I was thinking about some of the FPS that couldn't be adapted to the Rev or even GC because you couldn't click down the analoge sticks. Like Halo's click to duck. (not saying Halo will ever be ported to Nintendo). What I'm thinking is it would be cool to do the ducking/crouching/running thing with this controller.
Seriously, you could just hold the controller near the ground and point it at the screen to lay down in sniping posistion, or hold it at chest level to run and fire at will. The camera angle would, of course, change for you as you moved, and dynamically too. Not three posisitions, but all positions, just tell the game how tall you are and there you go.
You could also use it (to an extent) to hide behind cover nearby (ala quick strafing, rather than just running). Of course, there would be limits... after all, you don't want to jump so far over that you hit a wall, or best/worst case senario, you have enough room and a big enough TV to get out of range.
People are posting all sorts of ideas on Slashdot alone. Hope Miyamoto and his cronies are paying attention. We may be thinking of stuff that they haven't (not saying I am, but there's some pretty bizarre ideas floating around).
this recent 'rabbit' website promotion and all of the articles & followup reports that promoted it with drolling anticipation as a followup, slashdot included.
I wonder if this won't have a negative impact. It surged out in wonder and dilivered absolutly nothing. It was like hyping a rock under a blanket.
Sure, when you take off the blanket there is an extremely strange rock under it, but nobody cares because there are exremely strange rocks all over the place. Nobody understands the rock. The rock is supposed to help you understand another rock, but it doesn't do this. It merely sits there making you wonder what this rock could possibly have to do with anything. Then you forget about it a few hours later until some poster brings it up. Then you get angry about the rock and with the rock wasn't there. You get angry and you start to hate the people that put the rock there. But, again you forget, and the rock doesn't matter any longer. There never was a rock.
As the many posters are suggesting. Even if there aren't enough buttons, the developers can just fall back on the GC controllers. Want wireless? There's always the Wavebird. Seriously, there's no reason this wouldn't work. The only problem is the same as right now. The GC controller has only three shoulder buttons where the PS3 and XBox360 have four (x-boxes black and white buttons are now shoulder).
Still, I agree with anyone who hates thumbstick controls, as they inevitably take away from mobility or functionality. Maybe there should be an analoge on the bottom that your ring finger could manipulate and leave your thumb free for fragging.... Oh I am so totally patenting that.
I introduced this game to my roommate back in late 2000. He promply bought it and played it for 8 to 12 hour stints durning the week. The weekends he usually didn't shower or bother to put on clothes. We dubbed some of these days "Ultimate Saturdays" as he never dressed, never showered, slept in, and got other people to pay the pizza guy for him.
Last time I talked to him was last new years eve. He was still playing the game for 4-6 hour stints, even though his in grad school for quantum physics or something else extremely complicated.
If you navigate around enough, as I did this morning, you'll find part of the competition is naming what the XBox 360 is only slightly less great than. You are asked three questions about the system.
Get them right and you get to submit your answer to "The X-Box 360 the best thing since..."
Utter rubbish, it even encourages you to get 9 buddies to do it too. I opted to say that is was the best thing since my friend broke his foot. Wonder if I'll win...
Sony has to learn that single party closed standards won't exist for long. We won't see an open standard, but at least a consortium of different markets offers multiple profit-oriented groups some debate.
I don't have a link for you, but many other companies and distributers are backing Sony with this one. I saw a list a while back that IIRC had Apple in Sony's corner. I could be mistaken, so please correct me on that.
Also I think everyone here is thinking it. MS would be backing Blu-Ray if it was Toshiba that created it, or Intell, or Mistubishi. The reason they aren't backing it now is because they don't want to pay one of they're few direct competitors (Sony) to use one of their (Sony's) products.
Say Sony didn't have the PS3 or whatever coming out. MS would be throwing everything they had into Blu-Ray. I only say this because the only obstical that showes itself is that the discs will be slightly more delicate and the initial dev cost is a little higher.
Is there any real stats on these two formats anyway? All I ever hear about is capacity.
