Little Big Planet isn't just a platform with customizable characters. It's a sandbox game with a powerful creation interface and well integrated multiplayer.
What is making you so bitter about this anyway? It's pretty obvious to people who keep up with the news and media on these games that their choices make solid sense.
I agree that the article could have ANY amount of depth, but the results make solid sense.
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Who cares if most people have whatever? The point is that there's plenty of us that do (it's not that expensive, at all) and there's a market for it.
I'm a HUGE fan of the Nintendo DS. What a GREAT system!
However... I stood in line for the Wii for 9 hours. After which I was so happy. 2 weeks later we were all playing Gears of War on my roommate's xbox360. What happened with the Wii? No interesting games is what happenend. No only play is what happenend.
I then put my Wii up for auction on eBay, someone local to me said they had store credit and no money. So, I traded him my used Wii + games + accessories (roughly $390 worth) for a brand new sealed premium 360, gears of war, and controller charger (roughly $520 worth).
I couldn't have made a better decision. Xbox live arcade continues to be a wonderful source of entertainment, and the ability to video and voice chat with my friends who are in the military or dispersed for other reasons is wonderful. Tons of multiplayer fun, tons of new titles. Xbox live arcade delivers updated (online enabled, achievements, ranked tournaments) games for the same cost as the dusty old Virtual Console games. Don't get me wrong, I love many of the games on Nintendo's Virtual console.. However, when the 360 delivers updated arcade content for the same price as original 16-bit content I can't help but to feel completely and utterly ripped off.
Plus, the graphics on games like Call of Duty just BLOW (i hate that game anyway, by the way... I get tired of playing the SAME DAMN WWII shooter... ZZZzz...).
Once Nintendo comes out with online play and/or some decent games I'll consider purchasing a new one. But, seriously.. What an underwhelming launch... It's a launch that relies solely on Zelda and novelty, which wouldn't be so bad compared to other console launches if it wasn't competing with the 360.
Not to mention that after owning both a Wii and DS I've come to the conclusion that the stylus is just more fun to use than the Wii controller as a pointing device. The benefit of the controller is its motion detection, developers! We don't want to have to point and aim the controllers at the screen. The wiimote is NOT a stylus, and doesn't feel all that much link one.. Trying to play any first person shooter on the damn thing is damn near impossible! Play Metroid Prime: Hunters on DS... The damn thing controls like a DREAM! The Wiimote is a different type of input device than a stylus, you could make FPS controls much easier by tilting and rotating it to change the view rather than pointing the remote at the screen. As it is now there's no sense of immersion, and I'm not exactly your average gaming newbie either...
Wii has lots of problems, however I have high hopes. If they stop ramming our anuses with the Virtual Console prices (or hell, by all means charge the same and UPDATE THE CONTENT FOR ONLINE PLAY PEOPLE... SHEEESH!) and actually learn to use the controller we have a lot of gaming joy ahead.
I'm a long time gamer and i've been known to get sucked into FF11 and then the far superior WoW.
I had so much fun with WoW, but I ended up quitting and eventually feeling disdain towards the MMO genre as it currently exists.
I honestly can't find a nugget of story or novelesque quality at all in either of the MMOs I've mentioned. On top of that, the entire game structure is set around rewarding you for spending your time playing. I find that beyond superficial familiarity of your abilities and being observant in-general there's no real skill to be had in these titles. I can't believe I worked so hard to get a stupid mount in WoW...
In the time it took me to grow to level 45 with two seperate characters I could have beaten a number of games that had a MUCH higher engagement level than WoW. WoW is drawn out and slow, you have to play for an hour to complete a quest (you know what I'm talking about, don't nitpick me here). I've come to realize that I'd rather have a much more condensed gaming experience. I feel that for every 1 part of WoW i expended 3 parts time. Why bother when there's SO many great titles out with closer to 1:1 ratio?
I don't really have anything at all against the people who play the games.. But, for me (at least personally) I find them to be an extremely inefficient use of time.
