A used copy only appears if the owner of a new copy decides that holding on to the game is less valuable than what he could do with the money he can resell it for. Considering that Game Stop doesn't pay a lot for trade-ins that would mean the game has lost a LOT of value for the original owner. The way to prevent used sales is to make sure the game doesn't become worthless to a customer that fast, not to force some artificial limitations on trade. Making a game that lasts ten hours and is then practically worthless will obviously result in used sales but it's not because Game Stop is evil. Failing to give your product long term value will result in used sales.
Nintendo released a game using the DSi camera for head tracking recently (it's only available in Japan) so you can expect this thing to do head tracking.
It's a closed console, there won't be porn but there will probably be girlfriend simulators like the infamous Love Plus (that had some crazy Japanese guy officially marry one of the characters...).
If it is detected it doesn't give you plausible deniability, killer nanobots aren't likely to be produced everywhere. A neat dose of botox would be very deniable, for example.
I don't know but those stepladders they carry are really annoying, fortunately a magnet shroom can pull them away and keeping a row of chompers behind your wallnuts will deal with the occasional intruder.
Honestly no idea, I'd say assault rifles are more in the spirit of the second amendment than handguns because they are more useful for a militia. Assault rifles and submachine guns are the kinds of guns you'd want for a militia, in addition to man-portable rocket launchers for anti-vehicle and anti-air use. During a surprise blitzkrieg a population armed with proper military gear would be much more effective in tying the invaders up until the main force arrives (a key of Blitzkrieg is to strike a weak position, capture and fortify it before the enemy can react so the counterattack is against a strong position). On the other hand a concealed pistol has no use for a militia, you have to declare that you belong to a militia by wearing some identifying sign if you want to follow the Geneva Convention.
They could have just kept the codebase open... If the console companies didn't demand closed source. I think the blame lies with them, not the people who expect the GPL to be followed.
Tiger Mission the first vertical shmup? Does Space Invaders not count? Ghosts 'n Goblins is from 1985, Donkey Kong from 1981 and I'm sure that wasn't even the first platform game. Hell, Super Mario Bros predates the release of GnG by about a week.
Freelancer is more of a guided game with a very static game world, I think the hardcore Elite fans went with the X series. Freelancer has some of the Wing Commander ideals mixed into it like having you fight foreign military ships in a crappy basic thingy and winning, in X when a pirate tells you to drop your cargo or die you should make sure you're actually flying a war machine (or a fast ship that can run to the police before he can get to you) before telling him to fuck off.
To be fair those freaks were the contributors who wrote the code under the expectation that the codebase will remain free throughout all revisions. When I intend for my work to be used in ANY project, including closed source ones I mark it PD, not GPL.
Are you an American? SCEA shielded America from a lot of that stuff. Europe got the full brunt of that shitstorm and I can tell you it didn't look pretty.
No dummy, it proves that Wii & DS consumers are less discerning and therefore the quality of titles on those platforms is poorer overall.
So the existence of shovelware automatically proves that people are stupid? You have demonstrated that it exists but you have not demonstrated that people actually buy it. If existence is all it takes then anyone owning a PC or iPhone must be too dumb to breathe because there is a shitload of shovelware on those (and I hear XBLA Indie Games are almost all shit too, haven't seen those first hand because the service is not available in my country) that will make the Wii's list of crap look minuscule.
I don't get why people insist on a distinction between first and third party games, for practical purposes games are games (except first party ones tend to stay exclusive while third party ones often go multi-platform). Who cares if the good ones are first or third party?
The only HD system games that even approaches the sales of Nintendo's big hitters are the CoD titles (sure, Nintendo had weaker games but because they're weaker they become irrelevant to the market). Or maybe the PS3 as a whole (the Balance Board sold roughly as much as the PS3!). Sure, critical reception is better but in a disruption scenario that is to be expected, the reviewers operate by the core values that the former incumbents followed and see the disruptor's offerings as crap but that is why the incumbents ignore the disruptor until they see their market fade away. There is little to no correlation between the professional review scores and the value a new/lapsed gamer derives from a game. Super Mario Galaxy got higher review scores than New Super Mario Bros Wii but NSMBW is more popular because more people like 2D Mario than the modern 3D incarnations.
As for full library averages, those are so fucking pointless they're not worth mentioning. Yes, there's a lot of shit on the Wii. People know that and don't buy it (sales on the Wii are much more concentrated on a few top titles than on other systems). People talk to each other and if something is crap they'll warn each other, they'll remember the company name on the box and avoid products from that company.
