You can't really include everyone, though. It's such a small market for these types of adaptations, admittedly, that spending extra time on them can end up detracting from the overall gaming experience if done wrong, and I'm sure most game companies don't want to risk something such as this for a vast minority of the market.
I'm not saying that there isn't a good reason for doing this, it's just that most games don't really lend themselves to being adapted for everyone.
"You can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time."...I forget who said it offhand, but this is really the applicable quote here.
Many, perhaps most, things on PC should be reasonably playable with the Microsoft Strategic Commander, as it has three analogue axes and a myriad of buttons. Flight sticks offer much the same.
However, to people like me, who don't want to spend 20 minutes configuring 20 buttons to the optimum settings... those controllers are just plain scary.
I actually have a picture of the SNES one sitting back in one of my old issues of Nintendo Power... it never got released here, but it was basically the same thing. There were little switches that I think you could use to turn buttons on and off, and everything appeared to be as jammed in as possible. It wasn't all that great-looking of a controller.
But Nintendo has enough market savvy to know they can't do that. The computer and video game industries are two separate beings. Nintendo constantly has to innovate, and they really have. They've just innovated in all the wrong places.
So, because XBox got lucky with one really awesome game (which I don't think is all that great), and has a great online service, it's going to do well? I don't think that XBox has anything to sell itself with. Halo will only be popular as long as it remains as innovative as the first game. XBox Live seems to be the only rocksteady portion of the package.
I read somewhere that when 3D0 was in their bankrupt state with their console, their numbers were better than X-Box's current situation.
3D0 didn't have nearly as much money as either Microsoft or Nintendo. Nintendo has the GBA to fall back on, which is a point that all of these "Nintendo is dead" articles seem to miss. Nintendo also has decades of profit stored away, meaning that they can take a fall and not have to worry about completely collapsing like 3D0. Sega collapsed because they spread themselves too thin. Nintendo is avoiding this situation, and managing to stay steadily afloat in the process.
Nothing Nintendo does now will ever get them close to the PS2's numbers, so it's not worth playing all their tricks now.
I would have to agree. I think Nintendo has realized the mistakes that it has made, but rather than try to instantly correct them, they seem to be waiting for their next console to fix the errors they made. It will amount to slow going for the GameCube, but it will let them surprise the entire industry if they pull some tricks out of their hat that no one expected them to do, based on GCN's performance.
Pirates of the Carribean had one of the most interesting battles I've seen in a while, at the end of the movie... (avoiding spoilers so I'll stop there)...
However, the DVD didn't show you how they did that scene! I was so angry!
I'd love it if PotC won, but honestly, I see RotK winning just because of how awe-inspiring the entire movie was.
Don't exchange Simoleans for cash anymore. You're already paying money for the game, you're basically trying to turn a profit if you're able to make money exchanges. If you're that desperate to NOT PAY for the game, then DON'T PLAY!
The fact that they hired the author of Stella intrigues me. If they made a SNES anthology for Nintendo's next system (hey, could happen), would they hire, say, the ZSNES developers to help code the emulator for it? It seems that emulators are becoming a stepping stone to getting into the video game business.
I don't think the price is that much of an issue. Hey You! Pikachu did decently, even with its $100 price tag. Put the right franchise at the helm of something and you're bound to get a decent amount of buyers.
Exceptions to this rule, currently: Tetra's Trackers. I don't know WHAT Nintendo was smoking when they came up with THAT idea.
I think this could definitely be used as an aid in teaching music.
My little brother's PE teacher got a PS2, DDRMAX2, and 2 pads, and when they do "stations", where they move around the gym and do various activities, DDR is one of them. However, my brother has enacted the "N00b alert" in me by telling stories of her only letting kids play light songs... even when a few of the kids are skilled enough to do better... *shudder*
After watching about 4 of the movies, I started to attempt to play along with the game on "air bongos". If that's not a sign of a good game, that you play along with a preview video... then I don't know what is.
Actually, the new interface for Winamp 3's default Modern skin is a lot easier to use than the "Classic" skin. The buttons are bigger, the text is easier to read, and everything is overall easier to use and find around the window. It takes up a bit more screen space, sure, but eventually you get tired of 2.x having everything compacted as much as it possibly could.
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You can't really include everyone, though. It's such a small market for these types of adaptations, admittedly, that spending extra time on them can end up detracting from the overall gaming experience if done wrong, and I'm sure most game companies don't want to risk something such as this for a vast minority of the market.
...I forget who said it offhand, but this is really the applicable quote here.
I'm not saying that there isn't a good reason for doing this, it's just that most games don't really lend themselves to being adapted for everyone.
"You can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time."
Many, perhaps most, things on PC should be reasonably playable with the Microsoft Strategic Commander, as it has three analogue axes and a myriad of buttons. Flight sticks offer much the same.
