Yeah, okay. So ignore Jak & Daxter and the Ratchet & Clank games beating Mario's latest outings into a pulp for the last several years. And also ignore Metal Gear. And Shadow of the Colossus. And Katamari. And the actual GTA series. And Gran Turismo. And the huge number of other great games that come out at an astonishing rate.
Also ignore the horrors of Mario Party. And Mario Tennis. And crappy Sonic games. And Curious George. Oh look, it's True Crime GTA knockoff...for the Gamecube! And King Kong boring movie licensed port! And boring football port! And Army Men 87! Oooh, it's Judge Dredd! And stupid wrestling game!
The fact of the matter is that the percentage of crappy games on the Gamecube is equivalent to the percentage of crappy games on the Playstation 2. The only difference is that the PS2 has 30 times the number of games choose from. Are there more crappy games? Sure! But there are also more good ones. It doesn't mean that Pikmin 2 doesn't kick ass.
But if you'd like to look at things through Rose Colored Glasses Adventure 17, feel free.
But back when Sega and Nintendo were the only main players, games' success was 100% dependant on the fun-factor; graphics didn't exist back then, relatively speaking.
Were you even alive back then?
Sega's main selling point was always that they had better graphics than Nintendo, both for the SMS and the Genesis. The Genesis ad campaign that propelled it to massive market share was making fun of Nintendo for being simple and lame.
Except for everyone who has gotten burned by Nintendo's pathetic third party support over the last two generations of consoles. When you go into the store and see a massive wall of Playstation titles and a little cranny for Nintendo, that extra $200 for the console starts seeming less excessive.
Hopefully they'll correct that this time around, but I'm not holding my breath. I'll buy the stupid thing anyways, like always. Dammit!
It might also be a way to increase sales, correct me if im wrong but dont easily piratable machines seems to enjoy a larger machine market share which is just what MS want?
This must explain the roaring success of the Dreamcast and the original Xbox.
- Power switch on the back turns the unit off, but not on. Doesn't retract the drive tray, unless you flip it to "on" while the tray is out. - Power switch on the front, when pressed, pulls in the drive tray and resets the console. - Power switch on the front turns the unit on, but not off, unless you hold it down, which is as far from obvious as you can get. Also pulls in the tray before turning the unit off, which isn't all that obvious either.
Wow. You turn the switch on in the back. You leave it on.
...the corporatists like Gates are the kind of people who will make the world a better place. God he needs to get a clue about how to behave in public! What a dick.
Yes, his $30,000,000,000 charitable foundation is pathetic! It only delivers nearly $1,000,000,000 a year to worthy causes. He may be one of the most prolific philanthropist in the history of the human race, but...whatever! He sucks!
Sony has been falling behind recently, with countless scandals (DRM-related), errors, stock losses (Merryl Lynch report) and format warring; given their back-record for format wars, I'm not backing Blu-Ray. (see: beta, minidisc, memory sticks and one other I think)
The other one you're forgetting is the CD. That one went nowhere! Or maybe the 3-1/2" floppy diskette. Nobody ever used those! Hi8, what a failure! S/PDIF...pfffft. That's really only the tip of the iceberg, since they've been involved in working groups that have produced inumerable other wildly successful failures.
Anyway, who cares about that. You're right! Sony sucks! They can't invent anything right!
That one act meant I did not renew my subscription and I have never subscribed to a gaming magazine since -- because some asshole doing the same job you do proved that his profession didn't deserve any respect.
So, let me get this straight...
Judging an entire profession by one guy making light of your correction is better than not talking bad about a game that hasn't been released yet?
Except they haven't totally verified that the USB dongle will work with Revolution. For that matter, suppose the user has 56K? This is bad enough trying to play Mario Kart on DS -- imagine downloading N64 games on it.
Suppose the user is blind! Imagine playing Mario Golf with no eyes!
And you have Nintendo, which should be fine in the heat department but pretty much will require internet connectivity for the main feature of the system, emulated games (not everyone has the luxury of an internet connection in their living room).
Thankfully they sell a Nintendo branded USB wifi dongle for just this type of situation.
The only one going for a reasonable price seems to be Nintendo. I know that was the reason I got a Gamecube back then, 200 is a lot and more than that is plain insane.
Not just that, but think of all the money you saved by not having any new games to buy!
With a well designed game, your sidekicks no longer have to be addressed through buttons either; in various games you have NPC characters that you can control, in a game like Half-Life 2 you could easily control your troops with voice commands like "Attack", "Fall Back", "Defend", "Retreat", "Follow Me", "Stay Here", etc. it would be both more intuitive and requires 0 buttons.
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I got a nice arcade stick for Soul Calibur. It has connectors for PS2/Xbox/Gamecube. Works great.
Yeah, okay. So ignore Jak & Daxter and the Ratchet & Clank games beating Mario's latest outings into a pulp for the last several years. And also ignore Metal Gear. And Shadow of the Colossus. And Katamari. And the actual GTA series. And Gran Turismo. And the huge number of other great games that come out at an astonishing rate.
Also ignore the horrors of Mario Party. And Mario Tennis. And crappy Sonic games. And Curious George. Oh look, it's True Crime GTA knockoff...for the Gamecube! And King Kong boring movie licensed port! And boring football port! And Army Men 87! Oooh, it's Judge Dredd! And stupid wrestling game!
The fact of the matter is that the percentage of crappy games on the Gamecube is equivalent to the percentage of crappy games on the Playstation 2. The only difference is that the PS2 has 30 times the number of games choose from. Are there more crappy games? Sure! But there are also more good ones. It doesn't mean that Pikmin 2 doesn't kick ass.
