Ok, honestly, I don't expect people to go through every damn comment before they post, or even to use the browser's find feature to quickly seach up a word (which I do quite a lot), but there's over 100 comments and some people still think they were the first to find the mistake?
And why even bother pointing it out... it's not like someone's going to look at that mistake and think "yeah 450 billion, that sounds about right", so it's not informative. There's no zinger here, so it's not funny. Most people here wouldn't see Slashdot letting a typo through as "interesting" (unless this is their first time here, and I do mean first). It's certainly not "Insightful", so what the hell? Is Slashdot having some contest I'm not aware of where they hand out awards if you find meaningless typos?
"Fictionally speaking, he just wasn't available for fisticuffs."
Fictionally speaking, who gives a shit? He's a video game character, he can do whatever the hell he wants. What's next? "Oh, we had this awesome idea for a minigame in Halo 3, but fictionally speaking, it just didn't make any sense for the storyline, so we scrapped it.".
That's the kind of bullshit that makes me avoid many of the sports games currently on the market.
Luckily, they probably just said that as a way of sidestepping the real issue. Bungie didn't want their main character in Tecmo's game. I hope that's the case. I really do.
Unfortunately, the one good game* on the PSP that isn't a PS2 port (Lumines) probably would have been a PS2 game in the first place if the PSP hadn't existed, but Sony probably paid Q Entertainment to make it for the PSP and PSP only in a scheme to sell PSPs.
But I don't really care, the magic of Lumines died for me pretty quickly playing on a friend's PSP. The skins were really awesome though, I'd like to see that kind of thing spread to a real* puzzle game like Tetris Attack.
* No, I'm not exaggerating when I say that, so please reply to my post with "Hey man, x game is totally great and not on the PS2 you dumbass" or "Hey, Lumines is real puzzle game! Just because you can solve it deterministically doesn't mean it's not fun, you jerk!" [/sarcasm]
So you're saying that just because the government suspected them of being terrorists, they can do whatever they want with them? You ask about how the grandparent feels about victims of terrorism to justify a "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.
So if I came up to you on the street, I could just say "I think you're a terrorist" and shoot you in the head, right? After all, think of the victims of terrorist acts that you might have been a part of.
Grandparent doesn't talk about guns at all after point #1. Guns =/= weapons. I don't see anything about not wanting stats (the contrary is suggested, actually).
I agree with the poster that having armor or a better weapon going into a fight is unfair.
Tangent: You know what might be fun? 4 on 4 Smash Bros over a large area with capture the flag rules and stamina mode turned on (ie run out of health as opposed to accumulating damage).
I was under the impression that the next Smash has been in development for a while. How are they supposed to make an amazing game with less that a year before the release of the Revo?
They say they might be putting 50 people on the project, but that will only go so far. The old adage of "hiring 9 pregnant women to produce a baby in a month" comes to mind.
They have a lot of work to do: Revo controller setup, online play, new characters, new arenas, hopefully a better 1P Adventure mode, new 1P modes, more customization... this could be a bigger jump than the one from the original to Melee if they do it right. That takes a lot of resources (ie its own office), but it'll be a big deal because it will be a huge hook to sell consoles.
And if they make another one about two thirds into the Revo's life, I'd pick it up right away as long it represented another big jump.
"because of graphics, coding, voice acting, cinema scenes and everything else gamers expect, cost more to make."
You want me to pay for:
Graphics: Have little to do with gameplay. Sure you need good frame-rate, low popup, and distinct colouring, but that's actually achieved best with minimalist graphics, which cost less to develop.
Coding: More coding = more unneccessarily complicated = less fun. When I look back at my favourite games, it's their deceptive simplicity that keeps me coming back. Yeah, I guess "deceptively simple" still requires a lot of coding, but that goes against my argument so let's forget I said that.
Voice Acting: Fuck this. I don't really use that word awfully often, so that means I really hate it. I personally prefer reading text, but I do enjoy games with voice. But why pay a celebrity to do voices? Shit, I better buy this game, it stars celebrity x. Yeah, and I know that's why a lot of uninformed people buy games too. Dammit.
Cinima Scenes. Oh God. Don't even get me started. I have two points against this one. One, I didn't buy a game to watch a screen with my controller aside for half of it. Two, blockbuster movies cost like $25. Yeah, I know the lower price is due to the fact that they sell a lot more of them, but again, against my argument... I know I've said that twice, but I hope you still understand the fundamental stuff I'm talking about.
Can I please see a few more games like Alien Hominid? Not speaking from a genre point of view, just the style of the game. I think the XBox360 Live Arcade is a step in the right direction, but I'd rather see new games with old-style graphics, not the other way around, which is what I'm seeing from a lot of those games (ie Joust, Smash TV).
