So how is remembering that "getting into the car == punch" any easier than "press B"? The muscle memory is still there. I agree with you on the gun. The FPS will be very interesting to play (though turning around STILL won't be as good as a mouse!), and games will actually be made for it since its the standard input device. What I'm afraid of on the Wii is a bunch of games where designers "Wii-ify" a game by taking a button press and making it a stupid gesture. No thanks, I'd rather hit the button. If you're using the input to actually do something (the continuous motion type) then I think you're getting something out of it. If I have to karate chop where I previously double tapped A, no thanks. Black & White anyone?
The embryo cannot ask anything because it doesn't have any mental facilities and is just a bunch of cells. I can rip my skin out, drop it in a petri dish, and it will multiply. Is that an organism? But I'm still not seeing where the soul injection process happens to make this guy an official grade A human.
So do you honestly believe there's a little man running around inside your head pulling levers? What part of your head isn't defined by neurons? When exactly in the fertilization process does the "soul injection" happen? If you broke down the fertilization process into its purest chemical states, is there a specific spot where "life" happens? What if we were able to control the process down to the last molecule and then hold off on the final chemical reaction. Is that not life anymore? How much has to be complete for the soul injection process the finish? Just wondering.
You'll be able to develop shaders and compile directly to managed code which, yes, is a VM but don't let that confuse you with "access to the the hardware". This sounds like it will be much better than the POS PS2 Linux box that said "OMG you can make games" when really you couldn't do much of anything you'd need to do to make a "real" game. MS has said that you'll be able to make games worthy of professional titles with the kit, and is pushing the exact same tech for developers to use in XBLA games.
I think someone else in this discussion said it already, but I think swordfighting on the Wii is one of the less compelling uses for the Wiimote because of the feedback issue. There's a few "sword fighting" arcade games out there, and if you want "slash some zombies" the Wii is your ticket. If you want "duel another swordsman" then forget it. There's no way to have feedback for glancing your blade of a shield or hitting someone else. I could see fencing maybe, but still, no way to deflect the blade. Until they figure out how to make a force-feedback remote, its kind of screwed.
Nothing is going to "replace" E3. The whole point is that the event was too expensive for publishers for not enough return. Why have an even where everyone shows up and you have to pay millions of dollars for when you can bring ALL the gamer journalists, retail purchasing agents, etc (i.e. the people who MATTER, not gamestop employees) - you can fly them all in, wine and dine, etc etc. for less cost than a public booth at E3. For a few days they're YOURS. No competing with the most sound from the competitors booth. No need for booth babes (hell, you could hire an army of stippers for the same purpose). Now that everyone has agreed E3 sucks, why go back to the old model? Fans will have to look elsewhere - the general open expo is gone for good. Sorry.
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But a Golf? I could see a GTI, but if you had some cash surely you'd want something a little FUN to drive. (Assuming you don't go during rush hour).
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Remember, E3 is NOT supposed to be a convention. Its a PRESS event. GDC is a convention. It has "convention" in the name even. The general public is not invited, though generally anyone who wanted to go could get in. I've always thought its a pretty terrible event and generally not a good face for the industry as a whole. Most of the real stuff happens behind closed doors, and a lot of the big publishers have their own press days anyways. The real losers here are the small developers or hardware manufacturers (yay Kentia Hall) who are trying to a) get exposure, b) get funding. The indy show at GDC doesn't really fit the role unfortunately, but it tries. I think what's really needed is a serious event for indie developers where both publishers and press attend without some dufus walking around in elf armor.
Because there's no built in harddrive, so the "lowest common denominator" in this case is storing stuff on the cheap memory card. If they get rid of the limit, I'd say the number of games devs would work to keep under the 64 MB limit would be pretty small, and anyone without a HD would be locked out.
I'm not sure where extra content falls under. A lot of games are small and have lots of extra levels to buy and add on (~$0.50 to $1.00 seems like)
I'm sure they are planning a remote storage device thing BUT:
a) They want to make money off perephrials first
b) They probably want to ship it with Vista where they probably trust the DRM a bit more. With remote storage of save games its just that much easier to soft-mod your box.
