Category: Commentary

NQcast19 – The Year of Game

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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.

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NQcast18 – Sipping A FOTY

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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!

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NQcast17 – Fresh Dragonballs

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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!

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NQcast16 – Tom Clancy’s Similization

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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).

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Re:(ach) teh Haloz

During the recording of the last No Quarters it dawned on us that we were recording on a day that many in the video gaming world would regard as a day of high esteem. A red letter day, if you will.  We recorded on the day that a new Halo game came out. And yet, there we were not playing it. How could we continue with our lives not playing this obvious masterpiece? Turns out, a lot of people weren’t playing it.

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NQcast10 – Fanc

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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

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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.

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NQcast08 – Son of Kratos

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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.

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NQcast07 – Helicopters

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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.

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NQcast06 – Abandon Hope

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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.

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