That new gamers are ignorant is a lie, plain and simple. They don't read our reviews because they don't give a shit what we think, they don't like our games anyway. They ask their peers because they are more social than basement dwelling nerds like us and they are very picky, 50€ is a lot of money and where we'll buy a game because it's better they need to be convinced that it's better enough to warrant buying and that their old game isn't good enough. For that reason they want games that don't just run out of value after a few hours because their story is done or something. They treat video games like board games, they're supposed to stay around for many years and get brought out again and again. A game that cannot do this isn't worth the new gamer's money. Thinking these people are idiots is the trap that third parties have fallen into and is why their revenues on the Wii are abysmal. Of course there are still cases of kids buying licensed games, those have been around since licensed games were invented. I've seen that happen with all previous systems too. Those kids still need to learn the life lesson that licensed usually equals garbage.
the market nintendo targets (non-gamers) makes the wii/ds a very very attractive target for shovelware producers
No it doesn't. Third parties are just idiots with zero understanding of what people want, they can only copy what succeeds and even then they'll often fail to realize what was the important part of the successful game. The "casual" gamers don't fall for the shovelware (people keep citing Carnival Games but from what I heard it's actually fun to play, even a blind chicken finds a corn once in a while).
I suppose some of them might seriously believe that a criminal willing to commit murder is worried about getting caught with an illegal weapons possession charge
You suppose wrong. It's about muggers and other small fry. A mugger won't risk a possession charge because a mugging carries a much lower penalty and being the one mugger with a gun will make the police interested.
Also the compulsory weapons in Switzerland are battle rifles, those aren't exactly ideal for concealed carrying or even crime on the streets.
I think Zack & Wiki is a better example if you want to point at an adventure-like game on the Wii. Zelda's puzzles tend to be fairly brain dead and automatic these days (use the grapple on the grapple points, use the arrows on the arrow targets, etc, usually mindlessly throwing the tool at the matching object solves the puzzle without any need for forethought) when they aren't block pushing puzzles (but honestly, those are the worst ones).
Or a very popular point and click game would be the Professor Layton series, those games require using your brain because the puzzles aren't just stupid mechanical ones. Sure, it's not a consistent adventure world, the puzzles rarely have anything to do with what you're doing plot-wise but that allows them to be all kinds of tricky riddles and whatnot.
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A used copy only appears if the owner of a new copy decides that holding on to the game is less valuable than what he could do with the money he can resell it for. Considering that Game Stop doesn't pay a lot for trade-ins that would mean the game has lost a LOT of value for the original owner. The way to prevent used sales is to make sure the game doesn't become worthless to a customer that fast, not to force some artificial limitations on trade. Making a game that lasts ten hours and is then practically worthless will obviously result in used sales but it's not because Game Stop is evil. Failing to give your product long term value will result in used sales.
I agree, the discount is not enough for me to buy used when new copies are available. I can usually get that much if not more just by shopping around.
Interesting, I returned Castlevania Circle of the Moon the next day because it kept losing its savedata and all I got was store credit.
Doesn't work because most consoles aren't connected to the internet.
Nintendo released a game using the DSi camera for head tracking recently (it's only available in Japan) so you can expect this thing to do head tracking.
Yeah? I asked them if I could safely walk on spikes and piranha plants with those. Genuine mushroom leather boots are fairly hard to come by.
It's a closed console, there won't be porn but there will probably be girlfriend simulators like the infamous Love Plus (that had some crazy Japanese guy officially marry one of the characters...).
In fact, forget the NIMH, I'll take just the LSD.
If it is detected it doesn't give you plausible deniability, killer nanobots aren't likely to be produced everywhere. A neat dose of botox would be very deniable, for example.
He takes great care to pre-roll the ones out of them.
I don't know but those stepladders they carry are really annoying, fortunately a magnet shroom can pull them away and keeping a row of chompers behind your wallnuts will deal with the occasional intruder.
Honestly no idea, I'd say assault rifles are more in the spirit of the second amendment than handguns because they are more useful for a militia. Assault rifles and submachine guns are the kinds of guns you'd want for a militia, in addition to man-portable rocket launchers for anti-vehicle and anti-air use. During a surprise blitzkrieg a population armed with proper military gear would be much more effective in tying the invaders up until the main force arrives (a key of Blitzkrieg is to strike a weak position, capture and fortify it before the enemy can react so the counterattack is against a strong position). On the other hand a concealed pistol has no use for a militia, you have to declare that you belong to a militia by wearing some identifying sign if you want to follow the Geneva Convention.
They could have just kept the codebase open... If the console companies didn't demand closed source. I think the blame lies with them, not the people who expect the GPL to be followed.
Yeah, what I recall being hyped was the AI.
Tiger Mission the first vertical shmup? Does Space Invaders not count?
Ghosts 'n Goblins is from 1985, Donkey Kong from 1981 and I'm sure that wasn't even the first platform game. Hell, Super Mario Bros predates the release of GnG by about a week.