Are you saying engineers from Microsoft are so tainted with evil they've never heard of OSS or Linux and can't grasp the same concepts your average non-Evil Inside (TM) Linux geek can?
Or are you trying to imply that there's no need for users of MS documents to share their documents?
Or perhaps that because they're interfacing with a proprietary format they might as well give up all hope of being Open Source? That the two can't live together?
I'd be glad for them checking 3-4 times plus running the RFID scanner over me, if just for the peace of mind that I don't get a pair of scissors left in me.
Do you have a problem with triple redundancy on airplanes as well?
Since when are people so against extra safety procedures. I think you'd be great as the next director of the space shuttle mission control:)
Who says you have to go to India to be spotted as an American? That can happen easy enough in Western speaking countries as well. We dress, talk, act differently, have subtly different social protocols, etc. And who even needs another country? I can go downtown and spot a tourist pretty easily. I'm not quite sure what criminal advantage definitivly knowing that someone is an American gives you that you couldn't get from just watching someone. Its not like their going to run down the street with a radio transmitter and then have a big truck behind them sweeping up Americans, because they don't have time to do an efficient kidnapping.
I guess it could help weed out the real Canadians from the people who sew Maple leaves on the back of their backpacks so they get better service at cafes.:)
How a large majority of the people visiting the site are probalby using windows, and therefore probably can view the video. And if they can instantly satisfy those requests without the user needing special software, then that's a large majority of the people taken care of instead of none. Of course, they could have just used mpeg which would have helped everyone.
And I love how you argue "added expenses" and say that a library might be too far a way when you probably spent a good amount of money on the computer itself. What about a homeless man, isn't he entitled to watch the shuttle launch videos as well? By not dragging a TV down to his corner and letting him look at it, the government is requiring special access (access to a computer) to get at the information!
I second this. Most of the graphical issues you're seeing today are game teams doing ports of last-gen games or getting used to the hardware. Wait till PS3 comes out if you want to talk about underperforming hardware!
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We have that show too. Its called "24". I think its a way to get people to be ok with torturing potential suspects. Pretty soon, you'll have Joe Average saying "Well, they should just torture the guy and find out what he knows. Why are they letting him have a lawyer?"
I could give a shit if the rights for Ashlee Simpson's latest hot single never expires. I don't really care. Make it a million years or something. The more it cost to use it, the less I'll have to hear it.
The real problem here is when the copyright holders have a war against technology, try to shut down communications between people, and basically tell me what I can and can't do because there's a slight chance I might try to steal their shitty music.
Heh, yeah, I guess I wasn't clear. I meant not killing anyone except the target. (Who's generally a bad bad man and needs to die). In 2 & 3 you can generally complete the missions without killing any henchmen and especially no civilians (you're penalized for doing so because of the expense of cleaning up such a messy job)
Don't forget the hitman series. Hitman 1 I don't believe was completable without killing anyone (that damn rambo mission), but Hitman 2 & 3 definitely were. It didn't involve the light meter "hiding" spot stuff so much, but I think between that and Splinter Cell you've got tons of Theif like gameplay available. Both of those games are going to have next-gen sequels too, so the genre isn't going anywhere.
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So how is remembering that "getting into the car == punch" any easier than "press B"? The muscle memory is still there. I agree with you on the gun. The FPS will be very interesting to play (though turning around STILL won't be as good as a mouse!), and games will actually be made for it since its the standard input device. What I'm afraid of on the Wii is a bunch of games where designers "Wii-ify" a game by taking a button press and making it a stupid gesture. No thanks, I'd rather hit the button. If you're using the input to actually do something (the continuous motion type) then I think you're getting something out of it. If I have to karate chop where I previously double tapped A, no thanks. Black & White anyone?
The embryo cannot ask anything because it doesn't have any mental facilities and is just a bunch of cells. I can rip my skin out, drop it in a petri dish, and it will multiply. Is that an organism? But I'm still not seeing where the soul injection process happens to make this guy an official grade A human.