Play the game then talk.. You have no idea what is going on right now. The story is the most ludicrous piece of crap on xbox360. This storyline actually walked into my room while I was sleeping and shat on the foot of my bed. When I woke up I thought it was my cat, but when I rewound my motion activated laptop video camera I soon discovered that it was actually Lost Planet's voice acting personified. It was disgusting...
What SHOULD keep you away from this game, if anything, is playing the demo. In some games things like the lava giving off heat would really matter (a little), in some wtf cares? Play the demo and see if you like the gameplay.
If you like the gameplay, then hit START past every single story scene in the game. The game is fun to play, the story will kill you and feast upon your soul.
I'm honestly fairly disgusted by the idea of DX10 games at the moment. Effectively they're creating a system that limits the open source graphic alternative, OpenGL. I will never code in DX10 as it's not cross platform. Good thing my smallware development won't require cutting edge performance.
What are you talking about? Have you played Gears of War at 1080i? They make great use of the hardware to make a more beautiful game than most PC games. Technically the PC is more powerful and capable of more, but it's what you do with it that really matters.
Also, 512meg isn't bad when you don't have the overhead from the OS + antivirus + tons of various apps.
You'd have to be even more asinine than your average slashdot bigot to actually have access to a 360 and hate it. With so much to offer it's a no brainer one stop shop for legal entertainment.
I've always been blatantly honest with my family and friends. If an employer won't give me a job, his/her loss. I'll find a good one elsewhere because I'm good at what I do.
What a load of horse shit this article is. This is the internet age, nobody gives a shit what random joe #3512351 is doing.
Who cares? Decoding the bible's cryptic yet common sensical messages is a waste of time.
Anything that puts people fundamentally on a higher moral ground (christian over non christian) is evil. As long as you ask forgiveness you can be saved, even if a non christian lives a "good" life they can't be.. It's all ridiculously bigoted for the sake of an undeserved sense of self satisfaction.
But yea, you are missing something. The more the RIAA is coerced into taking these asinine actions the more press can be used as a tool against them. This is bigger than tampering with evidence and corpse impersonations. We need to set a precedent that consumers are the ones with the power. When consumers pay for a product, it becomes theirs. Have some common sense. Fight these people in every way, pirate all their material. Someone will come out with a business model that respects consumers, and when they do BUY into it. Until then, screw these old ass disconnected men and their concept of product leasing. If you want to pay into their racket and rent from them the right to listen to their music for only as long as your CD lasts then you're a sucker.
Sleep may well have evolved as a method to aid survival during resource shortages. Shutting down for a while at night (or during the day, based on the animal) would reduce the food requirements.
When you play a racing game how do you drive? Do you gently move the stick 1/3rd of the possible range? Probably not, most people apply the same strategy to analog sticks as digital pads. You move the stick 100%, release, and back. This is what i call "tap steering".
Playing Gran Turismo years ago taught me how to use an analog stick properly. The wii is very similar. There are a number of challenges to face players. For example, trauma center has you selecting your tools with the nunchuck's analog stick. Sounds easy enough, but since the nunchuck and wiimote aren't rigidly connected, i find my left hand rotates to the right a bit, meaning the direction i traditionally translate to upwards motion is now up-left.
It is the adult view to apply known concepts to new problems (tap steering). It is the child's view to find an optimal solution to the challenge.
Some people will never grow up. And some people never revisit youth. You get out what you put in.
Gears of War (360): Play with a local friend online 8 players. This game just rocks. Beats the socks off Halo 2 in my opinion. Local 2 player split screen coop really works due to HDTV resolutions, hoorah.
Bomberman 5 (SNES): The best bomberman game ever released. This is a japanese only cart, but converters are on the cheap. Or just take a rotary tool to your SNES to get the job done. 5 player carnage.. Try the "power level"
Poy Poy (PSX): For bomberman like fun without the grid levels and bombs check out Poy Poy. This game is HIGHLY underrated as a party game. VERY cool stuff.
