I can't remember how many hours I played pacman as a kid...and I NEVER beat the last level! I'm not even sure if I ever got to the last level. It didn't matter how many times I ate Blinky, he kept coming back. Toughest boss EVAH!
I've never played a game where you couldn't turn off rumble in the settings. I don't own a PS2, though. Is it common to be forced into experiencing badly implemented rumble for games?
What a slacker!
But before I get modded troll, let me just say that I think more students could be graduating a lot sooner if useful classes were offered during the summer. A lot of summer semesters get wasted when out of state kids can't afford to go home for the summer and don't have any classes worth taking either.
I haven't heard enough details on the party games to know one way or another, but you may have a point.
There will still be quite a few 2 player games that require both, though. I know that the Wii Madden game will have a fun 4 player feature (two on two) that will require both. Not that everyone who gets the game will use that feature much (or they may tell their friends to bring their own controller).
I keep seeing these jabs on the price of the Nintendo controller (both parts).
I can understand the disappointment. After the prices for x360 and ps3 people are looking to Nintendo as cheap affordable fun. Add on to that, Nintendo is well-known for making great party games and seem in a position to continue that so multiple controllers for a nintendo system seems a given. Given all that, is anybody seriously surprised by the price of the controllers? Sure, they probably could have taken a loss or a smaller profit by pricing the pair for $50 (35 and 15?) but is that typically the place to have lower profit margins? You're going to pay $50 for a wireless x360 controller and likely at least that much for a ps3 one. Why would anyone expect to see less for a two component wireless controller that probably has more state of the art technology in it?
I wish they released a wii bundle with an extra controller rather than a game but I can see why they went the other way.
To me, this is just further evidence that they will be successful. Financially, they'll make money. And because the wii is so much cheaper to develop for, they don't even need to have a HUGE install base for developers to continue giving support. Developers don't need to sell as many to make all their money back and then some.
Finally, if the games are frequently $10 cheaper it won't take long before you've saved enough from the games to pay for the $10 more expensive controllers.
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A LOT of people don't replace their TVs very often. Many people who bought a tv 5 years ago probably won't buy another (big screen for the living room) tv for another 5.
Considering inflation it may be that cars cost less than they did 3 years ago but not everyone buys a new car every 3 years even if that's what they'd need to do to get the latest/greatest sound system installed in their car.
What's lame is that a year later the movie makers have decided not to use these.
Why? Was the Blu Ray version too expensive? Did they just calculate that there wasn't a demand for this type of product? Are they just testing the waters with Blu Ray only dvds?
Blu Ray seems to be following Sony's pattern of behavior of promising the world but not fully delivering when the time comes. Perhaps HD DVD is doing that, too. We shall see.
Will buying from the US be a problem for them if they don't have a NTSC tv? I have heard there are converters out there to convert PAL to NTSC but I have no idea how common or expensive they are.
I agree with what you're saying but did the PS1, PS2, and Xbox list s-video compatible as a major bullet point?
I think people are upset because the two different PS3 models make the upper one feel like a bundle of some sort. That's mostly what gamers have had experience with when it comes to two different models of basically the same thing. You either buy the bare bones unit with one controller and no games, or you buy the one with two controllers, a game thrown in, etc. everything you need to really have fun.
To find out the deluxe version doesn't include everything needed to get the full experience feels like a rip off. Especially when a lot of people are already grumbling about the $600 price tag.
So while I agree that this isn't anything really new and people are over-reacting, I can also understand why people are more upset about it than they were with the PS2 lacking an S-Video cable.
The game that was looked at was Sega's Full Auto 2: Battlelines. I never played the first one so I can only make a very rough guess of what they'd use the motion sensing for. It sounds like the first generation of games may only use it for optional side things. I guess that's good if they are rushing it into play.
What games are they planning to have online capabilities? From what I've read, most don't have any anyway. This isn't to troll, I simply don't know of any (at least not scheduled for launch).
To be honest, I'm kinda glad that a lot of the sports games aren't the first out of the box. Sports games are pretty much all sequels even if it's another company making it. When it's more of the same the best thing they can add is just perfect game controls. With how different the wii controller is compared to past controllers, game developers need lots of time and testing for it to play really well. Who wants a clunky sports game that isn't going to be as good as earlier ones? Let developers practice on earlier games and once they've really got it down come out with an awesome sports game. Same is true with fighting games. Those really fast paced games where a slightly different move makes all the difference is better off waiting for the second (or third) round of games.
I'd like to know how many are exclusives? I know I recognize a few that will likely be released on the other consoles but even some of those could potentially be more fun on the wii. Madden NFL? It could either be the lame version that no one opts for or it could be the most fun version. I have doubts that Marvel: Ultimate Alliance will be best on the wii but Tony Hawk has potential in my opinion. I think it could be jarring at first to play a game franchise that you're used to playing with an ordinary controller but some games in particular could be more fun once you got used to it.
Bautista says that one of two reasons for this is the fact that commercial content is encrypted with High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), which can only be decrypted using a HDCP-compliant graphics card that offers DVI or HDMI connections.
So is this a confession that the low-end PS3 won't be able to play commercial Blu Ray DVDs? Or does the low-end PS3 use an HDCP-compliant graphics card without offering DVI or HDMI connections?
You said "...in the 7+ years of using the program it never once protected me from getting a virus." How do you know that?
Don't antivirus programs usually let you know when they've detected a virus and are doing something about it? I remember being notified by my antivirus program that it had detected a virus in a particular file and asked if I wanted to quarantine it or delete it or attempt to fix it. It even kept a log of how many virus it had protected me from.
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I can't remember how many hours I played pacman as a kid...and I NEVER beat the last level! I'm not even sure if I ever got to the last level. It didn't matter how many times I ate Blinky, he kept coming back. Toughest boss EVAH!
