That doesn't really matter though. You have a Wii and games, don't you? That's all they care about, whether you use your 360 more or have it gather dust (like mine does because I somehow don't find its games appealing) is all the same to them.
Diving into the "casual" market isn't as easy as some make it sound, otherwise it wouldn't have taken this long for it to happen. If MS and Sony think that they can just toss simple crappy games at motion controls and thereby win that market they're going to go down hard. The thing Reggie was pointing out was this: The technology is not why people buy the Wii. The games are the reason. MS and Sony only demoed their technology, not games. The greatest controller is just a useless piece of plastic without a good game you can play with it. It doesn't matter whether Natal or DualWaggle are better than the Wiimote, it matters whether they come with better games (better for the new market, not better for the people who already own the HD consoles anyway). Consoles are in the entertainment industry, not the technology industry and MS and Sony haven't shown how they're going to get entertainment done with their new tech.
From what I read the FF4 release got cancelled because Nintendo demanded some changes to the crappy control scheme and a ton of bugfixes before they'd release it in the west (e.g. the flashlight wasn't pointed with the IR system but with a weird analog stick and remote tilt control scheme) and Tecmo refused to do them. The reviews of the Japanese version were very critical of the controls and general buggyness so that seems to be a major issue.
How would the police know not to help you when you're in danger? How would the firefighters know? And what would they do if your fire threatened to spread to other buildings?
Supposedly attributes like "with lasers" aren't allowed, the example they gave was a burning zombie elephant, you can't get that. You can, however, summon an elephant, a zombie and a torch and try to combine those. If you want a shark with a laser you have to summon both parts and try attaching the laser to the shark without getting eaten.
This proposal therefore affects only a very small minority.
Depends on what you mean with affects. Affects in a way that would prevent them from becoming violent? Yes, in fact I'd say the effect would be almost nil. Affects negatively by denying them entertainment everybody else can get? That would be a fairly significant number, especially with games lately seeming to become more violent anyway and a significant number already getting blocked from release here by the console makers because of the rating.
The problem here is that it's banning something with almost zero negative effect over a triviality like a school shooting (call me emotionally dead but to me 10 dead people are no less statistics than 10 million and definitely don't warrant emotionally-driven overreactions). It's insane to outlaw things over something as minor as school shootings and it demonstrates how trigger happy these assholes are when it comes to banning things they don't personally do. They act like anything they don't do should not be allowed for anybody. Anyone who differs from the perfect personality scheme (the politician himself) gets bullied and jailed. Meanwhile it's bullying that caused these shootings in first place. This is an outrageous display of ignorance that will sweep entire sectors of the public under the rug if their interests are sufficiently out of line with the ruling elite. At least the Nazis did evil stuff because they were evil, these politicians do evil stuff because they just don't care.
Kinda like how people won't accept that some children are just born stupid and it's not the fault of the teachers that they can't grasp basic arithmetic. Politicians seem to believe that stupid children are solely the fault of the educational system. They're not, not everybody is born equally capable. Some are just plain dumb and won't learn not to shit in their pants until fifth grade (these days it's apparently considered a sign of high intelligence when a child learned that before entering kindergarten, a decade ago it was seen as mandatory). I regularly hear work stories from a person who works in a kindergarten and the amount of stupidity is seriously increasing.
Though I wouldn't say the shooters were born rotten, they often grew up in an environment where everybody hates or abuses them which obviously is going to build up pressure and hatred within them. Of course dealing with the real problem is too hard for politicians so they'd ratherban something at random (and then act surprised when the next shooting rampage happens).
The interior ministers are idiots anyway, the federal one is a serious case of wanting to abolish all freedoms for security. I hope the rest of the govt will react to these 16 as they did to the federal one.
Hell, even if videogames DO cause those murders, that's still several orders of magnitude less dangerous than tobacco or alcohol, neither of which is banned. You can probably find food products that kill more people per year than shooting rampages do. Also they're singling out videogames. Why not movies, books (I hear religious texts have inspired a lot of violence, those really shouldn't be in people's hands), music and maybe news reports about violence? Easy: Because these politicians already subject themselves to that kind of stuff and realize it's not a prolem (or if it was wouldn't want to declare themselves psychos).
This is a completely ridiculous pile of bullshit. Shooting rampages are so rare and cause so few deaths that special legislation is not warranted against such a broad subject as videogames even if it were at fault (last time one happened the father got tried for severely lacking firearm safety and of course the kids in question are always in a situation where they get treated like dirt by everyone else anyway).
I think it's not that easy, when they pad their ideas they usually pad everywhere so the good ideas aren't concentrated in the first 5 hours but spread throughout the whole 20 with plenty of dull time in between.
FF5 had selectable jobs (could change them at any time after they're unlocked) with characters being nothing but their accumulation of job ranks. That could still mean a lot, you most likely won't top out everything unless you grind hard so your characters will develop individual skillsets but nothing of that is defined by the game.
It's exercise, not entertainment. Of course it's not a lot of fun when you do the exercises. There are quite a few games that allow optional balance board controls though.
Not all games are Wii Sports, not all games are designed around full motions like that. Many are designed to be played sitting down since they're playable for very long periods of time. Wii Sports is designed for shorter games which means it won't tire you before the session is over (though it's still possible to end up with a muscle ache from Baseball...)
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That doesn't really matter though. You have a Wii and games, don't you? That's all they care about, whether you use your 360 more or have it gather dust (like mine does because I somehow don't find its games appealing) is all the same to them.
