As far as I can see the Wii controller lacks the buttons for something as complex as R6V. You've got crouching, cover, shooting, assault/infiltrate, teammate control, gadget menu, weapon switching, firing mode/silencer, grenade throwing, weapon sights, map... maybe something else I'm forgetting. The functions not only take up every button on the controller, but several buttons have separate functions for pressing the button once and holding it down. The d-pad is fully used and both analogue sticks can also be pressed.
The Wii may allow for a new way of controlling games, but it also has limitations.
What's so great about Myspace and Facebook? What can they do that telephones, e-mail and instant messaging can't? If I meet someone and want to talk to them later, Myspace/Facebook doesn't strike me as the best way to do so. But it seems it's quite normal for young people in America to swap Myspace/Facebook addresses if they want to talk later (and as the research claims, 78% have a social networking profile). Social networking sites haven't really caught on in Europe, as far as I can tell.
Everyone keeps saying the Wii is so different and new, and lets you control games in a new way, but what does that really matter? It reminds me of the people who demand innovation just for innovation's sake, and can't specify what kind of games they want developers to do. New and different isn't necessarily a good thing. I haven't had any interest towards the Wii, and I ended up buying a 360.
I like graphics. I like having environments, objects and characters that look detailed and realistic. You could do Mass Effect with 8-bit sprite graphics, but it wouldn't really be the same thing, now would it? Having realistic looking characters with facial expressions, body language and voice acting is a huge part of the game's attraction, and since it's an RPG with a heavy emphasis on character interaction, those graphics aren't just there for eye candy (not that there's anything wrong with that).
I think many people oppose graphics because they want to pretend like they're some kind of über oldskool gaming veterans. When they see the Wii they of course start ranting and raving about "innovation" without giving two shits about how fun, interesting and appealing the games actually are. They are LARPers.
You know how impressionable teenagers are - a few hours of playing, and Jack Jr. might have been inspired to craft complex literary-political allegories that investigate the nature of humanity.
There was apparently a lot more rational thinking going on before the 60s. Today's insanities (political correctness, feminism, multiculturalism, "anti-racism" and whatnot) have developed over a period of about 40 years or so.
Not every game that's been in development for a long time is vaporware, and comparing Spore to DNF is absolutely ridiculous in so many ways. Spore was first revealed in 2005, so from the public's perspective it's been in development for just a few years.
Modded flamebait, predictably enough. I guess I should have also mentioned that hysterical kneejerk responses are also par for the course in our brave new world.
I ran Ubuntu today for the first time, and I was quite suprised by how well it works. My soundcard and Internet connection worked immediately, and Ubuntu automatically chose my display's native resolution. Very nice. The interface feels good and there doesn't appear to be much of a learning curve for a person experienced with Windows. However, I'm completely unfamiliar with Linux so I expect I'll eventually have problems with some things.
I decided to get a Linux distro after I was exposed to the horrors of Vista. I'll eventually have to use Vista for gaming purposes, but I expect I can do everything else with Ubuntu.
Why would I misrepresent facts, and what makes you believe that I'm misrepresenting facts? If I didn't have any problems with Vista I wouldn't complain about it, and I sure as hell wouldn't have bothered to "downgrade" a Vista laptop by installing XP on it.
I'm not the only one saying that Vista is slow as fuck, and I'm not the only one who's had problems with UAC. The fact is that Vista has had a very poor reception and a lot of people hate it.
Take MMO's.You do damage, the enemy moves damage, sooner or later you come across an enemy that does more damage then you, and you need to level up. Then you move on a bit, till you find another monster that does more damage then you, forcing you to level up again.
You gain new abilities in WoW every two levels, which greatly expand your options in combat. The difference between a level 5 and level 50 rogue in terms of what you can do is like night and day. There are also different ways of playing the same class, and you aren't always fighting things anyway.