So do you honestly believe there's a little man running around inside your head pulling levers? What part of your head isn't defined by neurons? When exactly in the fertilization process does the "soul injection" happen? If you broke down the fertilization process into its purest chemical states, is there a specific spot where "life" happens? What if we were able to control the process down to the last molecule and then hold off on the final chemical reaction. Is that not life anymore? How much has to be complete for the soul injection process the finish? Just wondering.
You'll be able to develop shaders and compile directly to managed code which, yes, is a VM but don't let that confuse you with "access to the the hardware". This sounds like it will be much better than the POS PS2 Linux box that said "OMG you can make games" when really you couldn't do much of anything you'd need to do to make a "real" game. MS has said that you'll be able to make games worthy of professional titles with the kit, and is pushing the exact same tech for developers to use in XBLA games.
I think someone else in this discussion said it already, but I think swordfighting on the Wii is one of the less compelling uses for the Wiimote because of the feedback issue. There's a few "sword fighting" arcade games out there, and if you want "slash some zombies" the Wii is your ticket. If you want "duel another swordsman" then forget it. There's no way to have feedback for glancing your blade of a shield or hitting someone else. I could see fencing maybe, but still, no way to deflect the blade. Until they figure out how to make a force-feedback remote, its kind of screwed.
Video-game sword fighting purists?
Nothing is going to "replace" E3. The whole point is that the event was too expensive for publishers for not enough return. Why have an even where everyone shows up and you have to pay millions of dollars for when you can bring ALL the gamer journalists, retail purchasing agents, etc (i.e. the people who MATTER, not gamestop employees) - you can fly them all in, wine and dine, etc etc. for less cost than a public booth at E3. For a few days they're YOURS. No competing with the most sound from the competitors booth. No need for booth babes (hell, you could hire an army of stippers for the same purpose). Now that everyone has agreed E3 sucks, why go back to the old model? Fans will have to look elsewhere - the general open expo is gone for good. Sorry.
It doesn't do hair. Only faces. You add the hair from a preset list of models, or create it like you do with other games like Tiger Woods.
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!
I am Dr. Huggins T. Boddingswhether, The Rodham-Clinton-Gore Professor of Internet Debate at Phoenix Online University. I'm here to tell you that in my years (4) of deep research into the topic of Internet Debate I've yet to see an actual argument won on any topic in any forum in the world.
Until today.
You sir, have taken Internet Debating...nay, HUMAN HISTORY to a new level by succinctly following up your argument with "end of debate". This revolutionary phrase-surely to be on the lips and fingertips of every persnickety angry "Netizen" as they dryly close their arguments of Star Trek, Scientology, and Operating Systems with a thick fingered prod and a wheeze of breath to paraphrase your pithy turn- this phrase will usher in a new era of Internet Debate where arguments can be WON! Don't you see? Don't you see my good man! We can finally have answers!
Kirk vs. Picard
Linux vs. Windows
Jesus vs. Buddah
Its all here, all here! I reel from the possibilities, and bow to your incredible wisdom.
Humbly Yours,
Dr. Huggins T. Boddingswhether
p.s. Enclosed is a certificate of "Noteworthy Achievement" Please use at your discretion.
p.p.s. FAG
Sure sure sure....
But a Golf? I could see a GTI, but if you had some cash surely you'd want something a little FUN to drive. (Assuming you don't go during rush hour).
Remember, E3 is NOT supposed to be a convention. Its a PRESS event. GDC is a convention. It has "convention" in the name even. The general public is not invited, though generally anyone who wanted to go could get in. I've always thought its a pretty terrible event and generally not a good face for the industry as a whole. Most of the real stuff happens behind closed doors, and a lot of the big publishers have their own press days anyways. The real losers here are the small developers or hardware manufacturers (yay Kentia Hall) who are trying to a) get exposure, b) get funding. The indy show at GDC doesn't really fit the role unfortunately, but it tries. I think what's really needed is a serious event for indie developers where both publishers and press attend without some dufus walking around in elf armor.