But if you'd like to look at things through Rose Colored Glasses Adventure 17, feel free.
But back when Sega and Nintendo were the only main players, games' success was 100% dependant on the fun-factor; graphics didn't exist back then, relatively speaking.
Were you even alive back then?
Sega's main selling point was always that they had better graphics than Nintendo, both for the SMS and the Genesis. The Genesis ad campaign that propelled it to massive market share was making fun of Nintendo for being simple and lame.
Except for everyone who has gotten burned by Nintendo's pathetic third party support over the last two generations of consoles. When you go into the store and see a massive wall of Playstation titles and a little cranny for Nintendo, that extra $200 for the console starts seeming less excessive.
Hopefully they'll correct that this time around, but I'm not holding my breath. I'll buy the stupid thing anyways, like always. Dammit!
Please stop.
what functionality will the ps3 have that the 360 does not?
The big Playstation logo on the front, mainly. It is probably sufficient.
It might also be a way to increase sales, correct me if im wrong but dont easily piratable machines seems to enjoy a larger machine market share which is just what MS want?
This must explain the roaring success of the Dreamcast and the original Xbox.
- Power switch on the back turns the unit off, but not on. Doesn't retract the drive tray, unless you flip it to "on" while the tray is out.
...
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- Power switch on the front, when pressed, pulls in the drive tray and resets the console.
- Power switch on the front turns the unit on, but not off, unless you hold it down, which is as far from obvious as you can get. Also pulls in the tray before turning the unit off, which isn't all that obvious either.
Wow. You turn the switch on in the back. You leave it on.
Wow.
...the corporatists like Gates are the kind of people who will make the world a better place. God he needs to get a clue about how to behave in public! What a dick.
Yes, his $30,000,000,000 charitable foundation is pathetic! It only delivers nearly $1,000,000,000 a year to worthy causes. He may be one of the most prolific philanthropist in the history of the human race, but...whatever! He sucks!
FUD FUD FUD...
Look at the available sales figures. They aren't hard to find. If you strip off the amusing sarcasm, what he said is verifiably true.
Sony has been falling behind recently, with countless scandals (DRM-related), errors, stock losses (Merryl Lynch report) and format warring; given their back-record for format wars, I'm not backing Blu-Ray. (see: beta, minidisc, memory sticks and one other I think)
The other one you're forgetting is the CD. That one went nowhere! Or maybe the 3-1/2" floppy diskette. Nobody ever used those! Hi8, what a failure! S/PDIF...pfffft. That's really only the tip of the iceberg, since they've been involved in working groups that have produced inumerable other wildly successful failures.
Anyway, who cares about that. You're right! Sony sucks! They can't invent anything right!
That one act meant I did not renew my subscription and I have never subscribed to a gaming magazine since -- because some asshole doing the same job you do proved that his profession didn't deserve any respect.
So, let me get this straight...
Judging an entire profession by one guy making light of your correction is better than not talking bad about a game that hasn't been released yet?
Right...
Except they haven't totally verified that the USB dongle will work with Revolution. For that matter, suppose the user has 56K? This is bad enough trying to play Mario Kart on DS -- imagine downloading N64 games on it.
Suppose the user is blind! Imagine playing Mario Golf with no eyes!
Give me a break.
And you have Nintendo, which should be fine in the heat department but pretty much will require internet connectivity for the main feature of the system, emulated games (not everyone has the luxury of an internet connection in their living room).
Thankfully they sell a Nintendo branded USB wifi dongle for just this type of situation.
This isn't a small town either, Toledo is either the 4th or 5th largest city in Ohio (not sure if we're ahead of Akron).
haha. You should try leaving Ohio once or twice before you die. haha. 4th or 5th largest...IN OHIO!
hahahahah.
Classic.
Not much because I still managed to get 35 games for it, ~80% of which ran me 60 Euros each.
Ah, you must be a fan of the Mario Party games.
(juuust kidding)
The only one going for a reasonable price seems to be Nintendo. I know that was the reason I got a Gamecube back then, 200 is a lot and more than that is plain insane.
Not just that, but think of all the money you saved by not having any new games to buy!
Manhunt was terrible.
State of Emergency was fun if you compared it to Crazy Taxi instead of GTA.
I think I've been spoiled on Nintendo's first party games
Yeah, Mario Party 37 is sooooo sweet.
I enjoyed it a lot, as well. It's one of the few games I've actually finished in the last ten years.
Gamepad support would have been nice on the PC, though.
With a well designed game, your sidekicks no longer have to be addressed through buttons either; in various games you have NPC characters that you can control, in a game like Half-Life 2 you could easily control your troops with voice commands like "Attack", "Fall Back", "Defend", "Retreat", "Follow Me", "Stay Here", etc. it would be both more intuitive and requires 0 buttons.
Didn't UT2004 offer this functionality?
it's called caveat emptor.
Not really.
but when you hold somewhere between $5000 and $20,000 in a firm, it's ethical to mention it.
That's certainly a wide range you provided.
remember ethics? we had that last century.
Really? When was that? The stock market in the 20's? Organzied crime during prohibition? Nixon? The rise of Enron? EF Hutton?
Ehh, the increased price and power didn't really help the first Xbox surpass the PS2 did it?
No, but reduced cost and increased power didn't help the Gamecube surpass the PS2, either, so the entire premise is worthless.
I know I'm totally shocked.
Could have been something like this. They used it here during the hurricanes.