Psh, it's my opinion that Sega is doing this for the money and for the money alone. Either Sony or Microsoft would have been smart to approach them; then they'd really have something to compete Nintendo with nostalgia-wise (Xbox's curent arcade not really doing it).
Then again, Nintendo hasn't boasted any real exclusivity of the Genesis console anyway. Sony/MS should be pursuing that if you ask me.
Oh wow, new NES, SNES, and N64 games... That's awesome!
Unlikely given its current legality, but I hope this game makes it on the Revo somehow. (Well, not a big deal to me, I've already finished it twice).
Ooh, taking an article about a delay/vapourware and making a Duke Nukem Forever joke about it. While we're being original, I'd like to take this time to say that I for one welcome our new delayed operating system overlords;)
Homer: "Take a look at your beloved candidates, they're nothing but hideous space reptiles!" (unmasks them)
Kang: "Yes, it's true, we're evil aliens, but there's nothing you can do about it. It's a two-party system! You'll have to vote for one of us!"
Guy in Crowd: "Well I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate!"
Kang: "Go ahead, throw your vote away! Hahahahahaha"
Well, a two month delay reported 7 or so months in advance is pretty responsible. You know, perhaps more responsible than, say, insisting your console will be out in Spring until a couple weeks before Spring arrives and saying it's delayed in the fall;)
Yeah sorry, I like video games too much and will find a way to force them into the conversation no matter how innappropriate. But you know, it's sort of similar. "I was going to buy a 360 but the PS3 is supposed to come out soon". The fact is, Microsoft announced a rather smallish delay in a rather largish amount of time.
And in both cases I'd much rather see them take their time. I hope Vista is as good as they say it's going to be (or at least in the ballpark).
You're right about the wording, but my guess is that there was a little something lost (or inappropriately gained) in the translation. Making a config file for every GC game, or even just every Nintendo GC game to work with the wand is certainly a little too much to expect.
Hopefully there will be a way to configure the Revo controller so you can use it for GC (and N64, SNES) games in a limited way. We know you can turn it sideways to make it just like a NES controller. But it would be cool if they allowed you to make a motion and tell it "every time I do that for this game, it's like I pressed X". In other words, you wouldn't be able to point at the screen to direct the character, but you could simulate button presses with user-defined motions, to make up for the lack of buttons.
Certainly not practical for all games, but could be cooler than using a GC controller (or shell) for some games (particularily for the SNES, in games that rarely use the X, Y, L, and R buttons). Example: Super Mario World. I could do a small 360 degree twistingg throw to the controller and tell it "when I do that, press X", and that would let me use the rarely used (at least by me) spinning jump.
Maybe this is being done. Remember the Revo ad where Mario jumps whenever the controller is flicked up? Though I'd rather just press the button in that case;)
BTW, there are a couple games that I do expect to use the Revo controller in a "cool" way, specifically, Duck Hunt, Yoshi's Safari, and other games that used light guns.
I'm skilled enough at wasting time w/o this trash
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Which is why this article is so worthless.
"Uh, we agreed not to take pictues, but, like, it's 'surprisingly' smaller than we expected. So, you know, in case you didn't see all those pictures at E3 showing it being held by hands, this article might be worth a shit".
But since it's about the Revo and they use the term "hands-on", every gaming blog in the Universe has to link to it and give IGN undeserved ad revenue.
"People seem to be in a fevor pitch about the Revolution and PS3, one has to wonder what is going to happen to the Xbox 360. Only a little more than a million have been sold and almost all of the big name games for the console have better pc versions of its games coming out."
Replace "XBox 360" with "Nintendo DS", "Revolution and PS3" with "PSP", and "pc" with "console", and you're getting pretty close to the general feelings of the DS when it launched.
Well, at least they didn't rate it higher than FFVII.
I mean, could you imagine if everyone at a popular, trusted review site had the collective stupidity to say that FFVIII is the greatest game ever to bear the name? Now that would be hilarious!
Perhaps it's time to write bills in concise English instead of Legalese.
Think of first-degree murder. Wikipedia (currently) defines first-degree murder in Canada as "the intentional killing of another person with premeditation, in the furtherance of another serious criminal offense (kidnapping, robbery, etc.), or the killing of a peace officer". I can understand that. Whther it's right or not, it's a good example of how laws should be formed IMO.
