It's not unconceivable that you could set the nunchuck into a mode where left/right movements of the stick turn instead of sidestep. I know a lot of people who play Quake 3 (and suchlike) in tournaments and dominate servers with the railgun and NONE of them EVER use sidestep. One guy even set left and right mouse movements to turn instead of sidestep. Another only uses the keyboard, no mouselook at all.
Either way, locking-on isn't an essential feature of an FPS on the Wii, so much as a feature people remember from Metroid Prime (and Zelda where it originated on the platform..) and would probably feel out of place if it was left out. By that I mean if you played Prime or Echoes, you get used to the clumsy controls and lock on a LOT. If you move to Corruption it would be a huge learning curve to stop relying on locking on enemies - just like it's hard to unlearn how to walk or make a cup of tea.
The lock-on is useful and even part of the game dynamic when it comes to bosses who have special weak points (lock on to the glowy red bit and STRAFE AND JUMP LIKE FUCK!)
With the Wii controller in your hand and a bit of experience, and a good enough sensitivity setting, it is EASILY possible to do without the lock-on in Metroid at least.
Zelda, on the other hand, relies on it for things like targetting your boomerang and things at the little stumps. It would be a pain in the ass to accurately aim at a 3-pixel-wide stub halfway across the level, so it's always allowed you to lock. Again it's part of the game dynamic but you probably wouldn't want to do without it.
The MOST fun feature of Corruption is opening doors. You jab your controller at the door port, and Samus puts her arm in the hole. Then you turn the remote and pull. While I could see it pissing people off in the middle of a fight, trying to open the door ("painfully" jabbing at the hull of the spaceship or temple instead of the door hole in an attempt to align yourself), once you got a bit of practise you'd just do it naturally like opening a real door. I fear for real doors.. people may start punching holes in them instead of the handle.
If given the choice between being shot in the head by the Muhajadin, and giving out my mother's maiden name.. I choose loosing my mother's maiden name on the world every time.
Are you getting it yet?
You can't compare LOSS OF CREDIT RATING with BLOWN UP BY A ROADSIDE BOMB.
Newsflash: the rant in the news post is talking about the people in the line of fire.
And I am saying, you cannot equate "being blown up by an IED" and "being shot by Iraqi dissidents" with "can't get a car loan when I get back". You can fix credit. You can't fix a hole in your head the size of a football.
I think the service personnel are MUCH more worried about being blown up or shot, than "whoops my credit rating got a bit low". So much so that I don't think it really adds to their problems.
Yeah it's a shitter but you can't compare someone using your name to apply for a credit card or a car loan, with being KILLED.
DivX could get around it by offering it to Microsoft as a product on Live Marketplace, sure. For a play-only codec (how many would consider encoding on an XBox360?) which is free to every other PC owner on the planet, I dunno if many people would buy it.
That said with a Mac version, decent ATI graphics support (videosoap, pixelshader tricks etc. to improve quality) they have little work to do to do it. Maybe it could be a $5 download and everyone would be happy. I wonder how much development DivX would ACTUALLY have to do. Working for a PowerPC products company, I've talked to DivX about this kind of stuff, they're friendly but they know how much they are worth all too well..
Is DivX support really all it's cracked up to be? Why not just converge on standard MPEG4 or H.264 (which I believe the XBox360 plays just fine) and just encode USING DivX on a PC (or XviD) into a standard MPEG4/AAC container, like everyone is doing with the iPod now (just.. higher resolution, obviously)
I think the basic problem is not that XBox needs DivX, but the majority of movie/tv-prog encoder guys in the world are lazy and just run their capture files through Gordian Knot, a prebaked AviSynth script or some other point and click or premade, predetermined interface, and don't bother to think about where it might be played (the same would be said of those guys who ridiculously encode XviD with all the tweak experimental options turned on, in Matroska containers, with Ogg audio, using the obselete wrong-CLSID Ogg codec from 2 years ago...)
It would kind of dilute their marketing for Windows Media.
