Oh yeah, the DS sales rest on Castlevania's shoulders, nevermind Mario Kart, Kirby, Yoshi, Advance Wars, Warioware, Bomberman, Lost in Blue, and nevermind common sense, we're on/v/, it seems. Submitter obviously hasn't heard about this sleeper game called "Nintendogs".
Well, being able to gloat in the context is PRECISELY why I play video games that feature COMPETITION. "I'm better than you aren't lolol", is all. Betcha a gamer that only likes Tetris clones and Brainfood would be the most nonviolent ones compared to MMO and Duke-like Griefers, Gankers, Looters, PK's, LPB's and Snakers (of which I am a proud member!)
I fail to see the relevance of this experiment. Football (soccer if you either hate or worship your president) fans are renowned the world over for being fair players and fair losers, eh? And taunting never existed before videogames, either.
If it's a feature that is always turned off, I'd rather the game programmers didn't waste time on it. Granted, a "voice chat only with verified friends" would have been nice, but not necessary.
Wind Waker wasn't underrated because it was made using Macromedia Flash... - obligatory flamebait, check =) - It really looked great, but that's all it had. It was a boring boat sim. I often had time to smoke a full cigarette after doing the teleportation song, the wind song, and aiming at my direction. The ridiculous mini-games that were unbeatable (hit the old guy 500 times, w00t, so *not* boring!) Don't talk about the, what, four different dungeons you visit. Very, very disappointing.
It's a big let-down for Zelda fans who grew up with Link and are annoyed by that fucking Tingle...
I've only tried playing Mario Kart DS, since I live in Europe and Nintendo HATES US for not releasing Animal Crossing (not gonna import it, the people I wanna show it to don't want to read english text) earlier, well, let's say it's a start.
Pros :
- I don't think I need to remind how mind-blowingly fun Mario Kart is. Just being able to play it on the crapper was a huge improvement in the GBA episode, now being able to compete against humans at anytime makes it even better.
- It's free. FREE! No subscription, jus' like beer.
- No lag. I mean, I once had lag, but I slid the bittorrent upload limit button a bit lower (maybe -5K), and it was flawless. Looks like Nifi needs very little bandwidth, which is very elegant, I might say.
- No chance of anyone shouting "DIE FUCKER PIG JEW NIGGER", unlike some game that starts with "H" and ends with "ALO 2".
- Some adjustments can be done regarding the rules. For example, for the first few days, disconnecting during a race would have no consequences, the "loser" losing nothing, and the leading winning nothing. Now, any disconnection in the heat of a race means a loss. It's smart enough to notice you're between two races if you really need to disconnect. There's hope for more adjustments, then.
- I still haven't seen nazi signs or penises used as emblems, so I'll take it that either Nintendo is doing a fine banning job, or that MKDS players are a bit more responsible than the rest. (that, or I'm lucky, and the unlucky players will flood me with shameful replies in 3, 2, 1...)
- No communication at all possible through the game. (It's a plus for concerned parents, a minus for me.)
Cons :
- If you don't like playing against humans, it sucks.
- Very simple interface means very uncustomizable interface. That's Nintendo for you.
- The "friend codes" thingamajig could have been optimized so that after each game, you could specifiy if you wanted to add this or that racer into your friend roster.
- Four races! That's about twenty minutes play, it's very good, but personnally, I have to spend about two to five *real* minutes in the matchmaking room. Not very "on the go", is it?
- No battle mode, and not all circuits available for online play, due to lag reasons. WTF, Ninty? If I want to lag, I'll lag, now let me play the *full* game, PLEASE! I'll blame my router, not you guys! Promise!
- The whole territory of France sucks and is still firmly entrenched in the stone age, so I've only played wi-fi domestically, not in the streets. Okay, it's not a Mario Kart con, just a rant. Désolé.
- No communication at all possible through the game. (It's a plus for concerned parents, a minus for me.)
