AKA casual gamers and thank our new overlords... oh, a shiny penny! my, back when I was a kid, a penny could buy you two pieces of gum or if you had two you could get some candy, and just five and you had a whole bottle of coke...
Um, yeah, casual gamers - it's a lot like being in a candy store. Unlike those hard core gamers who need to buy lots of Depends and energy drinks.
But, on the bright side, lots of pretty women and girls in the casual gaming camp, and... well, you know, there are more important things than gaming, if you get my drift...
there is no such thing as a decent gaming PC for WinVista with less than 2GB of RAM, and a video card with at least 1GB of memory. Oh, and turn off the chrome Aero thing that sucks your system dry.
That's the message they're sending all of us who are now jumping ship to console gaming instead. My next laptop will be either a Mac or Linux - I've had it (and I've owned a Microsoft OS machine since they first shipped them).
Besides, Spore is going to run on the Wii - why wait?
Look, people I trust - including some I used to be in a club with and hung out at their house a lot - have been writing reviews saying if you actually enable the full WinVista, the bare minimum is 1 GB, but the realistic load is more like 2 GB.
We can argue about it - or you can realize that most reviewers are saying this and deal with reality.
That said, though... Guitar Hero on Wii. That single game was the biggest reason I've been tempted, for a long time, to buy a PS2 (there are other games I might play, but nothing else that was worth buying the system). Now, I know I can have it anyway if I just hold out a little while longer.
I agree. I actually have a PS2, but just the idea that I can get Guitar Hero on my Wii makes me want to buy that as well. All the cool girls I know love it.
Whatever. Hey, I noticed your slashdot name is Omicronish - I made a game called Omicron Galactic Clouds back when AD&D had one book (long time ago).
Let's not fight over our personal perceptions of what is suitable OS load - I think I should be able to run a game, have multiple office aps open in the background, and do an automatic file transfer in the background while I'm streaming a full video in a small window on my OS - without disk thrashing.
You have to wonder why Apple would even try to fix bugs that will just be fixed by MSFT in Service Pack 4 for WinVista in the first place.
Seriously, adoption projections have at most 10 percent of Business users adopting WinVista in 2007 - and that's higher than projected Consumer adoption of this "upgraded" OS that requires you to replace all your hardware just to get what you could get in the Mac OS two years ago.
It's more of a workout. Although sometimes I get my son bringing over 4 or 5 teens and only two or three can play at a time, so I guess that means 2 are spectators.
I'm not sure where you're getting that from. Source?
Infoworld, Computerworld, my brother's 72 inch HDTV, my sister's 42 inch HDTV, and my home 32 inch 480p digital TV.
But, hey, pretend you can't see Brad Pitt's pores if you want, I've watched 12 episodes of One Tree Hill on a 72 inch HDTV with my nieces (oh, he's so dreamy...).
If you're talking about the new console Baldurs Gates that are trying to be bad imitations of the original Diablo, they suck and still don't have as good of graphics as Oblivion.
I don't know about that. We popped in a GameCube version of Baldur's Gate into our Wii, and with the extra 2GB memory we got it not only loaded faster, but the graphics showed up way better, with no lag or shimmer or other artifacts. So, just going to a new system can sometimes dramatically improve gameplay and graphics - same would be true of a PS2 game on the PS3 or an xBox game on the 360, mostly due to better graphics, faster loads, and more memory.
And should I even care about it, as a result? From what I've heard, the difference between modern digital TVs (480p) and 1080i or 1080p HDTV sets is pretty minimal unless you're either sitting closer than 4 feet or are sitting 6-8 feet away with more than 40 inch 1080p HDTV.
And isn't one of those games, Call of Duty 3, available on the 360, PS3, and the Wii - so why no Wii comparison?
As a dual citizen of Canada and the US (born here), can people like me or maybe EU citizens opt out of the illegal recording of our private data, which is barred from data collection by international treaty?
And how long before we hack the IP trail of the very same politicos who wish to spy on us and publicize it?
What kind of Perl statistics do you do? (I write Perl and I'm interested in going into observational astronomy with a dash of computational thrown in for good measure.)
Most medical genetics linkage associations for genetic family trees of people with apoB data for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and lipid studies.
One thing about our statistics is you can't use normal curves, as disease distribution has most people either very healthy or very sick, with few in between, so not ever a bell curve.
Can someone please name ONE game that the Wii has that is worth playing?
OK, I'm not a fanboi, but I do have a Wii and I can tell you my reaction to the games.