I've never played a game where you couldn't turn off rumble in the settings. I don't own a PS2, though. Is it common to be forced into experiencing badly implemented rumble for games?
Don't forget amazon.com and amazon.ca. A ton will go to online outlets, I'd imagine.
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Their financial position, I would guess. They could probably take a much larger loss than Apple, I would imagine.
Is it really conceivable for airlines to not mark up rates of something?
What a slacker! But before I get modded troll, let me just say that I think more students could be graduating a lot sooner if useful classes were offered during the summer. A lot of summer semesters get wasted when out of state kids can't afford to go home for the summer and don't have any classes worth taking either.
The purpose is to shoot the people wearing Coca cola t-shirts?
I haven't heard enough details on the party games to know one way or another, but you may have a point.
There will still be quite a few 2 player games that require both, though. I know that the Wii Madden game will have a fun 4 player feature (two on two) that will require both. Not that everyone who gets the game will use that feature much (or they may tell their friends to bring their own controller).
I keep seeing these jabs on the price of the Nintendo controller (both parts). I can understand the disappointment. After the prices for x360 and ps3 people are looking to Nintendo as cheap affordable fun. Add on to that, Nintendo is well-known for making great party games and seem in a position to continue that so multiple controllers for a nintendo system seems a given. Given all that, is anybody seriously surprised by the price of the controllers? Sure, they probably could have taken a loss or a smaller profit by pricing the pair for $50 (35 and 15?) but is that typically the place to have lower profit margins? You're going to pay $50 for a wireless x360 controller and likely at least that much for a ps3 one. Why would anyone expect to see less for a two component wireless controller that probably has more state of the art technology in it? I wish they released a wii bundle with an extra controller rather than a game but I can see why they went the other way. To me, this is just further evidence that they will be successful. Financially, they'll make money. And because the wii is so much cheaper to develop for, they don't even need to have a HUGE install base for developers to continue giving support. Developers don't need to sell as many to make all their money back and then some. Finally, if the games are frequently $10 cheaper it won't take long before you've saved enough from the games to pay for the $10 more expensive controllers.
A LOT of people don't replace their TVs very often. Many people who bought a tv 5 years ago probably won't buy another (big screen for the living room) tv for another 5. Considering inflation it may be that cars cost less than they did 3 years ago but not everyone buys a new car every 3 years even if that's what they'd need to do to get the latest/greatest sound system installed in their car.
What's lame is that a year later the movie makers have decided not to use these. Why? Was the Blu Ray version too expensive? Did they just calculate that there wasn't a demand for this type of product? Are they just testing the waters with Blu Ray only dvds? Blu Ray seems to be following Sony's pattern of behavior of promising the world but not fully delivering when the time comes. Perhaps HD DVD is doing that, too. We shall see.
I wonder how this would impact the battery life of the DS.
Will buying from the US be a problem for them if they don't have a NTSC tv? I have heard there are converters out there to convert PAL to NTSC but I have no idea how common or expensive they are.
I think people are upset because the two different PS3 models make the upper one feel like a bundle of some sort. That's mostly what gamers have had experience with when it comes to two different models of basically the same thing. You either buy the bare bones unit with one controller and no games, or you buy the one with two controllers, a game thrown in, etc. everything you need to really have fun.
To find out the deluxe version doesn't include everything needed to get the full experience feels like a rip off. Especially when a lot of people are already grumbling about the $600 price tag.
So while I agree that this isn't anything really new and people are over-reacting, I can also understand why people are more upset about it than they were with the PS2 lacking an S-Video cable.
Exactly, even if PS3 does poorly, they have huge laptop battery sales to Apple and Dell to make up for it.
Cubed3 is reporting that it comes from a magazine, Tips and Tricks, which was scanned and posted on the nintendo forums
I'd like to see the guy from Altered Beast. Not sure I ever knew any names from that game, though.
The game that was looked at was Sega's Full Auto 2: Battlelines. I never played the first one so I can only make a very rough guess of what they'd use the motion sensing for. It sounds like the first generation of games may only use it for optional side things. I guess that's good if they are rushing it into play.
What games are they planning to have online capabilities? From what I've read, most don't have any anyway. This isn't to troll, I simply don't know of any (at least not scheduled for launch).
To be honest, I'm kinda glad that a lot of the sports games aren't the first out of the box. Sports games are pretty much all sequels even if it's another company making it. When it's more of the same the best thing they can add is just perfect game controls. With how different the wii controller is compared to past controllers, game developers need lots of time and testing for it to play really well. Who wants a clunky sports game that isn't going to be as good as earlier ones? Let developers practice on earlier games and once they've really got it down come out with an awesome sports game. Same is true with fighting games. Those really fast paced games where a slightly different move makes all the difference is better off waiting for the second (or third) round of games.
I'd like to know how many are exclusives? I know I recognize a few that will likely be released on the other consoles but even some of those could potentially be more fun on the wii. Madden NFL? It could either be the lame version that no one opts for or it could be the most fun version. I have doubts that Marvel: Ultimate Alliance will be best on the wii but Tony Hawk has potential in my opinion. I think it could be jarring at first to play a game franchise that you're used to playing with an ordinary controller but some games in particular could be more fun once you got used to it.
So is this a confession that the low-end PS3 won't be able to play commercial Blu Ray DVDs? Or does the low-end PS3 use an HDCP-compliant graphics card without offering DVI or HDMI connections?
Thundarr! That universe would have interesting creatures to play as/against.
Don't antivirus programs usually let you know when they've detected a virus and are doing something about it? I remember being notified by my antivirus program that it had detected a virus in a particular file and asked if I wanted to quarantine it or delete it or attempt to fix it. It even kept a log of how many virus it had protected me from.