The troll is actually sort-of right, most DC games got ported to other systems (because they were so damn good).
I think Toy Commander is probably the best one that doesn't have a port or a very similar sequel elsewhere. And some of the ports were to the GBA and not so hot (though Chu Chu Rocket and Silent Scope were surprisingly good), so could stand to be redone.
Kids seem to handle a Gameboy Advance pretty easily, I see lots of under-10s with them. Once you've got that I don't think a PS2 is a big step up. Nintendo is all about "growing the market" nowadays.
"It very well may not be, but what it shows is how the Revoltion controller can do for FPS games. Say you're chasing someone (or they're chasing ou) on the run down a hallway, and baddies pop out of side doors to shoot at you. To shoot them back, you'd have to turn your character to face them (or lock on), shoot them, and turn your character back to look at the guy you're after and continue forward. In this time he's gained ground on you."
With dual analog sticks you can easily compensate for turning in one direction and looking in another, just move the sticks in the opposite sense. It's a little harder with WASD, you end up moving in a slightly zig-zag style (bonus: harder to hit), but most FPS players shouldn't have any trouble moving in one direction and shooting in another. You've never practiced running round Quake 3 levels backwards and still hitting the jumps and pickups? Just me? OK.
Still, I'm pretty interested in trying a not-on-rails lightgun-style game.
You could do much the same thing with a webcam mounted overhead, I think. Some simple image recognition stuff should be able to keep track of which finger is attached to which person, particularly if the image the table is projecting is easy to distinguish from the people (i.e. if the table flashes at 30 Hz and the camera samples at 60 Hz). No being wired to the game table is a plus, though I bet it'd be a much flakier system.
You'd never get a big and cheap touchscreen though. You could fake that with the webcam (for X,Y) and a pressure sensor on your fingertip, with an LED on your fingernail for more accurate positioning. Again, not as good probably but it'd be fine for playing a grid-based game I bet.
"Why do violent people get in fights, steal cars, or shoot police? You think those ideas come out of a vacuum?"
That's really absurd. You think that getting into fights, something which we've been doing since before we were primates, is due to the media? You've never seen cats fight? Do you think they played too much Tekken?
I'm pretty sure people stole before we'd invented writing too. Shooting police... well when they carry guns and threaten to use them on you it doesn't take a genius to come up with the idea. Shooting them for no reason, fine, blame Dr Dre.
Any legislation that prohibits sales of games to minors fails completely at its goal. Which is, of course, to prevent them from playing those games.
Is it? I thought the idea of the legislation was to prevent access to certain games without parental consent. Which is much more sensible: if your 14 year old can convince you that Killer 7 won't shock him, he's old enough to play it. As you said, children aren't stupid - most know their limits. Didn't you, when you were a kid?
Ha, that would be a cool thing for an evil character to aim for - scorched Earth, no living things left in the entire game.
I think a lot of the enemies respawn though:(
Maybe there should be a mod to prevent enemies spawning more than once and track how many kills to go? Something like in Doom where it would give you "25 of 37" enemies but with "1124 of 30095".
And of course you can't get past 99.997% and win without suiciding...
Why'd you stop? The game LETS you be an evil friend-murderer. You'll meet up with chaotic henchmen and get have fun killing town guards and priests and robbing the shops.
Sadly, the overall quest is still "kill some evil guy", which doesn't make sense: I'd rather work for him. But still, it's well suited to allowing you a life of banditry and crime.
If my ISP redirected my Google requests to, say, Yahoo I'd be annoyed for a couple of days then just get on with it. They could send them to search.msn.com, which is a bit of a Google lookalike, and most people wouldn't notice. It's just a search engine.
Some of the other services, particularly Gmail, could be quite a big deal, but do many people actually have Gmail accounts? And not just ones they registered out of curiosity? Google's neat stuff is new, I did without it a few years ago so I could again pretty easily.
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"Sixth, do you realize how much money is spent in porn? If young children find porn, they might like it and later spend your precious american dollars in (either national or overseas) crap, instead of using it for better stuff like cleaning up the planet?"
When you buy something, the person you got it from doesn't immediately burn the money.... The highly responsible porn stars* who get the money can spend it on cleaning up the planet. And lube, but mostly the cleaning.
*after all, they're in adult films, they must be really grown up and mature.
I always wondered if you could make a cool ray gun with one of those, and why noone has.
Because the electrons can only go about 10 cm in air. They bounce off the air molecules, lose energy, and stop. This is why we use a vacuum tube in CRTs like TVs, if there was air in them you wouldn't get a picture. It's not just for the fun implosions.
A lot of those games haven't actually been released at all. Bleach DS looks like it's the only current one missing from my list. Metroid Hunters and Tetris DS launch in a few days too, but they aren't providing any connections to Nintendo WFC right now.
Yeah, but not every DS game uses the wifi connection. In fact, I think only Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and Tony Hawk. I don't know the worldwide sales figures, but I do know that Animal Crossing has sold ~ 2 million and MKDS ~ 1 million in Japan alone. So maybe it's more like 20%? Also, you have to pay to use an xbox online! I think that would depress the numbers quite a bit.
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The last link is hardly interesting.
Are you kidding?!
From the link:
Women, far more than men, are likely to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or affairs.
Women favor chat rooms 2X more than men.
I'm going to a chat room, now.
It's coming out for PSP.
The troll is actually sort-of right, most DC games got ported to other systems (because they were so damn good).
I think Toy Commander is probably the best one that doesn't have a port or a very similar sequel elsewhere. And some of the ports were to the GBA and not so hot (though Chu Chu Rocket and Silent Scope were surprisingly good), so could stand to be redone.
Kids seem to handle a Gameboy Advance pretty easily, I see lots of under-10s with them. Once you've got that I don't think a PS2 is a big step up.