Just make sure that there's a list somewhere of what constitutes as another "serious criminal offense" (a list that can be used by any other law that uses the term). Peace Officer would also have to be defined but only once, and then every law can use it (surely this is already the way it works, they wouldn't define "peace officer" in each individual law, legalese isn't that bad).
The official law is probably 700 pages long and says basically that, just a whole lot longer. I'm sure there's a 200 page section on what "intentionally" means, about as sure as I am that lawyers and even judges didn't learn the term by reading those 200 pages, but by reading a text-book that outlines the law in, you guessed it, concise English.
Ok, ok, we know lawyers just can't live without legalese, so I'll meet you 50/50. Take what the legalese means, translate it into concise English, put it in bold at the top of the page. Just because congress can't get Executive Privilege, doesn't mean they don't deserve an executive summary.
Make sure that if the law is taken to court, the judge interprets the English part first, and if, and only if, they see a reasonable ambiguity, they move onto the legalese.
And to answer anyone's question, no, I don't know what I'm talking about. But I (and virtually all of us here) do know for a fact the current system is broken, and it must be changed somehow. After all, how could one call a system in which congress passes bills without reading them un-broken?
That's my two long-winded cents. Which is kind of ironic when you think about what the post is about:(
That was only a minigame within the game, and probably (hopefully) not the funnest (though i'm having trouble downloading the tracker so I wouldn't know).
For more mind-numbing fun, try thesegames by Videlectrix (of H*R fame)
I wouldn't know, I never played it myself precisely because of the big boobies. Not that I don't like big boobies, but history has taught us that they're used to sell shitty products, so I've always discriminated againt them in cases like this.
*horrified victim in a zombie movie* NO! Noooo! Nooooo! *runs away, but not quickly enough. . . Dead.*
I've always hated Acclaim's games and marketing strategies (but especially the games). Some of the really old stuff was good, but they just turned into an uncreative, "bottom-line" company that wasn't afraid to release horrific games that tarnish the reputation of the licenses they use. ECW Hardcore Revolution anyone?
The last great game they published IMO was Aggresive Inline. A lot of the good features in THPS4 were on Aggressive Inline first. Plus, they started the Burnout series too, but those games were buried under all their bad games. Now that Acclaim has been "resurrected", let's hope they have good management and publish good games 8)
$250 per driver is certainly affordable for those companies, but it's still a lot more than it could be. This certification thing is probably a good (though small) cash cow for Microsoft.
What they really have to do is make cheaper, funner games. XBox Live Arcade is a start.
All I'm saying is if one guy can completely re-do Super Mario Bros 3 (Mario Adventure), certainly Nintendo could do the same and put it on, say, their Revolution portal for a few bucks.
I'm talking about new games that feel old, or old games completely re-done, not the Super Mario Advance series and definately not (shudder) the Classic NES Series.
I guess that's a long way of saying I want "indie" games (whether or not actually made by "indie" companies) that are cheap, fun, and high in number.
Re:All those new and better controllers are nice..
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"Try turning the Revolution controller on it's side..."
Exactly. I hope they use this configuration a lot. The controller still senses tilt and movement, too.
" Its not a crappy reason if it can be played on a Revolution and use the new controller for new gameplay."
So?
Make the Gamecube version now and put the Revo features in a re-release of the game two years later that Nintendo mails to you for proof of ownership of 5 Revo games. Or something.
I hope they're using this time to make the game better for the GameCubem and not to add Revo functionality. Every time Nintendo announces another delay, people (or at least me) anticipate more dungeons. If they are truly using this time wisely, this could be a stellar game, but it'll be a big disappointement if it doesn't deliver.
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Psh, it's my opinion that Sega is doing this for the money and for the money alone. Either Sony or Microsoft would have been smart to approach them; then they'd really have something to compete Nintendo with nostalgia-wise (Xbox's curent arcade not really doing it).
Then again, Nintendo hasn't boasted any real exclusivity of the Genesis console anyway. Sony/MS should be pursuing that if you ask me.