Smash Bros and its sequel hide gameplay gems behind the cutesy-looking characters. I'm really looking forward to this, because it's about time Nintendo stopped pumping out "Mario Parties" and started doing more MK and SSB stuff. And when the hell are they going to release one on the DS? Online play, ala Mario Kart only this time with more freedom to choose whoever you want to play, and bam. Instant success. Jump Super Stars proved that it's possible, so what are they waiting for?
Really, why does this make the news? Most of us who play videogames since our childhood recognize some of them as true pieces of art. Right off the top o' my head, I can cite a gazillion pretentious poshy videogames, and a dozen times more "b-movie-direct-to-VHS-style" video games.
Why should be sound angry when some old dude who obviously doesn't get on with the times does whatever EVERY OLD PERSON DOES, AND WHAT WE WILL ALSO EVENTUALLY DO, LIKE IT OR NOT?
Do you seriously think a console dies after its first or second birthday? Aging systems my arse, they'd be in their prime, getting second-gen games by the truckload and an installed userbase. Look, the DS is one year old. Right now, I don't have enough time to play every game I want to play on it, because of the holy Mario Kart. There's a slew of games I'm waiting for, and they're pretty far off.
Nintendo will release their best sellers just in time for christmas. I think they missed it one time, with some powerhouse game (not sure if it was zelda 64 or another one, no, no definitely not zelda 64...), and decided never to miss it again.
And who said the rev would have sucky specs? The GC also had supposedly sucky specs. And mac users know about the "megahertz myth", why don't we, us nerd gamers?
And quite ironically, it doesn't play DRM'ed WMA! So, how many of you made the jump and turned your expensive gameboys into expensive iPod shuffles? Which is the best tradeoff, homebrew of GTA?
Wow. Just wow. I golf clap at the elevation of the fucking debate here. And guess what, I'm going to be the one who'll be motherfucking modded troll or flamebait because I actually dared criticize the cock-smokers who hand out their fucking mod points
Sorry, but to me, a program that will scan my HDD's for pirated MP3's and DivX's, then lists them on my screen to "better manage them", means "U GONNA GET RAPED IN JAIL"...
And have people ever heard of FOLDERS? "Oooh, lookit this, it's fresh, it's hot, it's cool, it's iTunes/WMP/amaroK/latest disc-scanning PoS!" "Oh, I have a folder called MP3. And I can even arrange them in SUBFOLDERS!" "Whoa... That looks... Complicated. How do you create a folder, anyway? This sucks." *sigh*
Try playing Kirby Canvas Curse (should have been subtitled : "warning, this is the digital equivalent of CRACK COCAINE") on anything else. Or maybe Warioware (see above). Or Yoshi Touch'n'Go (everybody clamors for lumines, which is YET ANOTHER FUCKING BLOCKS-FALLING-DOWN puzzle game, and disregards Yoshi as a "platformer with only one level", which makes me a sad panda.)
Wow. A Sony fanboi bashing a Resident Evil game? THE END IS NIGH!
By the way, mod the parent 50% troll, 50% inflammatory : Obviously he hasn't played RE4, he has misquoted his parent, and ends with an absurd equation : it's homebrew OR GTA, NOT homebrew AND GTA.
How long can you play GTA on your PSP, by the way? Thirty minutes?:D (yes, yes, I know, it's really a solid two hours.)
Before this gets/.ed, here's the text.
Quoth the EFF :
Now the Legalese Rootkit: Sony-BMG's EULA
November 09, 2005
If you thought XCP "rootkit" copy-protection on Sony-BMG CDs was bad, perhaps you'd better read the 3,000 word (!) end-user license agreement (aka "EULA") that comes with all these CDs.
First, a baseline. When you buy a regular CD, you own it. You do not "license" it. You own it outright. You're allowed to do anything with it you like, so long as you don't violate one of the exclusive rights reserved to the copyright owner. So you can play the CD at your next dinner party (copyright owners get no rights over private performances), you can loan it to a friend (thanks to the "first sale" doctrine), or make a copy for use on your iPod (thanks to "fair use"). Every use that falls outside the limited exclusive rights of the copyright owner belongs to you, the owner of the CD.
