it is.)
Game Room (Maki and Chuck go achievement hunting in this defunct classic game simulator. There’s a reason it’s defunct.)
EA Sports MMA (Chuck hates this “dudes laying on each other” simulator!)
Price Is Right Decades (Support Our Troops with this not very good iPad game!)
GTA3 iPad (Yup, on-screen buttons. It controls as bad as you think!)
Left 4 Dead 2 (BJ still sucks at this game! Thanks to listener Moe for giving him a copy, though!)
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery (Now you can get your friends to SwUnfollow you!)
Amnesia (BJ learns what being in a horror movie is like. Kind of. He’s back in the light recharging his sanity!)

NQcast37 – The Bitchers 4: Assassins of Pinballs (Enhanced Edition)

NoQuarters — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:10:32 +0000

In this episode of No Quarters, Maki comes to realize that life’s too short for learning all the minutia in games like Trials: Evolution or getting all achievements in puzzlers like Fez. He then tells us about learning all the minutia of Trials: Evolution and getting all achievements in Fez. Also, Harlo and Chuck soundly debate the merits of The Witcher 2, BJ does three laps through X-Men Arcade, and everyone loves pinball. All this and more, tonight, on No Quarters!

NQcast37 – The Bitchers 4: Assassins of Pinballs (Enhanced Edition) Show Notes

First half!

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: Enhanced Edition (Chuck and Harlo play it, and have completely opposite opinions! Fight, Dandelion!)
Trials Evolution (BJ & Maki love Trials! BJ & Maki hate Trials! “It’s the Dark Souls of XBLA!”)
Fez (Maki did everything! Thanks amateur cryptographers of the internet!)
Journey (Maki loves this PS3 downloadable! He’s pretentious, though, so your mileage may vary! Chirp!)
The Walking Dead: Episode 1 (Chuck & Maki enjoy the hell out of this Telltale adventure game! Even if your guy starts off as the clumsiest protagonist ever!)

Second Half! (1:09:03)

PINBALL! (We adventure around our “Closed On Sunday” city looking for pinball tables! We find one that we promptly break!)
Xbox 360 Dashboard (We freak out about how much Metro sucks! Too much advertising and actual content hides from you! Windows 8 will be more of the same! DAMMIT!)
Pinball Arcade (We all play the hell out of it! And love most of it! Now fix the main menu! Also, SUPER JAAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKKPPPPOOOOOTTTTTTTTTT!)
Playstation Vita (Holy crap, Harlo got one! To play Pinball Arcade on the go, of course!)
3D Television (Holy crap, Harlo bought a 3D TV! What? Predictably, some games look better than others… And not the ones you’d think!)
Gears of War 3 (Maki defeats wave 50 of Horde mode! It only takes 5 hours! Easy, right?!)
Saints Row The Third (BJ gets the final achievement with a little help from his Urchin friend!)
Mass Effect 3 (Chuck, Maki and Harlo kill lots of dudes in multiplayer! And they also check out packages!)
The Force Unleashed (Chuck hates The Force Unleashed! All positivity this cast!)
FEAR Files (chuck enjoys the hell out of these FEAR expansion packs! Negativity vanquished!)
X-Men Arcade (BJ returns to the battle! As Wolverine! A bunch of times!)
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack (Maki beat it! Touching the screen and moving at the same time is garbage!)
SSX (Maki got all 1000 points in it! Tricky!)
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations: The Lost Archive DLC (Maki beat it and hates this! There’s a storyline retcon that makes him hate it even more!)
Jetpack Joyride (Harlo and Maki love the update! Retina support! New gadgets! Good times!)
Midway Arcade (Chuck really likes the added iCade support!)
Draw Something (Harlo is the only one still playing! Too many games, too many repeats chased the rest of us off!)

NQcast36 – Kingdoms of Norman Mailer, I Reckon

NoQuarters — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:20:50 +0000

Norman Mailer was an American writer who is sometimes credited with the creation of the writing genre known as creative nonfiction. This has nothing to do with this month’s episode however, as our show is about video games. Aside from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Mass Effect 3 and SSX, there’s also plenty of talk about Draw Something and other games of that ilk. Mmm, ilk.

NQcast36 – ‘Kingdoms of Norman Mailer, I Reckon’ Show Notes

First half!

Mass Effect 3 (Because we haven’t talked about it enough!)
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (BJ becomes the hero of Goldman Sachs or something. And kinda likes it! At least for the first 100 hours!)
Saints Row The Third: The Trouble With Clones DLC (Chuck says it’s short but good, kinda like my ex-gir… Um, never mind. Carry on!)
Assassin’s Creed Revelations: The Lost Memory DLC (Maki warns everyone to stay the hell away form this. Unless you desperately want more terrible first-person puzzle sections. Which you don’t!)
Singularity (Harlo travels through time to an era where story doesn’t matter, only gameplay. And enjoys it quite a bit. Even if he ruined the world. Stupid time travel!)

Second Half! (52:47)

Joe Danger XBLA (Maki & Chuck compare this to Trials HD. And not particularly favorably. DANGERRRRRRRR!)
South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge (Chuck enjoyed this game and can’t understand the hate! But he’s bought every single South Park game over, so your mileage may vary!)
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack! (Maki enjoys the hell out of this Katamari-inspired side scrolling platformer. It’s almost the best game on Vita!)
Thor: The Movie: The Game (Chuck hates this game! “Pixellated Blocky Polygonal Jackasses Dot Tumblr Dot Com.” This leads to lots of talk about terrible movie games!)
Burnout Revenge (We attempt to get some multiplayer achievements before EA shuts down the servers. Sadly, this was a mistake. You can’t go back!)
SSX & SSX3 (Maki continues to dedicate his life to this series. Just don’t try to play the old games these days. TERRIBLE IDEA!)
Super Mario World (BJ discovers that sometimes you CAN go back! This leads to talk of the Mario series in the 2000s!)
FEAR (Throwback half continues as Chuck goes back and finishes FEAR on 360. Slow motion death and ridiculous achievements abound!)
Red Dead Redemption & Undead Nightmare (BJ kills his horse in various ways. You CAN go back!)
Tales of Skyrim (Are all of Harlo’s tales now told? Will DLC bring him back? Listen and find out!)
MOBILE CORNER!
Draw Something (We make idiotic drawings, which you’ll see below!)
Connectrode (Maki describes this fun puzzle game poorly! Don’t listen to him, just spend the 99¢ and you’ll enjoy it, honest!)
Midway Arcade (Chuck declares that if your controls don’t work, don’t put them out for touchscreen systems! Also don’t force us to log into Facebook for leaderboards! Skeeball and Air Hockey are fun, though!)
Pinball Arcade & Pinball Collection (Pinball! Still not quite used to touching left & right sides to hit the ball, though.)
Mass Effect 3 Datapad (The easiest free way to get your galactic readiness up… Plus it’s got cool little e-mail tie-ins to ME3′s single player game. Did we mention it’s free? Yup!)
game (describe)

Pick of Value! (2:34:19)

Borderlands: Game Of The Year Edition (If you’re wondering why, you haven’t listened to our podcast before. Just buy this!)

Now look at our Draw Somethings, referenced in the episode!

NQSpoilcast – Mass Effect 3

NoQuarters — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:00:45 +0000

It’s a Very Special Episode of No Quarters. The gang talks about all things Mass Effect, including the highly controversial ending of Mass Effect 3. Laughs were had, tears were shed, and BJ couldn’t join us because he finally got his period. Special Episode indeed!

NQcast35 – Tank Buddies

NoQuarters — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:03:24 +0000

This episode we talk about video games. They are a magical thing. Included in the discussion are PlayStation Vita, SSX, Battlefield 3, Skyrim, Diablo 3 Beta and many many more. As always, check the show notes below for more info. Enjoy!

NQcast35 – ‘Tank Buddies’ Show Notes

First half!

SSX (Maki gets a huge snowner and sticks it into a crevasssssse over this racing/trick reboot.)
Syndicate (It’s like Deux Ex without the story! Ok, not really. Chuck gets a box quote, though: “it’s a fine game!”)
Saints Row The Third DLC (Genkibowl and Gangstas in Space get covered, even though there are no bowls and it’s not in space. TRUTH IN ADVERTISING, LEARN IT PEOPLE.)
Battlefield 3 (BJ tanks out and finishes the game. Drive AND shoot? He’s a marvel of multitasking!)
Diablo 3 beta (Harlo discloses all he can disclose about our most-anticipated Action RPG lootfest. We also debate the pronunciation of “runes.”)
Playstation Vita (Maki buys one and we talk of user interfaces and weird apps and project managers and Lumines and Uncharted: Gimmicky Edition and even claw hands!)

Second Half! (1:29:43)

Borderlands 2 Trailer (FUCK YEAH. Signed, BJ.)
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare (Maki goes down the thermos rabbithole and enjoys both the original and the downloadable sequel. Chuck defends Alan Wake until the end of time!)
Unbound Saga (Extreme laziness leads to BJ playing this game. And hating it!)
Super Meat Boy (Maki beat it! He’s done with it! Honest!)
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Harlo journeys into Amalur… And journeys right back out when he realizes there are 100 hours more to that journey.)
Tales of Skyrim (Is Harlo done with Skyrim? Not quite! We learn of Icebreakers and Stormcloaks and Torfgar and Wal-Mart life insurance policies.)
Oblivion (Chuck learns that sleeping in strange caves and the sparkly life of a vampire kind of sucks. At least DLC fixes that instantly!)
Jet Set Radio Trailer (Maki doesn’t have to stab anyone to get the HD remake! Sega must listen to No Quarters and saves a life!)
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (BJ puts a hurt on a bunch of tables and wants to hurt Pin*Bot.)
Crackdown 2 (Maki gives people on Xbox Live an excuse to go back into Crackdown 2 for some reason. Also, rocket boots!)
Mobile Corner: Temple Run (Running from Attack The Block monsters shows how imprecise the touch controls can be.)
Mobile Corner: Puzzle Juice (Tetris + Scrabble = mind-jolting craziness. Also, grip changes.)
Ghost Trick (Walls of text interrupt what could be an interesting Rube Goldberg-like game.)
Mobile Corner: Zombies!!! (Windows Phone gets our dream iPad game. What the crap.)
Mobile Corner: Tiny Tower (Time vs Money valuation leads to discussion of evil free-to-play schemes, cloning in the mobile game industry and offensive Tiny Tower business names.)
Mobile Corner: Nyan Cat (It will drive people insane but it’s still awesome!)

Listener topic! (2:56:03)

Moonpir asks what our dream/nightmare Skylanders products would be. (Answer: Everything!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

Moon Patrol ‘Road To Tyco Station’ ReMix by SpookyBlue
Livin’ La Vida Loca (MIDI version, of course)
Larry’s Funky House of Lowe remix by Mattias Häggström Gerdt – Leisure Suit Larry

NQcast34 – E.T. Was A Good Game

NoQuarters — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:37:03 +0000

This episode we talk on a broad range of video games. Enjoy this because we’re going to be going far far down the Mass Effect 3 rabbit hole soon enough. So much is covered I’ll leave it to the show notes for you to learn more. Check below!

NQcast34 – ‘E.T. Was A Good Game’ Show Notes

First half!

Saints Row 3 DLC (Want to beat it? Easy! Want to ACHIEVE in it? Genki is pleased by your suffering.)
Saints Row 2 (Chuck was right about something! Who’d’a thunk it? Your character REALLY is an asshole!)
Red Faction Guerilla (We rage against timed missions and excessive collectibles in open world games. And yeah, Space Asshole, etc., etc.)
Battlefield 3 (BJ loves turrets! And Patriotism Boners! The rest of us disagree! At least on turrets! We all agree we don’t want to stab rats, though.)
Modern Warfare 3 (More shootin’ dudes. What do you want from us? It’s Call of Duty. You shoot dudes.)
Call of Juarez (Juarez called. From 1997. He said fuck you.)
Left 4 Dead 2 (Speaking of fuck you… Maki loses his mind and beats all of the chapters on Expert. We don’t know what’s wrong with him.)
Demolition!
Asura’s Wrath Demo (“Quick Time Event The Game.” with Rail Sequences! And punching gods in faces! Um, ok!)
Kingdoms of Amalur Demo (Box smashing! And lockups! And box smashing! And Mass Effect Armor! And lockups!)
SSX (Maki is chomping at the bit for this game. Harlo compares it to Crazy Taxi WHICH IS TOTAL BULLSHIT.)

