I like to play video games based on the opera while I count my money and feed hobos to my pet lions.
Conservatively, I would estimate that I am 95% of the HDTV market. I buy HDTV's by the truckload and drop them on top of the hobos that survive the lion pit. You can't let a hobo get away with killing a lion. From what I've heard, lions are endangered, while hobos are scientifically classifed as railroad termites.
I'm not a scientist, but I've been known to dress up like one on occasion to scare my dog. For some reason he's terrified of them. Probably because I used to beat him with scientists when he pooed on the rug.
Well, just because you have never even heard of something does not make it false.
A while back there was a stink about Palm Pilots being able to sniff out and emulate car door unlocking codes via IR. Here's a link to a wired article that mentions it. A quick Google will turn up more. You should really hit Google before you hit the bold tag.
Mario Kart DD was a lot of fun. It was nice having two super attacks. The battle mode, though...what the hell were they thinking? It looks like they added it on as the code was going out the door.
Battle mode was what made Mario Kart worth playing over and over again. It was a big disappointment on the Cube version. There were what, two crappy levels?
Mario Kart 64 was the king of the series. It was one of the few N64 games that was worth playing.
For the same reason that wannabe usenet cops won't killfile posters that annoy them. The thought that someone might be talking about them to others without being able to hear it themselves makes their anus clench.
UMD movies just scream "Betamax!" to me every time I see them.
You and approximately 1 billion other armchair analysts. Do you want a round of applause?
I was getting the feeling they were just cheaping me into buying a lot of crap.
You didn't have to keep buying. You can play the other games just fine without the GBA add-ons. That's like blaming Frito-Lay for your giant ass because they keep releasing new flavors of chips.
Nintendo's foray into selling old games is expensive - one NES game per cartridge - give me a break. If for no other reason than not to have a fistful of cartridges when one would suffice - this was obvious customer abuse.
Except, you know, you can play the same games on an old NES for cheap. Or run your emulator, like you're doing. If people are willing to pay for the convenience of legally playing old titles on their GBA, how does that affect you? It doesn't. You just like to bitch.
The worst part about deciding to be the driving force for innovation is simply that your best ideas are easily copied and you just ate all the research and development expenses for the industry.
So what should they do? Sit on their new inventions? Would you rather play on the old ColecoVision controller? You are basically getting angry that they are driving the industry forward. Weird.
I really wanted to play Psychonauts on the Cube, because that room is easier to air condition. But it's not on the Cube at all.
And Pikmin isn't on Sony. So what? That's why there are multiple products to choose from.
I love the Game cube, some of the best games I've played recently are on it. But I need more:
Good lord you are whiny. Waaah, some of my favorite songs are on this CD, but not all of them so I'm going to complain! Waaah! You must be a real pain in the ass to work with.
Nintendo is like the genius child with ADD. Lots of great ideas, but not enough discipline to benefit from them.
Except that, you know, they've been in business for over 100 years, have been in the video game business longer than any of the current players, pull in more profits than any of the other players, have more popular franchises and have dominated the handheld market since they created it.
Nintendo is a failure in much the same way that you are a genius.
How come we only see bad posts for Nintendo and good posts for Sony? Even if there are bad posts for Sony, they are downplayed greatly. Is someone receiving cash on the side somewhere?
Uh...so let me see if I follow you:
- There are no bad posts for Sony.
- There are bad posts for Sony they are just somehow "downplayed."
Your argument is flawed.
The real problem is that the slashdot editors don't actually read the articles they post links to. Or edit the submissions. Or respond to questions. Or take responsibility for the crap they post. Or fix the 1996 vintage comment system. The Sony vs. Nintendo bias is just a result of a much larger issue.
You'll notice that most of the gaming articles come from the same two or three sites. The rest of slashdot comes from boingboing, in general.
I enjoyed my Gamecube (sold it recently to pay for my DS), but you have to admit, the Gamecube looks like a child's lunchbox. Many of them are purple. It has a giant handle. It is the Duplo-LunchPail of consoles.
While the X-box and the PS2 are not shining examples of beautiful design, neither of them look like they might contain a sandwich. The PS3 looks like it might cook a sandwich, and the 360 looks like it is a sandwich, so the tables may turn.
The controls aren't quite a nice when I'm trying to play a football game,
You can buy a $12 adaptor from Radio Shack to use your Dual Shock controllers with your PC. I'm sure they are cheaper if you shop around. They even make multi-adaptors that let you use your X-box/PS2/Cube controllers. Your argument is ill-thought and stupid.
and I can only play multiplayer with people in other buildings over the internet, but I don't want to actually be around my friends anyways.
I know this is going to come as a (dual) shock to you, but you can purchase two of the adaptors and play any number of games on the same screen. (!!!)