Now compare that baseline with the world according to the Sony-BMG EULA, which applies to any digital copies you make of the music on the CD:
1. If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home. That's because the EULA says that your rights to any copies terminate as soon as you no longer possess the original CD.
2. You can't keep your music on any computers at work. The EULA only gives you the right to put copies on a "personal home computer system owned by you."
3. If you move out of the country, you have to delete all your music. The EULA specifically forbids "export" outside the country where you reside.
4. You must install any and all updates, or else lose the music on your computer. The EULA immediately terminates if you fail to install any update. No more holding out on those hobble-ware downgrades masquerading as updates.
5. Sony-BMG can install and use backdoors in the copy protection software or media player to "enforce their rights" against you, at any time, without notice. And Sony-BMG disclaims any liability if this "self help" crashes your computer, exposes you to security risks, or any other harm.
6. The EULA says Sony-BMG will never be liable to you for more than $5.00. That's right, no matter what happens, you can't even get back what you paid for the CD.
7. If you file for bankruptcy, you have to delete all the music on your computer. Seriously.
8. You have no right to transfer the music on your computer, even along with the original CD.
9. Forget about using the music as a soundtrack for your latest family photo slideshow, or mash-ups, or sampling. The EULA forbids changing, altering, or make derivative works from the music on your computer.
So this is what Sony-BMG thinks we should be allowed to do with the music on the CDs that we purchase from them? No word yet about whether Sony-BMG will be offering a "patch" for this legalese rootkit. I'm not holding my breath.
Posted by Fred von Lohmann at 12:24 PM | Permalink | Technorati
Endquote. It's interesting to see just how far Sony will go to alienate the tech-savvy user base. It's been a few years since I religiously started forbidding people to buy Sony products, because I wouldn't be assed to "fix my vaio, please" or to "take a look at my LCD screen, there are, like black dots and stuff on it", but my brother-in-law still got himself a Sony DAP.
The first thing I thought was, "Wow! The salesman actually managed to sell him something that isn't an iPod.", but come on. What's you/.er's take on this vast DRM-wing conspiracy?
This game bridged a huge gap between like minds across whole continents. I mean, what other game would allow the unwashed masses of twelve-year-olds to shout "ALLAHU ACKBAR FUCK AMERICA" or "DIE NIGGER JEW FAG" over the Internet so massively?
I see a lot of posts talking about boycotting sony and other brilliant nonsense. Walk the walk or just shut up, people.
Want to know my take on this? One night, Ken Kutaragi and Bill Gates were busy drinking expensive liquor, and made a bet : "I'm going to kick your ass with the 360, man. -ROR! Ok, let me tell you something, four-eyes. I'm gonna do everything in my power to make the PS3 look like shit, play like shit, and sell like shit. But the sheeple will still buy it because it has SONY PLAYSTATION written on it! Think the layman hates SONY? Go to any hi-fi store and listen to the salesman bash iPods and praise ATRAC64-only players! -Double Dare!"
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My dad now religously records my advice in little lists and keeps them in a folder because I snapped at him after he asked me one too many times.
Oh, yeah?
My mom lost three such folders already.
Oh yeah, the DS sales rest on Castlevania's shoulders, nevermind Mario Kart, Kirby, Yoshi, Advance Wars, Warioware, Bomberman, Lost in Blue, and nevermind common sense, we're on /v/, it seems.
Submitter obviously hasn't heard about this sleeper game called "Nintendogs".
Well, being able to gloat in the context is PRECISELY why I play video games that feature COMPETITION. "I'm better than you aren't lolol", is all.