Second Half! (1:09:40)

Nuclear Dawn (BJ delves into this crazy FPS/RTS near future hybrid set in the year 20XX. Or something.)
Alpha Protocol (Harlo gives up very quickly due to RPG shooting skill trees. We hear they have copies with ET 2600 out in a landfill somewhere.)
Bourne Conspiracy (It’s a movie tie-in 7 years after the fact, without any likenesses and voices from the movie… And chock full of QTEs. What could possibly go wrong?)
Dragon Age (Chuck did everything, and with his total playtime, is now the same age as a dragon.)
Oblivion (Chuck steps in the time machine and journeys to 2006. And murders indiscriminately. And eats cheese.)
Tales Of Skyrim (Paula Dean ridin’ dragons, y’all. Harlo tells us about werewolves and in-game wives and Macho Man Randy Savage and other craziness.)
Skylanders (Harlo beats it and buys more Skylanders and wants more Skylanders and recommends everyone get Stealth Elf. Skylanders.)
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (We complain about insane basic and wizard goals, yet we are still itching to play Pinball Arcade when it’s released in March.)
Costume Quest (Maki beat it! Not much else to say. It’s clever and charming and stuff.)
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (Maki goes online and achieves after getting utterly annihilated!.)
Rock Band 3 (Buy the Hall & Oates pack!)
Super Meat Boy (The game beats Maki. Like an older brother.)
Star Trek Legacy (“It’s garbage.” Chuck, noquarters.net. ”I don’t care, get it out.” – Also Chuck, noquarters.net. “Space garbage.” – Chuck, noquarters.net.)

Listener topics! (2:13:21)

Jens asks about our gaming backlogs. (Answers will be obvious to anyone who has ever listened to our show.)
Ed asks what HD remakes we’d like to see made. (“I would stab a human being for remakes in HD of those games.”)
Blair asks what our favorite video games were as kids. (Nostalgia abounds! ET on the 2600might get mentioned.)
Moonpir asks what sequels with altered controls and style bothered us. (Sports games might be mentioned!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

Moon Patrol ‘Road To Tyco Station’ ReMix by SpookyBlue
A Song Chuck picked. by Somebody!
Larry’s Funky House of Lowe remix by Mattias Häggström Gerdt – Leisure Suit Larry

NQcast33 – Randy Orton’s Terrible Theme Song

NoQuarters — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:37:07 +0000

This episode we talk Saint’s Row the Third/2, Skyrim, Skylanders, WWE ’12, Battlefield 3, Vanquish, Shadows of the Damned and plenty plenty more. Check the show notes below for more details!

NQcast33 – ‘Randy Orton’s Terrible Theme Song’ Show Notes

First half!

Saints Row The Third (BJ & Harlo finish the story. BJ enjoys the craziness but dislikes the controls. Advice for next time? “Dear Volition, please unfuck your game.”)
Saints Row 2 (Chuck & Maki debate the merits of this prequel to Saints Row 3, and see where they fixed the tone and a lot of mechanics. Also, they spray poo on buildings!)
Skyrim (Harlo gives us a new entry in Tales of Skyrim™. This time we learn of how he would dispose of bodies, were he in need of doing that.)
Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure (Harlo begins his journey down the figure collection rabbit hole. Is it really just DLC? Our wallets shudder if they take this model and apply it to the Marvel or Transformers universes.)

Second Half! (1:01:30)

WWE 12 (Chuck beats it, Harlo gets frustrated, controllers get murdered! Also, fuck Sheamus… And The Miz… And Randy Orton’s intro music.)
Battlefield 3 (Harlo joins the single-player club. He’s not impressed with the graphics and the story doesn’t connect with him in any way. There’s your box quote!)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Chuck loves it in all the ways he didn’t enjoy Battlefield 3. We all agree that Treyarch made an amazing game!)
Renegade Ops (Dual-stick shooter b-movie insanity by the Just Cause 2 guys? Where has this game been all our lives!?)
Shank (Maki returns to this side-scrolling beat-em-up… And ends up hating it by the end, sadly.)
Jetpack Joyride (Maki and Harlo enjoy the hell out of this free iOS game. You get to high-five scientists!)
Vanquish (Chuck dives into the world of Platinum games with this crazy shooter he describes as “Halo meets 9/11.” But not in a bad way!)
Bayonetta (Platinum time continues, as Chuck plays through it on Very Easy mode. And loves it!)
Shadows of the Damned (Speaking of insanity, Harlo finally gets into Garcia Fucking Hotspur’s demon-hunting, strawberry-gathering story.)
Dark Souls (Harlo is tempted to play this by a whole bunch of top-10 lists. Is he a bad enough dude to rescue the Dark Souls?)
Dragon Age Origins (Chuck goes absolutely nuts and drops 80 hours into this game. And he doesn’t even like fantasy settings! He does like dogs, though.)
Game (xxxx.)

Listener topic! (1:56:08)

Moonpir asks which games have freaked us out the most. (Scary games are mentioned! Quite a few of them, actually.)

A New Year’s Resolution! (2:04:33)

Maki makes his new declaration for 2012. Only 6 new games! Seriously! (The games are Diablo 3, SSX, Mass Effect 3, GTA5, Tomb Raider and Borderlands 2. The new Assassin’s Creed will be added to the list, when one of these doesn’t come out this year. Anything he’s missing? Let us know!)

Picks of Value! (2:12:53)

Rayman Origins (Maki loves this gorgeous side-scroller!)
Video Games (BJ has an emergent concept about maybe buying them!)
No Video Games (Chuck says to wait until Black Friday!)
Fable 2 (Harlo loves this game and his dog! And it’s only $5!)
Just Cause 2 (Harlo gives a bonus pick! This games is amazing!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

Moon Patrol ‘Road To Tyco Station’ ReMix by SpookyBlue
A Song Chuck picked. by Somebody!
Larry’s Funky House of Lowe remix by Mattias Häggström Gerdt – Leisure Suit Larry

NQcast32 – America’s Top FOTY

NoQuarters — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:41:54 +0000

It’s time for the 2011 FOTYs (Favortes of the Year)! Many games and categories for games are discussed. Come enjoy the best of 2011 and more. As always, show notes with further details after the break.

NQcast32 – ‘America’s Top FOTY’ Show Notes

Entire Half: FOTYs!

Biggest Disappointment of 2011

Duke Nukem (Harlo & BJ’s pick)
X-Men Destiny (Maki’s pick)
Dead Space 2 Severed DLC
LA Noire’s 3rd act
Battlefield 3 (Chuck’s pick)
Bulletstorm’s dialogue
DC Universe Online
BJ’s Year of Game
Maki’s Game Rationing Failure
PSN getting hacked
Assassin’s Creed Revelations taking a step backward
Diablo 3 not coming out in 2011
Mass Effect 3 not coming out in 2011 (kinda, and story spoilers getting out)

Most Pleasant Surprise of 2011

Driver San Francisco (Maki’s pick)
LA Noire’s DLC pricing
Mortal Kombat being awesome
Captain America: Super Soldier being good! (Harlo’s pick)
The fact that Magicka Vietnam exists
Magicka DLC in general (BJ’s pick)
Fight Night Champion’s Champion Mode
Enthusiasm for Saints Row The Third (Chuck’s pick)

“Blonde in a Bar” (Pretty game, but lacking substance)

Child of Eden (Maki’s pick)
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (Harlo’s pick)
Modern Warfare 3′s single player campaign
Marvel Vs Capcom 3

Most Overlooked Game of 2011

WWE All-Stars (Chuck’s pick)
Captain America Super Soldier
Driver San Francisco (Maki’s pick)
Rage (Harlo’s pick)
You Don’t Know Jack (BJ’s pick)

The Stargroves (Favorite Soundtrack of 2011)

LA Noire (Maki’s pick)
Driver San Francisco
Rayman Origins
Shift 2 Unleashed (Chuck’s pick)
Deus Ex Human Revolution
House of the Dead Overkill Extended Edition (Harlo’s pick)
Saints Row the Third
Portal 2 (BJ’s pick)

Weirdest-ass game we played in 2011

Vin Diesel Wheelman (Chuck’s pick)
Tornado Outbreak
Kung Fu Rider (Maki’s pick)
Naughty Bear
Bayonetta (Harlo’s pick)
Deadly Premonition
Train Simulator’s over $1000 worth of DLC (BJ’s pick)
Catherine Demo

Games We Played More Than We Probably Should Have in 2011

Tornado Outbreak (Maki’s pick)
Vin Diesel Wheelman (Chuck’s pick)
Game Dev Story
Plants Vs Zombies (Harlo’s pick)
Torchlight (BJ’s pick)

Favorite Pre-2011 Game We Played In 2011

X-Men Origins Wolverine (Maki’s pick)
Battlefield Bad Company, Singularity, Wolfenstein (Chuck’s picks)
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Harlo’s pick)
Far Cry 2 (BJ’s pick)

Favorite Re-release of 2011

Ico/Shadow of the Colossus (Harlo & Maki’s pick)
Dead Space Extraction
X-Men Arcade
God of War Origins Collection

Favorite Character of 2011

Wheatley from Portal 2 (Maki’s pick)
Space and Adventure Orbs from Portal 2
Cookie Masterson & Billy O’Brien from You Don’t Know Jack (Chuck’s pick)
Rusty Galloway in LA Noire
Zimos the Pimp in Saints Row The Third
Mayor Burt Reynolds in Saints Row The Third
Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3
Andre Bishop from Fight Night Champion (Harlo’s pick)
The Penguin from Batman Arkham City
Augustus Cole Train from Gears of War 3 (BJ’s pick)

Favorite DLC of 2011

LA Noire Season Pass
Marvel Tables for Pinball FX2 (Harlo’s pick)
Call of the Dead for Call of Duty: Black Ops
Pac Man Fever album for Rock Band 3 (Chuck’s pick)
Season pass for Forza 4 (BJ’s pick)
Wavy Tube Man Chronicles for The Gunstringer (Maki’s pick)

Favorite Downloadable Game of 2011

Magicka (BJ & Maki’s pick)
Torchlight XBLA
Burnout Crash (Harlo & Chuck’s pick)
Full House Poker

2011 Game We Want To Play In 2012

Shadows of the Damned (Maki’s pick)
Skyrim (BJ’s pick)
Dead Island (Chuck’s pick)
Saints Row The Third (everybody’s pick)

Favorites of the Year for 2011 (THE FOTYs)
- Maki’s picks
- BJ’s picks
- Chuck’s picks
- Harlo’s picks

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

Moon Patrol ‘Road To Tyco Station’ ReMix by SpookyBlue
We Are The Champions MIDI version

NQcast31 – A Row of Assassins

NoQuarters — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:08:20 +0000

We’re back with another episode already! Just when you thought it was safe to not hear us ramble on about games. Well guess what? There’s lots more games to ramble on about! How about some Saints Row the Third? What about Assassin’s Creed: Revelations? Maybe more talk of Skyrim is your thing. Well we got those and plenty more. As always, check the show notes to see all the juicy deets.

NQcast31 – ‘A Row of Assassins’ Show Notes

First half!

Saints Row The Third (Open world insanity rules! And we do mean INSANITY. Chuck sells everyone on this game within the first 5 minutes of talking about it.)
Assassin’s Creed Revelations ((Maki brings back the sighcast by giving his laundry list of disappointments in this weak entry in the series. You even get off the skateboard!)
Skyrim (Harlo gives our initial entry in Tales of Skyrim™. We find out how pimpin’ ain’t easy, how Lydia silently judges you, and how dragon littering is a fineable offense. This all reminds us why we are all dying to play this game!)

Second Half! (1:04:34)

Need For Speed: The Run (An awesome premise is undone a bit by quick time events and lack of replayability. And unlocking physics. Yes, we said that right. Unlocking PHYSICS.)
Forza Motorsport 4 (Speed round (GET IT?) is instituted and Harlo joins BJ and Maki in the fun. Also, fuck that steering wheel thing.)
Burnout Paradise (All of us suck Chuck into the fun of challenges, and we decide you all need to buy 360 copies and play with us.)
X-Men Arcade (Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! Nerf Colossus!)
DJ Hero 2 (Talk of the peripherals leads to talk of achievement value and whether or not developers hate gamers since the achievements in this one are idiotic.)
Super Meat Boy (Harlo rages against this machine, while Maki enjoys it a lot. No, they don’t kill each other. This episode.)
Rayman Origins (Maki recommends this beautiful side scroller, but only in limited doses at a time.)
Dark Souls (BJ compares it to heroin. But in a good way! We think?)
Red Orchestra 2 (Listener Andrew sends us a copy and BJ gives it a shot. And gets shot. Lots.)
WWE 12 (We school Chuck on Sheamus and other modern wrestlers. Kind of. We also learn that some matches, even if you win, you lose. Which sucks.)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Chuck changes his mind and ends up really liking this game, in spite of the outsourced boss battles.)