Maybe it's time to stop watching Star Trek and dreaming of puppies and get back in the job market. It's affecting your brain.
If you were live-action role playing, and foes were attacking you, would you have a chance to ask them to stop so that you can switch weapons?
Most likely, if you are live action role playing and being attacked you are being attacked BECAUSE you are live action role playing. Thus you deserve the sound beating that is sure to ensue.
Uh...you realize that here in the good ol' USofA, our computers do exactly the same thing? Because, uh, we already have daylight saving time. The "problem" is that they are changing the period of time that it covers.
While I'm sure most PC's will be fixed during the course of their normal updates, there are other devices that don't get regular software updates. The old phone system in the closet getting dusty, for example.
We quickly learned the Xbox 360 games at the show were almost all running on alpha kits, i.e. off-the-shelf PCs with specs equivalent to the 360. Which meant that these machines were also only running at 25%-35% of the console's capacity.
The Beta Kits are simply more powerful than the Alpha Kits. They're a better, closer representation to the final console's power....and so on.
The CDA and COPA were their last efforts to do something about it. Luckily neither of them stuck.
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If all of SMB were like that, then yes, SMB would be claustrophobic and lonely.
It's exactly the same as all the other Mario levels except the background is black and the floor is gray! The creatures are the same. The music is nearly the same. The bricks are the same. The powerups are the same. Why is it lonely and claustrophobic?
Metroid had pretty much the same mechanics and graphical cliches as a boatload of other games from the same time period that nobody gets misty eyed for.
Anyway, you have your opinion. I remain convinced that nostalgia is coloring it. This doesn't detract from the fact that it, and it's sequels, were fun games with excellent level design. I think that "claustrophobic and lonely" is stretching it a bit (or a lot).
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However I think the XBOX is boring, and I know it's the "best" console hardware wise just becuase it came a long time after the others.
The Xbox and GameCube launched at pretty much the same time. The PS2 came out the previous year.
I like to play video games based on the opera while I count my money and feed hobos to my pet lions.
Conservatively, I would estimate that I am 95% of the HDTV market. I buy HDTV's by the truckload and drop them on top of the hobos that survive the lion pit. You can't let a hobo get away with killing a lion. From what I've heard, lions are endangered, while hobos are scientifically classifed as railroad termites.
I'm not a scientist, but I've been known to dress up like one on occasion to scare my dog. For some reason he's terrified of them. Probably because I used to beat him with scientists when he pooed on the rug.
Well, just because you have never even heard of something does not make it false.
A while back there was a stink about Palm Pilots being able to sniff out and emulate car door unlocking codes via IR. Here's a link to a wired article that mentions it. A quick Google will turn up more. You should really hit Google before you hit the bold tag.
Linkee-dinkee-doo.
The Playstation 2 HDD was a miserable failure, as well.
I wrote a perl script to go outside once.
It worked!
I would read the article, but since I see it was posted by Zonk I'm sure it will show up next week in the games section with a different title.
Mario Kart DD was a lot of fun. It was nice having two super attacks. The battle mode, though...what the hell were they thinking? It looks like they added it on as the code was going out the door.
Battle mode was what made Mario Kart worth playing over and over again. It was a big disappointment on the Cube version. There were what, two crappy levels?
Mario Kart 64 was the king of the series. It was one of the few N64 games that was worth playing.
Imagine a pair of lightweight goggles that you wear on your head and full color games!
Yes, if only SomEone had thouGht of thAt.
For the same reason that wannabe usenet cops won't killfile posters that annoy them. The thought that someone might be talking about them to others without being able to hear it themselves makes their anus clench.
In that case, you can redeem yourself by sending me a free copy of the new Advance Wars when it comes out. I'll jot a note so we don't forget.
Thanks!
UMD movies just scream "Betamax!" to me every time I see them.
You and approximately 1 billion other armchair analysts. Do you want a round of applause?
I was getting the feeling they were just cheaping me into buying a lot of crap.
You didn't have to keep buying. You can play the other games just fine without the GBA add-ons. That's like blaming Frito-Lay for your giant ass because they keep releasing new flavors of chips.
Nintendo's foray into selling old games is expensive - one NES game per cartridge - give me a break. If for no other reason than not to have a fistful of cartridges when one would suffice - this was obvious customer abuse.
Except, you know, you can play the same games on an old NES for cheap. Or run your emulator, like you're doing. If people are willing to pay for the convenience of legally playing old titles on their GBA, how does that affect you? It doesn't. You just like to bitch.
The worst part about deciding to be the driving force for innovation is simply that your best ideas are easily copied and you just ate all the research and development expenses for the industry.
So what should they do? Sit on their new inventions? Would you rather play on the old ColecoVision controller? You are basically getting angry that they are driving the industry forward. Weird.