C'mon man, haven't you been listening to Iwata? Less is more ;D
Oh wow, new NES, SNES, and N64 games... That's awesome! Unlikely given its current legality, but I hope this game makes it on the Revo somehow. (Well, not a big deal to me, I've already finished it twice).
*nerd sees article* "Noooooooooooo!"
Ooh, taking an article about a delay/vapourware and making a Duke Nukem Forever joke about it. While we're being original, I'd like to take this time to say that I for one welcome our new delayed operating system overlords ;)
Homer: "Take a look at your beloved candidates, they're nothing but hideous space reptiles!" (unmasks them)
Kang: "Yes, it's true, we're evil aliens, but there's nothing you can do about it. It's a two-party system! You'll have to vote for one of us!"
Guy in Crowd: "Well I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate!"
Kang: "Go ahead, throw your vote away! Hahahahahaha"
Well, a two month delay reported 7 or so months in advance is pretty responsible. You know, perhaps more responsible than, say, insisting your console will be out in Spring until a couple weeks before Spring arrives and saying it's delayed in the fall ;)
Yeah sorry, I like video games too much and will find a way to force them into the conversation no matter how innappropriate. But you know, it's sort of similar. "I was going to buy a 360 but the PS3 is supposed to come out soon". The fact is, Microsoft announced a rather smallish delay in a rather largish amount of time.
And in both cases I'd much rather see them take their time. I hope Vista is as good as they say it's going to be (or at least in the ballpark).
"give a man a fish, and he owes you a fish"
... and teach a man to fish, and he owes you royalties for each fish he catches.
... and if he teaches someone else to fish, take him to court with your army of laywers.
All this, of course, benefits society.
Of course, the disaster was caused by the rocket launching to early :/
You're right about the wording, but my guess is that there was a little something lost (or inappropriately gained) in the translation. Making a config file for every GC game, or even just every Nintendo GC game to work with the wand is certainly a little too much to expect.
;)
Hopefully there will be a way to configure the Revo controller so you can use it for GC (and N64, SNES) games in a limited way. We know you can turn it sideways to make it just like a NES controller. But it would be cool if they allowed you to make a motion and tell it "every time I do that for this game, it's like I pressed X". In other words, you wouldn't be able to point at the screen to direct the character, but you could simulate button presses with user-defined motions, to make up for the lack of buttons.
Certainly not practical for all games, but could be cooler than using a GC controller (or shell) for some games (particularily for the SNES, in games that rarely use the X, Y, L, and R buttons). Example: Super Mario World. I could do a small 360 degree twistingg throw to the controller and tell it "when I do that, press X", and that would let me use the rarely used (at least by me) spinning jump.
Maybe this is being done. Remember the Revo ad where Mario jumps whenever the controller is flicked up? Though I'd rather just press the button in that case
BTW, there are a couple games that I do expect to use the Revo controller in a "cool" way, specifically, Duck Hunt, Yoshi's Safari, and other games that used light guns.
Which is why this article is so worthless.
"Uh, we agreed not to take pictues, but, like, it's 'surprisingly' smaller than we expected. So, you know, in case you didn't see all those pictures at E3 showing it being held by hands, this article might be worth a shit".
But since it's about the Revo and they use the term "hands-on", every gaming blog in the Universe has to link to it and give IGN undeserved ad revenue.
"People seem to be in a fevor pitch about the Revolution and PS3, one has to wonder what is going to happen to the Xbox 360. Only a little more than a million have been sold and almost all of the big name games for the console have better pc versions of its games coming out."
Replace "XBox 360" with "Nintendo DS", "Revolution and PS3" with "PSP", and "pc" with "console", and you're getting pretty close to the general feelings of the DS when it launched.
Well, at least they didn't rate it higher than FFVII.
I mean, could you imagine if everyone at a popular, trusted review site had the collective stupidity to say that FFVIII is the greatest game ever to bear the name? Now that would be hilarious!
Wow, 1 millionth unique user...
;)
Those guys who make press releases for Firefox could learn a thing or two from Nintendo
Perhaps it's time to write bills in concise English instead of Legalese.
:(
Think of first-degree murder. Wikipedia (currently) defines first-degree murder in Canada as "the intentional killing of another person with premeditation, in the furtherance of another serious criminal offense (kidnapping, robbery, etc.), or the killing of a peace officer". I can understand that. Whther it's right or not, it's a good example of how laws should be formed IMO.