Freelancer is more of a guided game with a very static game world, I think the hardcore Elite fans went with the X series. Freelancer has some of the Wing Commander ideals mixed into it like having you fight foreign military ships in a crappy basic thingy and winning, in X when a pirate tells you to drop your cargo or die you should make sure you're actually flying a war machine (or a fast ship that can run to the police before he can get to you) before telling him to fuck off.
To be fair those freaks were the contributors who wrote the code under the expectation that the codebase will remain free throughout all revisions. When I intend for my work to be used in ANY project, including closed source ones I mark it PD, not GPL.
Are you an American? SCEA shielded America from a lot of that stuff. Europe got the full brunt of that shitstorm and I can tell you it didn't look pretty.
No dummy, it proves that Wii & DS consumers are less discerning and therefore the quality of titles on those platforms is poorer overall.
So the existence of shovelware automatically proves that people are stupid? You have demonstrated that it exists but you have not demonstrated that people actually buy it. If existence is all it takes then anyone owning a PC or iPhone must be too dumb to breathe because there is a shitload of shovelware on those (and I hear XBLA Indie Games are almost all shit too, haven't seen those first hand because the service is not available in my country) that will make the Wii's list of crap look minuscule.
I don't get why people insist on a distinction between first and third party games, for practical purposes games are games (except first party ones tend to stay exclusive while third party ones often go multi-platform). Who cares if the good ones are first or third party?
The only HD system games that even approaches the sales of Nintendo's big hitters are the CoD titles (sure, Nintendo had weaker games but because they're weaker they become irrelevant to the market). Or maybe the PS3 as a whole (the Balance Board sold roughly as much as the PS3!). Sure, critical reception is better but in a disruption scenario that is to be expected, the reviewers operate by the core values that the former incumbents followed and see the disruptor's offerings as crap but that is why the incumbents ignore the disruptor until they see their market fade away. There is little to no correlation between the professional review scores and the value a new/lapsed gamer derives from a game. Super Mario Galaxy got higher review scores than New Super Mario Bros Wii but NSMBW is more popular because more people like 2D Mario than the modern 3D incarnations.
As for full library averages, those are so fucking pointless they're not worth mentioning. Yes, there's a lot of shit on the Wii. People know that and don't buy it (sales on the Wii are much more concentrated on a few top titles than on other systems). People talk to each other and if something is crap they'll warn each other, they'll remember the company name on the box and avoid products from that company.
That new gamers are ignorant is a lie, plain and simple. They don't read our reviews because they don't give a shit what we think, they don't like our games anyway. They ask their peers because they are more social than basement dwelling nerds like us and they are very picky, 50€ is a lot of money and where we'll buy a game because it's better they need to be convinced that it's better enough to warrant buying and that their old game isn't good enough. For that reason they want games that don't just run out of value after a few hours because their story is done or something. They treat video games like board games, they're supposed to stay around for many years and get brought out again and again. A game that cannot do this isn't worth the new gamer's money. Thinking these people are idiots is the trap that third parties have fallen into and is why their revenues on the Wii are abysmal. Of course there are still cases of kids buying licensed games, those have been around since licensed games were invented. I've seen that happen with all previous systems too. Those kids still need to learn the life lesson that licensed usually equals garbage.
the market nintendo targets (non-gamers) makes the wii/ds a very very attractive target for shovelware producers
No it doesn't. Third parties are just idiots with zero understanding of what people want, they can only copy what succeeds and even then they'll often fail to realize what was the important part of the successful game. The "casual" gamers don't fall for the shovelware (people keep citing Carnival Games but from what I heard it's actually fun to play, even a blind chicken finds a corn once in a while).
Head tracking only works for one head, not good for a system that usually has multiple users.
Some VB owners say you need to adjust the focus of the device, then it won't give you headaches. It's anyone's guess how many people actually did it.
I suppose some of them might seriously believe that a criminal willing to commit murder is worried about getting caught with an illegal weapons possession charge
You suppose wrong. It's about muggers and other small fry. A mugger won't risk a possession charge because a mugging carries a much lower penalty and being the one mugger with a gun will make the police interested.
Also the compulsory weapons in Switzerland are battle rifles, those aren't exactly ideal for concealed carrying or even crime on the streets.
I think Zack & Wiki is a better example if you want to point at an adventure-like game on the Wii. Zelda's puzzles tend to be fairly brain dead and automatic these days (use the grapple on the grapple points, use the arrows on the arrow targets, etc, usually mindlessly throwing the tool at the matching object solves the puzzle without any need for forethought) when they aren't block pushing puzzles (but honestly, those are the worst ones).
Or a very popular point and click game would be the Professor Layton series, those games require using your brain because the puzzles aren't just stupid mechanical ones. Sure, it's not a consistent adventure world, the puzzles rarely have anything to do with what you're doing plot-wise but that allows them to be all kinds of tricky riddles and whatnot.