That, and DivX charges licensing fees for it. Every XBox would be "encumbered" with an extra fee payable to DivX Networks, Inc. - this is how the DivX DVD player industry works. I don't think MS want to pay for an MPEG4 codec when they have a pretty okay MPEG4 codec they can license to themselves for free (including the one specified for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD as a mandatory supported codec..)
By having a massive and hard to implement class library, Sun ensures that anyone else trying to create a compatible Java runtime will always be playing catch-up.
Yeah because being feature-rich is an outright intentional action in order to stop people implementing compatible Java runtimes and class libraries.
Wasn't there a day in the past when you got some software and thought "wow, it does everything I wanted it to", instead of "OMG this has too much relevant stuff. I wish I would have to code it myself. I bet they did this so that they can enforce their proprietary engines and technology!" or have you always been that paranoid?
It's the "Assassin edition" some way down the page. The backpack is THE best laptop bag I have ever had.. it has a little soft pocket with velcro strap for the laptop, and plenty of space for my scanner (Canon N650U) and graphics tablet also (Wacom Graphire 3), document pockets in back, straps, shoulder straps, top handle, in the front are 4 pockets which fit my IRIVER player, digital camera, mobile phone, all my chargers, a battery charger (Radioshack 2-AA), null modem cable, two mice (graphire and travel), lik-sang mousepad, ethernet cable, selection of pens (from sharpie to fineline to mechanical pencil), spare extended-life battery for the laptop (mmm 12h..) and my glasses cleaning kit (alcohol spray and microfiber cloth), condoms and a travel toothbrush:)
Yeah it's heavy with all that stuff in it, and a bitch to get on a plane, but it's so convenient.
I guess my question is, where did they get that backpack from, because I would recommend it in a heartbeat, if it didn't need you to buy a $500 graphics card to get it..
Well you know what happens in Star Wars; isn't that enough of an ending? 6 whole movies and an animated series to tie up the plot!
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I just had a thought. Nintendo could have had this name released at E3 with all their other stuff, but they didn't. We should probably suppose that
1) having Revolution plastered all over their booth and then changing the name mid-show would be a bit of a marketing idiocy/expensive gesture
2) it would completely overshadow EVERYTHING else they had to announce even though it is a fairly minor thing compared to real games, new controller quirks, playable systems
3) they know it sounds stupid, but they want you to get it out of your system before E3 so that you concentrate on the above (real games, new controller quirks)
This is smart. I like the name but I think it works as a logo, and as a product name, and a trademark, but it's just not something I am going to vocalise. I am going to pronounce it wrong.. Why Wi Way whatever. Or just say Nintendo like I always did for every other Nintendo console.
Negativity:
4) regarding 2, this could mean that besides Zelda and some spurious announcements and a playable system they have sweet FA to show at E3 besides officially confirming a lot of stuff we already read on rumor sites.
They secreted a mentioning the DVD attachment, I wonder if they will show it.. E3 should be the place where, now that we know the name, and we have gotten bored of how Zelda looks (and plays with the Wii controller maybe) we see exactly all the crap that is going to be launched this holiday season..
Oh! It just came to me. This console is gonna fucking ROLL off the shelves in Scotland. It's small, it's cute, it's Wii like a bairn:D
Is it just me? Am I the ONLY person who never said he was going to play "NES" or "SNES" or "Famicom" or "N64" or "Gamecube" or so?
I always said "I'm gonna chill out and play Nintendo". I'm gonna play some Nintendo DS. A lot of people worldwide are going to call it "the Nintendo". Forget the name. Nintendo don't need Playstation style branding like Sony does, because they don't have a billion products like Sony does.
Did you wonder what he meant by red buttons and 0870, or just the randomness of the
For those not following digital TV in Europe, there is a lot of interactivity these days, almost too much and most of it is DOG'd into the screen with a "press the red button now" - you press it and get to follow on with WWTBAM or Idol and so on using your remote control.
I'm fairly sure US digital TV is much the same but I haven't seen so much of this "HEY YOU INTERACT NOW!!!" hyped as it is in Europe.
The FS1 port was excellent! Exactly what kind of stuff should come from opensourcing games.