Because there's no built in harddrive, so the "lowest common denominator" in this case is storing stuff on the cheap memory card. If they get rid of the limit, I'd say the number of games devs would work to keep under the 64 MB limit would be pretty small, and anyone without a HD would be locked out. I'm not sure where extra content falls under. A lot of games are small and have lots of extra levels to buy and add on (~$0.50 to $1.00 seems like)
I'm sure they are planning a remote storage device thing BUT:
a) They want to make money off perephrials first
b) They probably want to ship it with Vista where they probably trust the DRM a bit more. With remote storage of save games its just that much easier to soft-mod your box.
Are you saying engineers from Microsoft are so tainted with evil they've never heard of OSS or Linux and can't grasp the same concepts your average non-Evil Inside (TM) Linux geek can?
Or are you trying to imply that there's no need for users of MS documents to share their documents?
Or perhaps that because they're interfacing with a proprietary format they might as well give up all hope of being Open Source? That the two can't live together?
You don't think they do that already?
:)
I'd be glad for them checking 3-4 times plus running the RFID scanner over me, if just for the peace of mind that I don't get a pair of scissors left in me.
Do you have a problem with triple redundancy on airplanes as well?
Since when are people so against extra safety procedures. I think you'd be great as the next director of the space shuttle mission control
Who says you have to go to India to be spotted as an American? That can happen easy enough in Western speaking countries as well. We dress, talk, act differently, have subtly different social protocols, etc. And who even needs another country? I can go downtown and spot a tourist pretty easily. I'm not quite sure what criminal advantage definitivly knowing that someone is an American gives you that you couldn't get from just watching someone. Its not like their going to run down the street with a radio transmitter and then have a big truck behind them sweeping up Americans, because they don't have time to do an efficient kidnapping.
:)
I guess it could help weed out the real Canadians from the people who sew Maple leaves on the back of their backpacks so they get better service at cafes.
"local dance club" Its ok, dude, you bought DDR Mario Mix. We know you don't go to clubs. :p
How a large majority of the people visiting the site are probalby using windows, and therefore probably can view the video. And if they can instantly satisfy those requests without the user needing special software, then that's a large majority of the people taken care of instead of none. Of course, they could have just used mpeg which would have helped everyone. And I love how you argue "added expenses" and say that a library might be too far a way when you probably spent a good amount of money on the computer itself. What about a homeless man, isn't he entitled to watch the shuttle launch videos as well? By not dragging a TV down to his corner and letting him look at it, the government is requiring special access (access to a computer) to get at the information!
I second this. Most of the graphical issues you're seeing today are game teams doing ports of last-gen games or getting used to the hardware. Wait till PS3 comes out if you want to talk about underperforming hardware!
Congrats! You're the 5000th person to make this mistake today! Worst NAMES. NAMES. Apparently this article had a bad name too. But good detective skill none-the-less. You've discovered what U see as one of the great cons of our day!
We have that show too. Its called "24". I think its a way to get people to be ok with torturing potential suspects. Pretty soon, you'll have Joe Average saying "Well, they should just torture the guy and find out what he knows. Why are they letting him have a lawyer?"
I could give a shit if the rights for Ashlee Simpson's latest hot single never expires. I don't really care. Make it a million years or something. The more it cost to use it, the less I'll have to hear it. The real problem here is when the copyright holders have a war against technology, try to shut down communications between people, and basically tell me what I can and can't do because there's a slight chance I might try to steal their shitty music.
Heh, yeah, I guess I wasn't clear. I meant not killing anyone except the target. (Who's generally a bad bad man and needs to die). In 2 & 3 you can generally complete the missions without killing any henchmen and especially no civilians (you're penalized for doing so because of the expense of cleaning up such a messy job)
Don't forget the hitman series. Hitman 1 I don't believe was completable without killing anyone (that damn rambo mission), but Hitman 2 & 3 definitely were. It didn't involve the light meter "hiding" spot stuff so much, but I think between that and Splinter Cell you've got tons of Theif like gameplay available. Both of those games are going to have next-gen sequels too, so the genre isn't going anywhere.
Read the damn article, seriously. He's talking about trademarking the CONFERENCE, not the term Web 2.0. Jeez.