FPS are often the same, you have a pistol, you kill small monsters, you find a shotgun, you kill slightly bigger monsters. It is rare indeed to find a FPS were weapons is a choice of tactics. Were you are not just fighting the same battle over and over again.
When's the last time you played a FPS? Try Far Cry, Rainbow Six Vegas, BioShock or Halo 3. BioShock in particular gives you tons of tactical options.
Your logic can be used to reduce any game or genre to a boring, repetitive piece of shit. Just describe the most basic, fundamental components of the game in the most oversimplified way you can while leaving out all details, and suddenly chess is reduced to "moving the same pieces back and forth on the same board."
The story in those games is nothing more then the intro to the killing. You play these games for the shooting/platforming, NOT the story. TLJ you play for the story, NOT the puzzles.
I am interested in the storyline of Half-Life, as are most of the game's fans. It's not "nothing more than the intro to the killing."
Take half-life, who IS Gordon Freeman, why did he choose this career, why is he going inside. Why doesn't he say anything. Who IS HE, WHY is HE.
Gordon Freeman is a 27 year old MIT-trained theoretical physicist with an interest in quantum mechanics. He became dissatisfied with working in academia and sought for employement in the private sector. His MIT mentor Dr. Isaac Kleiner (a character in HL2 and the Episodes) offered Freeman a job in the Black Mesa Research Facility, which he accepted.
Play the game yourselve and then tell me again that Gordon Freeman is an equal personality to April Ryan.
I'm very confused. First you say that you should never mix genres and that game genres should effectively adhere to the standards of the 80s, but then you say you don't mind mixing genres, and that you're really just objecting to the poor quality of the fighting in Dreamfall?
I don't really understand why they'd want to optimize the kernel. Aren't they constantly just making Windows use more and more resources? I'm not exactly sure why they do that, but that's what they're doing.
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No, I don't buy it. It would be a mess, even if you could somehow pull it off. I wouldn't want to do gestures while I'm trying to do precision aiming.
The Wii just isn't good for everything.
Well sure, but if you meet a girl and you want to get together later, what's clumsy about a phone call, e-mail or IM message?
As far as I can see the Wii controller lacks the buttons for something as complex as R6V. You've got crouching, cover, shooting, assault/infiltrate, teammate control, gadget menu, weapon switching, firing mode/silencer, grenade throwing, weapon sights, map... maybe something else I'm forgetting. The functions not only take up every button on the controller, but several buttons have separate functions for pressing the button once and holding it down. The d-pad is fully used and both analogue sticks can also be pressed.
The Wii may allow for a new way of controlling games, but it also has limitations.
What's so great about Myspace and Facebook? What can they do that telephones, e-mail and instant messaging can't? If I meet someone and want to talk to them later, Myspace/Facebook doesn't strike me as the best way to do so. But it seems it's quite normal for young people in America to swap Myspace/Facebook addresses if they want to talk later (and as the research claims, 78% have a social networking profile). Social networking sites haven't really caught on in Europe, as far as I can tell.
Everyone keeps saying the Wii is so different and new, and lets you control games in a new way, but what does that really matter? It reminds me of the people who demand innovation just for innovation's sake, and can't specify what kind of games they want developers to do. New and different isn't necessarily a good thing. I haven't had any interest towards the Wii, and I ended up buying a 360.
I like graphics. I like having environments, objects and characters that look detailed and realistic. You could do Mass Effect with 8-bit sprite graphics, but it wouldn't really be the same thing, now would it? Having realistic looking characters with facial expressions, body language and voice acting is a huge part of the game's attraction, and since it's an RPG with a heavy emphasis on character interaction, those graphics aren't just there for eye candy (not that there's anything wrong with that).
I think many people oppose graphics because they want to pretend like they're some kind of über oldskool gaming veterans. When they see the Wii they of course start ranting and raving about "innovation" without giving two shits about how fun, interesting and appealing the games actually are. They are LARPers.
