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Mega Man 10 Confirmed For WiiWare
The upcoming issue of Nintendo Power revealed that Capcom is working on Mega Man 10 for a release via WiiWare sometime in the future. "Like Mega Man 9 (released for WiiWare in 2008), Mega Man 10 remains true to the series's roots with 8-bit-style graphics and sound, and tried-and-true Mega Man gameplay." According to the early look at Nintendo Power's article, the game may include an easier difficulty mode, likely inspired by complaints that the previous game was too hard. It also previews one of the new bosses, who is apparently called "Sheep Man." Make of that what you wool.
Make of that what you wool.
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make megaman 10?
Sounds like a problem with the TV settings, not with the game. Have a look through the TVs menu for a "game mode" or something similar to get rid of the lag.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if it's true. Most modern console games have unacceptably high latency:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-lag-factor-article
I know it's not easy to tell but Zero is supposed to be a male.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
It is outdated. They need 'Tera Man.'
I am 100% all for keeping the gameplay exactly as it had been before, but a graphics upgrade would be a welcome change.
My perfect example was the original Contra and Super C(ontra) for the NES. I could play those games for hours, even as recently as a few years ago. When they were released for the Xbox 360 I bought them instantly but was severely disappointed. I have a 1080p screen, Contra is a side scroller, why not just make the damn field of vision wider? Or maybe some higher resolution graphics? Don't mess with the controls, just spiff up the looks. Both games were immensely fun to play.
Yeah, it's great to have access to these older classics again, but not doing anything to polish them up a bit smacks of lazyness.
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Something as huge as 200ms is insanely easy to discern with accuracy. You should see competitive Smash Bros Brawl players -- they suffer with HDTVs that introduce any lag at all, even as much as 2 frames (60ms or so).
I host Smash Bros tournaments here in Tempe, AZ, and I've had to amass a collection of SDTVs because of all the complaints, and because I started noticing the lag myself. Luckily SDTVs are super cheap (or free in a lot of cases) now.
You can mod your friends, you can mod your nose, but you can't mod your friend's nose.
WiiWare and the Virtual Console are reason enough to own a Wii.
My "hardcore" gamer friends have all owned and then sold a Wii. They can't believe I'm still spending almost all of my gaming time on the Wii. But what I found out was they never used the Nintendo channel or the DLC. They've all been amazed and regret selling their Wiis when I show them things like the Tales of Monkey Island, Mega Man 9, Excite Bike, the two Lost Winds, and Bit Trip Void (and those are just the first line of my screens of downloads on my Wii). Then there's the long list of Virtual Console games: the Super Mario Bros, Zeldas, Super Mario Kart, A Boy and His Blob, etc.
If you have a Wii and aren't taking advantage of the amazing games and huuuge back catalog you aren't doing it right.
obviously no deficiencies vs. no obvious deficiencies
I hear sentiments like this quite a lot, but the fact is that you're wrong.
Smash Bros is a game that exhibits a very strong "best-in-my-school" syndrome. That is, lots of people you meet are either the best in their school, the best in their group of friends, best in their town, etc. All those people might claim to be 'competitive' in the game, and they generally all suck pretty bad.
The real skill comes from the top players of the greater community, the ones that aren't just the best in their school or something retarded like that, but are actually good. We hold a few tournaments every month, for money and prestige, and I can guarantee that memorization alone isn't going to get you anywhere. You need to know the game and the moves and the meta-game of the characters involved, sure, but the match comes down to being able to read your opponent and devise successful strategies against them. The memorization level is what I call the "sub-competitive" level. Autopilot-based players might win the first match (if that) from the momentum of a novel and well-memorized strategy, but after that, against a good player, they're done. They'll never win again.
As for the stupid rules, there are three real rules that influence actually playing the game: banned stages, banned infinites, and no items.
Banned stages are something that's very necessary. For example, no matter how good you are, with most characters if Dedede grabs you on Shadow Moses Island or Bridge of Eldin, that's a stock. For that reason, those stages are banned. I play Bridge of Eldin a lot with my friends, sure, cause it's a fun stage, but if one of them went Dedede all the time and chain grabbed me off the edge over and over, I would certainly consider banning it. With money and status on the line, the competitive community has decided to ban that stage in standard tournaments. Other stages are banned for other reasons -- WarioWare has no place in a Smash match. People want to actually play, not jump around popping party hats or stand around doing nothing.
Even then, it's far from only Final Destination. Off the top of my head, here are the stages that generally be played in tournaments: FD, Battlefield, Smashville, Brinstar, Green Greens (in doubles), Pokemon Stadium, Rainbow Cruise, Pictochat, Yoshi's Island, Lylat Cruise, Castle Siege, Halberd, Frigate Orpheon, Jungle Japes, Luigi's Mansion, and Isle Delphino. That's 16 stages, a far cry from just FD. The people that play FD-only are generally the best-in-my-school smashers, and they'd get destroyed, and horribly so, in actual competitive play. Even those stages offer certain characters great advantages. You don't want to fight Falco on Jungle Japes, for example; that's his house and he doesn't want you in there.
There are a (very) few banned infinites, as well. Most stalling tactics, like Sonic hiding under FD or Metaknight's infinite cape glitch is out, and with good reason. Likewise, the crazy Ice Climbers grab-fly-kill off the top glitch is either going to be or already is banned. Banning those moves is an obvious decision and I'm not sure what reasonable arguments you could make against it...
The no items rule is a bit more controversial. The vast majority of competitive players will agree that they add an unwanted randomness variable, but I personally like playing with items. However, certain new items like the Final Smash ball and some of the trophies are ridiculous. The final smash ball stops play every freaking minute and the players spend like 20 second chasing the stupid thing. It's retarded. Some of the trophies are just too powerful. A lot of the time when I play with my friends, we'll turn just those two off. They also hate food and hearts and tomatoes for some reason, though I like those.
However, you could argue that items give faster characters an advantage because those characters can get to the items faster, for example. You could argue that bombs spawning on top of you (which happens surprisingly often) is too random and not skill-determined,
You can mod your friends, you can mod your nose, but you can't mod your friend's nose.