This whole post just wrote itself. It took like 2 minutes to write it. That means I feel strongly about it. You should probably take that with a grain of salt... I'm just saying.
Nintendo overvalues their old games like crazy. NES classics on the GBA, what were those, like $20? I'm expecting Nintendo to charge $5 for NES game, $10 for a SNES game, and $15 for an N64 game best-case scenario.
What they should do (and probably will) is bundle about $50 of download money with the Revo. That way, people will be like "$300, but I can buy up to $50 worth of old games, so it's only really $250". Even though in reality the "$50" won't stretch nearly as far as you'll want it to.
"Ultimately, folks like YOU can become representative, senator, and president. So stop moaning and start getting elected."
To roughly take a quote from the Daily Show:
"Yes, anybody in our country be president, it's just that only rich, old, white men associated with powerful corporations and a political family happen to aspire for that dream"
You know, even when votes weren't controlled by special interest groups and that jazz, democracy has always had that one unfortunate flaw... tyranny of the majority. It's really hard to find a system that works for everyone, eh?
" Depends on the screen. If your HDTV anything but CRT you are unfortunately SOL for zapper guns.
Hey, that just got me thinking. The Revo controller will come in handy when you download Duck Hunt and the old SuperScope games... a good way to relive those games on any new-fangled TV... though for best results it'd be nice to be able to attach the Revo controller to something more gun shaped.
"After the last two Big N consoles I am amazing [sic] about the followers they still maintain"
It's not about "I'm loyal to this company", it's about "Wow, this company makes games I really like, I'm going to buy their future games and consoles".
In the grand scheme of things, Sega's games were pretty similar to Nintendo's, and I loved the games from both companies. But in my eyes, Sega fucked up big time (repeatedly), whereas Nintendo not so much. A Virtual Boy and a couple bad games, compared to Sega, which abandoned three consoles (CD, 32X, Saturn). Now of course, some people might have been "Those Sega consoles were awesome, whereas Nintendo screwed up", but this is just my account.
I had a Genesis when I was a kid, not a SNES, but then for the next wave I had an N64 and a PS1. By and large, I liked what I saw in the N64 much more. I wasn't connected to the internet at the time really, so I didn't know that the N64 was a failure. It was news to me. So when most people are "jumping ship" from Nintendo's stuff, I was jumping onto the ship. The big reason a lot of people left, of course, was because the type of games they liked were made by companies that preferred to make their games on developer-friendly PS1. But as for me, I got a Cube at launch, and only got a PS2 much later, for rhythm games.
Now the Revo's coming out and I'm excited about the new controls offered here. I do fear that the next Smash Bros will focus too much on the new gimmick plus online play and not enough on new content: new characters, moves, arenas, options, strategic elements, etc.
Where was I? Oh right. I got lost there. So the moral of the story is if a company keeps making games that a segment of the market likes, that segment will be "loyal" to them. And by "loyal", I mean they will keeping buying games and consoles that they enjoy, which entails that company.
The reason Nintendo seems to have a much more "loyal" market is because their games tend to attract a certain segment of gamers (that would include me), and other companies don't make games quite like them (lots of exceptions... Katamari Damacy...). On the flip side, since their 3rd party support is poor, people who like other types of games have avoided the Cube. Because of this, the Cube is pretty distanced from the other two consoles in terms of what it offers (for better and/or worse).
What I never understood when I was younger was how different people enjoyed different games. I was like "why does x console sell so much and y console so little when y makes better games?". I used to be on System Wars forums comparing the scores of games, etc. But that was really stupid. How can you compare games when no one has the same tastes? It's like saying apples are better than oranges. What a worthless thing to do.
Gamespot is particularily poor with this. They give a "Good Taste" award to people who have games with high Gamespot scores. What a stupid thing to do. Obviously, some games are difinitively better than others; Zelda is better than Big Rigs, but scores are ridiculously subective. I love games that have gotten 6s from Gamespot, and hate games that have gotten a 9.
And that's the looooooooooooong way of explaining why some people keep buying Nintendo games. They don't do it because they're blindly "loyal" or some stupid shit like that. They haven't "toughed it out" and kept paying for bad consoles and games just to support their favourite company. They (read: we) just like the games.
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Ok, honestly, I don't expect people to go through every damn comment before they post, or even to use the browser's find feature to quickly seach up a word (which I do quite a lot), but there's over 100 comments and some people still think they were the first to find the mistake?