Betcha a gamer that only likes Tetris clones and Brainfood would be the most nonviolent ones compared to MMO and Duke-like Griefers, Gankers, Looters, PK's, LPB's and Snakers (of which I am a proud member!)
I fail to see the relevance of this experiment. Football (soccer if you either hate or worship your president) fans are renowned the world over for being fair players and fair losers, eh?
And taunting never existed before videogames, either.
If it's a feature that is always turned off, I'd rather the game programmers didn't waste time on it.
Granted, a "voice chat only with verified friends" would have been nice, but not necessary.
Wind Waker wasn't underrated because it was made using Macromedia Flash... - obligatory flamebait, check =) - It really looked great, but that's all it had.
It was a boring boat sim. I often had time to smoke a full cigarette after doing the teleportation song, the wind song, and aiming at my direction.
The ridiculous mini-games that were unbeatable (hit the old guy 500 times, w00t, so *not* boring!)
Don't talk about the, what, four different dungeons you visit. Very, very disappointing.
It's a big let-down for Zelda fans who grew up with Link and are annoyed by that fucking Tingle...
I've only tried playing Mario Kart DS, since I live in Europe and Nintendo HATES US for not releasing Animal Crossing (not gonna import it, the people I wanna show it to don't want to read english text) earlier, well, let's say it's a start.
Pros :
- I don't think I need to remind how mind-blowingly fun Mario Kart is. Just being able to play it on the crapper was a huge improvement in the GBA episode, now being able to compete against humans at anytime makes it even better.
- It's free. FREE! No subscription, jus' like beer.
- No lag. I mean, I once had lag, but I slid the bittorrent upload limit button a bit lower (maybe -5K), and it was flawless. Looks like Nifi needs very little bandwidth, which is very elegant, I might say.
- No chance of anyone shouting "DIE FUCKER PIG JEW NIGGER", unlike some game that starts with "H" and ends with "ALO 2".
- Some adjustments can be done regarding the rules. For example, for the first few days, disconnecting during a race would have no consequences, the "loser" losing nothing, and the leading winning nothing. Now, any disconnection in the heat of a race means a loss. It's smart enough to notice you're between two races if you really need to disconnect. There's hope for more adjustments, then.
- I still haven't seen nazi signs or penises used as emblems, so I'll take it that either Nintendo is doing a fine banning job, or that MKDS players are a bit more responsible than the rest. (that, or I'm lucky, and the unlucky players will flood me with shameful replies in 3, 2, 1...)
- No communication at all possible through the game. (It's a plus for concerned parents, a minus for me.)
Cons :
- If you don't like playing against humans, it sucks.
- Very simple interface means very uncustomizable interface. That's Nintendo for you.
- The "friend codes" thingamajig could have been optimized so that after each game, you could specifiy if you wanted to add this or that racer into your friend roster.
- Four races! That's about twenty minutes play, it's very good, but personnally, I have to spend about two to five *real* minutes in the matchmaking room. Not very "on the go", is it?
- No battle mode, and not all circuits available for online play, due to lag reasons. WTF, Ninty? If I want to lag, I'll lag, now let me play the *full* game, PLEASE! I'll blame my router, not you guys! Promise!
- The whole territory of France sucks and is still firmly entrenched in the stone age, so I've only played wi-fi domestically, not in the streets. Okay, it's not a Mario Kart con, just a rant. Désolé.
- No communication at all possible through the game. (It's a plus for concerned parents, a minus for me.)
Now, I gotta go do something. TTYL. GG.
It worked so well for the Xbox and PS2, amirite?
So, you bought yourself a very expensive NES and SNES emulator?
Smash Bros and its sequel hide gameplay gems behind the cutesy-looking characters. I'm really looking forward to this, because it's about time Nintendo stopped pumping out "Mario Parties" and started doing more MK and SSB stuff.
And when the hell are they going to release one on the DS? Online play, ala Mario Kart only this time with more freedom to choose whoever you want to play, and bam. Instant success. Jump Super Stars proved that it's possible, so what are they waiting for?