Listener topics! (2:23:52)

MusiM asks “How many games that you want to play does a console have to have on it before it becomes attractive enough to purchase? Also have any of you ever bought any past consoles based solely on the company producing them without any consideration as to games released for the system?” (This leads to a ton of discussion of features on all the current consoles and which historic ones were timed at the right time. Also, we predict the future. Honest.)

Picks of Value! (2:40:21)

WWE All Stars (Harlo says it’s good, buy it.)
Magicka Complete Pack (BJ says buy it and play with us!)
Burnout Paradise (Chuck says answer his beacon!)
Steam (Maki says go on there, everything is cheap!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

Funky Dungeon remix by Mazedude – Kid Icarus
Help is On the Way (Gladiator Remix) – Shift 2 Unleashed
Larry’s Funky House of Lowe remix by Mattias Häggström Gerdt – Leisure Suit Larry

NQcast30 – A Skyrim Job Is My Duty

NoQuarters — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:41:13 +0000

This episode we talk Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, Uncharted 3 and some other games that aren’t the third in the series like Skyrim and Shift 2. Seriously, there’s a lot of games. Check the show notes below if you need more details.

NQcast30 – ‘A Skyrim Job Is My Duty’ Show Notes

First half!

Modern Warfare 3 (It’s Call of Duty 8! It’s got crazy packaging! It’s got a super-crazy story! You know all this already because you’ve already bought it!)
Battlefield 3 (Chuck & Maki get angry about this glitchy, poorly optimized mess of a CoD clone. The should have finished it before releasing it. Also, they should have wiped the lens first!)
Star Wars: The Old Republic BETA (NDAs mean Harlo only says how much he loves the cutscenes. And yeah, it’s a WOW clone. Duh.)

Second Half! (51:32)

Skyrim (Harlo’s Box Quote: “Killing fucking dragons is awesome!”)
Batman Arkham City & Asylum (Challenge rooms! The bane (hah, get it!?) of Maki’s existence!)
Shift 2 Unleashed (Chuck thinks this sim racing game is nothing special except for its amazing soundtrack!)
Forza 4 (Speaking of soundtracks, this one dubsteps BJ to death (it’s not really dubstep, but don’t tell him that!))
Uncharted 3 (Harlo thinks it’s not quite Uncharted 2, but really, that’s a pretty high bar to set.)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Chuck thinks the boss battles are garbage, but the rest isn’t bad if you don’t mind not killing dudes.)
Game Dev Story (Maki getting an iPhone leads to lots and lots of inappropriate 14-character video game names.)

Listener topics! (1:52:25)

InstaTrent asks “Nintendo releasing the ‘Circle Pad Pro’ for the 3DS: Doesn’t it just scream ‘Design oversight’?”(Yes. This leads to talk of handhelds, mobile gaming and the inadequacy of the Wii. Yup, long answer to a short question. Again.)
Moonpir asks for the Left 4 Dead Expert story (Maki obliges.)
Moonpir also asks: “What other media would you like to see adapted into video game form?” (We make terrible suggestions.)

Picks of Value! (2:13:40)

Call of Duty 4 (Maki says it’s cheap as shit and it’s one of the best single-player experiences ever!)
Oblivion (BJ says can’t afford Skyrim? Get this instead!)
Saints Row Double Pack (Chuck recommends two crazy open world games for the price of one!)
Uncharted Double Pack (Harlo recommends two amazing action games for the price of one!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast29 – BatMerch

NoQuarters — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:05:04 +0000

This episode we gush almost endlessly about Arkham City, the sequel to the best Batman game ever. Does it live up to its predecessor? We also talk Forza 4, Rage, but really, it’s mostly Batman. We take Twitter questions and, as always, value picks! Enjoy!

NQcast29 – ‘BatMerch’ Show Notes

First half!

X-Men Destiny (Maki reminds you not to buy it. Ever. Unless you want about 800 quick achievement points. Then rent it.)
Batman: Arkham City (We heard something happens to his parents. We also heard that this game is kind of amazing. Wait, we said that!)
Forza Motorsport 4 (BJ & Maki go nuts over the Top Geariness of this More Of The Same Sequel. They also make fun of Deloreans and cheap opponent drivers.)
Burnout Crash (Harlo eats crow by loving the hell out of this and its Doc-Doc-Doctor Beat soundtrack.)
Season Passes (Maki admits he bought the Forza 4 and Gears 3 passes. Yes, he has a problem, but at least the first step is admittance.)

Second Half! (54:42)

Rage (Harlo wishes more people had bought this amazingly beautiful game. He speaks about it, unlike the silent protagonist murderer you play in the game.)
NBA 2K12 (Maki realizes that sim sports games have passed him by. Looks like no NBA at all this year for him. Or ever.)
Gears of War 3 (Harlo & Maki beat it. You probably don’t want to hear any more about it, we understand. Arcade mode is fun. Ok, we’re done.)
Demon’s Souls (Harlo inspires Maki to go back and actually play it. BJ is intrigued by the insane difficulty.)

Listener topics! (1:23:17)

Cory from 4logpodcast Wants to know “whats it like being so amazingly awesome?” (Spoiler: Awesome!)
Jens asks: “I am curious, what is the last game purchase that each of you truly regretted making?” (We expand it to include all-time stuff.)

Picks of Value! (1:32:55)

Gears of War (BJ recommends you start at the beginning of the Gears saga, and do it dirt-cheap.)
BioShock 2 (Harlo wants you to benefit where he didn’t, and get this game dirt-cheap.)
Battlefield: Bad Company (Chuck recommends this game for the fun single player campaign, and you can get it dirt-cheap.)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Maki recommends 2009′s Game of the Year. You don’t get it quite dirt-cheap, but it is worth whatever price you pay.)

Third Half! (1:37:03)

What we’re buying (We are buying video games!)
Need For Speed: The Run (Chuck demos this but it doesn’t let you get out of the car. Wait, it has quick time events?)
Quick Time Events (Why are they still in games? Seriously!?)
House of the Dead Overkill: Extended Cut (They didn’t clean it up that much at all. It’s still awesome but it also still looks like crap on PS3. Sad face.)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast28 – Dudebro

NoQuarters — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:48:27 +0000

This episode we talk Gears of War 3, Driver: San Francisco, Dead Island, X-Men: Destiny and plenty more. Dude. Bro. Come get some.

NQcast28 – ‘Dudebro’ Show Notes

First half!

Gears of War 3 (Who cares if it’s more of the same? It’s more of the same but with months worth of content and BETTER!)
Bulletstorm (Chuck brings our percentage of people on the cast that have beaten it to higher than 0%! He enjoys playing it, though he hates the dialogue. Sorry, dicktits!)
Dead Island (Harlo calls it Borderlands With Zombies. That should basically sell everyone on this game!)
X-Men: Destiny (Maki takes the bullet for all of us and says not to spend more than $20 on this game. Ever!)
Captain America: Super Soldier (Harlo hits the other end of the spectrum, with a $20 game he’d pay full price for. This game is Arkham Asylum with a Captain America skin!)
Turok (Chuck gets angry and hates Maki for loaning him this piece of crap!)
Ico/Shadow of the Colossus Collection (Harlo borrows Maki’s copy and goes nuts over SotC all over again. Ico not so much since it’s a big escort mission. These games are gorgeous, though!)
Ultimate Spider-Man (It may be old and last-gen but it’s still a really good Spidey game!)
Batman: Rise of Sin-Tsu (Do not play this game. Punch, kick, it is NOT all in the mind!)

Second Half! (59:55)

Driver: San Francisco (Chuck & Maki love the hell out of this completely insane entry in the Driver series. It’s like Quantum Leap meets GTA meets a 70s cop show!)
Forza Motorsport 3 (Maki guns for level 50 before Forza 4 arrives! That is a LOT of driving!)
Mortal Kombat Arcade Collection (Maki says stay away unless you enjoy losing to psychic computer opponents on Very Easy mode!)
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (Chuck dives into the last dregs of the music genre for some reason. And guess what? It sucks!)
Pinball FX2 (Maki comes around to accepting that it’s not Williams Collection and finally enjoys it as much as Harlo & Chuck!)
Demon’s Souls (Harlo decides to attempt to brave the pain. It makes him realize that he is done with Lord of the Rings type settings. Aside from Skyrim, of course!)
Beyond Good and Evil (Harlo immediately gets sucked into this world after a couple minutes worth of demo!)
Lair (Maki has a brief $10 Challenge game and regrets it. A dragon flight simulator with Sixaxis controls? Yup, this is a recipe for disaster!)
Nyko Zoom for Kinect (Maki tries it out and finds it works… Kinda. It’s for VERY specific situations!)
Demolition!

Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster (We think this Dance Central knockoff is the best thing ever if you want to wear your child out!)
Gunstringer (Maki is itching to get this, once he has less than 30 games waiting to be played!)
Crimson Alliance (Harlo gives this Diablo-style hack & slash a thumbs-up.)
The Baconing (Maki gets his ass (death)spanked by this game. Fun humor, though!)
Rock of Ages (Funny idea, iffy gameplay. Bowling/tower defense/Age of Empires/Monty Python/What?!)
Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon (Do not even waste the time it takes to download this game. Atrocious!)
Lucha Fury (Shank with luchadores! What could go wrong? Apparently, everything!)
Burnout Crash (It’s not Burnout Revenge’s Crash mode. Once we get over that fact, we actually enjoy the hell out of this puzzle game!)

Listener topics! (2:04:20)

TheSuperHungry1 Wants to know if there were any more Kung Fu Rider shenanigans? (Spoiler: No!)
BRoy0505 asks: “I have a huge pile of shame. Should I start with mass effect series or the assasins creed series?” (We disagree a little but come to a consensus. Listen and find out what it is!)

Value Picks! (2:11:12)

Captain America (Harlo would gladly pay full price for this sub-$30 game!)
Prince of Persia (2008) (Chuck enjoys it, even if he thinks he might not finish it!)
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Maki knows we’ve recommended it before but he doesn’t care. This game is still way better than X-Men Destiny!)

What we are getting this fall! (2:16:05)

Harlo is getting: Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, Rage and probably Uncharted 3 and Modern Warfare 3!
Chuck is getting: Battlefield 3 and Saints Row 3!
Maki is getting: Forza Motorsport 4, NBA 2K12, Modern Warfare 3, Dance Central 2 and House of the Dead Overkill: Extended Cut!

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast27 – Naughty

NoQuarters — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:20:53 +0000

This episode we get a bit naughty with Naughty Bear, escape Yakuza on an office chair in Kung Fu Rider, continue to wreak havoc with a dick tornado and plenty more. There’s driving, enslavement, riding, running, climbing and jumping on eggs. It’s so random you’ll have to read the show notes to make sense of it all!

NQcast27 – ‘Naughty’ Show Notes

First half!

NCAA 12 (Apparently you have to play high school football. In a college game. Or something!)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Come for the cutscenes… Stay for the cutscenes!)
Split/Second (Maki is almost done with this game! We promise! Now somebody give us a spiritual sequel!)
Burnout Revenge (Maki is done with this game! All Perfects! Honest!)
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Chuck kinda likes this non-co-op game made entirely of escort missions. Sweet!)
Naughty Bear (Harlo breaks out his best british accent for this insane cross of Sneak King, Manhunt, teddy bears and a Peter Molyneux fever dream.)
Kung Fu Rider (Maki takes a trip to Infinite Mountain in this insane Tony Hawk/Crazy Taxi/Kung fu fever dream for PS3 Move. How did this never appear on the Dreamcast?)
Deadly Premonition (Maki enjoys it more than Harlo, but the graphics hurt his eyes, Zack.)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (BJ goes old school and plays the All-Stars version on a SNES. And loves it!)
Remakes vs Re-releases (Ed asks us which we prefer, and we answer! Sprites, polygons, framerates, local co-op, sports games and Megamania are discussed.)

