No this isn't a rip on the Wii, but after you have played through Zelda and your friends have come over for a few gaming sessions the Wii quickly loses its appeal.
It's been not quite three weeks. You've finished Zelda? Bloody hell. Do you even sleep? I just finished playing through Ocarina, and THAT took three weeks, with me knowing pretty well where everything in the game was from the outset. By all accounts Twilight Princess is substantially bigger.
The bad: Controller eats batteries. Lacks the advanced HD graphics and surround sound found on the Xbox 360 and the PS3. The uggly: It's lights years behind 360 and PS3 in multimedia features and graphics.
Is it just me, or did you say 'inferior graphics and sound' twice?
Re:The rest of the launch lineup can go to hell...
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On which topic, I'm still undecided on what the third game I'll buy should be.
Zelda, obviously. And Wii Play, because of Duck Hunt, and the extra wiimote. But the third? I was thinking Super Monkey Ball, but I'm getting more and more tempted by Rayman, chiefly because of the cow-flinging, and the well-known fact that bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes...
So, guys? Monkey Ball or Rayman? It's now 7.15 on Wednesday evening and I buy just after midnight on Friday morning. Which one shall it be?
The rest of the launch lineup can go to hell...
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the Wii's best resolution is 480p. It's thankfully simple, but you get a sixth of the pixels on screen as you do with a full HDTV with a PS3."
One sixth of 1080 is 180.
And while we're at it, I was once told that a 28" screen was four times the size of a 14" screen, and eight times the volume and weight! Rubbish, of course, it's twice the size and don't let anyone tell you differently!
Ah yes, the retarded "he were TEH PEEDFOFILES!" argument. In case anyone needs reminding, it was long ago in a different society
This would be an excellent defence of Mohammed, if not for the fact that the world contains an awful lot of people who seem rather keen on imposing Mohammed's rules today in our society.
There were some people who never believed from the start that Iraq had and WMDs, but they were ignoring a LOT of evidence
No, they were ignoring very little evidence of any kind. We were told Iraq had WMDs, and asked to take our leaders' word for it. Foolishly enough I did just that. What evidence was presented was feeble, faked or plagiarised, but you know, a lot of this stuff is secret, and all that...
Today, if Tony Blair claimed the sky was blue I'd immediately go to a window to check.
... that said "Big Bang Theory: God spoke and BANG it happened."
This is part of what really puzzles me about the six-day breed of creationist. I mean, seriously... They think the universe began when God said 'let there be light'. We now find that the story of creation is written all over the sky in the cosmic microwave background, the redshifted photons of the original glow of creation still visible today. What more do they want? 'Let there be light'? Light meters out the metric of space, it binds spacetime together, it's the whole damn secret of relativity itself. The universe was created in a blaze of light and the physics of its grand scale are all founded upon light. Surely these people should be downright ecstatic?
theres a new zelda shipping in july?! shit i better finish TP!!!:D
Phantom Hourglass, DS. March or April, I think, but after all this delay I'd be entirely unsurprised if it was July.
I'm on a bit of a tight schedule with these things. I've been replaying Ocarina lately, and I've got a week in which to finish that, because something tells me I'm going to stop dead come the 8th of December. Then Twilight Princess commences at last. After that, I'll pick up a copy of Wind Waker and the bonus disc that had Majora's Mask and Ocarina Ultra-Hard Master Quest Edition on it. Never did quite finish Majora, there were one or two masks I never could find.
Oh, and it occurs to me that I've got a Minish Cap savegame _just_ before the final boss, which I need to get around to killing. And I've got roms of both the Oracle games which I really need to actually finish one of these days.
So, yeah. If Nintendo want to delay Phantom Hourglass, they're welcome to do so. I've got a hell of a lot of catching up to do as it is:-)
I have heard it said that when God cast out Satan from heaven that his impact on the earth is the same meteoric impact that scientists believe wiped out the dinosaurs.
Now, I know most people didn't much like Adric, but really - he wasn't Satan!
"You start off attacking a mostly unarmed Empire village. You kill everyone there (some pitifully try to defend themselves). Then you mutilate the bodies. Then you load the mutilated body parts into a cannon. Finally, you fire the cannon into a nearby Empire fort that is under siege to demoralize them."