Really, why does this make the news?
Most of us who play videogames since our childhood recognize some of them as true pieces of art. Right off the top o' my head, I can cite a gazillion pretentious poshy videogames, and a dozen times more "b-movie-direct-to-VHS-style" video games.
Why should be sound angry when some old dude who obviously doesn't get on with the times does whatever EVERY OLD PERSON DOES, AND WHAT WE WILL ALSO EVENTUALLY DO, LIKE IT OR NOT?
Trust me, in the long run you'll probably want a cheap PC instead, with this installed.
But hey, 20 buck's a good deal.
Do you seriously think a console dies after its first or second birthday? Aging systems my arse, they'd be in their prime, getting second-gen games by the truckload and an installed userbase.
Look, the DS is one year old. Right now, I don't have enough time to play every game I want to play on it, because of the holy Mario Kart. There's a slew of games I'm waiting for, and they're pretty far off.
Nintendo will release their best sellers just in time for christmas. I think they missed it one time, with some powerhouse game (not sure if it was zelda 64 or another one, no, no definitely not zelda 64...), and decided never to miss it again.
And who said the rev would have sucky specs? The GC also had supposedly sucky specs. And mac users know about the "megahertz myth", why don't we, us nerd gamers?
And quite ironically, it doesn't play DRM'ed WMA!
So, how many of you made the jump and turned your expensive gameboys into expensive iPod shuffles?
Which is the best tradeoff, homebrew of GTA?
Wow. Just wow. I golf clap at the elevation of the fucking debate here.
And guess what, I'm going to be the one who'll be motherfucking modded troll or flamebait because I actually dared criticize the cock-smokers who hand out their fucking mod points
That's five insults, mod me +5 insightful!
Shoddy hardware, customer infamy,
DRM rootkit, music very crappy,
Every day that passes only reminds me :
BOYCOTT THE FUCK OUTTA SONY!
Sorry, but to me, a program that will scan my HDD's for pirated MP3's and DivX's, then lists them on my screen to "better manage them", means "U GONNA GET RAPED IN JAIL"...
And have people ever heard of FOLDERS?
"Oooh, lookit this, it's fresh, it's hot, it's cool, it's iTunes/WMP/amaroK/latest disc-scanning PoS!"
"Oh, I have a folder called MP3. And I can even arrange them in SUBFOLDERS!"
"Whoa... That looks... Complicated. How do you create a folder, anyway? This sucks."
*sigh*
Try 4chan.org :D
The most honest discussions ever
+1, my good man, I wish I had modding powa for you.
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I just don't get it.
Yesterday on
SONY = DRM DEVIL KILL THEM ALL YOU'LL NEVER SEE ANOTHER PENNY FROM ME YOU FASCISTS!
Today on
OMG SONY'S GAMES ARE FOR BIG MATURE BOYS LIKE ME, AND DEY GOTS DEM SUM BLOOD INNIT, I'M TOTALLY GETTIN' ONE!!!1!!
Try playing Kirby Canvas Curse (should have been subtitled : "warning, this is the digital equivalent of CRACK COCAINE") on anything else.
Or maybe Warioware (see above).
Or Yoshi Touch'n'Go (everybody clamors for lumines, which is YET ANOTHER FUCKING BLOCKS-FALLING-DOWN puzzle game, and disregards Yoshi as a "platformer with only one level", which makes me a sad panda.)
Oh, sorry, you can't.
Wow. A Sony fanboi bashing a Resident Evil game?
:D
THE END IS NIGH!
By the way, mod the parent 50% troll, 50% inflammatory : Obviously he hasn't played RE4, he has misquoted his parent, and ends with an absurd equation : it's homebrew OR GTA, NOT homebrew AND GTA.
How long can you play GTA on your PSP, by the way? Thirty minutes?
(yes, yes, I know, it's really a solid two hours.)
Give if a few year's time and you will be able to...
