There are many reasons why the Wii is selling well, but I don't think one of them involves people saying, "Gee, I really want that one because it doesn't play movies." I'm one of those people. I have a nice DVD player, I don't need some sub-par console decoder. I never played audio discs on my Saturn or Playstation either, nor did I ever surf the internet on my Dreamcast more than once to see what it was like. A game console should be focused on *gasp* gaming. Anything else is at best a nice extra, but more than likely a needless extra that adds to cost.
I bought a very handsomely sized lot on the moon some seven years ago from a nice man on the internet. The guy was practically giving them away at the price he was asking! Besides, if American history has taught us anything, all you need to do to own land is plant a flag on it, regardless of whether or not someone already lives there. I've been thinking of maybe claiming England in the name of the Ojibwe Nation, actually...
How about a microscopic explosive device, which is implanted into the skull of an iPhone 2.0 consumer upon use. Once a sufficient amount of people have been "tagged", we press the big red button back at HQ and watch in glee as everyone stupid enough to pay such a ridiculous price for a telephone dies a very messy death.
Right now I can't feel justified to pay the $30+ for five channels that I might watch for a few hours every day. I would have cared about TechTV being on one of the highest tiers before it was ruined by G4. The lower tier is pretty much just the local channels that I could get for free with an antenna anyway. Of course, the local city made some archaic deal with Adelphia a decade ago, then the FCC allowed Time Warner to buy them out last year. Time Warner was supposed to be connecting their network into the old Adelphia one so as to provide broadband, digital cable, and telephone to everyone between but that has yet to happen. They keep saying "next month!" though. Yeah right. The many incompetent faces of the cable industry...
[...] if you want FPS or sports the PS3 is fairly well situated. Which is saying a lot, now isn't it? I guess Sony has the frat boy demographic sealed! Really though, I don't think you can consider anything that operates with a clunky gamepad as "well situated" for a FPS.
Rumble is annoying, and begins to make my hands go numb after so long. I turn it off unless it is integral to the gameplay itself and acts in short, occasional bursts. I wouldn't mind it being used as a sort of sixth sense in a game, warning you of approaching danger now and then. Having it in a racing game though, for example, is downright painful due to the near constant vibration.
Who goes to GameStop anyway? Those places are dives, and have to put up with being in a mall just to visit them anyway. No thank you.
Furthermore, who cares about grades? They mean absolutely nothing and have little to no bearing on real life. School isn't a place to learn, it's a place to be socially conditioned.
The Twin Snakes and (especially) Eternal Darkness were both very good reasons to shelve Too Human. Not that they really need a reason from what I've seen...
[...]they have metamorphosed into an unavoidable Internet phenomenon[...] Still avoiding them here! Maybe it's the complete lack of friends, or the low-speed connection that makes loading most of the sites impossible, but I've found it quite easy to avoid them.
I agree to an extent. I don't think that it is quite the hassle you make it out to be though, not for an entire night (or longer) of fun. That merit, I believe, outweighs a lot of the cons associated with PC LAN parties. Today however, a lot of people use laptops exclusively and effectively solve such issues. I'm not among them myself, as I find that laptops come with too many limitations, but even a modestly price machine can usually play all but the very newest of games.
EG, after playing Metroid for a few hours, I can't see how anyone could go back to the classic FPS controls, especially on a console. I can't see how anyone ever managed FPS controls with a gamepad in general. That was the precise reason I never played the first two Prime games. The Wiimote gives me hope for a tolerable or even fun interface, though as it currently is, I don't think it quite trumps a mouse and keyboard.
It's a game that truly shines when you have multiple people over and the fragging gets intense, which you simply cannot do in the PC world. Someone has obviously never heard of a LAN party. Which are far superior to playing online because of said social aspects. However, I hear a lot of people bring their Xbox and televisions to one another's house to have so-called console LAN parties.
So-called casual gamers don't go to GameStop to buy videogames, they go to Wal-Mart. Hell, I wouldn't really blame anyone for avoiding GameStop though, it's like the Radio Shack of videogaming. Wake up and order online instead.
It has Brian Cox Yeah, but it would have been so much better had they placed him in a climatic sequence with the entirety of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida playing in the background.
I agree, though for differing reasons. I dislike the impersonal feel that one gets from playing against faceless adversaries. I love playing with friends and family on our LAN or gathered around the console, but I've always gotten a bitter taste from playing online. Besides, I really get annoyed with even the slightest bit of lag, which is quite a problem in some genres.