Quake 1 and Quake 2 implemented in the Quake 3 engine? They're all open source! But nobody has touched Quake 3 for some reason.. some pretty dire "games" have been released.. but thats really all.
I was under the understanding that Volition had released the source code for Freespace 2 *and* officially classed the original game CDs as abandonware already.
The ISO images (capable of being put through Alcohol 120% or so) are VERY readily available online with what looks like a real blessing. The FSOpen project is one of those better game-source-code efforts where some real, even impressive improvement was done to the game engine to bring it up to scratch..
3DCK was way way too complicated. I had a copy of it when it first came out for the Amiga, and didn't get very far; it was even worse than the SecondLife modeller (which is saying something) and only being able to walk around kind of boring virtual worlds, shooting a laser into the middle or so, was more than limited.
I don't think anyone made any decent games or even virtual worlds in it, that were ever available on public domain BBS or so.
You know you can't just pick up some tool and press 10 buttons to get a game; that's what beginners want to do. 3D Game Construction Kit doesn't exist because the dynamics of a 3D game are so HUGE.
Writing scripts in a game, as you say you can do, is possible only because someone wrote huge swathes of code behind it, including tying a scripting engine into hundreds or thousands of classes and objects.
If you got a "simple" tool, it would be too simple to give you the environment you are currently comfortable and competant in coding in. You need to get more complicated:)
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They probably play better than you do, Mr. Anonymous.
Oliver isn't misguided, he is a Java programmer. *AHEM*.
The laptop set alight?
Or it set the pretty silk tablecloth alight with it's heat, which then in turn burned the laptop?
Either way the damn thing was too hot, but I don't think laptops just burst into flame if you have them on a table.
It's not unconceivable that you could set the nunchuck into a mode where left/right movements of the stick turn instead of sidestep. I know a lot of people who play Quake 3 (and suchlike) in tournaments and dominate servers with the railgun and NONE of them EVER use sidestep. One guy even set left and right mouse movements to turn instead of sidestep. Another only uses the keyboard, no mouselook at all.
Either way, locking-on isn't an essential feature of an FPS on the Wii, so much as a feature people remember from Metroid Prime (and Zelda where it originated on the platform..) and would probably feel out of place if it was left out. By that I mean if you played Prime or Echoes, you get used to the clumsy controls and lock on a LOT. If you move to Corruption it would be a huge learning curve to stop relying on locking on enemies - just like it's hard to unlearn how to walk or make a cup of tea.
The lock-on is useful and even part of the game dynamic when it comes to bosses who have special weak points (lock on to the glowy red bit and STRAFE AND JUMP LIKE FUCK!)
With the Wii controller in your hand and a bit of experience, and a good enough sensitivity setting, it is EASILY possible to do without the lock-on in Metroid at least.
Zelda, on the other hand, relies on it for things like targetting your boomerang and things at the little stumps. It would be a pain in the ass to accurately aim at a 3-pixel-wide stub halfway across the level, so it's always allowed you to lock. Again it's part of the game dynamic but you probably wouldn't want to do without it.
The MOST fun feature of Corruption is opening doors. You jab your controller at the door port, and Samus puts her arm in the hole. Then you turn the remote and pull. While I could see it pissing people off in the middle of a fight, trying to open the door ("painfully" jabbing at the hull of the spaceship or temple instead of the door hole in an attempt to align yourself), once you got a bit of practise you'd just do it naturally like opening a real door. I fear for real doors.. people may start punching holes in them instead of the handle.
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Cons usually smell like guys who haven't been from their desk to the bathroom because they were too busy grinding.. uhh.. their levels. Yeah, levels.
I don't play Warcraft. I guess ditch the con? Keep these guys in their rooms and duct tape the door seal!
Well, it would be news if they got it to boot on a pre-BootCamp Intel Mac.
As it stands Apple beat everyone to the punch and there's no news in it at all now.
If given the choice between being shot in the head by the Muhajadin, and giving out my mother's maiden name.. I choose loosing my mother's maiden name on the world every time.
Are you getting it yet?
You can't compare LOSS OF CREDIT RATING with BLOWN UP BY A ROADSIDE BOMB.
Newsflash: the rant in the news post is talking about the people in the line of fire.