And why even bother pointing it out... it's not like someone's going to look at that mistake and think "yeah 450 billion, that sounds about right", so it's not informative. There's no zinger here, so it's not funny. Most people here wouldn't see Slashdot letting a typo through as "interesting" (unless this is their first time here, and I do mean first). It's certainly not "Insightful", so what the hell? Is Slashdot having some contest I'm not aware of where they hand out awards if you find meaningless typos?
Sorry... rant over.
"Fictionally speaking, he just wasn't available for fisticuffs."
Fictionally speaking, who gives a shit? He's a video game character, he can do whatever the hell he wants. What's next? "Oh, we had this awesome idea for a minigame in Halo 3, but fictionally speaking, it just didn't make any sense for the storyline, so we scrapped it.".
That's the kind of bullshit that makes me avoid many of the sports games currently on the market.
Luckily, they probably just said that as a way of sidestepping the real issue. Bungie didn't want their main character in Tecmo's game. I hope that's the case. I really do.
Why would they have to use flash at all? You can change font size with Firefox and even IE without using flash, why is font type so much harder to do?
Unfortunately, the one good game* on the PSP that isn't a PS2 port (Lumines) probably would have been a PS2 game in the first place if the PSP hadn't existed, but Sony probably paid Q Entertainment to make it for the PSP and PSP only in a scheme to sell PSPs.
But I don't really care, the magic of Lumines died for me pretty quickly playing on a friend's PSP. The skins were really awesome though, I'd like to see that kind of thing spread to a real* puzzle game like Tetris Attack.
* No, I'm not exaggerating when I say that, so please reply to my post with "Hey man, x game is totally great and not on the PS2 you dumbass" or "Hey, Lumines is real puzzle game! Just because you can solve it deterministically doesn't mean it's not fun, you jerk!" [/sarcasm]
So Sony says true HD won't be out until the Sony PS3 eh?
And I'm pretty sure any company x will say hot buzzword y won't truly be available until x's product z which features y comes out.
Let me try. S-CORE* technology won't reach its peak until the Headcase, um, SilverStar is released. Yeah.
*I made that term up. Please shoot me if it actually exists.
And that closes the circle right back to silicon! Looks like the administration does care about electronics after all ;)
So you're saying that just because the government suspected them of being terrorists, they can do whatever they want with them? You ask about how the grandparent feels about victims of terrorism to justify a "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.
So if I came up to you on the street, I could just say "I think you're a terrorist" and shoot you in the head, right? After all, think of the victims of terrorist acts that you might have been a part of.
Grandparent doesn't talk about guns at all after point #1. Guns =/= weapons. I don't see anything about not wanting stats (the contrary is suggested, actually).
I agree with the poster that having armor or a better weapon going into a fight is unfair.
Tangent: You know what might be fun? 4 on 4 Smash Bros over a large area with capture the flag rules and stamina mode turned on (ie run out of health as opposed to accumulating damage).
"A game designed for casual play may not get a high score because of this slanted perspective, but still sell extremely well."
The Mario Party series comes to my mind.
"[Daikatana] was panned..."
This statement is true.
Wow, squeeze sensor, that'd be cool...
But I also put my money on the mic.
I was under the impression that the next Smash has been in development for a while. How are they supposed to make an amazing game with less that a year before the release of the Revo?
They say they might be putting 50 people on the project, but that will only go so far. The old adage of "hiring 9 pregnant women to produce a baby in a month" comes to mind.
They have a lot of work to do: Revo controller setup, online play, new characters, new arenas, hopefully a better 1P Adventure mode, new 1P modes, more customization... this could be a bigger jump than the one from the original to Melee if they do it right. That takes a lot of resources (ie its own office), but it'll be a big deal because it will be a huge hook to sell consoles.
And if they make another one about two thirds into the Revo's life, I'd pick it up right away as long it represented another big jump.
See subject..
You want me to pay for:
Can I please see a few more games like Alien Hominid? Not speaking from a genre point of view, just the style of the game. I think the XBox360 Live Arcade is a step in the right direction, but I'd rather see new games with old-style graphics, not the other way around, which is what I'm seeing from a lot of those games (ie Joust, Smash TV).
This whole post just wrote itself. It took like 2 minutes to write it. That means I feel strongly about it. You should probably take that with a grain of salt... I'm just saying.
Next up: Tetris the Movie (see special features)
Alternatively, I could have used this link. They're both good choices.
"How long does it take to vandalize a store again?"
This is a very good point. If I was the type, I would deliberatly egg any store that had this device, and stop egging stores that don't.
I would think this device would be illegal. It's designed to drive teenagers away since they all "hang around being rude" and adults don't.
Why not make a machine that reacts with melanin to drive away "those trouble-making negroes"? It's the same damn concept.