My Grandpa would stab anyone in the hand with his fork if they fell out of line at the dinner table. He was extra fiercesome at Thanksgiving. I actually witnessed him poking his mom (she was about 75 at the time) when her sleeve came close to brushing a neighbors dish. Boy oh boy did he catch hell for that one! My whole life I never saw that man intimidated, untill the time he was humbled by a woman who could barely speak audibly.
But, yeah, I got my share of forks in the hand as he kept me close. Apparently he picked me as the "trouble maker."
The reason the DS can run GBA carts is because they both share the same processor. There is no emulator. The GBA runs off an ARM 7 and the DS has an ARM 7 and ARM 9.
Jackson's got too much class for a videogame adaption. Even one that really shouldn't be too hard to make. It's going to be a war movie just like all other war movies. The only difference is that millions of people are already engrossed in the... story. So, without further ado, here's what you won't miss.
Master Chief (always accompanied by gruff, bad-ass voice: Well, looks like my suit is even better equiped to deal with the Covenent armada.
(enter subplot) Arbiter (always a high-distingued, but also just plain high, mysterious voice): Except the good Covenent. Remeber, the Elite don't want to destroy the humans. At least, not untill we've finished dealing with those overgrown apes.
MC: Oh, forgot about the flood. Gotta shoot the shit outta them on the way.
A: Damn right, Cheif. Watch out, though. There might be another playable charecter for the flood. It's the next logical step
five cases of beer, 7 million rounds of ammunition and plasma, countless disposable marine deaths, 12 hours of sheild charging, a few stickies, and two ring explosions later
MC: Wasn't that awesome when I stickied that brute and he blew up?!
A: Hell yeah, wasn't it great when I snipered that jackel's head while he wasn't looking?
I understand your post completely. But I may be able to offer you some comfort. I used to play a few games at my brothers house using a wireless card at 54Mbs. We weren't playing Starcraft here either. I'm not sure what would be more net intensive, but my favorite multiplayer game is C&C Generals: Zero Hour. We would also play the many FPS's available. Never had a problem as long as the signal was good. The router was in the basement and I was sepereted from it by a concrete wall, but all was well.
The only thing I'm woried about is security of the system. Someone somewhere is going to start trying to DS-jack or Rev-jack or something. And if they can do that driving down the street, I won't be too thrilled.
I imagine you could just run it over some nice rare earth magnets before you hand it it. Not suggesting that people should carry these or should have to, but, in practice or theorey, there shouldn't be much of a problem taking care of it on your own.
While I don't like all the 'Cube bashing, I do agree with you there. I've played one innovative game one the PSP, Lumines.
What they need to let out is numbers for the systems and get the dev kits out
If you've been paying close enough attention to the third-party press releases. Most of them are working on Revolution projects. They have to sign non-disclosure agreements in order to recieve dev. kits. And unlike Sony or MS, Nintendo doesn't tolerate leaks very well. They also don't comment on rumors, so if you hear about something, it's generaly bull untill you hear it from the big N. Anyway, a there are a few releases (I can't get into most game sites at work, so I can't link 'em), where companies say they are working with Nintendo on the new system. We can basically translate that as non-rumor. It came from the companies themselves, and we can only assume dev kits are out there. The developers merely state they cannot comment.
Think of it this way: If Nintendo plans on having a sucessfull launch, the will NEED to have as many launch tiltles as possible. Not just Mario and Pilotwings (N64, I'm looking at you here). And it takes more than a year for a decent game.
Here! Here! Read some of it as well. He does a good job with referencing dictionary words and correlating them to relatable definitions within his subject matter. It's when he starts speculating that makes you realize that he hasn't done his homework.
Same storey, even the txt. No voice acting. Oh God it's annoying when they can't speak characters' names. New graphics and FMV's. This would include panning from 2D background to 2.5D environment. If they made environments 3D, that would be okay too, as long as they don't differ too far. Same leveling system. Worthy amount of extras (extra Weapons to fight?). Doubtful, but I would like to port my current game. I don't want to build levels and beat Ruby again. Granted, completionist would hate this just because they would have missed something on the "first disc" part of the game.