Amplitude (PS2): Play up to 4 players on the same console of this great rhythm game, or go online and get your ass beat. Techno kind of sucks though. Which brings me to...
Guitar Hero (PS2): 2 players, 2 guitars... seriously this rocks
Karaoke Revolution (PS2): A true party game. Have friends over, drink, sing, laugh at each other. Good times... Support for duets makes the game all the more fun.
Cookies and Cream (PS2): 2 player cooperative platforming. It's actually pretty fun, solve puzzles to allow your ally to pass obstacles and vice versa.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade): 4 player mayhem at its best. Who doesn't remember playing this game in your local skate rink?
Gunbound (PC): A really great 3d Korean style online game. Think worms but with vehicles. Each vehicle has different weapons and weaknesses. Tons of maps available and customizable avatars. I can't tell you how much time my roommates and i wasted playing this on our laptops in the living room.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Arcade, 360): One of the best local fighting games in existance just got great online multiplayer support. Tons of characters and very solid flow.
About any 3d Sonic game (Everything): So these games (Sonic Adventure 2, etc) have kinda sucked... Yea... I hear you grumbling. But play time attack with your friends, trading off the controller for an insane amount of fun. Complete to get the fastest time, collaborate on shortcuts. Seriously, this is the reason Sonic exists..
Ah c'mon.. That's a little negative don't you think? For multiplayer games like Smash Brothers Brawl you don't even need the wii-mote. You can just use a gamecube controller.
Think of the magnificent setup you could have with a full collection of next gen controllers and components. I mean those things are nice.
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Little Big Planet isn't just a platform with customizable characters. It's a sandbox game with a powerful creation interface and well integrated multiplayer.
What is making you so bitter about this anyway? It's pretty obvious to people who keep up with the news and media on these games that their choices make solid sense.
I agree that the article could have ANY amount of depth, but the results make solid sense.
Who cares if most people have whatever? The point is that there's plenty of us that do (it's not that expensive, at all) and there's a market for it.
And of course you're ignoring anything else new that this game may offer.
I'm a HUGE fan of the Nintendo DS. What a GREAT system!
However... I stood in line for the Wii for 9 hours. After which I was so happy. 2 weeks later we were all playing Gears of War on my roommate's xbox360. What happened with the Wii? No interesting games is what happenend. No only play is what happenend.
I then put my Wii up for auction on eBay, someone local to me said they had store credit and no money. So, I traded him my used Wii + games + accessories (roughly $390 worth) for a brand new sealed premium 360, gears of war, and controller charger (roughly $520 worth).
I couldn't have made a better decision. Xbox live arcade continues to be a wonderful source of entertainment, and the ability to video and voice chat with my friends who are in the military or dispersed for other reasons is wonderful. Tons of multiplayer fun, tons of new titles. Xbox live arcade delivers updated (online enabled, achievements, ranked tournaments) games for the same cost as the dusty old Virtual Console games. Don't get me wrong, I love many of the games on Nintendo's Virtual console.. However, when the 360 delivers updated arcade content for the same price as original 16-bit content I can't help but to feel completely and utterly ripped off.
Plus, the graphics on games like Call of Duty just BLOW (i hate that game anyway, by the way... I get tired of playing the SAME DAMN WWII shooter... ZZZzz...).
Once Nintendo comes out with online play and/or some decent games I'll consider purchasing a new one. But, seriously.. What an underwhelming launch... It's a launch that relies solely on Zelda and novelty, which wouldn't be so bad compared to other console launches if it wasn't competing with the 360.
Not to mention that after owning both a Wii and DS I've come to the conclusion that the stylus is just more fun to use than the Wii controller as a pointing device. The benefit of the controller is its motion detection, developers! We don't want to have to point and aim the controllers at the screen. The wiimote is NOT a stylus, and doesn't feel all that much link one.. Trying to play any first person shooter on the damn thing is damn near impossible! Play Metroid Prime: Hunters on DS... The damn thing controls like a DREAM! The Wiimote is a different type of input device than a stylus, you could make FPS controls much easier by tilting and rotating it to change the view rather than pointing the remote at the screen. As it is now there's no sense of immersion, and I'm not exactly your average gaming newbie either...
