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Post by drquest on Nov 21, 2006 16:35:13 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8w8SggftkI have a friend with one and yes you look this stupid playing any of the motion controller games. Sony need to make that an ad " want to look like your in explicit shock play the Nintendo Wii, want to run out of breath before the end of a level play the Nentendo Wii. " if not buy a playstation 3 I can't get the favorit button to work any more anyone else having this problem
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Post by Terryfic on Nov 21, 2006 17:10:34 GMT -5
The PS3 is a little bit different than an SNES because of the cell processor. The Xbox 360 on the other hand really isn’t. Xbox 360 is just a faster Xbox. The PS3 architecture should allow for more complex AI to be written efficiently. The problem is no developer is going to take advantage of that. They want to make a game that they can port to as many systems as possible so they will design it with both Xbox and PS3 in mind.
That is the beauty of the Wii, it takes the opinion to be innovative out of the hands of the developers. If you want to make a game for it you have to use the new controller (well you don’t have to, since there is also a more traditional controller for the Wii). Developers are lazy, and more importantly producers are terrified to take a risk and possibly lose money, so if they don’t have to innovate they won’t. I love how Nintendo is one of the few companies out there interested in figuring out what can be done with games, as opposed to just trying to turn a profit off of them.
Oh, and you can play a Wii perfectly fine using very small controlled movements of the controller, it is just a lot more fun to play if you really get into it.
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Post by drquest on Nov 21, 2006 17:34:08 GMT -5
I would not call myself stupid or fat for not wanting to wave my arms around like a mad man. Terry is right you relly don't have to move that much to get the same effect. I grew up when arcades were places you could spend the whole day there they had stools for you to sit on they serverd food right there like pizza and burgers. They had bolt on ashtrys for the gamer who liked to smoke. They took real quartes not tokens. You made friends and rivals there. The high score list was a badge of honor. Pinball took up as much room as the video games did. You stood in line outside to be the first to play there new machine. Now arcades are like freaken health clubs your danceing, your para paraing your, druming just not the same not saying that it is bad but it's not the next thing in videogames it's something differnt and new breed of electronic entertainment. So you may have your guitar hero and make your new years resolution to get fit with the help of mario and zelda. I will be kicking it old school resting on the couch with solid snake and the rest with my ps3
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Post by gemma on Nov 21, 2006 17:40:39 GMT -5
DAMN i want a wii so so badly.
I'm supposed to be getting a dslite for christmas and I can't wait.
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Post by noasinger on Nov 21, 2006 18:21:03 GMT -5
Don't dis my DDR, dudes. Just sayin'.
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Post by gemma on Nov 21, 2006 18:24:29 GMT -5
DDR is my cardio!
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Post by hyemew on Nov 21, 2006 21:07:28 GMT -5
Amen to what Terry said. No fair making low blows at the Wii you other guys, there IS a normal control to use with it too after all. To fault Nintendo for being innovative is close-minded.
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Post by wednesday on Nov 22, 2006 0:07:17 GMT -5
I would not call myself stupid or fat for not wanting to wave my arms around like a mad man. Terry is right you relly don't have to move that much to get the same effect. I grew up when arcades were places you could spend the whole day there they had stools for you to sit on they serverd food right there like pizza and burgers. They had bolt on ashtrys for the gamer who liked to smoke. They took real quartes not tokens. You made friends and rivals there. The high score list was a badge of honor. Pinball took up as much room as the video games did. You stood in line outside to be the first to play there new machine. LOL! Everything you wrote is the exact reason why my parents forbade me to even walk by an arcade. "Strange things happen in there," they always said. Which was, of course, the exact reason why I was always going in there. The games were great, but the thrill of defiance was the best!
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Post by Imparfaite on Nov 27, 2006 4:43:34 GMT -5
Don't dis my DDR, dudes. Just sayin'. Amen to that. I kind of resent the whole fat American comment up there. I don't know anything about this Wii thing, other than that it apparently sends out a radio wave or something else that causes people to go absolutely insane upon it's release and whenever someone sees a new shipment. However, I am a fat American. But that video honestly looks like there's little more to it than twitching. It's not exercise. DDR is exercise. Not that fake boxing. Perhaps words should be more carefully considered next time as that is a rather offensive remark. Even if you are an American, it doesn't give you exclusive license to mock your entire country. I'm sick of this stereotype, which may be true in at least one sense- that Americans are obese. This stereotype that all Americans are stupid and fat. Why does one go hand in hand with the other? Anyways, whether you meant it as offensive or not jayhenry, that's my thought on the matter.