Top of the line (5 stars): Zelda, Wii Sports (sorry, it's just fun), Trauma Center: 2nd Opinion, Rayman's Raving Rabbids (much more fun on the Wii).
Good (4 stars): Excite Truck, Elebits (yes, I know the voiceover sux, but that's all), any of your GC games you loved (ran Sims 2: Pets and the graphics were so much better on my Wii with 2GB card and no load times or glitches like on my xBox or PS2 or GC)
Um. sorry, those are all the games I've tried. After seeing Red Steel at demo and hearing friends, I skipped it.
Kind of surprised no turkeys so far - I'm sure there are some, but I don't play sports (except maybe FIFA 07 or NHL 07 or if they come out with Cricket 07 or Rugby 07) and mostly avoid FPS (thinking of Call of Duty which is on the Wii I think).
Hope this helps. And it's not just me, I've seen some major reviews bash the PS3 games. Think most of the kinks are worked out of the xBox360, but not real into most of the games on that (if I was sports or FPS, it's a good choice).
It seemed to me that you were trying to make the point that Wii consoles are becoming more available, just through your one experience. I'm just saying that I don't see that as being the case yet. Apologies if that wasn't the point you were trying to make.
Wishful thinking on my part, I guess. But they did have Wii controllers in reasonable supply too.
They said they would probably have sufficient stock by March for the Wii when I asked them at the Costco down south of the stadiums. But that was a month ago.
To me, anecdotal stories like that are rather pointless. All it means is that you were able to find it that one time. One event doesn't mean anything. After all, you could just have been lucky. I can tell you that I haven't been (and I also live in this area).
No, the thing is, this is the first time I've seen any Wii consoles that weren't already about to be sold. I see stacks of PS3 consoles all the time at various locations here, but every time I've seen a Wii, it's in the process of being bought out by someone within a few minutes of appearing.
That was why it was unusual. Just the concept that they actually had more than one.
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AKA casual gamers and thank our new overlords ... oh, a shiny penny! my, back when I was a kid, a penny could buy you two pieces of gum or if you had two you could get some candy, and just five and you had a whole bottle of coke ...
... well, you know, there are more important things than gaming, if you get my drift ...
Um, yeah, casual gamers - it's a lot like being in a candy store. Unlike those hard core gamers who need to buy lots of Depends and energy drinks.
But, on the bright side, lots of pretty women and girls in the casual gaming camp, and
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Thank you for using WinVista!
there is no such thing as a decent gaming PC for WinVista with less than 2GB of RAM, and a video card with at least 1GB of memory. Oh, and turn off the chrome Aero thing that sucks your system dry.
um, modern data indicates most of us are mixed, even when we don't think we are.
But stick with your 20th century thought if you must - the rest of us have better things to do.
That's the message they're sending all of us who are now jumping ship to console gaming instead. My next laptop will be either a Mac or Linux - I've had it (and I've owned a Microsoft OS machine since they first shipped them).
Besides, Spore is going to run on the Wii - why wait?
In WoW, apparently I'm a Care Bear, cause I don't like PvP combat.
I just find it a waste of time, actually.
Look, people I trust - including some I used to be in a club with and hung out at their house a lot - have been writing reviews saying if you actually enable the full WinVista, the bare minimum is 1 GB, but the realistic load is more like 2 GB.
We can argue about it - or you can realize that most reviewers are saying this and deal with reality.
Still convinced we're winning in Iraq?
In fact, from just the club I co-founded at SFU, The GoT, I think half of us went on to become game designers.
Many of us were computer scientists, so making the jump into video games was pretty easy back then.
I think you mean a beowulf cluster of spore-enabled care bears and klingons fighting for interstellar supremacy.
That said, though... Guitar Hero on Wii. That single game was the biggest reason I've been tempted, for a long time, to buy a PS2 (there are other games I might play, but nothing else that was worth buying the system). Now, I know I can have it anyway if I just hold out a little while longer.
I agree. I actually have a PS2, but just the idea that I can get Guitar Hero on my Wii makes me want to buy that as well. All the cool girls I know love it.
No, I love Heart, I just mean Sarah McLachlan, Evanescence, that kind.
And head bang my way to oblivion with my Wii!
Any chance of them getting some female artists for this one?
Whatever. Hey, I noticed your slashdot name is Omicronish - I made a game called Omicron Galactic Clouds back when AD&D had one book (long time ago).
Let's not fight over our personal perceptions of what is suitable OS load - I think I should be able to run a game, have multiple office aps open in the background, and do an automatic file transfer in the background while I'm streaming a full video in a small window on my OS - without disk thrashing.