Wii has lots of problems, however I have high hopes. If they stop ramming our anuses with the Virtual Console prices (or hell, by all means charge the same and UPDATE THE CONTENT FOR ONLINE PLAY PEOPLE... SHEEESH!) and actually learn to use the controller we have a lot of gaming joy ahead.
Just not so much right now...
Games may be wastes of time in some contexts, but efficiency is still a factor. =)
I'm a long time gamer and i've been known to get sucked into FF11 and then the far superior WoW.
I had so much fun with WoW, but I ended up quitting and eventually feeling disdain towards the MMO genre as it currently exists.
I honestly can't find a nugget of story or novelesque quality at all in either of the MMOs I've mentioned. On top of that, the entire game structure is set around rewarding you for spending your time playing. I find that beyond superficial familiarity of your abilities and being observant in-general there's no real skill to be had in these titles. I can't believe I worked so hard to get a stupid mount in WoW...
In the time it took me to grow to level 45 with two seperate characters I could have beaten a number of games that had a MUCH higher engagement level than WoW. WoW is drawn out and slow, you have to play for an hour to complete a quest (you know what I'm talking about, don't nitpick me here). I've come to realize that I'd rather have a much more condensed gaming experience. I feel that for every 1 part of WoW i expended 3 parts time. Why bother when there's SO many great titles out with closer to 1:1 ratio?
I don't really have anything at all against the people who play the games.. But, for me (at least personally) I find them to be an extremely inefficient use of time.
Play the game then talk.. You have no idea what is going on right now. The story is the most ludicrous piece of crap on xbox360. This storyline actually walked into my room while I was sleeping and shat on the foot of my bed. When I woke up I thought it was my cat, but when I rewound my motion activated laptop video camera I soon discovered that it was actually Lost Planet's voice acting personified. It was disgusting...
What SHOULD keep you away from this game, if anything, is playing the demo. In some games things like the lava giving off heat would really matter (a little), in some wtf cares? Play the demo and see if you like the gameplay.
If you like the gameplay, then hit START past every single story scene in the game. The game is fun to play, the story will kill you and feast upon your soul.
I'm honestly fairly disgusted by the idea of DX10 games at the moment. Effectively they're creating a system that limits the open source graphic alternative, OpenGL. I will never code in DX10 as it's not cross platform. Good thing my smallware development won't require cutting edge performance.
Your perspective is perfectly valid and respectable. Who really wants to sit down and waste all that time in front of a machine?
Nonetheless, as the kind of guy who DOES like to do so, I find your statements amazingly offensive.
Of course, I am at least self aware enough to not think ill of you and your lifestyle. Different strokes for different folks.
I have no idea why I even made this post...
Thanks for the pointless ass reply captain obvious.
What are you talking about? Have you played Gears of War at 1080i? They make great use of the hardware to make a more beautiful game than most PC games. Technically the PC is more powerful and capable of more, but it's what you do with it that really matters.
Also, 512meg isn't bad when you don't have the overhead from the OS + antivirus + tons of various apps.
You'd have to be even more asinine than your average slashdot bigot to actually have access to a 360 and hate it. With so much to offer it's a no brainer one stop shop for legal entertainment.
I've always been blatantly honest with my family and friends. If an employer won't give me a job, his/her loss. I'll find a good one elsewhere because I'm good at what I do.
What a load of horse shit this article is. This is the internet age, nobody gives a shit what random joe #3512351 is doing.
Who cares? Decoding the bible's cryptic yet common sensical messages is a waste of time.
Anything that puts people fundamentally on a higher moral ground (christian over non christian) is evil. As long as you ask forgiveness you can be saved, even if a non christian lives a "good" life they can't be.. It's all ridiculously bigoted for the sake of an undeserved sense of self satisfaction.
Halo sucks compared to gow.
Religion Much?