Second Half! (1:04:32)

Tornado Outbreak (Maki does not follow Chuck’s advice and picks up this game. And loves it!)
Beautiful Katamari (Tornado Damacy leads Maki to play the 360 Katamari game. It’s the worst Katamari game, but leads to talk of Katamari theme songs in every version. Check below for some of those songs discussed!)
Conan (Harlo is inspired by the bloodlust of the new Conan movie.)
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Maki hates sliding puzzles but gets weirded out by the way the story is resolved…)
Chrono Trigger (Maki experiences the joy of this classic JRPG, including checkpoints and Dude Collectin’.)
Red Dead Redemption (Tomahawks, Explosive Rifles and multiplayer Buffalo riding! This game still rules!)
Demolition!

Toy Soldiers Cold War (It’s like the Strike series from the Genesis days. Unlockable Rambo rules!)
Fruit Ninja Kinect (A reason to use your Kinect, kinda! Wait until Gunstringer if you really want it.)
The Gunstringer (We know Twisted Pixel has the fun storyline stuff down, but can they bring the gameplay?)
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Online Edition (Even Maki is not hardcore enough into fighting games to play this.)
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (It’s kind of a JRPG and its style looks terrible! Count Harlo out.)
Catherine (Goats, pizza boxes, boxers, block puzzles, texting. What in god’s name did we play?)
Warhammer 40k Space Marine (Tobias recommends this ridiculously violent Gears type game, that will sadly get crushed by Gears 3.)
Driver: San Francisco (Chuck and Harlo try the single player demo and really aren’t satisfied by the driving. In a game called Driver! The story feels crazy enough, though.)
Bodycount (Nobody even lasts 5 minutes in this demo, despite having exploding bullets!)

Listener topics! (2:07:22)

Blueshoes asks, if you were a character in Mortal Kombat, what would be your fatality? (We will leave you to listen to our answers to this. Spoiler: Harlo has no less than 3 of them.)
Moonpir asks multiple questions:

Worst Save file loss? (Harlo wins, though BJ’s sucks pretty bad.)
Proudest Achievement? (Learning to read wins, though Maki has a few others. Rock Band features prominently.)
Most enthralled we’ve ever been by a game? (Good times abound.)
Do we rent games? (Short answer? No.)

Value Picks! (2:22:59)

Naughty Bear (Harlo says it’s stupid and weird and worth it for less than $20.)
Army of Two (BJ decides to gun pimp for less than $10. Avoid the DLC that no longer works!)
Tornado Outbreak (Maki thumbs it in Chuck’s face for not liking it!)
Conan (Chuck enjoys mindless murdering and Conanery and boobs. Worth a few bucks!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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Insane Videos. Watch them.

Katamari Damacy

Me and My Katamari

God Hand

Parappa The Rapper

Kung Fu Rider Song

NQcast26 – Scrotality

NoQuarters — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:55:33 +0000

This episode we laugh ourselves all the way through our reviews of XBLA’s Summer of Arcade, Dead to Rights: Retribution, Tornado Outbreak and many many more. Plus Borderlands 2 is a thing!

NQcast26 – ‘Scrotality’ Show Notes

Guest Starring SmarmyJerkface Chuck!

First half!

Borderlands 2 (We can confirm that it is a video game and it will eventually be available for purchase. Also, we can confirm that we will PLAY THE HELL OUT OF IT.)
Summer of Arcade Demolition!
- Ms. Splosion Man (All The Single Ladies are kind of annoyed about the changes to this sequel.)
- Bastion (Cool, but not $15 cool… We love the narrator, though.)
- From Dust (We debate the pronunciation of “Chahi” and debate whether Pikmin love is enough to get us to buy this.)
- Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (“Oh hey, Tim Burton threw up on this.” And yeah, it’s a Metroidvania. Your mileage may vary!)
Dead Nation (It’s a pretty awesome game, especially for a free game!)
Dead To Rights: Retribution (Chuck teaches us the basics of Scrotalities and Dog Resurrection.)
Tornado Outbreak (It’s Katamari Tornado. Chuck attempts to talk us out of the game, despite how fun it sounds.)
Deadly Premonition (Harlo just can’t get into it, despite Chuck’s protests. It gets compared to the videotape in The Ring, if that gives you an idea.)

Second Half! (56:49)

Bayonetta (Harlo calls it Anime God of War. Or God of Whore. Also, he loves breakdancing & gunboots. Needless to say, he enjoyed it more than Maki.)
Army of Two (Maki & Harlo suffer terrible opponent AI yet still have fun with pimping their guns and dapping to war slaughter.)
Far Cry 2 (BJ kills the entire population of a planet in his quest to cure his malaria. The death toll may or may not include his NPC buddies.)
Mortal Kombat DLC (We talk new characters, including, um, Freddy Kreuger? Ok!)
Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (We rage against the Capcom machine with all their terrible re-release policies as Harlo starts playing the original version.)
Burnout Revenge (Maki is close to 100% in it, despite of its completely insane difficulty. Yup. This leads to talk of Trials HD.)
Burnout Paradise (We discuss Burnout Chains and other ridiculousness we have pulled off in that awesome game.)
X-Men Legends 1 & 2 (Harlo goes back in time to play the progenitors of Marvel Ultimate Alliance and finds out they still hold up!)
Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2 (Harlo’s trip to the past continues. Does he miss the Molyneux in 2?)
Stuntman Ignition (BJ, Chuck & Maki rage against the difficulty of this game and the awesome concept that it squanders. Apparently it’s better to be lucky than good.)
Velvet Assassin (Chuck needs to do more research before buying his games. Too much stealth!)

Value Picks! (2:06:27)

Beatles Rock Band (Maki calls it a high point for presentation in the music genre. We compare it to plenty of other terrible music games. Also, fuck the Duke of Gravity. That guy sucks.)
Bayonetta (Harlo loves it and thinks you will get $20 worth of fun out of it.)
Crackdown 2 (BJ says it’s no Crackdown but it’s pretty good for cheap.)
Wolfenstein (Chuck likes killing Nazis, and we love Raven games, in spite of the multiplayer achievements. And how can you not enjoy playing a guy named BJ Blaszkowitz?)

Third Half Bonus! (2:20:29)

TWITTER QUESTION (We discuss Mega Man and STDs. It’s a weird time.)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast25 – Sigh

NoQuarters — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:24:36 +0000

This episode we swallow sadness as after years and years of waiting we talk Duke Nukem Forever. Plus Child of Eden, Red Faction: Armageddon, Brink and plenty more that make us utter more sighs than the previous record. Not that we were keeping score or anything. The Smarmy Jerkface himself, Chuck, joins us again for this the Quarter Century episode of No Quarters.

NQcast25 – ‘Sigh’ Show Notes

Guest Starring SmarmyJerkface Chuck!

First half!

Duke Nukem Forever (We vomit crow and eat sadness. It’s not as bad as everyone is saying but it’s definitely not good. Sighs abound.)
Child of Eden (We are confused by the storyline for this game… And by whether or not it’s actually fun. Sighs abound.)
Bayonetta (Maki officially hates it. Harlo still wants to play, despite the hate! Sighs give way to yelling.)
X-Men Origins Wolverine (Maki declares this ultraviolent romp as his favorite game so far this year. No sighs here!)
God of War PS3 Collection (Harlo has beaten them already but can’t wait to play them again. Guess we like the ultraviolence! Again, no sighing!)
Infamous 2 (“Small, minor tweaks of better” is Harlo’s box quote for this one. Actually, he liked it a lot more than that. A half-sigh.)
Mafia II (Chuck avoids prison rape with quicktime events and roams an open world that discourages you from roaming it. Sighs are present.)

Second Half! (49:44)

Red Faction: Armageddon (Harlo redboxed this Faction and decided to wait until it’s bargain bin. Sigh?)
Vin Diesel Wheelman (One of the best games ever. At least if you enjoy watching other people play it… Long, loud sigh.)
Brink (Got friends? Play it. Don’t have any? STAY AWAY. Sigh…)
Borderlands (Speedround returns as Harlo beats Claptrap Revolution! Sighs, but only for the random item collection achievements.)
You Don’t Know Jack (Chuck almost misses the Turncoat achievement and then cheats to get it. SIGH.)
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Series (Maki compares it to Quake 1. Seriously. Sigh?)
Rock Band 3 Fender Squier Real Guitar (Maki buys it after it gets discontinued and all are impressed with how well it works. Harlo raves about the Poison DLC pack. Sigh!)
Rock of the Dead (Chuck spends $3 on a crap game and we all make fun of it. We also compare it to Typing of the Dead, not unfairly. SIGH!)
Demolition!
- Outland (We debate whether the eventual difficulty spike will be worth playing through. Half-sigh.)
- Gatling Gears (Nice, long demo and the price dropped to $10, so we’re probably getting it. No sighs!)
- NCAA Football 12 (Chuck is a hardcore fan but will probably be skipping this one. Sighs abound.)
Pinball FX 2 (Chuck and Harlo talk about a lot of the Marvel tables and really like them, especially Captain America. Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection and Gottlieb Collection are also discussed. No sighs this time!)
Avatar Typing Horde Invasion (XBL Indie Games comes through with a Typing of the Dead-type game! Now to find a keyboard that works on a 360… Sigh.)

Value Picks! (1:47:54)

Lego Indiana Jones (Maki sighs over the sequel containing golden skulls or something like that.)
Toy Story 3: The Video Game (Harlo calls it “Red Dead Redemption for kids” if that sells you on it! No sighs!)
Deadly Premonition (Chuck goes CRAZY and gives us a dissertation on why this game is like an anti-sigh.)

Third Half Bonus! (1:57:05)

Sneak King (Chuck pops it back in. We question the storyline and craft the perfect sequel, while sighing about the difficulty.)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast24 – Whelmed

NoQuarters — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:40:50 +0000

This episode we are joined by SmarmyJerkface Chuck himself and possibly talk about L.A. Noire just a tiny amount. BJ finishes Portal 2 and gives his opinions. We are dazzled by the possibilities of Vin Diesel Wheelman. And plenty plenty more.

NQcast24 – ‘Whelmed’ Show Notes

Guest Starring SmarmyJerkface Chuck!

First half!

LA Noire (We talk about it. A LOT. And we KINDA like it. Sorta.)
Duke Nukem Forever (We rally against an entire continent getting it before AMERICA.)
Mortal Kombat (We get into pre-order bonus insanity!)
CODBLOPS: Call of the Dead (Harlo answers the Call of the Dead and it seems to be the most meta thing ever in a COD game…)
Portal 2 (We have all officially beaten it! BJ feels it is, ahem, whelming.)
Kinect Adventures (BJ finds out how to shut off pictures! Success!)
Split Second (Maki gets first in everything, including the terrible Detonator races!)
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Maki keeps playing it despite really not enjoying it. He’s sorta stupid like that.)

Second Half (1:00:02)

Vin Diesel Wheelman (Chuck makes us salivate over this game. It sounds like the answer to all our prayers. Chuck disagrees but we don’t care.)
Prince of Persia (2008) (It makes Harlo’s eyes bleed. Honestly, the visual style messed up his eyes and made him tired. Weird, huh?)
Far Cry 2 (BJ enjoys the pretty fire and nature and stuff.)
Red Faction Armageddon (We discuss the demo and how we might consider getting it, even if it’s not open world anymore.)
You Don’t Know Jack (Harlo beats every episode and grabs a bunch of DLC. It’s getting into obsession territory…)
Tekken 6 (We bring Maki’s retired samurai girlfriend out of retirement, at least for one night of fighting. Tekken reminds us just how good MK is, though.)
WWE All-Stars (Harlo unlocked everyone! At least, everyone that’s in the game. Which is not every wrestler ever, sadly.)
Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue (Harlo cracks 60k gamerscore by getting 100% in it! )
House of the Dead Overkill PS3 (The Best Lightgun Shooter Ever on the platform that is best ever for lightgun shooters!)
Demolition!
- Gatling Gears (It’s like Assault Heroes but even cooler! Still waiting for it to go on sale, though.)
- Outland (It’s a lot like Shadow Complex! Still waiting for it to go on sale, though.)
- D&D: Daggerdale (Harlo fishes for negative box quotes. We don’t think they’ll use them.)

