You know.. I probably should take offense to that, but that's what my short little fingers look like. Ha.
And the main problem I have is the inch of finger space, combined with the curved edges. I would imagine, with the curve that I see in the image, it would be hard to hold, and get my thumbs on the buttons without dropping the thing. The buttons are so close to the edge that my thumbs would be cramped up in no time.
Am I the only one appalled by the design of this thing? It looks real slick, don't get me wrong, but hear me out.
It has a 4.5" screen, with like 1" on each side of the screen for buttons. I have small hands and I imagine that would be a tight fit for me. Unless their target audience is Japan only, they've got some redesigning to do. And on that 1" of buttons, it's curved down to make it look less like an original NES control, which I would imagine would make it harder to use. But if they added an extra.5"-1" on each side for the buttons, we'd be up to 7.5" - 8.5" for the entire unit, which is too big to fit in most people's pockets.
I'm looking forward to it, but hopefully it'll go through some better designs before we get the first prototype build.
That game has some of the best video game voice acting, period. I agree with you completely, especially with the main bad guy going over the top. But I think that adds a little to the appeal of him. He was the over the top, crazy, demon guy [whose name evades me].
Computer Games -- FPS Deus Ex - wasn't this a first-person RPG, not a shooter? Never played it, but I was under that impression.
Online Games The Sims Online - the only reason I would play this is if I wanted to know what a bad online model is. Talk about a glorified chat room.
Uncategorized Gripes Where's GTA2? The best (in my opinion) in the GTA series. Merged decent graphics with the open gameplay, without getting so repetitive as GTA3. FF7 and FF10 are on the list, but where is FF6? That is, hands down, the BEST FF game ever. And I don't think many argue with that point. The best story, the best gameplay, and obviously not the best graphics. But still the best. Plus FF10 was waaaay too easy. All it had was pretty graphics and a decent, not great, story. Halo is not such a great game. So, Nintendo titles will teach you nothing of game appreciation? Pikmin, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, and more deserve to be in the Console Games -- Current list.
Actually, Super Mario World was the first (and maybe only... not sure) on Super Nintendo. So I guess we're considering 2 generations behind old school now. *sigh* indeed.
I was playing that game probably less than 10 years ago. I wouldn't quite consider that old school just because the technology made such a large leap.
That.. and the fact that technology is getting better all the time. So now we have digital output, and for the people with higher end sound cards in their system, likely digital input. So now we have a digital-digital copy through lines. It's not as fast, but it still works.
Mighty Bomb Jack was hard as hell! I think I may have beat it, though. I seem to remember it... althought I may be wrong.. it was a long time ago. Fun game:)
More hard games: Solomon's Key - the final level was near impossible if you took the wrong path getting there. Great puzzle game though. Milon's Secret Castle - just hard in general. SNES - Joe & Mac - I think it was intentionally made impossible to beat without a GG. I know I couldn't do it. Then the ending sucked, making it that much more worthless.
Yes. That is a possibility. But when faced with something contraversial, the offended people tend to look at the statement that offends them, as opposed to the peaceful statement.
Or maybe they were referring to the publishing house, Midway, and their crappy load of games.
Any person who reads about videogame sales will know that console sales will be down. Sony has finally started selling less PS2 consoles since their debut. That number will only get smaller and smaller. And since the PS2 is the largest selling of the consoles, sales will be down. But that's not to say that the people who already have PS2s aren't saving money for an Xbox or a Gamecube.
Good point. When I was in high school (4 years ago), girls had no problems with shouting out the answer. If a guy did it, he'd be considered a nerd or a suckup, no matter if you're in an honors class (which I was) or not. Every group still has their different amounts of cool quotient.
Not to mention that it's not for teenage girls. In the "about" page, it says it's for preteen girls from 6th to 8th grade. I'd suppose you can include maybe 13 and 14 year olds in there.. but the description clearly says 'preteen.'
Let's discuss the Mario Bros. movie. Bob Hoskins was too tall. Luigi was the skinnier, taller one. Which leads me to my next point... John Leguizamo as Luigi? Sure, he's skinnier than Mario, but he's still chubby. And how tall is John Leguizamo? Much shorter than Bob Hoskins, as I remember (and I try to forget everything I can about that movie, believe me). And the goombas are huge henchmen with little heads? Don't get me started..