I don't know about the new controller, but the Wavebird works at over 20 feet. You should be fine if your sword slashing takes you to an adventure across the living room.
Anybody recall the release of the N64? This system was hyped like mad before release. Power, graphics, everything was released beforehand. Not to mention promises of a huge release library right up close to the end. But, finally, after waiting what seemed like forever, we got two games. Mario 64 (amazing game, don't get me wrong) and Pilotwings 64. There may have been another, but I don't remember (waverace?). Then we had to wait a month before any other games came out. And almost none of them were worth playing for a long time. I can't remember the second game I bought for it, but the second really fun game I remember was Turok.
Feels like that now. Lots of promises, but not much to show. Granted, there are at least 4 release titles, but who knows when the rest will really be out. At least the 64 was released with that killer game. Anybody have an idea as to the 360's killer game? I mean, aside from whenever Halo 3 may arrive.
Think about it this way. If everyone uses your mentality, then there will be no scene to scope out. It's not really about owning it on the first day, it's about being able to play the games as soon as possible. At least, for most people. It's about the release games and thats it.
And everybody's right about this one. Where in the name of Comander Taco are the games? They talk about the system every day, but nobody has much to go on with the release games besides the crap from E3 that wasn't running on the system. And for that matter, the graphics for the one game I want to play (Perfect Dark) don't impress me any more than a poorly-devoloped game for any of the current generation systems.
Sure, Elder Scrolls looks great and all, but AFAIK it doesn't have a confirmed release date. If I'm wrong, let me know, but don't link it. I'll have to trust you, I can't get onto any gaming sites while I'm at work.
Try playing IV again. I used to have an identical oppinion. That was until I aquired both of the original games for the SNES. Albeit, I would like to beat them both on the PS re-releases just for the FMV (VI's is absolutely astounding, I've seen it... once).
Back to the point. I'm not saying that IV is worse than VI. In my regard, I have absolutly no preference of one over the other. I loved them both and they sit on the same rung of my all time top 10 latter. The only way I could have loved IV any more is if the spells came quicker, and there was more pixil animations. Also, there was the moon. All in all, the story had less depth and the jumps between levels needed were too big. When you went to the moon you could be powerful enough to run over any group of enimies in 30 seconds or less, but you hit that moon, and for the first 15 levels after that, every fight's a boss fight. Even when you are strong enough to take on the outer-moon baddies, then going inside the caves and the last castle requires another 5-10 levels each!
VI on the other hand was perfection in my eyes except for the blurring of the classes. Everyone was a mage with another skill (after you start picking up magicite). I really don't have a problem with having a tank, mage, healer, theif and whatever in my group. Even if they have their own skillset, please, don't make my charecters so similar. I like haveing limitations on chars. This doesn't count having different stats either.
I've never been a fan of leveling. That is why I really don't like the newer games in the series. In order to do any extra stuff, you have to spend literally 100's of hours leveling and battling just to get your ultimate weapons. It is too much of a time commitment. I haven't even finished X. I don't know if I ever will... I made it to the last dungeon and said, "Hey, I'm at the last dungeon and this game hasn't gotten good yet?!" I kept playing expecting it to get better and it never delivered. The story line is cheesy and the battle system was nothing new. I really liked the leveling system, very inovative. But a great game innovative leveling does not make.
Hmm... it appears Sony has had another common problem with the X-Boxes. Both had bad DVD drives in the orginals, now we have overheating power adaptors. Coincedence? I think not.
Come to mention it, both Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb's last names both start with a 'P' and have those little dots in their names... I'm onto them now.
IIRC, the cursed ring could not be uncursed... ever. The cursed SHEILD, however was uncursable after 255 fights. Just equip the shield with a ribbon and finish the fights quickly so that DOOM doesn't kill you and you're fine. Then it became the Paladin Sheild, the most powerful item in the game. I believe it gave you +50 vig, mag, mdef (which made no diff), and def... Plus it could cast something used as an item and teach ultima... I think.