Diving into the "casual" market isn't as easy as some make it sound, otherwise it wouldn't have taken this long for it to happen. If MS and Sony think that they can just toss simple crappy games at motion controls and thereby win that market they're going to go down hard. The thing Reggie was pointing out was this: The technology is not why people buy the Wii. The games are the reason. MS and Sony only demoed their technology, not games. The greatest controller is just a useless piece of plastic without a good game you can play with it. It doesn't matter whether Natal or DualWaggle are better than the Wiimote, it matters whether they come with better games (better for the new market, not better for the people who already own the HD consoles anyway). Consoles are in the entertainment industry, not the technology industry and MS and Sony haven't shown how they're going to get entertainment done with their new tech.
From what I read the FF4 release got cancelled because Nintendo demanded some changes to the crappy control scheme and a ton of bugfixes before they'd release it in the west (e.g. the flashlight wasn't pointed with the IR system but with a weird analog stick and remote tilt control scheme) and Tecmo refused to do them. The reviews of the Japanese version were very critical of the controls and general buggyness so that seems to be a major issue.
AFAIK the Pirate Party has a political program that's a bit more than just "fight copyright".
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How would the police know not to help you when you're in danger? How would the firefighters know? And what would they do if your fire threatened to spread to other buildings?
AFAIK the real challenge of the game is not to get to the end but to find as many different ways as you can for solving a puzzle.
I've seen a TOS update, I think from PayPal, with highlighting like a diff (removed lines marked in one color, added ones in another).
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That's racism!
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Supposedly attributes like "with lasers" aren't allowed, the example they gave was a burning zombie elephant, you can't get that. You can, however, summon an elephant, a zombie and a torch and try to combine those. If you want a shark with a laser you have to summon both parts and try attaching the laser to the shark without getting eaten.
They already said that swear words won't be accepted and it's a console game so modifications aren't easy.
This proposal therefore affects only a very small minority.
Depends on what you mean with affects. Affects in a way that would prevent them from becoming violent? Yes, in fact I'd say the effect would be almost nil. Affects negatively by denying them entertainment everybody else can get? That would be a fairly significant number, especially with games lately seeming to become more violent anyway and a significant number already getting blocked from release here by the console makers because of the rating.
The problem here is that it's banning something with almost zero negative effect over a triviality like a school shooting (call me emotionally dead but to me 10 dead people are no less statistics than 10 million and definitely don't warrant emotionally-driven overreactions). It's insane to outlaw things over something as minor as school shootings and it demonstrates how trigger happy these assholes are when it comes to banning things they don't personally do. They act like anything they don't do should not be allowed for anybody. Anyone who differs from the perfect personality scheme (the politician himself) gets bullied and jailed. Meanwhile it's bullying that caused these shootings in first place. This is an outrageous display of ignorance that will sweep entire sectors of the public under the rug if their interests are sufficiently out of line with the ruling elite. At least the Nazis did evil stuff because they were evil, these politicians do evil stuff because they just don't care.
But they are already regulated like porn, what these idiots want is a complete ban.
Kinda like how people won't accept that some children are just born stupid and it's not the fault of the teachers that they can't grasp basic arithmetic. Politicians seem to believe that stupid children are solely the fault of the educational system. They're not, not everybody is born equally capable. Some are just plain dumb and won't learn not to shit in their pants until fifth grade (these days it's apparently considered a sign of high intelligence when a child learned that before entering kindergarten, a decade ago it was seen as mandatory). I regularly hear work stories from a person who works in a kindergarten and the amount of stupidity is seriously increasing.
Though I wouldn't say the shooters were born rotten, they often grew up in an environment where everybody hates or abuses them which obviously is going to build up pressure and hatred within them. Of course dealing with the real problem is too hard for politicians so they'd ratherban something at random (and then act surprised when the next shooting rampage happens).
It gets defined by a bunch of old farts who hate freedom even more than kids on their lawn so it's going to be as broad as possible.
I'm for abolishing the position of the minister of the interior, those guys seem to be the source of all censorship efforts.
The interior ministers are idiots anyway, the federal one is a serious case of wanting to abolish all freedoms for security. I hope the rest of the govt will react to these 16 as they did to the federal one.
Hell, even if videogames DO cause those murders, that's still several orders of magnitude less dangerous than tobacco or alcohol, neither of which is banned. You can probably find food products that kill more people per year than shooting rampages do. Also they're singling out videogames. Why not movies, books (I hear religious texts have inspired a lot of violence, those really shouldn't be in people's hands), music and maybe news reports about violence? Easy: Because these politicians already subject themselves to that kind of stuff and realize it's not a prolem (or if it was wouldn't want to declare themselves psychos).
This is a completely ridiculous pile of bullshit. Shooting rampages are so rare and cause so few deaths that special legislation is not warranted against such a broad subject as videogames even if it were at fault (last time one happened the father got tried for severely lacking firearm safety and of course the kids in question are always in a situation where they get treated like dirt by everyone else anyway).
NSMB (DS) had that multiplayer mode for two people, those who played it loved it.
I think it's not that easy, when they pad their ideas they usually pad everywhere so the good ideas aren't concentrated in the first 5 hours but spread throughout the whole 20 with plenty of dull time in between.
Maybe his experiences with "often quality" and "often sub-par" are reversed?
FF5 had selectable jobs (could change them at any time after they're unlocked) with characters being nothing but their accumulation of job ranks. That could still mean a lot, you most likely won't top out everything unless you grind hard so your characters will develop individual skillsets but nothing of that is defined by the game.
Yeah, that video was just a mockup of what they think it might do some day (or pretend...), the live demonstration did have visible lag though.
It's exercise, not entertainment. Of course it's not a lot of fun when you do the exercises. There are quite a few games that allow optional balance board controls though.
Not all games are Wii Sports, not all games are designed around full motions like that. Many are designed to be played sitting down since they're playable for very long periods of time. Wii Sports is designed for shorter games which means it won't tire you before the session is over (though it's still possible to end up with a muscle ache from Baseball...)