The thing is, though, that the development team isn't taking ANY time at all to port it to Linux (and Mac.. not sure if the Mac version 1.9 is out yet). Just one person (icculus) does the porting, and whether he's being paid or not, it still beats the hell out of paying a whole team of developers to make it. If one person can put this damn fine game out to a few thousand more people, it's well worth the price they're paying him.
Tenchu had the best bad acting ever. I played the levels over and over again and didn't mind that I couldn't skip through the cut scenes because they were so entertaining.
"He. He. He. What is THIS Bi-Zen-YA? There is more HERE than UUUSUUUUAL?"
And speaking of hitting the spacebar, there's nothing more hilarious to a 14 year old (how old I was when I was playing Duke3D) than pressing the spacebar to hear the toilet flush. That also added another half-hour of pressing the spacebar.
Does anybody remember Gorilla? I think it was a rip off of some tank war game, but it was fun. Gorilla's standing on opposite sides of a cityscape, throwing explosive banana's at each other, all the while teaching you about physics and the real world.
Okay... maybe crazy, explosive-banana throwing gorillas don't exist in the real world.... yet.
Besides the mess with the oversized controller, if you drop the anti-Microsoft fanboy ravings - Xbox is a *better* product than the other two were offering.
I don't quite believe that it's a better product than PS2 or GCN.
First of all, what are the Xbox's exclusive, must-have games? Halo, KOTOR, Halo 2 (soon). That's all I can really think of now. There's probably more. Halo and KOTOR will be on PC soon enough, and Halo 2 will most likely be eventually. I found all of the flagship Nintendo titles extremely fun so far, and there have been plenty. Not to mention exclusive non-flagships, like Eternal Darkness.
Then you say there's Xbox-Live. While I agree that it's a good service, the voice comm takes away from the product, because there are always people who don't know how to act in public, and this should be considered public. A good community has people acting like civilized people. PC games have a much better community. Granted, it is not without people acting like idiots, but it is still much more developed. And Live is also missing out on the great EA (and I think Sega, although I'm probably wrong because they have PSO) games, such as Madden and NCAA Football, and the other sports games.
This is the way I've seen it for a while. GCN has the most must-have games (in my eyes) and the quality of the games is stunning. The PS2 has a large library of games, with a few must-haves in there, but the quality of most of them is missing. Their online strategy is also helped from EA who is running their own servers for their EA Sports games. Xbox has the least amount of must-have games, and their online library is nothing to be compared to the PC. And since I'm a large PC gamer, Xbox is insignificant to me. But that's only my opinion.
I don't have figures, but I believe Microsoft was losing $200 on each Xbox it sold at launch.. when the price was $300 (or more?). Now that the prices have gone down to $200, I'd assume they're now losing $300 on each Xbox, correct?
First of all, I think Nintendo will always have somewhere, because they'll always have quite a bit of die-hard fans (like me). I'll play other systems, but I own the most games for GCN, simply because they're the highest quality games I see on the market. GTA3 was fun.. but how many times did it crash because it couldn't load enough textures because of the speed I was moving? Way too many. GTA:VC was just like GTA3... lacked innovation. But I digress. I think Nintendo will never completely die, they'll always have a market for the die-hard fans, just like Apple has for their Macs.
Second of all, Nintendo has somewhere near $6 billion in the bank. It's gonna take quite a bit of screwups for them to go under. Add to that the profit they make on GBA, and that $6 billion can keep on funding other projects.
That's a good point. The people you are referring to act like its a privilege to play a MMORPG and you must abide by the RPG rules to play them. Sure, they'd be much happier that everyone would be playing them like RPGs, but how long would that happiness last before Sony (or whoever else is running the servers) decides that there aren't enough people playing the game and decide to cancel the service, as was recently (or will recently be) done with Motor City Online.
The role-players should realize that without all of the '1337' action-gamers, the producers of the game would not see it as a profitable endeavor.
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I think you're getting AA confused with CS. Well... the Bowie knife part at least. They still have people that run in circles and fire at foliage.
You know.. I probably should take offense to that, but that's what my short little fingers look like. Ha.
And the main problem I have is the inch of finger space, combined with the curved edges. I would imagine, with the curve that I see in the image, it would be hard to hold, and get my thumbs on the buttons without dropping the thing. The buttons are so close to the edge that my thumbs would be cramped up in no time.