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Post by Terryfic on Nov 27, 2006 7:10:51 GMT -5
This stereotype that all Americans are stupid and fat. Why does one go hand in hand with the other? I really agree with this sentiment. Recently being fat has come under heavy attack and people are beginning to imply that if you are fat then you are also stupid, lazy, unsuccessful, etc. It is true that people from the lower classes do tend to have less education and have less respected and worse paying jobs, so they cannot usually afford healthy food and tend to eat more fast/junk food and thus are often fatter than those from middle/upper class. The problem is the anti-fat people are trying to use this fact in the opposite direction. Instead of saying being poor and less educated may result in you being fat, they are trying to say that being fat will make you poor and less educated. This is of course ridicules. I think one of the best examples of this is if you watch the show Honey, We’re Killing the Kids in which they show parents what their overweight kids will look like when they are 40. The premise sounds good to me. I agree that people should eat healthily and exercise. My problem is they don’t just show what the kid will look like grown up. They add social stigmas to him to try to help get across their point that being fat will make you a loser. They show him wearing a dirty wife beater or with a mullet or something, and then at the end of the show were they do the same computer generated aging of the kid, but this time what he would look like if he stays healthy. The kid always ends up looking like the captain of the football team.
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Post by noasinger on Nov 27, 2006 9:05:51 GMT -5
lol, I love my DDR, and I love Wii too. Some day I must wiibox you JayHenry, once I've managed to sell an article or a story somewhere, someday.
Who cares if it looks stupid, Chris and the rest of you? DDR looked pretty damn stupid to me, too, when I first became aware of it.
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Post by drquest on Nov 27, 2006 14:12:44 GMT -5
ok all I meant was when I play a video game it is from my couch not running aound like I have been set on fire and I am trying to fan the flames out. I do enjoy playing guitar heroes with my friend it is fun we laugh but I think thoese type of games as party games not your typical video game it is like a differnt form of entertainment is all I was saying.
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Post by lesbrent on Nov 30, 2006 10:31:14 GMT -5
New Article Did Wii break your TV? from Yahoo Nov 29, 2006 Picture this. You're lining up the perfect shot in Wii Bowling, remote in hand. You set up the shot, swing the remote with all the strength you can muster, and... follow through a little more than you intended. Somehow the remote leaves your sweaty-palmed grip and bang, smash, there goes your TV, window, photo of your granny, anything that happens to be in the path of the newly liberated remote. Hold on, though. If you're wearing the (supplied) wrist strap, no harm done, right? So you'd think. As you can see, some Wii owners are finding the strap decidedly lacking. (Check out nascent site wiihaveaproblem.com for more strap malfunctions.) The problem isn't with the amply broad strap itself, but the considerably narrower section that connects the strap with the remote, which is prone to fray in some circumstances. The result is smashed remotes, smashed televisions, smashed windows, and unhappy (or, at least, somewhat red-faced) customers. Teething hardware troubles are hardly new to the world of console launches, especially in the last year or so. The Xbox 360's original overheating issues are well documented, with the first production run of consoles suffering what is generally regarded to be an unusually high failure rate. We're even hearing the start of mutterings about overheating issues with some brand new PS3s. But it's probably the first time a console's design has lead --albeit indirectly -- to quite such a catalogue of destruction. To its credit, Nintendo appears to be happy to replace the wrist strap in some circumstances, but if there really is an underlying design weakness, then it needs to be addressed before an unfortunate (or worse, sue-happy) bystander gets beaned by a stray remote. Sure, it's easy to laugh at the misfortune of these hapless Wii'ers, especially if you're still combing stores for miles around looking for yours. One broken strap could be regarded as misfortune, but as the volume of fractured straps grows, it starts to look more like carelessness -- or, at least, evidence of a lack of real-world testing. In the meantime, wise Wii owners will want to consider hunting round the house for something a little stronger -- or waiting for one of the more opportunistic peripheral manufacturers to cash in on the opportunity to flog reinforced replacements at an inflated price. That's business. Share your own stories on the Yahoo! World of Wii videogames.yahoo.com/printview_feature?eid=494785
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Post by drquest on Nov 30, 2006 11:34:45 GMT -5
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Post by Alissa Brooke on Dec 7, 2006 23:37:59 GMT -5
"This stereotype that all Americans are stupid and fat."
Fat Americans Lazy Americans Druggie Americans Overachiever Americans
There are all sorts of Americans. Some just happen to be of the fat kind.
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