speaking from experience and memory (which is a little hazy in the first place:() the button is in the topmost and leftmost area of the wiimote, the diameter of the button is less than half a centimetre and seems to be of the "hold for x seconds" design principle. I have yet to test it out in a match (mainly because I'm always winning:) though. It seems though that the "charge meter" play mechanic will be a thing of the past on the Wii, since for the most part (at least in WiiSports) the power and direction of a shot is determined by the speed, direction, and spin of your swing.
The biggest thing I've noticed about the Wii is just the amount of polish on the system. Much like the original release of the iPod (even though I hate iPods) the Wii just feels like it was ready for market. Everything about its interface and control set up is very intuitive. Keep in mind though, that I haven't set it up online yet, and I hear that the online stuff is having some issues. I imagine it is something like the average slashdotting a website might take, except multiplied by 10, and accompanied by elephant riding monkeys on ecstasy all showing up at once at Nintendo's server farms.
You're damn right, speaking as a university student I'd sell my blood for cereal money if I could. Those suckers at Red Cross aren't going to get my blood for free you know.
true story, I bought a "broken" xbox off a guy for $5, opened it up, re-soldered the power cable base, then reveled in the glory of a (at the time) $250 gaming machine working perfectly. I was originally buying it just to Frankenstein my other broken one back to life, but who's counting anywat. . .
My friends and I had some good times with Deathrow. There's nothing quite like an 8 player smackdown in it. The only problem is that after a few matches we'd all come away from it with black eyes, bloody noses, and hoarse voices. I don't think there was a more competitive game in that entire generation, and I for one would like to see a sequel on the Xbox360 or better yet, on the Wii. I imagine my weekly expenditure would have to include the price of broken Wiimotes from every friday night though:(
I think the idea is that, for a game that hasn't been released we can imagine all these nifty features the game could have but when the game actually comes out it can never live up to the imagined greatness that a few minutes of alpha footage can bring. I was excited about the Mac version when I heard about it, they were calling for some form of human vs covenant epic online battle for the ringworlds. Being a game from back in the day, what like 1998 it sounded legendary. When I heard that Microsoft bought them I thought "well that's a bummer." When it came out I still thought it was a good game, even though it wasn't the hundreds of people playing online in the same match, military power versus military power, MMO action shooter that many of us imagined it was going to be.
bottom line: Curse Microsoft for not magically making Bungie exceed the impossibly high expectations of the common internet fuckwad.
I thought "Bang Bus" was just offering them rides, that "Pimp my black teen" was a charity makeover! I thought that "Black meat white treat" was for giving girls a viable alternative to dieting, that "I'm 18" was a celebration for their birthdays! I thought the girls on "Captain Stabbin's" cruise wanted to go swimming, that "pump that ass" was all about female satisfaction! Most of all, I thought "facial humiliation" was about giving downtrodden girls a shot of much needed encouragement.
unfortunately it is difficult for the younger gamers to come up with the approximate $1250 to be able to enjoy all three from the get go. This leads me back to the argument that they (Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo) should just give away a certain percentage of their stock in boxes of cheerios. I mean, they're already paying out the ass to subsidize (well not Nintendo, but that's just how they roll) them, but the $500 in our pockets launch day could be better spent on software and accessories. . .
So let me get this straight the robots think we taste like pork and cheese and the aliens think we taste like chicken. Let's face it guys and gals, we're doomed!
it is unfortunate how the "system" works, I mean assuming Nintendo makes a profit of $1 USD on each system, and Sony subsidizes the PS3 by $20 USD (I know both are gross underestimates) as far as profit goes Nintendo (assuming 5 million consoles) would have 5 million dollars and Sony, (assuming a supply of 4 hundred thousand PS3s) in the hole by $8 million. Hell, even if Nintendo gave a quarter of their consoles away in specially marked boxes of cheerios they'd still be a leg up from Sony. . .
Either way though, I'll have them all once the price is right.
Actually, now that I think about it why don't Sony or Nintendo just covertly set up their own eBay auctions, dedicated 10% of their stock to these auctions and then have a completely justified sale price of upwards to 200% or 300% the regular price tag?
to clear things up:
Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a sequel/clone of X-Men Legends which is a clone of the console version of Fallout which is a clone of Champions of Norrath which is a clone of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance which if I recall correctly started the sort of RPG/scrolling beat'em up genre, though it probably came as a console-friendly evolution from the earlier successes of Diablo and Icewind Dale.
I do agree that the list of working backwards compatible games this makes the Xbox360 look foolish, but I'd be like half-way to affording a PS3 if I got a nickel for every time a Sony fanboy told me that PS3 is "so totally awesome because it is guaranteed to play all my PS1/PS2 games!!!!" I thought one of the better points of the PS3 was guaranteed backwards compatibility by including the old hardware.
umm I think you should read the GP's post again. . . I don't mean to put words in their mouth, but I think they were saying that it is not possible to patrol the border with human guards which currently leaves land mines as the only alternative. Having these robot sentry guards gives another presumably less evil/underhanded alternative to consider using in the stead of land mines. Please don't be so quick to fly off the handle in the future.
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I fixed that link for you. . . http://www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Truth-Incomveni ent/dp/B000ICL3KG/sr=1-3/qid=1158270805/ there are few things lower than trolling slashdot for reference points.
but even if its just multiple choice text adventures, at least the wiimote can be used like a mouse to select your option.
I dunno... some people get pretty violent with their wiis.