Am I the only one appalled by the design of this thing? It looks real slick, don't get me wrong, but hear me out.
.5"-1" on each side for the buttons, we'd be up to 7.5" - 8.5" for the entire unit, which is too big to fit in most people's pockets.
It has a 4.5" screen, with like 1" on each side of the screen for buttons. I have small hands and I imagine that would be a tight fit for me. Unless their target audience is Japan only, they've got some redesigning to do. And on that 1" of buttons, it's curved down to make it look less like an original NES control, which I would imagine would make it harder to use. But if they added an extra
I'm looking forward to it, but hopefully it'll go through some better designs before we get the first prototype build.
Don't worry until next year's holiday. It's not supposed to come out until late 2004.
That game has some of the best video game voice acting, period. I agree with you completely, especially with the main bad guy going over the top. But I think that adds a little to the appeal of him. He was the over the top, crazy, demon guy [whose name evades me].
Computer Games -- FPS
Deus Ex - wasn't this a first-person RPG, not a shooter? Never played it, but I was under that impression.
Online Games
The Sims Online - the only reason I would play this is if I wanted to know what a bad online model is. Talk about a glorified chat room.
Uncategorized Gripes
Where's GTA2? The best (in my opinion) in the GTA series. Merged decent graphics with the open gameplay, without getting so repetitive as GTA3.
FF7 and FF10 are on the list, but where is FF6? That is, hands down, the BEST FF game ever. And I don't think many argue with that point. The best story, the best gameplay, and obviously not the best graphics. But still the best. Plus FF10 was waaaay too easy. All it had was pretty graphics and a decent, not great, story.
Halo is not such a great game.
So, Nintendo titles will teach you nothing of game appreciation? Pikmin, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, and more deserve to be in the Console Games -- Current list.
Actually, Super Mario World was the first (and maybe only... not sure) on Super Nintendo. So I guess we're considering 2 generations behind old school now. *sigh* indeed.
I was playing that game probably less than 10 years ago. I wouldn't quite consider that old school just because the technology made such a large leap.
The ball from Breakout was much more of a badass. He took on armies of bricks at a time, and he took them out with ease!
Sony probably didn't post a prototype because they didn't feel threatened by it at all.
Some people say Sony doesn't really know gaming... but they sure know it a whole hell of a lot better than Nokia does.
That.. and the fact that technology is getting better all the time. So now we have digital output, and for the people with higher end sound cards in their system, likely digital input. So now we have a digital-digital copy through lines. It's not as fast, but it still works.
Mighty Bomb Jack was hard as hell! I think I may have beat it, though. I seem to remember it... althought I may be wrong.. it was a long time ago. Fun game :)
More hard games:
Solomon's Key - the final level was near impossible if you took the wrong path getting there. Great puzzle game though.
Milon's Secret Castle - just hard in general.
SNES - Joe & Mac - I think it was intentionally made impossible to beat without a GG. I know I couldn't do it. Then the ending sucked, making it that much more worthless.
Yes. That is a possibility. But when faced with something contraversial, the offended people tend to look at the statement that offends them, as opposed to the peaceful statement.
Or maybe they were referring to the publishing house, Midway, and their crappy load of games.
Any person who reads about videogame sales will know that console sales will be down. Sony has finally started selling less PS2 consoles since their debut. That number will only get smaller and smaller. And since the PS2 is the largest selling of the consoles, sales will be down. But that's not to say that the people who already have PS2s aren't saving money for an Xbox or a Gamecube.
Good point. When I was in high school (4 years ago), girls had no problems with shouting out the answer. If a guy did it, he'd be considered a nerd or a suckup, no matter if you're in an honors class (which I was) or not. Every group still has their different amounts of cool quotient.
Not to mention that it's not for teenage girls. In the "about" page, it says it's for preteen girls from 6th to 8th grade. I'd suppose you can include maybe 13 and 14 year olds in there.. but the description clearly says 'preteen.'
Let's discuss the Mario Bros. movie. Bob Hoskins was too tall. Luigi was the skinnier, taller one. Which leads me to my next point... John Leguizamo as Luigi? Sure, he's skinnier than Mario, but he's still chubby. And how tall is John Leguizamo? Much shorter than Bob Hoskins, as I remember (and I try to forget everything I can about that movie, believe me). And the goombas are huge henchmen with little heads? Don't get me started..