Storyline is not a masterpiece as Halo fanboys make it out to be. Halo fans tend to reply that you need to read the novels to appreciate the whole Halo universe, but that stuff needs to be in the game. And pale in comparison to the Doom novels...
From the quick, initial info list there, this sounds it might be the format to support (not that anyone can support Blu-Ray, just on basic principles, right?). While I don't care about HD content, per say, I wouldn't mind upgrading my DVD player and opening up such new possibilities at that price. Hell, my DVD player already cost about half that, since I try to get quality components that don't come from Wal-Mart's $20 electronics bin. That said, content storage is what is more appealing to me as far as the new formats go. It's not HD movies.
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My spare Dreamcast runs Linux. In fact, I had it set up as a simple router there for a while. Still the best overall console I've ever seen.
Big cities already have broadband. No need for them to have another slice of the pie. :P
Those annoying Ham radio operators keep shooting down that idea...
I bought a very handsomely sized lot on the moon some seven years ago from a nice man on the internet. The guy was practically giving them away at the price he was asking! Besides, if American history has taught us anything, all you need to do to own land is plant a flag on it, regardless of whether or not someone already lives there. I've been thinking of maybe claiming England in the name of the Ojibwe Nation, actually...
How about a microscopic explosive device, which is implanted into the skull of an iPhone 2.0 consumer upon use. Once a sufficient amount of people have been "tagged", we press the big red button back at HQ and watch in glee as everyone stupid enough to pay such a ridiculous price for a telephone dies a very messy death.
For Sega to work up an installment of Panzer Dragoon for the Wii.
We accept hims! We accept him! One of us! One of us! Gooble gobble, gooble gobble! One of us! One of us!
It'll also utilize such a setup on the PC. Why buy a console to use a mouse and keyboard?
Right now I can't feel justified to pay the $30+ for five channels that I might watch for a few hours every day. I would have cared about TechTV being on one of the highest tiers before it was ruined by G4. The lower tier is pretty much just the local channels that I could get for free with an antenna anyway. Of course, the local city made some archaic deal with Adelphia a decade ago, then the FCC allowed Time Warner to buy them out last year. Time Warner was supposed to be connecting their network into the old Adelphia one so as to provide broadband, digital cable, and telephone to everyone between but that has yet to happen. They keep saying "next month!" though. Yeah right. The many incompetent faces of the cable industry...
Rumble is annoying, and begins to make my hands go numb after so long. I turn it off unless it is integral to the gameplay itself and acts in short, occasional bursts. I wouldn't mind it being used as a sort of sixth sense in a game, warning you of approaching danger now and then. Having it in a racing game though, for example, is downright painful due to the near constant vibration.
Furthermore, who cares about grades? They mean absolutely nothing and have little to no bearing on real life. School isn't a place to learn, it's a place to be socially conditioned.
The Twin Snakes and (especially) Eternal Darkness were both very good reasons to shelve Too Human. Not that they really need a reason from what I've seen...
I agree to an extent. I don't think that it is quite the hassle you make it out to be though, not for an entire night (or longer) of fun. That merit, I believe, outweighs a lot of the cons associated with PC LAN parties. Today however, a lot of people use laptops exclusively and effectively solve such issues. I'm not among them myself, as I find that laptops come with too many limitations, but even a modestly price machine can usually play all but the very newest of games.
So-called casual gamers don't go to GameStop to buy videogames, they go to Wal-Mart. Hell, I wouldn't really blame anyone for avoiding GameStop though, it's like the Radio Shack of videogaming. Wake up and order online instead.
I agree, though for differing reasons. I dislike the impersonal feel that one gets from playing against faceless adversaries. I love playing with friends and family on our LAN or gathered around the console, but I've always gotten a bitter taste from playing online. Besides, I really get annoyed with even the slightest bit of lag, which is quite a problem in some genres.
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From the quick, initial info list there, this sounds it might be the format to support (not that anyone can support Blu-Ray, just on basic principles, right?). While I don't care about HD content, per say, I wouldn't mind upgrading my DVD player and opening up such new possibilities at that price. Hell, my DVD player already cost about half that, since I try to get quality components that don't come from Wal-Mart's $20 electronics bin. That said, content storage is what is more appealing to me as far as the new formats go. It's not HD movies.