I really wanted to play Psychonauts on the Cube, because that room is easier to air condition. But it's not on the Cube at all.
And Pikmin isn't on Sony. So what? That's why there are multiple products to choose from.
I love the Game cube, some of the best games I've played recently are on it. But I need more:
Good lord you are whiny. Waaah, some of my favorite songs are on this CD, but not all of them so I'm going to complain! Waaah! You must be a real pain in the ass to work with.
Nintendo is like the genius child with ADD. Lots of great ideas, but not enough discipline to benefit from them.
Except that, you know, they've been in business for over 100 years, have been in the video game business longer than any of the current players, pull in more profits than any of the other players, have more popular franchises and have dominated the handheld market since they created it.
Nintendo is a failure in much the same way that you are a genius.
How come we only see bad posts for Nintendo and good posts for Sony? Even if there are bad posts for Sony, they are downplayed greatly. Is someone receiving cash on the side somewhere?
Uh...so let me see if I follow you:
- There are no bad posts for Sony.
- There are bad posts for Sony they are just somehow "downplayed."
Your argument is flawed.
The real problem is that the slashdot editors don't actually read the articles they post links to. Or edit the submissions. Or respond to questions. Or take responsibility for the crap they post. Or fix the 1996 vintage comment system. The Sony vs. Nintendo bias is just a result of a much larger issue.
You'll notice that most of the gaming articles come from the same two or three sites. The rest of slashdot comes from boingboing, in general.
I enjoyed my Gamecube (sold it recently to pay for my DS), but you have to admit, the Gamecube looks like a child's lunchbox. Many of them are purple. It has a giant handle. It is the Duplo-LunchPail of consoles.
While the X-box and the PS2 are not shining examples of beautiful design, neither of them look like they might contain a sandwich. The PS3 looks like it might cook a sandwich, and the 360 looks like it is a sandwich, so the tables may turn.
The controls aren't quite a nice when I'm trying to play a football game,
You can buy a $12 adaptor from Radio Shack to use your Dual Shock controllers with your PC. I'm sure they are cheaper if you shop around. They even make multi-adaptors that let you use your X-box/PS2/Cube controllers. Your argument is ill-thought and stupid.
and I can only play multiplayer with people in other buildings over the internet, but I don't want to actually be around my friends anyways.
I know this is going to come as a (dual) shock to you, but you can purchase two of the adaptors and play any number of games on the same screen. (!!!)
Maybe it's time to stop watching Star Trek and dreaming of puppies and get back in the job market. It's affecting your brain.
Ninty?
For the sake of saving three letters you spout "Ninty" in a public place?
Shame.
If you were live-action role playing, and foes were attacking you, would you have a chance to ask them to stop so that you can switch weapons?
Most likely, if you are live action role playing and being attacked you are being attacked BECAUSE you are live action role playing. Thus you deserve the sound beating that is sure to ensue.
Fetal position for the duration.
It doesn't really work if you explain it. That's when the line seperating eccentric and pretentious is crossed.
Winner Guile
Loser you.
Chrome Hounds is a mech game by From Software and published by Sega.
http://www.xboxyde.com/game_822_en.html
Looks kind of cool from the limited bit of info available.
But how can you be SURE???
If you can come up with that description, you've obviously played it.
Liar.
Uh...you realize that here in the good ol' USofA, our computers do exactly the same thing? Because, uh, we already have daylight saving time. The "problem" is that they are changing the period of time that it covers.
While I'm sure most PC's will be fixed during the course of their normal updates, there are other devices that don't get regular software updates. The old phone system in the closet getting dusty, for example.
Were you reading the same article?
...and so on.
We quickly learned the Xbox 360 games at the show were almost all running on alpha kits, i.e. off-the-shelf PCs with specs equivalent to the 360. Which meant that these machines were also only running at 25%-35% of the console's capacity.
The Beta Kits are simply more powerful than the Alpha Kits. They're a better, closer representation to the final console's power.
You don't get out much, do you?
The CDA and COPA were their last efforts to do something about it. Luckily neither of them stuck.
If all of SMB were like that, then yes, SMB would be claustrophobic and lonely.
It's exactly the same as all the other Mario levels except the background is black and the floor is gray! The creatures are the same. The music is nearly the same. The bricks are the same. The powerups are the same. Why is it lonely and claustrophobic?
Metroid had pretty much the same mechanics and graphical cliches as a boatload of other games from the same time period that nobody gets misty eyed for.
Anyway, you have your opinion. I remain convinced that nostalgia is coloring it. This doesn't detract from the fact that it, and it's sequels, were fun games with excellent level design. I think that "claustrophobic and lonely" is stretching it a bit (or a lot).
No worries! I haven't played Zero Mission yet.