Or maybe it has less to do with the video games at ALL, and more to do with lack of parental involvement in the children's lives..
I hate mom groups and their cultural influence. It's disgusting.
But yea, you are missing something. The more the RIAA is coerced into taking these asinine actions the more press can be used as a tool against them. This is bigger than tampering with evidence and corpse impersonations. We need to set a precedent that consumers are the ones with the power. When consumers pay for a product, it becomes theirs. Have some common sense. Fight these people in every way, pirate all their material. Someone will come out with a business model that respects consumers, and when they do BUY into it. Until then, screw these old ass disconnected men and their concept of product leasing. If you want to pay into their racket and rent from them the right to listen to their music for only as long as your CD lasts then you're a sucker.
Sleep may well have evolved as a method to aid survival during resource shortages. Shutting down for a while at night (or during the day, based on the animal) would reduce the food requirements.
When you play a racing game how do you drive? Do you gently move the stick 1/3rd of the possible range? Probably not, most people apply the same strategy to analog sticks as digital pads. You move the stick 100%, release, and back. This is what i call "tap steering".
Playing Gran Turismo years ago taught me how to use an analog stick properly. The wii is very similar. There are a number of challenges to face players. For example, trauma center has you selecting your tools with the nunchuck's analog stick. Sounds easy enough, but since the nunchuck and wiimote aren't rigidly connected, i find my left hand rotates to the right a bit, meaning the direction i traditionally translate to upwards motion is now up-left.
It is the adult view to apply known concepts to new problems (tap steering).
It is the child's view to find an optimal solution to the challenge.
Some people will never grow up. And some people never revisit youth. You get out what you put in.
I bought my Wii at midnight and had it online within 30 minutes of purchase.
The internet connectivity was VERY responsive, I immediately bought mario 64 (which works wonderfully).
I signed in at 8am this morning and the internet was VERY laggy.
Let them get things sorted out and it'll become very responsive again.
Gears of War (360): Play with a local friend online 8 players. This game just rocks. Beats the socks off Halo 2 in my opinion. Local 2 player split screen coop really works due to HDTV resolutions, hoorah.
Bomberman 5 (SNES): The best bomberman game ever released. This is a japanese only cart, but converters are on the cheap. Or just take a rotary tool to your SNES to get the job done. 5 player carnage.. Try the "power level"
Poy Poy (PSX): For bomberman like fun without the grid levels and bombs check out Poy Poy. This game is HIGHLY underrated as a party game. VERY cool stuff.
Amplitude (PS2): Play up to 4 players on the same console of this great rhythm game, or go online and get your ass beat. Techno kind of sucks though. Which brings me to...
Guitar Hero (PS2): 2 players, 2 guitars... seriously this rocks
Karaoke Revolution (PS2): A true party game. Have friends over, drink, sing, laugh at each other. Good times... Support for duets makes the game all the more fun.
Cookies and Cream (PS2): 2 player cooperative platforming. It's actually pretty fun, solve puzzles to allow your ally to pass obstacles and vice versa.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade): 4 player mayhem at its best. Who doesn't remember playing this game in your local skate rink?
Gunbound (PC): A really great 3d Korean style online game. Think worms but with vehicles. Each vehicle has different weapons and weaknesses. Tons of maps available and customizable avatars. I can't tell you how much time my roommates and i wasted playing this on our laptops in the living room.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Arcade, 360): One of the best local fighting games in existance just got great online multiplayer support. Tons of characters and very solid flow.
About any 3d Sonic game (Everything): So these games (Sonic Adventure 2, etc) have kinda sucked... Yea... I hear you grumbling. But play time attack with your friends, trading off the controller for an insane amount of fun. Complete to get the fastest time, collaborate on shortcuts. Seriously, this is the reason Sonic exists..
Ah c'mon.. That's a little negative don't you think? For multiplayer games like Smash Brothers Brawl you don't even need the wii-mote. You can just use a gamecube controller. Think of the magnificent setup you could have with a full collection of next gen controllers and components. I mean those things are nice.