Nintendo is all about "growing the market" nowadays.
"It very well may not be, but what it shows is how the Revoltion controller can do for FPS games. Say you're chasing someone (or they're chasing ou) on the run down a hallway, and baddies pop out of side doors to shoot at you. To shoot them back, you'd have to turn your character to face them (or lock on), shoot them, and turn your character back to look at the guy you're after and continue forward. In this time he's gained ground on you."
With dual analog sticks you can easily compensate for turning in one direction and looking in another, just move the sticks in the opposite sense. It's a little harder with WASD, you end up moving in a slightly zig-zag style (bonus: harder to hit), but most FPS players shouldn't have any trouble moving in one direction and shooting in another. You've never practiced running round Quake 3 levels backwards and still hitting the jumps and pickups? Just me? OK.
Still, I'm pretty interested in trying a not-on-rails lightgun-style game.
You could do much the same thing with a webcam mounted overhead, I think. Some simple image recognition stuff should be able to keep track of which finger is attached to which person, particularly if the image the table is projecting is easy to distinguish from the people (i.e. if the table flashes at 30 Hz and the camera samples at 60 Hz). No being wired to the game table is a plus, though I bet it'd be a much flakier system.
You'd never get a big and cheap touchscreen though. You could fake that with the webcam (for X,Y) and a pressure sensor on your fingertip, with an LED on your fingernail for more accurate positioning. Again, not as good probably but it'd be fine for playing a grid-based game I bet.
You used km/day and miles/gallon in the same paragraph!
"Why do violent people get in fights, steal cars, or shoot police? You think those ideas come out of a vacuum?"
That's really absurd. You think that getting into fights, something which we've been doing since before we were primates, is due to the media? You've never seen cats fight? Do you think they played too much Tekken?
I'm pretty sure people stole before we'd invented writing too. Shooting police... well when they carry guns and threaten to use them on you it doesn't take a genius to come up with the idea. Shooting them for no reason, fine, blame Dr Dre.
singlehandedly (is that a word?)
Yep, it's right. It also gives me an image of Steve Jobs doing a crossword with one hand behind his back, the big show-off...
Any legislation that prohibits sales of games to minors fails completely at its goal. Which is, of course, to prevent them from playing those games.
Is it? I thought the idea of the legislation was to prevent access to certain games without parental consent. Which is much more sensible: if your 14 year old can convince you that Killer 7 won't shock him, he's old enough to play it. As you said, children aren't stupid - most know their limits. Didn't you, when you were a kid?
You can reheat chicken soup but you can't rekill a chicken.
Ha, that would be a cool thing for an evil character to aim for - scorched Earth, no living things left in the entire game.
:(
I think a lot of the enemies respawn though
Maybe there should be a mod to prevent enemies spawning more than once and track how many kills to go? Something like in Doom where it would give you "25 of 37" enemies but with "1124 of 30095".
And of course you can't get past 99.997% and win without suiciding...
Why'd you stop? The game LETS you be an evil friend-murderer. You'll meet up with chaotic henchmen and get have fun killing town guards and priests and robbing the shops.
Sadly, the overall quest is still "kill some evil guy", which doesn't make sense: I'd rather work for him. But still, it's well suited to allowing you a life of banditry and crime.
Where are these Ledzone Counterstrike arcades? Anyone got some addresses? Or, better still, GPS co-ordinates (Japanese addresses are tricky.)?
Yeah, that was the joke.
It's 5am, so sue me.
I guess I played a different version of Half Life.
You did. He was talking about Half Life 2.
Of course word processing hasn't changed since 1984. LaTeX and GNU Emacs were written in 1984... how could you improve on that?
If my ISP redirected my Google requests to, say, Yahoo I'd be annoyed for a couple of days then just get on with it. They could send them to search.msn.com, which is a bit of a Google lookalike, and most people wouldn't notice. It's just a search engine.
Some of the other services, particularly Gmail, could be quite a big deal, but do many people actually have Gmail accounts? And not just ones they registered out of curiosity? Google's neat stuff is new, I did without it a few years ago so I could again pretty easily.
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"Sixth, do you realize how much money is spent in porn? If young children find porn, they might like it and later spend your precious american dollars in (either national or overseas) crap, instead of using it for better stuff like cleaning up the planet?"
When you buy something, the person you got it from doesn't immediately burn the money.... The highly responsible porn stars* who get the money can spend it on cleaning up the planet. And lube, but mostly the cleaning.
*after all, they're in adult films, they must be really grown up and mature.
That is a really cool idea. Not so good for TV pictures but... well lets just say I'm off to patent an electron beam + fishtank Cherenkov nightlight :)
I always wondered if you could make a cool ray gun with one of those, and why noone has.
Because the electrons can only go about 10 cm in air. They bounce off the air molecules, lose energy, and stop.
This is why we use a vacuum tube in CRTs like TVs, if there was air in them you wouldn't get a picture. It's not just for the fun implosions.
A lot of those games haven't actually been released at all. Bleach DS looks like it's the only current one missing from my list. Metroid Hunters and Tetris DS launch in a few days too, but they aren't providing any connections to Nintendo WFC right now.
Yeah, but not every DS game uses the wifi connection. In fact, I think only Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and Tony Hawk.
I don't know the worldwide sales figures, but I do know that Animal Crossing has sold ~ 2 million and MKDS ~ 1 million in Japan alone. So maybe it's more like 20%?
Also, you have to pay to use an xbox online! I think that would depress the numbers quite a bit.
> It's called a PC.
:)
A spec like the PS3 for $500? Where can I get one of those?
Right now? Same place you can get a PS3.
From the summary:
Within 2 minutes, I had to stop and step away from the computer
Silent Hill 3 for PC review.
btw, your usename and UID seem a bit weirdly familiar...