And I am saying, you cannot equate "being blown up by an IED" and "being shot by Iraqi dissidents" with "can't get a car loan when I get back". You can fix credit. You can't fix a hole in your head the size of a football.
re post rant: what do you mean "not only"?
I think the service personnel are MUCH more worried about being blown up or shot, than "whoops my credit rating got a bit low". So much so that I don't think it really adds to their problems.
Yeah it's a shitter but you can't compare someone using your name to apply for a credit card or a car loan, with being KILLED.
DivX could get around it by offering it to Microsoft as a product on Live Marketplace, sure. For a play-only codec (how many would consider encoding on an XBox360?) which is free to every other PC owner on the planet, I dunno if many people would buy it.
That said with a Mac version, decent ATI graphics support (videosoap, pixelshader tricks etc. to improve quality) they have little work to do to do it. Maybe it could be a $5 download and everyone would be happy. I wonder how much development DivX would ACTUALLY have to do. Working for a PowerPC products company, I've talked to DivX about this kind of stuff, they're friendly but they know how much they are worth all too well..
Is DivX support really all it's cracked up to be? Why not just converge on standard MPEG4 or H.264 (which I believe the XBox360 plays just fine) and just encode USING DivX on a PC (or XviD) into a standard MPEG4/AAC container, like everyone is doing with the iPod now (just.. higher resolution, obviously)
I think the basic problem is not that XBox needs DivX, but the majority of movie/tv-prog encoder guys in the world are lazy and just run their capture files through Gordian Knot, a prebaked AviSynth script or some other point and click or premade, predetermined interface, and don't bother to think about where it might be played (the same would be said of those guys who ridiculously encode XviD with all the tweak experimental options turned on, in Matroska containers, with Ogg audio, using the obselete wrong-CLSID Ogg codec from 2 years ago...)
It would kind of dilute their marketing for Windows Media.
That, and DivX charges licensing fees for it. Every XBox would be "encumbered" with an extra fee payable to DivX Networks, Inc. - this is how the DivX DVD player industry works. I don't think MS want to pay for an MPEG4 codec when they have a pretty okay MPEG4 codec they can license to themselves for free (including the one specified for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD as a mandatory supported codec..)
By having a massive and hard to implement class library, Sun ensures that anyone else trying to create a compatible Java runtime will always be playing catch-up.
Yeah because being feature-rich is an outright intentional action in order to stop people implementing compatible Java runtimes and class libraries.
Wasn't there a day in the past when you got some software and thought "wow, it does everything I wanted it to", instead of "OMG this has too much relevant stuff. I wish I would have to code it myself. I bet they did this so that they can enforce their proprietary engines and technology!" or have you always been that paranoid?
I got a Powercolor X800 PRO with the backpack;
:)
http://www.powercolor.com/main_product_dis.asp
It's the "Assassin edition" some way down the page. The backpack is THE best laptop bag I have ever had.. it has a little soft pocket with velcro strap for the laptop, and plenty of space for my scanner (Canon N650U) and graphics tablet also (Wacom Graphire 3), document pockets in back, straps, shoulder straps, top handle, in the front are 4 pockets which fit my IRIVER player, digital camera, mobile phone, all my chargers, a battery charger (Radioshack 2-AA), null modem cable, two mice (graphire and travel), lik-sang mousepad, ethernet cable, selection of pens (from sharpie to fineline to mechanical pencil), spare extended-life battery for the laptop (mmm 12h..) and my glasses cleaning kit (alcohol spray and microfiber cloth), condoms and a travel toothbrush
Yeah it's heavy with all that stuff in it, and a bitch to get on a plane, but it's so convenient.
I guess my question is, where did they get that backpack from, because I would recommend it in a heartbeat, if it didn't need you to buy a $500 graphics card to get it..
http://www.ppczone.org/news.php?id=271
Sun already started the work on it! Plug plug, they used our hardware to do it. No graphics yet but it's a start.
Well you know what happens in Star Wars; isn't that enough of an ending? 6 whole movies and an animated series to tie up the plot!