Oh hell yeah. Proper. Evil. Content. I haven't felt this good since I set Zaalbar on Mission.
you'll be given the chance to push deeper and deeper into enemy territory until you finally reach THEIR capital, at which point you'll lay siege to it and - if successful - do things that... well, Slashdot is a FAMILY FRIENDLY place, so let's just say that you'll do terrible, terrible things to the huddled, whimpering survivors of the siege.
You don't think that the media might respond somewhat critically to the idea of an MMO that makes the opportunity for war-rape one of its attractive features, do you? Naww....
Who mentioned rape? Personally, I was thinking more of taking the survivors and flaying them alive, and pouring out their blood for the glory of Khorne. And taking their children away into slavery, to grow up as corrupted and mutated abominations of Chaos. Rape is just too mundane.
(Name 10 games from the last 25 years where you actually *had* to pay close attention to the story to get to the end. When you're done, try naming 50 just from the past 6 years and you'll see my point.)
I've dropped Red Steel from my list to buy on release day. Apparently it's pretty bad. Buggy, and poorly implemented. Good ideas badly carried out.
I'll be getting Zelda for sure, and maybe Wii Play and Excitetruck. Really, though, it's quite unlikely I'll be buying many games for a while. From what I hear, Twilight Princess is absolutely colossal, so I'm expecting to finish playing that some time around March. Which is when Phantom Hourglass comes out on the DS:-)
Money is an awfully effective invention for distributing wealth, which is why the Star-Trek "utopia" where nobody needs money is not going to happen anytime soon.
The communist ideal of Star Trek, as I see it, is possible only because of the replicator.
Consider what happens when it is possible, given an example of a given product, to duplicate it en mass at near-zero cost. Suddenly nearly everything's free. Manufacturing costs nothing, so it's all in the pattern that tells the replicator what to build. This makes it difficult for the capitalists to retain control. They can attempt to retain monopolies on their own replicator patterns, but once the workers, owning their own replicators, begin designing their own replicator patterns, and sharing them amongst themselves and building on each other's work, then the capitalists could end up totally sidelined, made irrelevant by a proliferation of free replicator patterns, put to use to create free products. Would the workers' collective creations be as good as the capitalists' refined and expensive designs? Probably not in every case, but they'd be good enough, and it's hard as all hell to compete with free.
This is happening in one segment of the market right now, and the capitalists there are getting desperate: look at Trusted Computing and the idea of Software Patents, as the bosses try desperately to wrest back control of the means of production. Sadly it can't go all the way; the workers distributing their free software still need to eat! But if we could duplicate material goods as easily as we duplicate software, we could GPL the entire economy and let the workers' socialist revolution really get going.
Scary enough, the proof for 1+1=2 is a two-page proof.
And so it should surely be! What better way to write out a mathematical proof dealing with the nature of twoness and its relation to a one and another one, than by doing it one one piece of paper, and another piece of paper, together forming two pieces of paper?
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It's been not quite three weeks. You've finished Zelda? Bloody hell. Do you even sleep? I just finished playing through Ocarina, and THAT took three weeks, with me knowing pretty well where everything in the game was from the outset. By all accounts Twilight Princess is substantially bigger.
Is it just me, or did you say 'inferior graphics and sound' twice?
Zelda, obviously. And Wii Play, because of Duck Hunt, and the extra wiimote. But the third? I was thinking Super Monkey Ball, but I'm getting more and more tempted by Rayman, chiefly because of the cow-flinging, and the well-known fact that bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes...
So, guys? Monkey Ball or Rayman? It's now 7.15 on Wednesday evening and I buy just after midnight on Friday morning. Which one shall it be?
But it contains Twilight Princess. Sold.
(29 hours to go...)
One sixth of 1080 is 180.
And while we're at it, I was once told that a 28" screen was four times the size of a 14" screen, and eight times the volume and weight! Rubbish, of course, it's twice the size and don't let anyone tell you differently!
'How shall we decorate the walls in the Department of Philosophy and Theology?' would seem to qualify.
Mind telling us why?
You mean, a bunch of gay transvestites on acid?
This would be an excellent defence of Mohammed, if not for the fact that the world contains an awful lot of people who seem rather keen on imposing Mohammed's rules today in our society.
No, they were ignoring very little evidence of any kind. We were told Iraq had WMDs, and asked to take our leaders' word for it. Foolishly enough I did just that. What evidence was presented was feeble, faked or plagiarised, but you know, a lot of this stuff is secret, and all that...
Today, if Tony Blair claimed the sky was blue I'd immediately go to a window to check.