Quite right, just a few calculations in my head, a 2000 pound car with pressure spread out to each tire evenly (I know it was a Jetta, but I don't know what that weighs, and I don't feel like converting to Newtons just now). Assuming the tires are 8 inches wide and have a band of tire 2.5 inches on the ground, I believe the max pressure that could be put on the Nano is 140 pounds. This is assuming the nano is placed so that the tire runs over it the long way.
2000lbs/4 tires = 500lbs/tire
8in*3.5in/tire = 20sqinches/tire
500lbs/20sqinches = 25lbs/sqinch.
Max footprint on Nano is 3.5in*2.5in or 5.6 square inches x 25lbs/sqinch = 140lbs (min is 2.5*1.6=4x25 or 100lbs)
Still, you're only putting 25lbs/sqaure inch on the thing, so if a big guy stood on it, or ran it over it would theoretorically do more damage. I didn't take into account that the tire is rolling over it, but, seeing as it's only a quarter of an inch thick and made with aluminum casing, I can't imagine much damage. Also, a Jetta might be lighter than that (or it's a heavier Passat... but it doesn't really matter, seeing as I don't know how thick the tires really are).
By the same token you could argue that you, as a parent, should be allowed to allow your children to buy guns/R or X movies/cigarettes/booze and other dangerous things at a younger age (if we concretley stick videogames in these 'vice' catagories).
The thing is, parents may believe thier child is developed enough moraly, intulectually, and physically to handle a gun/dirty movies/cigarettes/booze, but that doesn't make them right.
I don't care what anyone says. Everyone at every age is impressionable. Children are very impressionable. I'm not going to point fingers or call names, but I don't beleive these psycologits that think they can tell me my child was born with genes to fail/win or whatever.
I'm getting off-topic. Videogames are like movies except that you control them and that makes them even more impressionable on the player, therefore, if you can restrict movie admitence, then you must be allowed to restrict the games they play. Legally, or parently. The laws are to keep the parents who don't pay any attention to their kids (somewhere over 60%, I'd wager) from making another mistake.
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Seriously, you could just hold the controller near the ground and point it at the screen to lay down in sniping posistion, or hold it at chest level to run and fire at will. The camera angle would, of course, change for you as you moved, and dynamically too. Not three posisitions, but all positions, just tell the game how tall you are and there you go.
You could also use it (to an extent) to hide behind cover nearby (ala quick strafing, rather than just running). Of course, there would be limits... after all, you don't want to jump so far over that you hit a wall, or best/worst case senario, you have enough room and a big enough TV to get out of range.
People are posting all sorts of ideas on Slashdot alone. Hope Miyamoto and his cronies are paying attention. We may be thinking of stuff that they haven't (not saying I am, but there's some pretty bizarre ideas floating around).
I wonder if this won't have a negative impact. It surged out in wonder and dilivered absolutly nothing. It was like hyping a rock under a blanket.
Sure, when you take off the blanket there is an extremely strange rock under it, but nobody cares because there are exremely strange rocks all over the place. Nobody understands the rock. The rock is supposed to help you understand another rock, but it doesn't do this. It merely sits there making you wonder what this rock could possibly have to do with anything. Then you forget about it a few hours later until some poster brings it up. Then you get angry about the rock and with the rock wasn't there. You get angry and you start to hate the people that put the rock there. But, again you forget, and the rock doesn't matter any longer. There never was a rock.
Still, I agree with anyone who hates thumbstick controls, as they inevitably take away from mobility or functionality. Maybe there should be an analoge on the bottom that your ring finger could manipulate and leave your thumb free for fragging.... Oh I am so totally patenting that.
Last time I talked to him was last new years eve. He was still playing the game for 4-6 hour stints, even though his in grad school for quantum physics or something else extremely complicated.
My love and tears to that old friend Luke-dogg.
Get them right and you get to submit your answer to "The X-Box 360 the best thing since..."
Utter rubbish, it even encourages you to get 9 buddies to do it too. I opted to say that is was the best thing since my friend broke his foot. Wonder if I'll win...
I don't have a link for you, but many other companies and distributers are backing Sony with this one. I saw a list a while back that IIRC had Apple in Sony's corner. I could be mistaken, so please correct me on that.