More complexity? Could you play Rainbow Six Vegas with the Wii controller?
As opposed to other consoles, which are incapable of doing so?
2560x1600 is really high. If you had a more reasonable resolution, you would not have to upgrade.
That's a false dilemma. Gameplay and graphics are not mutually exclusive. I wish people would stop propagating that myth.
It could be worse.
And what kind of a bow is it?
There was apparently a lot more rational thinking going on before the 60s. Today's insanities (political correctness, feminism, multiculturalism, "anti-racism" and whatnot) have developed over a period of about 40 years or so.
Not every game that's been in development for a long time is vaporware, and comparing Spore to DNF is absolutely ridiculous in so many ways. Spore was first revealed in 2005, so from the public's perspective it's been in development for just a few years.
Yes, please go ahead and validate my point by modding me flamebait for no rational or logical reason. :D
Modded flamebait, predictably enough. I guess I should have also mentioned that hysterical kneejerk responses are also par for the course in our brave new world.
Critical and logical thinking ceased to exist many decades ago. "If it feels good, it must be true" is the way people think these days.
I'm sure there are good freeware games for Linux, but I'm talking about commercial Windows games. I hear Wine can run a lot of Windows games, though.
I ran Ubuntu today for the first time, and I was quite suprised by how well it works. My soundcard and Internet connection worked immediately, and Ubuntu automatically chose my display's native resolution. Very nice. The interface feels good and there doesn't appear to be much of a learning curve for a person experienced with Windows. However, I'm completely unfamiliar with Linux so I expect I'll eventually have problems with some things.
I decided to get a Linux distro after I was exposed to the horrors of Vista. I'll eventually have to use Vista for gaming purposes, but I expect I can do everything else with Ubuntu.
Why would I misrepresent facts, and what makes you believe that I'm misrepresenting facts? If I didn't have any problems with Vista I wouldn't complain about it, and I sure as hell wouldn't have bothered to "downgrade" a Vista laptop by installing XP on it.
I'm not the only one saying that Vista is slow as fuck, and I'm not the only one who's had problems with UAC. The fact is that Vista has had a very poor reception and a lot of people hate it.
It's painfully and unbearably slow.
No, it pops up permission dialogs every four seconds. There's almost nothing you can do without UAE prompting you twice about it.
You gain new abilities in WoW every two levels, which greatly expand your options in combat. The difference between a level 5 and level 50 rogue in terms of what you can do is like night and day. There are also different ways of playing the same class, and you aren't always fighting things anyway.
When's the last time you played a FPS? Try Far Cry, Rainbow Six Vegas, BioShock or Halo 3. BioShock in particular gives you tons of tactical options.
Your logic can be used to reduce any game or genre to a boring, repetitive piece of shit. Just describe the most basic, fundamental components of the game in the most oversimplified way you can while leaving out all details, and suddenly chess is reduced to "moving the same pieces back and forth on the same board."
Bushnell is simply talking out of his ass. He doesn't have a clue about modern games.
I grew up playing NES, C-64, Amiga and PC games, and I don't have a problem with 3D.
I am interested in the storyline of Half-Life, as are most of the game's fans. It's not "nothing more than the intro to the killing."
Gordon Freeman is a 27 year old MIT-trained theoretical physicist with an interest in quantum mechanics. He became dissatisfied with working in academia and sought for employement in the private sector. His MIT mentor Dr. Isaac Kleiner (a character in HL2 and the Episodes) offered Freeman a job in the Black Mesa Research Facility, which he accepted.
Why are they supposed to be equal?
I'm very confused. First you say that you should never mix genres and that game genres should effectively adhere to the standards of the 80s, but then you say you don't mind mixing genres, and that you're really just objecting to the poor quality of the fighting in Dreamfall?
What are you trying to say?
I don't really understand why they'd want to optimize the kernel. Aren't they constantly just making Windows use more and more resources? I'm not exactly sure why they do that, but that's what they're doing.