Just make sure that there's a list somewhere of what constitutes as another "serious criminal offense" (a list that can be used by any other law that uses the term). Peace Officer would also have to be defined but only once, and then every law can use it (surely this is already the way it works, they wouldn't define "peace officer" in each individual law, legalese isn't that bad).
The official law is probably 700 pages long and says basically that, just a whole lot longer. I'm sure there's a 200 page section on what "intentionally" means, about as sure as I am that lawyers and even judges didn't learn the term by reading those 200 pages, but by reading a text-book that outlines the law in, you guessed it, concise English.
Ok, ok, we know lawyers just can't live without legalese, so I'll meet you 50/50. Take what the legalese means, translate it into concise English, put it in bold at the top of the page. Just because congress can't get Executive Privilege, doesn't mean they don't deserve an executive summary.
Make sure that if the law is taken to court, the judge interprets the English part first, and if, and only if, they see a reasonable ambiguity, they move onto the legalese.
And to answer anyone's question, no, I don't know what I'm talking about. But I (and virtually all of us here) do know for a fact the current system is broken, and it must be changed somehow. After all, how could one call a system in which congress passes bills without reading them un-broken?
That's my two long-winded cents. Which is kind of ironic when you think about what the post is about
That was only a minigame within the game, and probably (hopefully) not the funnest (though i'm having trouble downloading the tracker so I wouldn't know).
For more mind-numbing fun, try these games by Videlectrix (of H*R fame)
**Note to mods thiking of rating this redundant**
This post is dated one minute later than the other posts about lasers.
"but when the hell has Boob Raider been critically acclaimed?"
At this point and this point.
I wouldn't know, I never played it myself precisely because of the big boobies. Not that I don't like big boobies, but history has taught us that they're used to sell shitty products, so I've always discriminated againt them in cases like this.
*horrified victim in a zombie movie* NO! Noooo! Nooooo! *runs away, but not quickly enough. . . Dead.*
I've always hated Acclaim's games and marketing strategies (but especially the games). Some of the really old stuff was good, but they just turned into an uncreative, "bottom-line" company that wasn't afraid to release horrific games that tarnish the reputation of the licenses they use. ECW Hardcore Revolution anyone?
The last great game they published IMO was Aggresive Inline. A lot of the good features in THPS4 were on Aggressive Inline first. Plus, they started the Burnout series too, but those games were buried under all their bad games. Now that Acclaim has been "resurrected", let's hope they have good management and publish good games 8)
$250 per driver is certainly affordable for those companies, but it's still a lot more than it could be. This certification thing is probably a good (though small) cash cow for Microsoft.
"I would miss that sensation of the subwoofer..."
:D
All right, Dolby, it's time for new system: 2.4 Surround Sound
Actually, no, just to be on the safe side, let's make it 0.6. That's zero regular speakers, and six subwooofers. Oh man, that would be sweet/inane.
What they really have to do is make cheaper, funner games. XBox Live Arcade is a start.
All I'm saying is if one guy can completely re-do Super Mario Bros 3 (Mario Adventure), certainly Nintendo could do the same and put it on, say, their Revolution portal for a few bucks.
I'm talking about new games that feel old, or old games completely re-done, not the Super Mario Advance series and definately not (shudder) the Classic NES Series.
I guess that's a long way of saying I want "indie" games (whether or not actually made by "indie" companies) that are cheap, fun, and high in number.
"Try turning the Revolution controller on it's side..."
Exactly. I hope they use this configuration a lot. The controller still senses tilt and movement, too.
Probably some time around the point where Nintendo forbade companies to make games for any platform besides the NES.
I still say the grandparent is flamebait, though.
" Its not a crappy reason if it can be played on a Revolution and use the new controller for new gameplay."
So?
Make the Gamecube version now and put the Revo features in a re-release of the game two years later that Nintendo mails to you for proof of ownership of 5 Revo games. Or something.
I hope they're using this time to make the game better for the GameCubem and not to add Revo functionality. Every time Nintendo announces another delay, people (or at least me) anticipate more dungeons. If they are truly using this time wisely, this could be a stellar game, but it'll be a big disappointement if it doesn't deliver.