Value Picks! (1:45:20)

Far Cry 2 (BJ hopes that nobody has picked this before! He’s right and fire and broken guns rule!)
God of War: Chains of Olympus (Maki likes this PSP game, in spite of the controls being on PSP!)
Mass Effect 2 (Harlo reminds everyone that we like it and have talked about it a lot!)
LA Noire Strategy Guide (Chuck destroys our value pick system by recommending this. Thanks, Chuck.)
Wheelman (Chuck gives us a real pick. If you’ve listened to him talking about it you know to get this on eBay. Or on PC.)

Third Half Bonus! (1:53:49)

Farmville (TSTREL HAS DELETED HIS FARMVILLE ACCOUNT! THIS IS HUGE NEWS! AMERICA WINS! TERRORISTS LOSE!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast23 – Ready? Fight!

NoQuarters — Fri, 13 May 2011 03:39:11 +0000

This episode is (mostly) all about virtual pugilism as we talk Mortal Kombat, WWE All Stars and Fight Night Champion. Also there’s this quirky puzzle/maze game we all played that maybe you’ve heard of. We hear it really takes the cake.

NQcast23 – ‘Ready? Fight!’ Show Notes

First half!

Portal 2 (Just like 99% of the world, we really love this game. Controversial, we know!)
Mass Effect 3 (BJ predicts it will not be as good, the rest of us vehemently disagree with him.)
Playstation Network (Yup, it’s down, and we hate hackers. Controversial, we know!)
Mortal Kombat (Once again, we eat crow since this game pretty much rules. Unless you’re going for 1000 achievement points. Then it’s crazy stupid.)
Customizing a SF4 joystick (AKA this is how much Harlo enjoyed MK. Paradise Arcade rules, check them out at www.paradisearcadeshop.com)

Second Half! (44:26)

WWE All Stars (Harlo picks it up and the rest of us spend time naming forgotten wrestlers that are not in the game for some reason.)
Character Customization (WWE All Stars leads us into a discussion of customizing ourselves into games. Most of the time it involves us making ridiculous amazing things.)
Fight Night Champion (Harlo goes nuts and buys yet another game… And loves the story mode a million times more than he figured he would!)
Gears of War 3 Beta (Maki and Harlo just can’t get into it. I guess Horde mode will always have our hearts. And chainsaws.)
Modern Warfare 2 (Spec Ops still rules and it is still HARD AS HELL on the higher difficulties.)
CODBLOPS Call of the Dead (We debate whether it will be any different from the other zombie maps. Probably not.)
Mass Effect 2 (Maki beats Insanity mode… And our long national nightmare is officially over.)
Mirror’s Edge Time Trial DLC (Maki thinks it still looks amazing, but it is controller-snappingly difficult.)
Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island DLC (BJ and Maki enjoy corkscrewing and flatspinning their flying deloreans in the coolest car sandbox ever.)
Torchlight XBLA (BJ & Harlo achieve 100% in it! They definitely got their money’s worth.)
Magicka (Nobody played Vietnam yet but we figure out some really good spells!)

Value Picks! (1:29:31)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Harlo declares it “the best movie-based game of all time.”)
Mercenaries 2 (BJ declares it a “sandboxy South America blow-shit-up” game.)
Motorstorm (Maki declares this PS3 racing game “an excuse to put you in CRAZY environments.”)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast22 – Red Ring Was Here

NoQuarters — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:20:34 +0000

This episode we talk Bulletstorm, Full House Poker, Call of Duty: Black Ops, terrible DLC and plenty more. Enjoy!

NQcast22 – ‘Red Ring Was Here’ Show Notes

First half!

Nintendo 3DS (None of us bought it, none of us probably will… Though Combat of Giant Dinosaurs is tempting!)
Burnout Crash (We love Burnout and we love Crash Mode! What could possibly go wrong with this?!)
Bulletstorm (Wait, one of us got it! Who’s the dicktits that went and did that? At least it leads to discussion of tutorial sections and storytelling in games!)
Full House Poker (We like the game, though we feel like AI is always cheating. ALWAYS!)
Xbox Live Labs (We all played it! For SIX HOURS!)
Torchlight (We all love how it controls on 360! Inventory sorting is the only gripe, so you know that it’s good. So yeah, Torchlight is still awesome!)
CODBLOPS (BJ beats single player and Harlo beats multiplayer! Well, he prestiges at least!)
Split/Second (Maki discovers a new area! Maybe there really is more to this game!)

Second Half! (53:09)

Maki’s DLC Corner

Mass Effect 2: The Arrival (Maki proves that insanity mode is for those that are insane. He doesn’t recommend it, either.)
Assassins Creed Brotherhood: The DaVinci Disappearance (Maki discovers the joys of glitches that rob your safehouse of all items!)
Dead Space 2: Severed (Would you like to play through 2 levels from the main game, except backwards? Then buy this!)

Mass Effect 2 (Harlo starts another playthrough but avoids going insane, unlike Maki.)
Unbound Saga (Well worth $2, even with the crazy perspective that gets annoying)
Magicka (Harlo plays it with a gamepad… And it works! Also, he learns of the best spell ever put in a game.)
Demolition!

WWE All-Stars (Flyin’ Brian was not in the demo, but we still enjoyed WWE as a fighting game!)
Mortal Kombat (We play it on PS3, and are kinda lukewarm on everything but the X-ray moves!)

Duke Nukem Forever (We wonder why the hell it’s getting delayed. Is it a joke?)

Value Picks! (1:36:56)

Borderlands GOTY (No explanation necessary!)
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY (See above!)
Fallout 3 GOTY (See above above!)
The Maw (Maki says it’s a fun little 3D platformer from the Splosion Man guys!)

Third Half! (1:41:45)

Portal 2 (Harlo and Maki decide to switch to 360 from PS3. Mostly since we can get a Steam copy next year for 50¢!)
Headsets (Do people have super headsets for CODBLOPS? Why does sound quality suck on 360? How come group chat on PS3 is terrible?)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast21 – Like A BoS Edition

NoQuarters — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:02:08 +0000

This episode we talk the return of You Don’t Know Jack and long for the return of Duke Nukem and his yarbles of Fe+C. Multiplayer is played! Assassins are creeded! Lands are bordered! Demos are demoed! Come get some.

NQcast21 – ‘Like A BoS Edition’ Show Notes

First half!

You Don’t Know Jack (BJ & Harlo make Maki & Tstrel feel stupid while still having fun. Jack Attack is the devil.)
Dead Space Extraction PS3 (Spam that telekinesis, kids. Also, port House of the Dead Overkill to the PS3, please. Yes, you. Do it.)
Dead Space Ignition (It’s crap. The less said the better.)
Dead Space 2 (Multiplayer is Left 4 Dead… In Space! With massive amounts of teamkilling.)
CODBLOPS (Double XP brings Harlo back down the CoD rabbit hole. And BJ tackles the single player!)
Team Fortress 2 (Sandviches? Hats? What?)
MAG (A Massive Ass Game! With multiplayer! On PS3! And it’s pretty good! What!?)
Bayonetta (Kickpunchbootbutterflykillironmaidensmashgunbootcrappycamerakickpunchbuttonmash. It’s kind of like that.)
Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (Harlo and Maki are SUPER tempted to get this even though they both know they will suck at it.)
Bulletstorm (Everybody else loving it has us tempted even more than MvC3. But we’re still holding out.)
Gears of War 2 (22x XP gets us right back into Horde mode.)
Magicka Vietnam (SWEET LORD IN HEAVEN ABOVE HOW IS THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENING THAT IS SO AWESOME)

Second Half! (51:55)

Duke Nukem Forever (Balls of Steel edition! *PREORDERED’D*)
Borderlands (BJ finishes Claptrap DLC and wants to do a playthrough 2! Add him! He’s lonely.)
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Maki clears it out single-player wise but keeps getting booted from multiplayer for being too good. Yeah, we don’t believe it either.)
Split/Second (Marathoning this game will get you bored fast… Needed more environments, sadly.)
DC Universe Online (Harlo is sticking with it for a few more months. If their “holiday” events are as terrible as Valentine’s Day’s, he’s done though.)
Justice League Heroes (A listener recommendation brings Harlo back to the PS2 era! And he likes it, even if there are no trophies.)
Pac-Man CD DX (We all go nuts over murderin’ ghost trains)
Prince of Persia 2008 (Nolan North out-Nebraskas Jake Gyllenhaal! In a fun game!)
Left 4 Dead (Yup, BJ plays the original. And he still sucks at it. Sad face.)
Demolition!(We brought the hate!)
- Bejeweled Blitz (It’s like Bejeweled and Hexic and Uno Rush had a baby and it sucked!)
- Ilomilo (If Echochrome and Little Big Planet had a baby it would look like this and Harlo wouldn’t like it!
- Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Y’know Lego games? It’s one of those. With a couple new features.)
- Dragon Age II (Unpreordered? Lucky for them Skyrim is months and months away…)
- Stacking (We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again… Tim Schaeffer, make a cartoon instead of a game!)
- Fight Night Champion (Stop forcing us to use stupid control schemes. For the love of god. Stop.)

Value Picks! (1:49:24)

Assassin’s Creed 2 (Maki loves it, says $20 will get you 30+ hours of fun.)
Splinter Cell Conviction (BJ says to kill some dudes FISHER. And play with him because, again, he is lonely.)
MAG (Harlo says it’s worth it for the multiplayer mayhem in this Massive Ass Game.)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast20 – 13 Gigabytes?!

NoQuarters — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 05:31:31 +0000

This episode we discuss Dead Space 2, DC Universe Online, Magicka, Def Jam Rapstar and Breach in new games. Revisit Assassin’s Creed II/Brotherhood, Borderlands, Limbo and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit from the past. How did we manage to break two XBLA games in one night? Plus we talk about the common ingredients in both Bulletstorm and Duke Nukem Forever and what makes the finished product feel different.

NQcast20 – ’13 Gigabytes?!’ Show Notes

First half!

Dead Space 2 (Maki marathons his way through both discs worth and really enjoys it aside from one section. Also, what is up with Visceral Games’ writers and their girlfriends/wives?)
DC Universe Online (Harlo picks up this PS3 MMO and WAIT IT DOWNLOADS 13 GIGS WORTH OF DATA!? THIRTEEN!?!? Ok, with that out of the way, we find out whether or not Batman is unlockable at level 30.)
Magicka (It’s Diablo meets Alchemy meets Gauntlet! Kinda! We like it a lot, in spite of the jank!)

Second Half! (47:46)

Need For Speed Hot Pursuit (BJ played it and didn’t like it! Pretty, but just not what he wanted. Make Most Wanted 2!)
Breach (Harlo gives the multiplayer-only game with destructible environments an actual review that consists of “meh.” Don’t try to make Call of Duty unless you have the budget to make Call of Duty!)
Bulletstorm (We are not convinced that we need this game, dicktits!)
Duke Nukem Forever Trailer (Yup, we talk about the Duke trailer. INVADERS MUST DIE. Can you tell we’re super-excited about this game?)
Limbo (Maki beats it! Is it all style over substance, though?)
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (Harlo and Maki co-op it up and it gives us memories of old Sierra adventure games. Kinda. And then we broke the game!)
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (We all have fun playing co-op, even Tstrel joined in! And then we broke the game! Again!)
Def Jam Rapstar (We get all gangsta and drop some rhymes and enjoy the hell out of it, in spite of the T for Teen censorship.)
Strongbad Adventures (Harlo finally gets to experience a Telltale game! Pointing & clicking is fun. Especially torturing The Cheat!)
Borderlands: Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution (BJ beats the DLC on playthrough 1! Now for the collectible farming…)
GP2X System AKA “The Wiz” (Harlo gets a Linux-based portable gaming system. Um, what?)
Assassin’s Creed 2 (Maki gets 100% of everything, including the DLC. You could say he enjoys this game!)
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Moving directly into the sequel, Maki realizes that it takes a few steps forward but a few steps backward too, unfortunately. Multiplayer is simultaneously fun and broken!)

Value Picks! (1:47:51)

Magicka (We all say it is definitely worth the $10! Our first unanimous value pick!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast19 – The Year of Game

NoQuarters — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:02:00 +0000

This episode we declare the Year of Game to have begun. BJ finds himself in a new job with more flexible spending allowed for games and gaming peripherals. Maki has declared his new resolution to be beat two owned games before allowing himself to buy one new one. Harlo is unchanging in that he still hates Assassin’s Creed I.