Also I think everyone here is thinking it. MS would be backing Blu-Ray if it was Toshiba that created it, or Intell, or Mistubishi. The reason they aren't backing it now is because they don't want to pay one of they're few direct competitors (Sony) to use one of their (Sony's) products.
Say Sony didn't have the PS3 or whatever coming out. MS would be throwing everything they had into Blu-Ray. I only say this because the only obstical that showes itself is that the discs will be slightly more delicate and the initial dev cost is a little higher.
Is there any real stats on these two formats anyway? All I ever hear about is capacity.
But, yeah, I got my share of forks in the hand as he kept me close. Apparently he picked me as the "trouble maker."
The reason the DS can run GBA carts is because they both share the same processor. There is no emulator. The GBA runs off an ARM 7 and the DS has an ARM 7 and ARM 9.
Master Chief (always accompanied by gruff, bad-ass voice: Well, looks like my suit is even better equiped to deal with the Covenent armada.
(enter subplot) Arbiter (always a high-distingued, but also just plain high, mysterious voice): Except the good Covenent. Remeber, the Elite don't want to destroy the humans. At least, not untill we've finished dealing with those overgrown apes.
MC: Oh, forgot about the flood. Gotta shoot the shit outta them on the way.
A: Damn right, Cheif. Watch out, though. There might be another playable charecter for the flood. It's the next logical step
five cases of beer, 7 million rounds of ammunition and plasma, countless disposable marine deaths, 12 hours of sheild charging, a few stickies, and two ring explosions later
MC: Wasn't that awesome when I stickied that brute and he blew up?!
A: Hell yeah, wasn't it great when I snipered that jackel's head while he wasn't looking?
MC: Hey, I wonder if Cortana does lap dances?
Cortana: Aw, shit.
THE END
The only thing I'm woried about is security of the system. Someone somewhere is going to start trying to DS-jack or Rev-jack or something. And if they can do that driving down the street, I won't be too thrilled.
I imagine you could just run it over some nice rare earth magnets before you hand it it. Not suggesting that people should carry these or should have to, but, in practice or theorey, there shouldn't be much of a problem taking care of it on your own.
What they need to let out is numbers for the systems and get the dev kits out
If you've been paying close enough attention to the third-party press releases. Most of them are working on Revolution projects. They have to sign non-disclosure agreements in order to recieve dev. kits. And unlike Sony or MS, Nintendo doesn't tolerate leaks very well. They also don't comment on rumors, so if you hear about something, it's generaly bull untill you hear it from the big N. Anyway, a there are a few releases (I can't get into most game sites at work, so I can't link 'em), where companies say they are working with Nintendo on the new system. We can basically translate that as non-rumor. It came from the companies themselves, and we can only assume dev kits are out there. The developers merely state they cannot comment.
Think of it this way: If Nintendo plans on having a sucessfull launch, the will NEED to have as many launch tiltles as possible. Not just Mario and Pilotwings (N64, I'm looking at you here). And it takes more than a year for a decent game.
Here's a game you may take a liking to. Tons of fun. Called Lunch Money.
In other words, I agree with the parent post.
Well, at least the DS doesn't have any firmware upgrades coming up (that we know about). Lots of homebrew going on there.
Same storey, even the txt.
No voice acting. Oh God it's annoying when they can't speak characters' names.
New graphics and FMV's. This would include panning from 2D background to 2.5D environment. If they made environments 3D, that would be okay too, as long as they don't differ too far.
Same leveling system.
Worthy amount of extras (extra Weapons to fight?).
Doubtful, but I would like to port my current game. I don't want to build levels and beat Ruby again. Granted, completionist would hate this just because they would have missed something on the "first disc" part of the game.
I don't know about the new controller, but the Wavebird works at over 20 feet. You should be fine if your sword slashing takes you to an adventure across the living room.
Feels like that now. Lots of promises, but not much to show. Granted, there are at least 4 release titles, but who knows when the rest will really be out. At least the 64 was released with that killer game. Anybody have an idea as to the 360's killer game? I mean, aside from whenever Halo 3 may arrive.