However, to people like me, who don't want to spend 20 minutes configuring 20 buttons to the optimum settings... those controllers are just plain scary.
I actually have a picture of the SNES one sitting back in one of my old issues of Nintendo Power... it never got released here, but it was basically the same thing. There were little switches that I think you could use to turn buttons on and off, and everything appeared to be as jammed in as possible. It wasn't all that great-looking of a controller.
Well, I personally think the thing is innovative. It's the first time I've seen a game accessory of any kind let you do stuff while being IN THE GAME.
But Nintendo has enough market savvy to know they can't do that. The computer and video game industries are two separate beings. Nintendo constantly has to innovate, and they really have. They've just innovated in all the wrong places.
So, because XBox got lucky with one really awesome game (which I don't think is all that great), and has a great online service, it's going to do well? I don't think that XBox has anything to sell itself with. Halo will only be popular as long as it remains as innovative as the first game. XBox Live seems to be the only rocksteady portion of the package.
I read somewhere that when 3D0 was in their bankrupt state with their console, their numbers were better than X-Box's current situation.
3D0 didn't have nearly as much money as either Microsoft or Nintendo. Nintendo has the GBA to fall back on, which is a point that all of these "Nintendo is dead" articles seem to miss. Nintendo also has decades of profit stored away, meaning that they can take a fall and not have to worry about completely collapsing like 3D0. Sega collapsed because they spread themselves too thin. Nintendo is avoiding this situation, and managing to stay steadily afloat in the process.
Nothing Nintendo does now will ever get them close to the PS2's numbers, so it's not worth playing all their tricks now.
I would have to agree. I think Nintendo has realized the mistakes that it has made, but rather than try to instantly correct them, they seem to be waiting for their next console to fix the errors they made. It will amount to slow going for the GameCube, but it will let them surprise the entire industry if they pull some tricks out of their hat that no one expected them to do, based on GCN's performance.
But you have to admit that the final battle sequence was rather intriuging... the way they went from regular to skeleton, back and forth... O_O
Pirates of the Carribean had one of the most interesting battles I've seen in a while, at the end of the movie... (avoiding spoilers so I'll stop there)...
However, the DVD didn't show you how they did that scene! I was so angry!
I'd love it if PotC won, but honestly, I see RotK winning just because of how awe-inspiring the entire movie was.
It's been the subject of many a discussion with my siblings of how many NES games Nintendo could fit on one GCN disc...
How about you solve the problem this way:
Don't exchange Simoleans for cash anymore. You're already paying money for the game, you're basically trying to turn a profit if you're able to make money exchanges. If you're that desperate to NOT PAY for the game, then DON'T PLAY!
The fact that they hired the author of Stella intrigues me. If they made a SNES anthology for Nintendo's next system (hey, could happen), would they hire, say, the ZSNES developers to help code the emulator for it? It seems that emulators are becoming a stepping stone to getting into the video game business.
Gameplay will always be king.
If the stupid thing hadn't have been prohibitively priced for importing, I might have gotten one.
:(
But I still want one...
I don't think the price is that much of an issue. Hey You! Pikachu did decently, even with its $100 price tag. Put the right franchise at the helm of something and you're bound to get a decent amount of buyers.
Exceptions to this rule, currently: Tetra's Trackers. I don't know WHAT Nintendo was smoking when they came up with THAT idea.
I think this could definitely be used as an aid in teaching music.
My little brother's PE teacher got a PS2, DDRMAX2, and 2 pads, and when they do "stations", where they move around the gym and do various activities, DDR is one of them. However, my brother has enacted the "N00b alert" in me by telling stories of her only letting kids play light songs... even when a few of the kids are skilled enough to do better... *shudder*
After watching about 4 of the movies, I started to attempt to play along with the game on "air bongos". If that's not a sign of a good game, that you play along with a preview video... then I don't know what is.
I would like to see someone define what poor randomization is in Winamp. I've never noticed it picking the same 5 songs over and over again...
I've used Winamp 2 on a Win2K box for 2 years, and Winamp 5 beta for about a month. And I've never seen the problem you've described.
Don't install it in the first place.
Meh, you TJ nerds.
.edu address now... in fact, the whole county's at a .edu.
I go to Robinson (not all that far away from TJ) and we're at a
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No... installing AOL, the invasion software, by default, is NEVER forgivable.
Since when is a 4 MB installer indicative of a program being better than a similar program with a 2 MB isntaller?
Actually, the new interface for Winamp 3's default Modern skin is a lot easier to use than the "Classic" skin. The buttons are bigger, the text is easier to read, and everything is overall easier to use and find around the window. It takes up a bit more screen space, sure, but eventually you get tired of 2.x having everything compacted as much as it possibly could.