Join us as we discuss all things Assassin’s Creed, our deluge of Steam holiday sale purchases and the true future of gaming as we finally tackle Tony Hawk: Ride.

NQcast19 – ‘The Year of Game’ Show Notes

First half!

360 RROD (BJ Enjoys the fun!)
Steam Purchases (We all enjoy the fun!)
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity (Computer base jumping at its finest)
PC Gaming In General (Harlo has problems with PC gaming. Sad face.)
Metro 2033 (Harlo doesn’t beat it but says it feels “off”)
Assassin’s Creed (The world’s best-looking Beggar Annoyance Simulator!)
Assassin’s Creed 2 (It’s Mirror’s Edge with swords! But totally different!)
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (The Bag of Spilling strikes… And it is a bummer)
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare (Maki gets 100% in it and gets depressed over this fact)
Force Unleashed 2 & Endor DLC (Maki 100%s this too… And the dark side isn’t quite as “AWESOME” as it was in FU1.)

Second Half! (53:09)

Tony Hawk Ride (Yup, it is as broken as we feared.)
Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island (More Burnout is NEVER a bad thing)
Crackdown 2 Deluge & Toybox DLC (Rocket boots and an arcade mode? Maki is in!)
Railworks 2 (BJ loves him some train simulator. And Scurves.)
Limbo (Pretentious indie game hype? Harlo might think so.)
Trials HD (Fun game! Until it sucks. Sad face. Again.)
Maki’s New Year’s Resolution (2 old games beat for every new 1 bought!)
Dead Space 2 Demo (Harlo wasn’t impressed… Cause for concern?)
Half-Life (BJ gets a Half-Life! Yes, THAT Half-Life.)
NBA Jam (We can all see the code in this game, Neo-style. Also, Harlo beat Remix mode, which is kind of amazing.)
Dance Central (New Year’s Dance Party Excitement Freestyle Stupidity Fun!)
Kinectimals (BJ joins in the annoyance of the flying fairy ferret badger thing)
Stuntman Ignition (Trial and error? OCD? We’re in.)
Gamestop (Seriously, where are the manuals and cases?)
Kinect Sports (Opinions to come!)
SSX Deadly Descents (It may be good, but it’s not what Maki wants)
Bulletstorm (Marketing is bullshit. Seriously.)

Value Picks! (2:03:55)

Just Cause 2 (Harlo wants you to explore an entire continent worth of content! A contentnent?)
Soul Calibur 4 (Maki likes him some weapons-based fighting. BY NAMCO.)
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity (BJ likes this time-wasting bas jumping… thing)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast18 – Sipping A FOTY

NoQuarters — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:58:23 +0000

This episode we celebrate one year of No Quarters AND present our 2010 Favorites of the Year or FOTYs. There’s too many Games of the Year out there so we wanted to do it up right and throw down some FOTYs. Before we get to that we review NBA Jam, Call of Duty: Black Ops and BJ enters into the world of Gears of War 2 finally.

Second half it’s all FOTY talk as we break down the best of the year (and maybe last year) as we go through our various made up categories. Enjoy!

NQcast18 – ‘Sipping A FOTY’ Show Notes

First half!

NBA Jam (Sigh… How do you spell disappointment?)
NBA Street 2 (The last truly great NBA Jam?)
NFL Blitz (BJ wants this to get the NBA Jam graphical treatment.)
SSX (Maki wants this series to return. Desperately. He’s the only one.)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Doing barrel rolls! Annually! CODBLOPS!)
Gears of War 2 (BJ joins the fun and discovers just how awesome horde mode is.)
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Hey, no DJ Atomica! We suggest you play as the cops, by the way.)
Alan Wake: The Writer (Yup, it’s more Alan Wake. Shockingly thermos free.)
Dance Central (Uniting families. Especially Maki’s.)
Kinectimals (Calm down, T’Challa! Ritalin is your friend!)
Splinter Cell Conviction (BJ joins the party, Richter… I mean, FISHER.)
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Cool multiplayer, Bro.)
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (Harlo says skip the PSP version, stick with 360 & PS3)
Poker Night At The Inventory (Well worth $5!)
Lucha Libre: AAA (How do you say “fun but shallow” in spanish?)
TMNT: Turtles In Time (XBLA deals saves us! Fun game, not worth $10)

Second Half: FOTYs! (1:06:41)

Biggest Disappointment of 2010
- BioShock 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Crackdown 2
- Force Unleashed II
- Halo Reach
- NBA Jam (Our winner! Just beats out Crackdown 2)
- Star Trek: Online

Best Character of 2010
- Barry from Alan Wake
- Bonnie MacFarland from Red Dead Redemption
- General Knoxx from Borderlands: Secret Armory of General Knoxx
- Jack from Mass Effect 2
- John Marsten from Red Dead Redemption (Just an awesome dude. Barry came in a close 2nd)
- Mordin from Mass Effect 2
- Everyone from Mass Effect 2 except for Jacob
- All of the Bad Guys in Splinter Cell Conviction

Most Overlooked Game of 2010
- Just Cause 2 (The winner! Harlo played enough for all of us)
- Splinter Cell Conviction
- Split Second

Games We Played More Than We Probably Should Have in 2010
- Alan Wake
- Angry Birds
- Dante’s Inferno (Best of the God of War clones, but still a very guilty pleasure)
- 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand
- Game Dev Story
- Red Faction: Guerilla

2010 Game We Want To Play In 2011 (No consensus, but no matter what we win!)
- Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
- BioShock 2
- Blur
- Fable III
- Fallout New Vegas
- Gran Turismo 5
- Need For Speed Hot Pursuit
- Split Second

Best 2009 Game We Played In 2010
- Dragon Age: Origins
- 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand
- Forza 3
- Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (Simply put, the best pinball game ever. Thanks, Knobs!)
- Red Faction: Guerilla

Best Downloadable Game of 2010
- Angry Birds (BJ’s pick)
- Dead Rising 2: Case Zero (Maki’s belated pick)
- Deathspank (Harlo’s pick)
- Game Dev Story
- Monday Night Combat
- Scott Pilgrim: The Game
- Shank

Best DLC of 2010
- Lair of the Shadow Broker for Mass Effect 2
- Secret Armory of General Knoxx for Borderlands (Harlo & BJ’s pick. More hours in this than any DLC this year!)
- Undead Nightmare for Red Dead Redemption (Maki’s pick. The best Total Conversion ever?)

Favorite of the Year for 2010 (THE FOTY)
- Civilization V
- God of War 3
- Mass Effect 2
- Red Dead Redemption (Marsten wins! Storyline, characters, presentation, music. This game had it all. Mass Effect 2 was the close 2nd place.)
- Rock Band 3

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast17 – Fresh Dragonballs

NoQuarters — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:46:39 +0000

This episode we go crazy with all kinds of talk. There’s the part where we eat a bowl of crow as we enjoy Microsoft Kinect and Sony Move. We talk Rock Band 3, Force Unleashed 2, Fallout: New Vegas, William’s Pinball Collection, and a ton more. Seriously, it’s jam packed with so much stuff you’ll have to read the show notes to get it all. Oh and this random guy we found on the street joins us. I hear he does some viji game podcast called That Video Game Podcast too. Welcome Knobs to the uncensored MFVGP that is No Quarters!

NQcast17 – ‘Fresh Dragonballs’ Show Notes

First half!

Microsoft Kinect (Crow… It tastes delicious!)
Kinect Adventures (Living statues are our new favorite thing ever)
Dance Central (Freestyle section = LOLZ)
Sony Move (More delicious crow eaten. It’s like Wii Motion Plus but even better!)
Sports Champions (Dude! It has bocce ball!))
Time Crisis Razing Storm (BROUGHT TO YOU BY NAMCO. AND IT IS AWESOME)
Rock Band 3 (Speaking of AWESOME, holy crap Rock Band 3)
Borderlands (The patch arrives! Crawmerax grinding returns!)
Williams Collection Pinball Hall of Fame (We all give in to Knobs’ love of TWC, even BJ!)
Split Second (Is this the new Burnout with added explosions? Some of us think it is!)
Blur (Inevitable comparisons to Split Second occur)

Second Half! (55:07)

Force Unleashed 2 (Way, way too short, and somehow involves Myspace angles and duck face?)
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare (Chupacabras, unicorns, Sasquatches, this game has EVERYTHING!)
Fallout New Vegas (More Fallout. This is not a bad thing if you ask us.)
Sacred 2 (Spoiler alert: Harlo HATED this game)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (It’s just fun to say CODBLOPS.)
Demolition!!!
- Super Meat Boy (We all like it but don’t want to buy it… If that makes sense)
- NHL 11 (It’s still no NHL 94)
- Shonen Jump Naruto Shapuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (Um, yeah, I don’t even know what to type about this)
- Fist of the North Star (Crazy fun, according to Knobs & BJ)
- Baby Launcher Extreme (Epidural Power, activate!)
- Vanquish (It’s like Lost Planet, but with powerslides! Also, it’s like P.N.03 & Gungrave, according to Knobs)
- RUSE (Not a bad console RTS game)
- Quantum Theory (It’s like Gears of Peace. Or something.)
- NBA 2K11 (We’d rather play NBA Jam)
- Costume Quest (We like it, but probably won’t buy that either)
- ArcaniA: Gothic 4 (BJ: “It’s retardafuckinreculous!”)
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (Castlevania games have terrible names. This is a pretty good God of War clone.)
- Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Sounds like this demo doesn’t give us the best impression of what this game is…)
- Dragonball Raging Blast 2 (This demo sponsored by Fresh Balls)
- Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Burnout guys made it. We’re getting this.)

Value Game Picks! (2:09:03)

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (Harlo says not as good as the first one but still good for this cheap)
A-10 Tank Killer (BJ loves the price of abandonware)
Nation Red (Knobs enjoys dual-stick zombie killin’)
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe (Maki likes it, even if he thinks Batman is cheap)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast16 – Tom Clancy’s Similization

NoQuarters — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:07:46 +0000

This episode we cover Dead Rising 2, Civilization 5, Comic Jumper, and DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue in new releases. We talk co-op in Splinter Cell: Conviction. Plus BJ beats Red Dead Redemption and is closing in on the end of Oblivion; the game, not a complete lack of anything.

Plus many more moments of hijinks, demos and value picks at the end.

Also, check out Geeks, Games and Grub (a newish site from a listener) and Gamers With Casts (because we don’t mention them enough).

NQcast16 – ‘Tom Clancy’s Similization’ Show Notes

First half!

Dead Rising 2 (Now we remember why people hated DR1)
Red Dead Redemption (BJ beat it, and count him in for zombies)
Civilization V (presented by Sid Meier, Will Wright, American McGee, Tom Clancy and 50 Cent)
Comic Jumper (Let’s just say Harlo liked it A LOT more than Maki did)
Splosion Man (Maki’s up to 3-2 on Hardcore. ‘Nuf said)
Halo Reach (Great packaging, not so great game. We bought the Misogyny Edition)
Tony Hawk Ride (Nope, Maki still doesn’t have it)
Sony Move (Why Harlo might get it!)
Microsoft Kinect (Why none of us will be getting it – and it’s not why you think)

Second Half! (58:00)

Borderlands: Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution (We want the patch!)
Left 4 Dead 2: The Sacrifice (Good… But why pay for both L4D2 & L4D?)
Xbox 360 new dashboard (It’s like living in silence)
Splinter Cell Conviction (Co-op icing of dudes and tearing of MCLs = fun)
Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue (Yup, it’s more Deathspank)
Costume Quest (This sounds REALLY cool)
Rock Band 3 (Our anticipation is tangible)
Dragon Age: Origins (Surprise me, Harlo!)
Oblivion (Finish it, BJ!)
Demolition!!!
- FIFA 11 (Um, 3 minutes?)
- Sonic 4 (Um, 30 seconds?)
- Force Unleashed 2 (Um, damn pretty?)
- Tom Clancy’s HAWX 2 (Midair refueling? F YOU)
- Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light (Smash TV + Puzzles + Co-op = Good!)
NBA Jam (Wii version officially worthless now?)