I just had a thought. Nintendo could have had this name released at E3 with all their other stuff, but they didn't. We should probably suppose that
:D
1) having Revolution plastered all over their booth and then changing the name mid-show would be a bit of a marketing idiocy/expensive gesture
2) it would completely overshadow EVERYTHING else they had to announce even though it is a fairly minor thing compared to real games, new controller quirks, playable systems
3) they know it sounds stupid, but they want you to get it out of your system before E3 so that you concentrate on the above (real games, new controller quirks)
This is smart. I like the name but I think it works as a logo, and as a product name, and a trademark, but it's just not something I am going to vocalise. I am going to pronounce it wrong.. Why Wi Way whatever. Or just say Nintendo like I always did for every other Nintendo console.
Negativity:
4) regarding 2, this could mean that besides Zelda and some spurious announcements and a playable system they have sweet FA to show at E3 besides officially confirming a lot of stuff we already read on rumor sites.
They secreted a mentioning the DVD attachment, I wonder if they will show it.. E3 should be the place where, now that we know the name, and we have gotten bored of how Zelda looks (and plays with the Wii controller maybe) we see exactly all the crap that is going to be launched this holiday season..
Oh! It just came to me. This console is gonna fucking ROLL off the shelves in Scotland. It's small, it's cute, it's Wii like a bairn
Is it just me? Am I the ONLY person who never said he was going to play "NES" or "SNES" or "Famicom" or "N64" or "Gamecube" or so?
I always said "I'm gonna chill out and play Nintendo". I'm gonna play some Nintendo DS. A lot of people worldwide are going to call it "the Nintendo". Forget the name. Nintendo don't need Playstation style branding like Sony does, because they don't have a billion products like Sony does.
Did you wonder what he meant by red buttons and 0870, or just the randomness of the
:)
For those not following digital TV in Europe, there is a lot of interactivity these days, almost too much and most of it is DOG'd into the screen with a "press the red button now" - you press it and get to follow on with WWTBAM or Idol and so on using your remote control.
I'm fairly sure US digital TV is much the same but I haven't seen so much of this "HEY YOU INTERACT NOW!!!" hyped as it is in Europe.
0870 is a premium rate phone line in the UK
The FS1 port was excellent! Exactly what kind of stuff should come from opensourcing games.
Quake 1 and Quake 2 implemented in the Quake 3 engine? They're all open source! But nobody has touched Quake 3 for some reason.. some pretty dire "games" have been released.. but thats really all.
I was under the understanding that Volition had released the source code for Freespace 2 *and* officially classed the original game CDs as abandonware already.
The ISO images (capable of being put through Alcohol 120% or so) are VERY readily available online with what looks like a real blessing. The FSOpen project is one of those better game-source-code efforts where some real, even impressive improvement was done to the game engine to bring it up to scratch..
We produce an Open Firmware solution which includes an x86 emulator to bootstrap x86 hardware, specifically graphics cards and the like.
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PowerPC boards, PC graphics chips with x86 BIOS, no driver edits required on the OS side.. it is there like it would be on a PC.
http://metadistribution.org/blog/Blog/78A3C88E-1C
http://www.genesippc.com/
It's NOT besides the point. It *IS* the point.
3DCK was way way too complicated. I had a copy of it when it first came out for the Amiga, and didn't get very far; it was even worse than the SecondLife modeller (which is saying something) and only being able to walk around kind of boring virtual worlds, shooting a laser into the middle or so, was more than limited.
I don't think anyone made any decent games or even virtual worlds in it, that were ever available on public domain BBS or so.
You know you can't just pick up some tool and press 10 buttons to get a game; that's what beginners want to do. 3D Game Construction Kit doesn't exist because the dynamics of a 3D game are so HUGE.
:)
Writing scripts in a game, as you say you can do, is possible only because someone wrote huge swathes of code behind it, including tying a scripting engine into hundreds or thousands of classes and objects.
If you got a "simple" tool, it would be too simple to give you the environment you are currently comfortable and competant in coding in. You need to get more complicated
Nostalgia.
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And also great ratings.
Isn't it Bryan Singer that young men appeal to, and not the other way around? :)