Most importantly, you could have real time weapon switching!!!
speaking from experience and memory (which is a little hazy in the first place :() the button is in the topmost and leftmost area of the wiimote, the diameter of the button is less than half a centimetre and seems to be of the "hold for x seconds" design principle. I have yet to test it out in a match (mainly because I'm always winning :) though. It seems though that the "charge meter" play mechanic will be a thing of the past on the Wii, since for the most part (at least in WiiSports) the power and direction of a shot is determined by the speed, direction, and spin of your swing.
The biggest thing I've noticed about the Wii is just the amount of polish on the system. Much like the original release of the iPod (even though I hate iPods) the Wii just feels like it was ready for market. Everything about its interface and control set up is very intuitive. Keep in mind though, that I haven't set it up online yet, and I hear that the online stuff is having some issues. I imagine it is something like the average slashdotting a website might take, except multiplied by 10, and accompanied by elephant riding monkeys on ecstasy all showing up at once at Nintendo's server farms.
You're damn right, speaking as a university student I'd sell my blood for cereal money if I could. Those suckers at Red Cross aren't going to get my blood for free you know.
holy shit a negative opinion of the Wii on slashdot that doesn't reek of fanboyism??? maybe those nano machines have started invading already. . . http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/1 7/1712229
you can get that in diet??? Man I miss code red. . .
true story, I bought a "broken" xbox off a guy for $5, opened it up, re-soldered the power cable base, then reveled in the glory of a (at the time) $250 gaming machine working perfectly. I was originally buying it just to Frankenstein my other broken one back to life, but who's counting anywat. . .
Finally I can confirm my suspicion. . . Leeroy was botting!!!!
My friends and I had some good times with Deathrow. There's nothing quite like an 8 player smackdown in it. The only problem is that after a few matches we'd all come away from it with black eyes, bloody noses, and hoarse voices. I don't think there was a more competitive game in that entire generation, and I for one would like to see a sequel on the Xbox360 or better yet, on the Wii. I imagine my weekly expenditure would have to include the price of broken Wiimotes from every friday night though :(
Hey I liked it. . . Though I think they should have just called it "Find the money sacs"
the funny thing is that this post would have been modded funny if you didn't say "Fuck Metal Gear"
and do any bots do 50 man raids? I think the point still stands.
I thought Microsoft was the greenest company on earth to begin with... Green with little pocket-sized portraits of Benjamin Franklin that is.
I think the idea is that, for a game that hasn't been released we can imagine all these nifty features the game could have but when the game actually comes out it can never live up to the imagined greatness that a few minutes of alpha footage can bring. I was excited about the Mac version when I heard about it, they were calling for some form of human vs covenant epic online battle for the ringworlds. Being a game from back in the day, what like 1998 it sounded legendary. When I heard that Microsoft bought them I thought "well that's a bummer." When it came out I still thought it was a good game, even though it wasn't the hundreds of people playing online in the same match, military power versus military power, MMO action shooter that many of us imagined it was going to be.
bottom line: Curse Microsoft for not magically making Bungie exceed the impossibly high expectations of the common internet fuckwad.
Really?????
I thought "Bang Bus" was just offering them rides, that "Pimp my black teen" was a charity makeover! I thought that "Black meat white treat" was for giving girls a viable alternative to dieting, that "I'm 18" was a celebration for their birthdays! I thought the girls on "Captain Stabbin's" cruise wanted to go swimming, that "pump that ass" was all about female satisfaction! Most of all, I thought "facial humiliation" was about giving downtrodden girls a shot of much needed encouragement.
unfortunately it is difficult for the younger gamers to come up with the approximate $1250 to be able to enjoy all three from the get go. This leads me back to the argument that they (Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo) should just give away a certain percentage of their stock in boxes of cheerios. I mean, they're already paying out the ass to subsidize (well not Nintendo, but that's just how they roll) them, but the $500 in our pockets launch day could be better spent on software and accessories. . .
So let me get this straight the robots think we taste like pork and cheese and the aliens think we taste like chicken. Let's face it guys and gals, we're doomed!
it is unfortunate how the "system" works, I mean assuming Nintendo makes a profit of $1 USD on each system, and Sony subsidizes the PS3 by $20 USD (I know both are gross underestimates) as far as profit goes Nintendo (assuming 5 million consoles) would have 5 million dollars and Sony, (assuming a supply of 4 hundred thousand PS3s) in the hole by $8 million. Hell, even if Nintendo gave a quarter of their consoles away in specially marked boxes of cheerios they'd still be a leg up from Sony. . .
Either way though, I'll have them all once the price is right.
Actually, now that I think about it why don't Sony or Nintendo just covertly set up their own eBay auctions, dedicated 10% of their stock to these auctions and then have a completely justified sale price of upwards to 200% or 300% the regular price tag?
whoosh.
to clear things up: Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a sequel/clone of X-Men Legends which is a clone of the console version of Fallout which is a clone of Champions of Norrath which is a clone of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance which if I recall correctly started the sort of RPG/scrolling beat'em up genre, though it probably came as a console-friendly evolution from the earlier successes of Diablo and Icewind Dale.
I do agree that the list of working backwards compatible games this makes the Xbox360 look foolish, but I'd be like half-way to affording a PS3 if I got a nickel for every time a Sony fanboy told me that PS3 is "so totally awesome because it is guaranteed to play all my PS1/PS2 games!!!!" I thought one of the better points of the PS3 was guaranteed backwards compatibility by including the old hardware.
umm I think you should read the GP's post again. . . I don't mean to put words in their mouth, but I think they were saying that it is not possible to patrol the border with human guards which currently leaves land mines as the only alternative. Having these robot sentry guards gives another presumably less evil/underhanded alternative to consider using in the stead of land mines. Please don't be so quick to fly off the handle in the future.
. . .But I welcome these delays on the condition that when the game does come out it is truly better than it would have been without delays. . .