Value Game Picks! (1:51:39)

Mass Effect 2 (Maki got way more than his money’s worth)
Stranglehold (Harlo got his John Woo’s worth)
Stuntman Ignition (BJ got his driving worth)
WWE Games (Get your money’s worth creating characters)
Lucha Libre AAA (Harlo is waiting until the price drops to get his money’s worth)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast15 – Bringing the Funder

NoQuarters — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:29:38 +0000

This episode we talk about a multitude of games we’ve played since last recording. Among those are Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Red Dead Redemption, Williams Pinball Collection, Shank, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Dead Rising: Case Zero and plenty more. For a bunch of dudes who rarely have a chance to play games, we brought more than A game to this party.

After the break we talk trial and error games with Splosion Man and Trials HD. Then it’s a demolition blowout with demos of five games. And finally, value picks.

NQcast15 – ‘Bringing the Funder’ Show Notes

First half!

Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions (Harlo does not like his dimensions to remain intact and likes this)
Dead Rising Case Zero (Maki enjoys this, but the again, he really liked Dead Rising which puts him in the minority)
Rock Band DLC (or, How Maki Filled a 16-gig USB Stick)
Red Dead Redemption (BJ joins in the addiction while lassoing bears)
Splosion Man (Hard as hell but almost worth it for the closing cinematic)
Trials HD (Also hard, also worth it)
Shank (That’s some super-polished ultraviolence)
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World The Game (Like the movie? Like River City Ransom? Chances are you’ll like this, then)

Second Half! (57:57)

Mass Effect 2 Shadow Broker DLC (Maki declares it the best Mass Effect 2 DLC ever)
Dragon Age Origins (How many missions is too many? Or, “Hey, I Took Care of Your Rat Problem”)
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (Super-good pinball on the Xbox? It’s true!)
Pinball! (Dude! We talk pinball! The real kind!)
Playstation Plus (Harlo got it. He wanted Hulu that bad.)
Borderlands (Not even a speed round, we talk Claptrap DLC and online cheating on 360?!)
Demolition!!!
- 99 Nights II (You get to kill LOTS of dudes. More than 99.)
- NCAA 11 (BJ amends his thoughts. Also, he plays as Tebow. Ok, not really.)
- Madden 11 (No play calling? No problem!)
- Mafia 2 (Like GTA, but with slower cars and less polish)
- Tom Clancy’s HAWX 2 (Midair refueling? F YOU)
- Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light (Smash TV + Puzzles + Co-op = Good!)

Value Game Picks! (2:06:19)

Plants Vs Zombies (Harlo says it’s great no matter what the platform)
Resident Evil 5 (Maki says Co-op… TO THE MAX)
QWOP (BJ didn’t really recommend this)
Angry Birds (BJ didn’t really recommend this either)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast14 – Audi

NoQuarters — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:20:03 +0000

This episode we talk Monday Night Combat, Alan Wake DLC, Splinter Cell Conviction, Forza Motorsport 3 and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.

It’s also plenty of racing game memories as we attempt to figure out what happened with Gran Tursimo and where the community went for Blur. Then it’s on to Harlo’s deep dark secret and a trip down memories of Blizzard’s attempts at console games. Plus, MOAR BORDERLANDS OMG OMG! as Gearbox announces the fourth and final DLC for our beloved game. And, of course, we wrap up with our value picks.

NQcast14 – ‘Audi’ Show Notes

First half!

Alan Wake DLC (Fatheads, cutouts and alarm clocks! Sadly, no thermoses.)
Monday Night Combat (It’s like Team Fortress 2 meets Disenfranchisement of the Ancients!)
Blur (Where did the multiplayer community go?)
Red Dead Redemption (Maki posses on up to multiplayer!)
Rock Band 2 (Tstrel says if you don’t have tons of DLC, don’t bother with multiplayer!)
Ghostbusters (Still waiting on Ernie Hudson Oz DLC!)
Prince of Persia: Fallen Sands (It’s Prince of Nebraska! With PoP: Sands of Time style puzzles!)
Maki hits 50k (People with proper social lives shake their heads in disapproval.)
Forza 3 (Maki really geeks out about how much he loves this game!)
Gran Turismo series (Where did you go, Joe DiMaggio? We wax nostalgic for a series we really, really used to love.)
Split Second (The TVGP crew has convinced us we need this. Now for a price drop…)
Tiger Woods 10 (No cocktail waitress minigames… That’s in Tiger 12!)
Burnout Revenge (Who’s still playing? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone…?)
EA’s DLC (Discounts sell DLC, guys. Where are your Deals of the Week?)

Second Half! (50:20)

World of Warcraft (Harlo goes back down the rabbit hole. WHY, GOD, WHY?)
Starcraft (Should Maki bother with the original? Can he even download it?)
Starcraft 2 (Still waiting on Harlo to get it. Why did he resubscribe to WoW, again?)
Rage (Can’t wait for the engine. The game? Not so much.)
Splinter Cell Conviction (Careful with those Uplay points, FISHER!)
Xbox Themes (Why are we talking about this?)
Borderlands (Dude! More DLC! DUDE!)
Duke Nukem Forever (Dude! More DNF! From Gearbox!? DUDE!)

Value Game Picks! (1:26:42)

Age of Mythology (Harlo likes him some crazy strategy!)
Stuntman Ignition (Maki likes him some objective-based driving!)
Beautiful Katamari & Katamari Forever (Tstrel loves him some Katamari!)
Noby Noby Boy (Dude! We made the moon! DUDE!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast13 – Yahurr

NoQuarters — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 02:08:20 +0000

This episode we talk Crackdown 2, Deathspank, and more Red Dead Redemption. Then we discuss our neutral (no really!) feelings on Starcraft II and the continuing love of Diablo II. I hear you get to fight Diablo II at the end.

Then it’s down to some complaints about the NCAA 11 demo and Playstation Network’s slow connections. We’re joined by fan turned contributor Eric aka GreenCapt and contributor turned fan shiny lights TStrel. We’re minus Maki in studio but he joins us via the wonderful world of Skype. It’s just a whole mess of crazy this time around.

NQcast12 – Cougar Hunting

NoQuarters — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:25:54 +0000

This episode we talk more Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake, Just Cause 2 and a little Blur. Plus, the return of the Borderlands speed round and a review for the fan made King’s Quest-inspired game The Silver Lining.

Then we talk the future of gaming with motion control and 3D. Are Sony and Microsoft getting into a business for which there is no market? Join Harlo and Maki with special guests TStrel and Jeff to replace the absent BJ as they tackle these and other gaming issues.

NQcast11 – 87 Thermoses

NoQuarters — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:26:32 +0000

This episode we talk the big damn game Red Dead Redemption. Then we collect corporate sponsored thermoses in Alan Wake, wrap up Red Faction: Guerrilla and take to the stars in Neptune’s Pride.

There’s talk of four recent demos and not a real winner among them. We also go down memory road as Maki gets a top loaded NES and a grippe of the most desirable carts from that age. And, of course, value picks!

NQcast11 – ’87 Thermoses’ Show Notes

First half!

Red Dead Redemption (Awesome. Also, janky. But still awesome!)
Alan Wake (99 problems but a thermos ain’t one! Also, passive aggressiveness leads to hilarity!)

Second Half! (38:20)

Red Faction Guerilla (It’s BJ’s grand finale as he conquers this open world. Also, way too many uncomfortable allegories!)
Red Faction Armageddon (Going underground might not be good. Also, The Roots? On Mars!)
Neptunes Pride (Free online strategy… IN SPACE. Also, NOT on Facebook! Also, np.ironhelmet.com!)
Green Day Rock Band (Yup, it’s Rock Band. With Green Day. Also, not as good as The Beatles Rock Band!)
Rock Band 3 (Keyboards! 80s songs! Realistic guitars! Also, KEYBOARDS!)
Beatles Rock Band (Keyboard DLC? It only makes sense… Also, if you are listening Harmonix, WE WILL BUY THAT.)
Top-loading NES (Miracles abound as Greencapt and Harlo unleash old-school gaming amazingness on Maki. Also, RC Pro Am!)
Dreamcast games (On XBLA and PSN! Crazy Taxi! Also, JET GRIND RADIO, NOW PLEASE!)
Demos: Iron Man 2 (It sucks. Also, it sucks!)
Demos: Transformers: War For Cybertron (Why multiplayer only? Also, it sucks!)
Demos: Earthworm Jim HD (Not as awesome as you remember? Also, it’s not Harlo’s thing anyway!)
Demos: Backbreaker (Definitely NOT Blitz. Also, it sucks!)

Value Game Picks! (1:43:07)

Lost Planet (BJ says it’s cheaper than the sequel. Also, better!)
Fable 2 (Harlo says to fart on your future wife. Also, your dog!)
The Darkness (Maki says it’s fun to be a darkness snake thing. Also, it doesn’t suck!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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NQcast10 – Fanc

NoQuarters — Sun, 16 May 2010 02:34:58 +0000

This episode we talk Just Cause 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Steam gaming for the Mac, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Star Wars: Force Unleashed, the Rockstar library and a Demolition of Demos. Then we debate the best single player experience and which current generation platform offers it.

Stay through the end for some outtakes as well because we’re not always the polished professionals we appear.

NQcast09 – MFVGP

NoQuarters — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:10:54 +0000

This episode we talk Blur multiplayer beta demo. Then we get all excited talking Crackdown 2 and plenty of tower defense talk. We talk the finer points of virtual terrorism in Just Cause 2 and more Red Faction: Guerrilla.

Then after the break we discuss the Mass Effect 2 DLC, the future of gaming with the iPad, Xbox 360 storage and our Borderlands speed round. Finally we wrap up with our value picks.

NQcast09 – ‘MFVGP’ Show Notes

First half!

Madden (Why does he get to replace NFL in the title? His eyebrows are creepy. Seriously.)
Tiger Woods (In which we discuss Mean 18, Links and other old-school golf games)
Blur Multiplayer Demo (Wipeout, Whiplash, F-Zero and Burnout are all mentioned. Also, we really like Blur.)
Crackdown 2 (Preorders ahoy!)
South Park Lets Go Tower Defense Play! (or how a license can actually save a licensed game)
Defense Grid (XBLA “inventory clearance” sale yields a definite winner)
Puzzle Quest (I’ll take “what game is Maki ragequitting for $500, Alex.”)
Splosion Man (the love of cake is strong with this one)
Peggle (Don’t stare at the logo too long. You’ll go blind.)
Just Cause 2 (Harlo can’t believe its size. Wait, that didn’t sound right.)
Red Faction Guerilla (BJ lands himself on the FBI watch list with his terrorist analogies)

Second Half! (45:26)

Mass Effect 2 Firewalker & Kasumi DLC (One is free and one is paid, one feels cheap, one feels overpriced…)
The iPad (Harlo gets one, which inevitably sparks “the future of games” discussion)
Plants vs Zombies for iPad (Because we haven’t talked quite enough tower defense yet)
Xbox 360 250 gig HD and USB storage support (Money is spent, 120 gig HDs are gifted, everyone wins. Especially Microsoft. And BJ.)
GTA4: The Lost and Damned (It’s more fun to say “TLAD” but we promise one of us will beat this some day.)
Borderlands (Speed round is back, we talk Zombie Island sale and weird achievement glitches)
World of Warcraft (Guess who can never spend $15 a month to play it, ever again!)
Champions Online (Guess who would beg anyone alive to play it for $15 a month!)
Rock Band (It’s still Rock Band. This is a good thing.)
Green Day: Rock Band (things get testy and Dookie is thrown)
Tony Hawk: Ride (Because, hey, why not mention it?)

Value Game Picks! (1:24:59)

inFamous (Harlo likes Crackdown for PS3s. Price just dropped!)
Wipeout HD (Enjoying Blur? Maki says download this for your PS3!)
BioShock (BJ might not be its biggest fan but you can’t argue with the price!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

Intro – The Curse by Christian Pacaud from Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Break – Psychotic Censors by Mazedude from Psychonauts
Outro – Final Panic by Tweek from Tetris Attack

NQcast08 – Son of Kratos

NoQuarters — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:22:40 +0000

This episode we talk God of War 3. Why are you listening to this instead of eviscerating people? Then we compare it to Dante’s Inferno, talk a little Red Faction: Guerrilla and Aliens Vs Predator (IE not Dirt 2). Plus our fastest Borderlands speed round. It’s a bloody good first half.

After the break we talk Diablo 2 patches (STILL!), Xbox 360 storage options, the Nintendo 3DS/DSi XL and old school Playstation 1 and Dreamcast gaming. Then we wrap up with our Value Game Picks.

NQcast08 – ‘Son of Kratos’ Show Notes

First half!