Four hundred years ago.
It was called "L'encyclopédie".
Before this gets /.ed, here's the text.
/.er's take on this vast DRM-wing conspiracy?
Quoth the EFF :
Now the Legalese Rootkit: Sony-BMG's EULA
November 09, 2005
If you thought XCP "rootkit" copy-protection on Sony-BMG CDs was bad, perhaps you'd better read the 3,000 word (!) end-user license agreement (aka "EULA") that comes with all these CDs.
First, a baseline. When you buy a regular CD, you own it. You do not "license" it. You own it outright. You're allowed to do anything with it you like, so long as you don't violate one of the exclusive rights reserved to the copyright owner. So you can play the CD at your next dinner party (copyright owners get no rights over private performances), you can loan it to a friend (thanks to the "first sale" doctrine), or make a copy for use on your iPod (thanks to "fair use"). Every use that falls outside the limited exclusive rights of the copyright owner belongs to you, the owner of the CD.
Now compare that baseline with the world according to the Sony-BMG EULA, which applies to any digital copies you make of the music on the CD:
1. If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home. That's because the EULA says that your rights to any copies terminate as soon as you no longer possess the original CD.
2. You can't keep your music on any computers at work. The EULA only gives you the right to put copies on a "personal home computer system owned by you."
3. If you move out of the country, you have to delete all your music. The EULA specifically forbids "export" outside the country where you reside.
4. You must install any and all updates, or else lose the music on your computer. The EULA immediately terminates if you fail to install any update. No more holding out on those hobble-ware downgrades masquerading as updates.
5. Sony-BMG can install and use backdoors in the copy protection software or media player to "enforce their rights" against you, at any time, without notice. And Sony-BMG disclaims any liability if this "self help" crashes your computer, exposes you to security risks, or any other harm.
6. The EULA says Sony-BMG will never be liable to you for more than $5.00. That's right, no matter what happens, you can't even get back what you paid for the CD.
7. If you file for bankruptcy, you have to delete all the music on your computer. Seriously.
8. You have no right to transfer the music on your computer, even along with the original CD.
9. Forget about using the music as a soundtrack for your latest family photo slideshow, or mash-ups, or sampling. The EULA forbids changing, altering, or make derivative works from the music on your computer.
So this is what Sony-BMG thinks we should be allowed to do with the music on the CDs that we purchase from them? No word yet about whether Sony-BMG will be offering a "patch" for this legalese rootkit. I'm not holding my breath.
Posted by Fred von Lohmann at 12:24 PM | Permalink | Technorati
Endquote. It's interesting to see just how far Sony will go to alienate the tech-savvy user base. It's been a few years since I religiously started forbidding people to buy Sony products, because I wouldn't be assed to "fix my vaio, please" or to "take a look at my LCD screen, there are, like black dots and stuff on it", but my brother-in-law still got himself a Sony DAP.
The first thing I thought was, "Wow! The salesman actually managed to sell him something that isn't an iPod.", but come on. What's you
This game bridged a huge gap between like minds across whole continents.
I mean, what other game would allow the unwashed masses of twelve-year-olds to shout "ALLAHU ACKBAR FUCK AMERICA" or "DIE NIGGER JEW FAG" over the Internet so massively?
Yeah, it's a real classy game.
I see a lot of posts talking about boycotting sony and other brilliant nonsense.
Walk the walk or just shut up, people.
Want to know my take on this?
One night, Ken Kutaragi and Bill Gates were busy drinking expensive liquor, and made a bet :
"I'm going to kick your ass with the 360, man.
-ROR! Ok, let me tell you something, four-eyes. I'm gonna do everything in my power to make the PS3 look like shit, play like shit, and sell like shit. But the sheeple will still buy it because it has SONY PLAYSTATION written on it! Think the layman hates SONY? Go to any hi-fi store and listen to the salesman bash iPods and praise ATRAC64-only players!
-Double Dare!"