This is part of what really puzzles me about the six-day breed of creationist. I mean, seriously... They think the universe began when God said 'let there be light'. We now find that the story of creation is written all over the sky in the cosmic microwave background, the redshifted photons of the original glow of creation still visible today. What more do they want? 'Let there be light'? Light meters out the metric of space, it binds spacetime together, it's the whole damn secret of relativity itself. The universe was created in a blaze of light and the physics of its grand scale are all founded upon light. Surely these people should be downright ecstatic?
Phantom Hourglass, DS. March or April, I think, but after all this delay I'd be entirely unsurprised if it was July.
I'm on a bit of a tight schedule with these things. I've been replaying Ocarina lately, and I've got a week in which to finish that, because something tells me I'm going to stop dead come the 8th of December. Then Twilight Princess commences at last. After that, I'll pick up a copy of Wind Waker and the bonus disc that had Majora's Mask and Ocarina Ultra-Hard Master Quest Edition on it. Never did quite finish Majora, there were one or two masks I never could find.
Oh, and it occurs to me that I've got a Minish Cap savegame _just_ before the final boss, which I need to get around to killing. And I've got roms of both the Oracle games which I really need to actually finish one of these days.
So, yeah. If Nintendo want to delay Phantom Hourglass, they're welcome to do so. I've got a hell of a lot of catching up to do as it is :-)
Now, I know most people didn't much like Adric, but really - he wasn't Satan!
If you come into my house and take away my CDs, I no longer have those CDs. You have stolen music.
If you connect to my computer and copy my MP3s, I still have those MP3s. You have infringed copyright.
There are plenty of things in this world which are illegal but which are not theft. Copyright infringement is one of them.
Better even than Super Mario World?
Oh hell yeah. Proper. Evil. Content. I haven't felt this good since I set Zaalbar on Mission.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
You don't think that the media might respond somewhat critically to the idea of an MMO that makes the opportunity for war-rape one of its attractive features, do you? Naww....
Who mentioned rape? Personally, I was thinking more of taking the survivors and flaying them alive, and pouring out their blood for the glory of Khorne. And taking their children away into slavery, to grow up as corrupted and mutated abominations of Chaos. Rape is just too mundane.
1) Planescape: Torment
2) Er.
3) That's it.
I'll be getting Zelda for sure, and maybe Wii Play and Excitetruck. Really, though, it's quite unlikely I'll be buying many games for a while. From what I hear, Twilight Princess is absolutely colossal, so I'm expecting to finish playing that some time around March. Which is when Phantom Hourglass comes out on the DS :-)
You could make a dance game with extra detail, maybe. Two wiimotes, one in each hand, and a dance mat connected as a standard controller.
Come to think of it, that wouldn't only work for dance games. How about a fighting game? Wii Boxing with fancy footwork...
The communist ideal of Star Trek, as I see it, is possible only because of the replicator.
Consider what happens when it is possible, given an example of a given product, to duplicate it en mass at near-zero cost. Suddenly nearly everything's free. Manufacturing costs nothing, so it's all in the pattern that tells the replicator what to build. This makes it difficult for the capitalists to retain control. They can attempt to retain monopolies on their own replicator patterns, but once the workers, owning their own replicators, begin designing their own replicator patterns, and sharing them amongst themselves and building on each other's work, then the capitalists could end up totally sidelined, made irrelevant by a proliferation of free replicator patterns, put to use to create free products. Would the workers' collective creations be as good as the capitalists' refined and expensive designs? Probably not in every case, but they'd be good enough, and it's hard as all hell to compete with free.
This is happening in one segment of the market right now, and the capitalists there are getting desperate: look at Trusted Computing and the idea of Software Patents, as the bosses try desperately to wrest back control of the means of production. Sadly it can't go all the way; the workers distributing their free software still need to eat! But if we could duplicate material goods as easily as we duplicate software, we could GPL the entire economy and let the workers' socialist revolution really get going.
And so it should surely be! What better way to write out a mathematical proof dealing with the nature of twoness and its relation to a one and another one, than by doing it one one piece of paper, and another piece of paper, together forming two pieces of paper?
"When you walk through the storm, ..."
Hold your head up high,
And don't be afraid of the dark
Well, I suppose the Titanic was registered in Liverpool...
I cannot believe I'm about to do this, but...
That wasn't the Roadrunner. It was Bugs Bunny.
Dude, we should have been stockpiling Caravans throughout the 1990s for just this eventuality.