Which I can do on my son's Mac Mini already.
yada yada yada - sorry, from my couch to the set, don't see what the big deal is.
You have to wonder why Apple would even try to fix bugs that will just be fixed by MSFT in Service Pack 4 for WinVista in the first place.
Seriously, adoption projections have at most 10 percent of Business users adopting WinVista in 2007 - and that's higher than projected Consumer adoption of this "upgraded" OS that requires you to replace all your hardware just to get what you could get in the Mac OS two years ago.
It's more of a workout. Although sometimes I get my son bringing over 4 or 5 teens and only two or three can play at a time, so I guess that means 2 are spectators.
I'm not sure where you're getting that from. Source?
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Infoworld, Computerworld, my brother's 72 inch HDTV, my sister's 42 inch HDTV, and my home 32 inch 480p digital TV.
But, hey, pretend you can't see Brad Pitt's pores if you want, I've watched 12 episodes of One Tree Hill on a 72 inch HDTV with my nieces (oh, he's so dreamy
If you're talking about the new console Baldurs Gates that are trying to be bad imitations of the original Diablo, they suck and still don't have as good of graphics as Oblivion.
I don't know about that. We popped in a GameCube version of Baldur's Gate into our Wii, and with the extra 2GB memory we got it not only loaded faster, but the graphics showed up way better, with no lag or shimmer or other artifacts. So, just going to a new system can sometimes dramatically improve gameplay and graphics - same would be true of a PS2 game on the PS3 or an xBox game on the 360, mostly due to better graphics, faster loads, and more memory.
And should I even care about it, as a result? From what I've heard, the difference between modern digital TVs (480p) and 1080i or 1080p HDTV sets is pretty minimal unless you're either sitting closer than 4 feet or are sitting 6-8 feet away with more than 40 inch 1080p HDTV.
And isn't one of those games, Call of Duty 3, available on the 360, PS3, and the Wii - so why no Wii comparison?
As a dual citizen of Canada and the US (born here), can people like me or maybe EU citizens opt out of the illegal recording of our private data, which is barred from data collection by international treaty?
And how long before we hack the IP trail of the very same politicos who wish to spy on us and publicize it?
What kind of Perl statistics do you do? (I write Perl and I'm interested in going into observational astronomy with a dash of computational thrown in for good measure.)
Most medical genetics linkage associations for genetic family trees of people with apoB data for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and lipid studies.
One thing about our statistics is you can't use normal curves, as disease distribution has most people either very healthy or very sick, with few in between, so not ever a bell curve.
Can someone please name ONE game that the Wii has that is worth playing?
OK, I'm not a fanboi, but I do have a Wii and I can tell you my reaction to the games.
Top of the line (5 stars): Zelda, Wii Sports (sorry, it's just fun), Trauma Center: 2nd Opinion, Rayman's Raving Rabbids (much more fun on the Wii).
Good (4 stars): Excite Truck, Elebits (yes, I know the voiceover sux, but that's all), any of your GC games you loved (ran Sims 2: Pets and the graphics were so much better on my Wii with 2GB card and no load times or glitches like on my xBox or PS2 or GC)
Um. sorry, those are all the games I've tried. After seeing Red Steel at demo and hearing friends, I skipped it.
Kind of surprised no turkeys so far - I'm sure there are some, but I don't play sports (except maybe FIFA 07 or NHL 07 or if they come out with Cricket 07 or Rugby 07) and mostly avoid FPS (thinking of Call of Duty which is on the Wii I think).
Hope this helps. And it's not just me, I've seen some major reviews bash the PS3 games. Think most of the kinks are worked out of the xBox360, but not real into most of the games on that (if I was sports or FPS, it's a good choice).
It seemed to me that you were trying to make the point that Wii consoles are becoming more available, just through your one experience. I'm just saying that I don't see that as being the case yet. Apologies if that wasn't the point you were trying to make.
Wishful thinking on my part, I guess. But they did have Wii controllers in reasonable supply too.
They said they would probably have sufficient stock by March for the Wii when I asked them at the Costco down south of the stadiums. But that was a month ago.
To me, anecdotal stories like that are rather pointless. All it means is that you were able to find it that one time. One event doesn't mean anything. After all, you could just have been lucky. I can tell you that I haven't been (and I also live in this area).
No, the thing is, this is the first time I've seen any Wii consoles that weren't already about to be sold. I see stacks of PS3 consoles all the time at various locations here, but every time I've seen a Wii, it's in the process of being bought out by someone within a few minutes of appearing.
That was why it was unusual. Just the concept that they actually had more than one.