The thing is, though, that the development team isn't taking ANY time at all to port it to Linux (and Mac.. not sure if the Mac version 1.9 is out yet). Just one person (icculus) does the porting, and whether he's being paid or not, it still beats the hell out of paying a whole team of developers to make it. If one person can put this damn fine game out to a few thousand more people, it's well worth the price they're paying him.
Tenchu had the best bad acting ever. I played the levels over and over again and didn't mind that I couldn't skip through the cut scenes because they were so entertaining.
"He. He. He. What is THIS Bi-Zen-YA? There is more HERE than UUUSUUUUAL?"
"We.. Could.. Not.. Do bus-i-ness without you"
No. You're definitely not the only one.
And speaking of hitting the spacebar, there's nothing more hilarious to a 14 year old (how old I was when I was playing Duke3D) than pressing the spacebar to hear the toilet flush. That also added another half-hour of pressing the spacebar.
Does anybody remember Gorilla? I think it was a rip off of some tank war game, but it was fun. Gorilla's standing on opposite sides of a cityscape, throwing explosive banana's at each other, all the while teaching you about physics and the real world.
Okay... maybe crazy, explosive-banana throwing gorillas don't exist in the real world.... yet.
Besides the mess with the oversized controller, if you drop the anti-Microsoft fanboy ravings - Xbox is a *better* product than the other two were offering.
I don't quite believe that it's a better product than PS2 or GCN.
First of all, what are the Xbox's exclusive, must-have games? Halo, KOTOR, Halo 2 (soon). That's all I can really think of now. There's probably more. Halo and KOTOR will be on PC soon enough, and Halo 2 will most likely be eventually. I found all of the flagship Nintendo titles extremely fun so far, and there have been plenty. Not to mention exclusive non-flagships, like Eternal Darkness.
Then you say there's Xbox-Live. While I agree that it's a good service, the voice comm takes away from the product, because there are always people who don't know how to act in public, and this should be considered public. A good community has people acting like civilized people. PC games have a much better community. Granted, it is not without people acting like idiots, but it is still much more developed. And Live is also missing out on the great EA (and I think Sega, although I'm probably wrong because they have PSO) games, such as Madden and NCAA Football, and the other sports games.
This is the way I've seen it for a while. GCN has the most must-have games (in my eyes) and the quality of the games is stunning. The PS2 has a large library of games, with a few must-haves in there, but the quality of most of them is missing. Their online strategy is also helped from EA who is running their own servers for their EA Sports games. Xbox has the least amount of must-have games, and their online library is nothing to be compared to the PC. And since I'm a large PC gamer, Xbox is insignificant to me. But that's only my opinion.
I don't have figures, but I believe Microsoft was losing $200 on each Xbox it sold at launch.. when the price was $300 (or more?). Now that the prices have gone down to $200, I'd assume they're now losing $300 on each Xbox, correct?
First of all, I think Nintendo will always have somewhere, because they'll always have quite a bit of die-hard fans (like me). I'll play other systems, but I own the most games for GCN, simply because they're the highest quality games I see on the market. GTA3 was fun.. but how many times did it crash because it couldn't load enough textures because of the speed I was moving? Way too many. GTA:VC was just like GTA3... lacked innovation. But I digress. I think Nintendo will never completely die, they'll always have a market for the die-hard fans, just like Apple has for their Macs.
Second of all, Nintendo has somewhere near $6 billion in the bank. It's gonna take quite a bit of screwups for them to go under. Add to that the profit they make on GBA, and that $6 billion can keep on funding other projects.
That's a good point. The people you are referring to act like its a privilege to play a MMORPG and you must abide by the RPG rules to play them. Sure, they'd be much happier that everyone would be playing them like RPGs, but how long would that happiness last before Sony (or whoever else is running the servers) decides that there aren't enough people playing the game and decide to cancel the service, as was recently (or will recently be) done with Motor City Online.
The role-players should realize that without all of the '1337' action-gamers, the producers of the game would not see it as a profitable endeavor.
I have complete faith in this bill being passed. You know... because it hasn't been made into a crime when it was tried before.