NES games for 99 cents, I wish.
Nintendo overvalues their old games like crazy. NES classics on the GBA, what were those, like $20? I'm expecting Nintendo to charge $5 for NES game, $10 for a SNES game, and $15 for an N64 game best-case scenario.
What they should do (and probably will) is bundle about $50 of download money with the Revo. That way, people will be like "$300, but I can buy up to $50 worth of old games, so it's only really $250". Even though in reality the "$50" won't stretch nearly as far as you'll want it to.
"Ultimately, folks like YOU can become representative, senator, and president. So stop moaning and start getting elected."
To roughly take a quote from the Daily Show:
"Yes, anybody in our country be president, it's just that only rich, old, white men associated with powerful corporations and a political family happen to aspire for that dream"
You know, even when votes weren't controlled by special interest groups and that jazz, democracy has always had that one unfortunate flaw... tyranny of the majority. It's really hard to find a system that works for everyone, eh?
" Depends on the screen. If your HDTV anything but CRT you are unfortunately SOL for zapper guns.
Hey, that just got me thinking. The Revo controller will come in handy when you download Duck Hunt and the old SuperScope games... a good way to relive those games on any new-fangled TV... though for best results it'd be nice to be able to attach the Revo controller to something more gun shaped.
"Can't imagine why they think getting it out in time for Christmas is in any way important!"
Kids ask Mom for a computer for Christmas, Mom buys one, packaged with Vista.
It... matters.
Now maybe you'll think before sitting oon the photocopier and having to call in some poor technician who wants to enjoy Christmas with his family...
But thanks to our good friend alchohol, it'll probably go more like "I probably shouldn't... oh, fuck the technician, this is too awesome to pass up!"
"We want to get them playing and happy and buying games!"
;)
Well, they've got their priorities straight. At least they're honest
"After the last two Big N consoles I am amazing [sic] about the followers they still maintain"
It's not about "I'm loyal to this company", it's about "Wow, this company makes games I really like, I'm going to buy their future games and consoles".
In the grand scheme of things, Sega's games were pretty similar to Nintendo's, and I loved the games from both companies. But in my eyes, Sega fucked up big time (repeatedly), whereas Nintendo not so much. A Virtual Boy and a couple bad games, compared to Sega, which abandoned three consoles (CD, 32X, Saturn). Now of course, some people might have been "Those Sega consoles were awesome, whereas Nintendo screwed up", but this is just my account.
I had a Genesis when I was a kid, not a SNES, but then for the next wave I had an N64 and a PS1. By and large, I liked what I saw in the N64 much more. I wasn't connected to the internet at the time really, so I didn't know that the N64 was a failure. It was news to me. So when most people are "jumping ship" from Nintendo's stuff, I was jumping onto the ship. The big reason a lot of people left, of course, was because the type of games they liked were made by companies that preferred to make their games on developer-friendly PS1. But as for me, I got a Cube at launch, and only got a PS2 much later, for rhythm games.
Now the Revo's coming out and I'm excited about the new controls offered here. I do fear that the next Smash Bros will focus too much on the new gimmick plus online play and not enough on new content: new characters, moves, arenas, options, strategic elements, etc.
Where was I? Oh right. I got lost there. So the moral of the story is if a company keeps making games that a segment of the market likes, that segment will be "loyal" to them. And by "loyal", I mean they will keeping buying games and consoles that they enjoy, which entails that company.
The reason Nintendo seems to have a much more "loyal" market is because their games tend to attract a certain segment of gamers (that would include me), and other companies don't make games quite like them (lots of exceptions... Katamari Damacy...). On the flip side, since their 3rd party support is poor, people who like other types of games have avoided the Cube. Because of this, the Cube is pretty distanced from the other two consoles in terms of what it offers (for better and/or worse).
What I never understood when I was younger was how different people enjoyed different games. I was like "why does x console sell so much and y console so little when y makes better games?". I used to be on System Wars forums comparing the scores of games, etc. But that was really stupid. How can you compare games when no one has the same tastes? It's like saying apples are better than oranges. What a worthless thing to do.
Gamespot is particularily poor with this. They give a "Good Taste" award to people who have games with high Gamespot scores. What a stupid thing to do. Obviously, some games are difinitively better than others; Zelda is better than Big Rigs, but scores are ridiculously subective. I love games that have gotten 6s from Gamespot, and hate games that have gotten a 9.
And that's the looooooooooooong way of explaining why some people keep buying Nintendo games. They don't do it because they're blindly "loyal" or some stupid shit like that. They haven't "toughed it out" and kept paying for bad consoles and games just to support their favourite company. They (read: we) just like the games.