And everybody's right about this one. Where in the name of Comander Taco are the games? They talk about the system every day, but nobody has much to go on with the release games besides the crap from E3 that wasn't running on the system. And for that matter, the graphics for the one game I want to play (Perfect Dark) don't impress me any more than a poorly-devoloped game for any of the current generation systems.
Sure, Elder Scrolls looks great and all, but AFAIK it doesn't have a confirmed release date. If I'm wrong, let me know, but don't link it. I'll have to trust you, I can't get onto any gaming sites while I'm at work.
Back to the point. I'm not saying that IV is worse than VI. In my regard, I have absolutly no preference of one over the other. I loved them both and they sit on the same rung of my all time top 10 latter. The only way I could have loved IV any more is if the spells came quicker, and there was more pixil animations. Also, there was the moon. All in all, the story had less depth and the jumps between levels needed were too big. When you went to the moon you could be powerful enough to run over any group of enimies in 30 seconds or less, but you hit that moon, and for the first 15 levels after that, every fight's a boss fight. Even when you are strong enough to take on the outer-moon baddies, then going inside the caves and the last castle requires another 5-10 levels each!
VI on the other hand was perfection in my eyes except for the blurring of the classes. Everyone was a mage with another skill (after you start picking up magicite). I really don't have a problem with having a tank, mage, healer, theif and whatever in my group. Even if they have their own skillset, please, don't make my charecters so similar. I like haveing limitations on chars. This doesn't count having different stats either.
I've never been a fan of leveling. That is why I really don't like the newer games in the series. In order to do any extra stuff, you have to spend literally 100's of hours leveling and battling just to get your ultimate weapons. It is too much of a time commitment. I haven't even finished X. I don't know if I ever will... I made it to the last dungeon and said, "Hey, I'm at the last dungeon and this game hasn't gotten good yet?!" I kept playing expecting it to get better and it never delivered. The story line is cheesy and the battle system was nothing new. I really liked the leveling system, very inovative. But a great game innovative leveling does not make.
8 bit, yup... and the other post was correct, they don't have the period... messed it up
Come to mention it, both Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb's last names both start with a 'P' and have those little dots in their names... I'm onto them now.
IIRC, the cursed ring could not be uncursed... ever. The cursed SHEILD, however was uncursable after 255 fights. Just equip the shield with a ribbon and finish the fights quickly so that DOOM doesn't kill you and you're fine. Then it became the Paladin Sheild, the most powerful item in the game. I believe it gave you +50 vig, mag, mdef (which made no diff), and def... Plus it could cast something used as an item and teach ultima... I think.
2000lbs/4 tires = 500lbs/tire
8in*3.5in/tire = 20sqinches/tire
500lbs/20sqinches = 25lbs/sqinch.
Max footprint on Nano is 3.5in*2.5in or 5.6 square inches x 25lbs/sqinch = 140lbs (min is 2.5*1.6=4x25 or 100lbs)
Still, you're only putting 25lbs/sqaure inch on the thing, so if a big guy stood on it, or ran it over it would theoretorically do more damage. I didn't take into account that the tire is rolling over it, but, seeing as it's only a quarter of an inch thick and made with aluminum casing, I can't imagine much damage. Also, a Jetta might be lighter than that (or it's a heavier Passat... but it doesn't really matter, seeing as I don't know how thick the tires really are).
The thing is, parents may believe thier child is developed enough moraly, intulectually, and physically to handle a gun/dirty movies/cigarettes/booze, but that doesn't make them right.
I don't care what anyone says. Everyone at every age is impressionable. Children are very impressionable. I'm not going to point fingers or call names, but I don't beleive these psycologits that think they can tell me my child was born with genes to fail/win or whatever.
I'm getting off-topic. Videogames are like movies except that you control them and that makes them even more impressionable on the player, therefore, if you can restrict movie admitence, then you must be allowed to restrict the games they play. Legally, or parently. The laws are to keep the parents who don't pay any attention to their kids (somewhere over 60%, I'd wager) from making another mistake.