God of War III (It’s awesome, but you knew that already. We kind of compare it to everything. Also, Harlo drops an awesome voice actor spoiler!)
Star Wars games (will we ever see another good one that follows the original trilogy’s story?)
Ico (somehow this is related to God of War 3… And the movie Nell!?)
Dante’s Inferno: Dark Forest DLC (Not evenly remotely worth the $5. Unless you’re an achievement whore. And even then no.)
Aliens Vs Predator (we lose a Dirt 2 but gain an AvP… And Maki is glad he only paid $10 for it!)
Borderlands (Speed round returns: we refine our Crawmerax techniques and we ask for Claptrap action figures)
Red Faction: Guerilla (BJ loves destroying things in this open-world terrorist simulator)
Just Cause 2 (or how a demo can completely sell all of us on buying a $60 game)

Second Half! (50:09)

Diablo 2 (They patched it? Seriously? JUST PUT OUT DIABLO 3 ALREADY)
Titan Quest (Diablo 2.5… In Greece!)
Nintendo 3DS (We avoid Virtual Boy jokes! Seriously!)
Jurassic Park Warpath (Maki’s “retired video game samurai” girlfriend gets the PS1 hooked up, ass-kicking ensues)
Tekken 3 (Yoshimitsu remains awesome, especially when he imitates Harry Carey)
Tony Hawk Pro Skater (The framerate sucks and it looks awful now, yet it’s still AWESOME)
NES systems (somebody send us a top-loading dogbone controller model! Please!)
Sega Dreamcast! (So many amazing games and we pine for the VMU to return in one form or another)
250 gig Xbox 360 hard drive (Still a ripoff, but less of a ripoff)
USB storage on Xbox 360 (It’s been nice knowing MU)
Playstation Move (We like the commercial…)

Value Game Picks! (1:16:06)

Grand Theft Auto 4 (BJ likes stealing cars and bowling with cousins)
God of War Collection (Harlo says play GoW1 & 2 before eviscerating dudes in GoW3)
The Simpsons Game (Maki says it’s like Psychonauts but not as good. At least it has a Futurama level!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

Intro – Feeding Frenzy by goat from Contra
Break – Barrel Roll by PrototypeRaptor from Star Fox
Outro – Minotaur Nightmares by Mazedude from God of War

NQcast07 – Helicopters

NoQuarters — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:34:53 +0000

The episode we talk about Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Then more Dante’s Inferno, Borderlands and Mass Effect 2. Then kick it old school on the PC with Psychonauts.

We also ponder the flavor of Kratos’ Fury Slurpee, the value of value games and the dangers of helicopters and crowbars to hobos.

NQcast07 – ‘Helicopters’ Show Notes

First half!

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (More of the same, but that’s a good thing this time)
Kratos’ Slurpee (apparently, it tastes like anger, which is delicious)
Heavy Rain (Quick Time Events for everyone!)
Dante’s Inferno (AKA God of War 2.5)
Mass Effect 2 (Insanity mode = time consuming)
Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx (No-limits Borderlands talk returns, now with more Crawdonperax!)

Second Half! (52:25)

Portal 2 (Could it be… ARG stuff that doesn’t suck?)
Call of Duty series (Activision: “Let’s fire the guys who made it good and run this series into the ground!”)
Psychonauts (The PC version is so much better than we remember!)
OnLive ($15 per month and you don’t even get any games? NO THANKS)

Value Game Picks! (1:22:06)

Psychonauts (Harlo says get it on PC and get a gamepad!)
Mirror’s Edge (Maki says your mileage may vary but it’s still good!)
Orange Box (BJ says PC all the way, ridiculously good value!)

Third Half Randomness! (1:30:36)

Crowbars (or why games need more of them)
Body Count (Most awesome press release ever?)
Dirt 2 (Helicopters and racing collide as we all condemn ourselves to hell)
Final Fantasy 13 (Don’t do it, Maki!)
Game Renaming Brainstorming Session (The only reason to listen after the final song)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

NQcast06 – Abandon Hope

NoQuarters — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:05:33 +0000

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. This episode we talk ad infinitum about the straight plethora of games we’ve been playing. Among these are Mass Effect 2, Dante’s Inferno, Bioshock 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, Burnout Paradise, Starcraft 2 Beta and 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand. There may be mention of Borderlands and MMOs, but it’s minimal.

As always we finish up with our value pick games. Come for the fun but stay for the value.

NQcast06 – ‘Abandon Hope’ Show Notes

First half!

Hopscotch, Jacks & NBA Jam: TE (the classics never die!)
Borderlands (don’t worry, we set a 4-minute limit on Borderlands discussion.)
50 Cent: Blood On The Sand (BJ’s box quote: “An intellectual masterpiece.”)
Burnout Paradise (BJ is now officially elite!)
Guild Wars (Is it an MMO or not?)
Mass Effect 2 (Maki spends WAY too much time to have not beaten it yet)
Resident Evil 5: Lost In Nightmares (It’s like RE1 in RE5!)
“Exclusive” DLC (We all agree it sucks, especially when you can’t get it anymore)
Batman Arkham Asylum (Crippling dudes is like riding a bike!)
BioShock 2 (More of the same is not really a good thing, sadly)
Assassin’s Creed 2 (Harlo faces his enemy and sees what the sequel to his “worst game ever” is like!)

Second Half! (50:54)

Dante’s Inferno (Harlo melds with hell while BJ fishes for box quotes)
Starcraft 2 Beta (Are we over RTS? Or are we just over getting raped by a Korean man?)
Steam UI Beta (Maki breaks it within 60 seconds, BJ waits for the Ubuntu version)
Star Trek Online (Don’t worry, it’s the MMO speed round)

Value Game Picks! (1:23:56)

Dead Rising (Maki still enjoys killin’ zombies!)
Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection (Harlo says it’s more than just Sonic games!)
50 Cent: Blood On The Sand (BJ claims it’s better than Avoid The Noid!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

Intro – Cranial Syphon (Kay-Raid) by Armcannon from Metroid
Break1 – Microscopism by Mazedude from The 7th Guest
Break2 – Lost Sanctuary by Daknit, Bard of Tarot, Eric Dude from Resident Evil 2
Outro – WhiteClaudiaRock by K. Praslowicz from Silent Hill

NQcast05 – Masshole Effect

NoQuarters — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:12:38 +0000

This episode is all about Mass Effect 2. Well, ok, not really. We talk some more Borderlands, a bit of Star Trek Online, upcoming Bioshock 2 and Dante’s Inferno. But mostly we gush over Mass Effect 2.

We’re No Quarters and this is our favorite podcast on the Internet.

NQcast05 – ‘Masshole Effect’ Show Notes

First half!

Mass Effect 2 (Harlo and Maki bask in its glory while BJ sleeps it off)
Borderlands: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot (We complain about it but keep playing it)
Sequels In General (We discuss why More Of The Same just doesn’t cut it anymore)

Second Half! (45:01)

Gamefly update! (A game flies in, after much anticipation!)
Star Trek Online (Harlo anticipates actually making it through the queue and playing it!)
BioShock 2/BioShock (Cautious anticipation abounds!)
Aliens Vs Predator (Irrational fanboy anticipation!)
Dante’s Inferno (Tasteful anticipation!)
Fallout: New Vegas (Flat-out anticipation!)
Game time counters (We anticipate these being removed one day!)

Value Game Picks! (1:08:48)

Battlefield: Bad Company (Harlo wants you to buy it for single player!)
Red Faction: Guerilla (BJ wants you to be a space asshole!)
Mass Effect (Maki wants you to buy it so you can really appreciate ME2!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

Intro – Those Minerals by Kabuto the Python
Break – Subcrunch by Subliminal Labs from Skate or Die
Outro – JamesBrownInSpace by djpretzel from Toejam & Earl

NQcast04 – Going Mudding

NoQuarters — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:01:28 +0000

This week we are joined by TStrel and talk about wrapping up Batman: Arkham Asylum and collecting stuff in Transformers: The Movie: The Game. Then we get into a bit of Star Trek: Online and this devolves into teasing BJ about his text based (expensive) MMO adventures. Don’t call it a MUD or they’ll ban you.

After the break we talk killing zombies in House of the Dead: Overkill and offline playing Zombies!!! Afterwards we talk about same room co-op and BJ getting a TV and losing a girlfriend(?).

Lastly, our value game selections.

NQcast04 – ‘Going Mudding’ Show Notes

First half!

Batman: Arkham Asylum (Harlo becomes one with the combat system and we all like it)
Transformers: The Game (It’s like an intervention for achievement junkies)
Gamefly! (They actually sent a new game!)
ET for Atari 2600 (We dig into the landfill for this one)
Lego Rock Band (Yup, it’s Rock Band. With Legos.)
Singstar (Rock Band 3, PLEASE integrate the youtube feature)
Facebook “Games” (Why did we mention this?)
Star Trek Online (Yup, still an MMO)
Dragon Realms (Text based gaming is the future, people)

Second Half! (1:01:51)

Ugh, more MMOs (Let us all stop talking about these, please)
Mass Effect 2 (Our anticipation for this game is palpable)
DLC/Expansions (Larger or smaller? Which is better)
House of the Dead: Overkill (Cutscenes and diminishing returns)
Zombies!!! (Let’s get physical! As in tangible game pieces!)
Munchkin (Or why it is not good to go in a gaming store)
Local Co-op (Needs more. Please. For everything.)
Lost: Via Domus (Over here! In the banyan trees!)
Wii via Bluray? (Ain’t technology grand?)

Value Game Picks! (1:39:59)

Splosion Man (It makes sploding fun)
Civilization Revolution/Civ 4 (Because you have too much free time in your life)
Crackdown (ORBS ORBS ORBS ORBS)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

NQcast03 – Hatecast

NoQuarters — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:47:53 +0000

This week our hearts are filled with a lot of hate as we tackle such topics as Wii gaming, the failure of a Wii exclusive NBA Jam revamp, how they’ll mess up the rumored Call of Duty MMO, MMOs in general, Borderland’s Mad Moxie DLC, Too Human and GameFly.

But wait, we do have some love for Batman: Arkham Asylum and a few other things sprinkled amongst the loathing. And we talk for a really really long time. Two breaks worth in fact.

NQcast02 – 2.1

NoQuarters — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:13:35 +0000

After a long break and some broken files we’re back with our second episode. We discuss a cavalcade of games including Borderlands, Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Shadow Complex, Uncharted 2, Scribblenauts, Professor Layton and many more. Just listen!

NQcast02 – ’2.1′ Show Notes

First half!

Modern Warfare 2 (Don’t worry, we only talk about it briefly!)
Borderlands (Harlo’s GOTY!)
Brutal Legend (DLC GPS!)
Buying crap for your 360 Avatar (If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem!)
Borderlands: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot DLC (Don’t bother solo!)
Mass Effect (Maki loves it! Harlo… Not so much.)
Dragon Age (Definitely NOT Harlo’s GOTY!)
Steam/Xbox/Amazon sales (We spend lots of Space Bucks!)
Tony Hawk: Ride (Rest easy, Maki didn’t buy it!)
Far Cry Instincts: Operation Paradise (We barely mention this but it’s awesome so it gets a show note!)
Shadow Complex (It’s awesome, that is all!)
Braid (Dare we say it… Overrated!)
‘Splosion Man (We all want to buy it but haven’t yet!)
Fallout 3 (BJ starts it just as Harlo beats ALL of it!)
Oblivion (Harlo overcomes deleted saves to beat ALL of that, too!)

Second Half!

Scribblenauts (This game SUCKS!)
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (This reminds me of a puzzle… Or Harlo’s ex-girlfriend!)
GTA: Chinatown Wars DS (Dope wars and dildos!)
PSP vs DS vs iPhone? (It’s a deathmatch!)
Peggle (We can’t explain why we love it on all platforms!)
Burnout Legends PSP (Your level is still loading!)
Uncharted & Uncharted 2 (Harlo LOVES them!)
InFamous, Mass Effect & Dragon Age (Playing as good or evil characters! We actually have an interesting and funny discussion about this!)

Value Game Picks!

Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Hours and hours of fun for only about $5!)
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Co-op fun for the whole family!)
World of Goo (BJ has played it a dozen times, honest!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

Intro – BITLiveArcade by Chris Abbott & Slow Poison from Space Harrier
Break – Spicy Curry by djpretzel from Street Fighter II
Outro – Tristram Rock by mp from Diablo