TheMightyEthan

The accuracy I mentioned works for moving your thumb from an "out" position to an "in" position, for both hands. What I was saying about the right stick is that you want the motion to go from the stick to the buttons to be an out-to-in motion. However, the "in" position is more comfortable for resting, so ideally whatever you rest your thumb on would be in the "in" position. All of that applies to both hands, regardless of handedness. Now, since the face buttons are on the right the precision of the out-to-in motion trumps the resting comfort consideration for that stick, not to mention the fact that in plenty of games you would rest your thumb over the face buttons rather than the stick, so the right stick goes in the lower position. That same consideration does not exist on the left side as there are far fewer times when you would rest your thumb on the d-pad or need to quickly and precisely hit a d-pad direction, so on that side the resting comfort trumps. I agree completely that a mirrored version of the controller would be better for lefties, but that goes to which side the face buttons/d-pad should be on. What I'm saying is that whether the controller were as current or mirrored the stick on the face button side should be lower and the stick on the d-pad side should be higher. I do agree that aesthetically though the symmetry of the DS3 is more appealing. Honestly, in an ideal world the face buttons, sticks, and d-pad would all be on removable modules and everyone could arrange them in whatever configuration they like best. Deadzone and sensitivity/tension of the sticks should also be adjustable on the controller itself.

If anything I'd expect the price to go up due to a lack of competition. You'd go from a bunch of retailers all competing for business to just MS and Sony (and maybe Nintendo) competing.

I think it could work, I just don't think they'll do it because they'll automatically be eliminating a large portion of the market. iPod and iPad have proved it can work with smaller titles, and I think XLBA and PSN have borne that out, but I don't think it would work as well with larger retail releases. I would not be surprised if every 720 game has a digital release day-and-date with the retail one though. In fact I'd be surprised if it's not that way.

Bioware has repeatedly and unequivocally stated that you can get the perfect ending without MP. If that weren't true I would have expected them to just not address the issue, like they did with the ME1 face import thing.

That sounds like a miscommunication to me. Based on how my bar is filling I was estimating it would take 2500 points to get the best ending, which would be 5000 war assets without MP, so that might be what IGN meant.

I can't imagine it won't have some sort of physical media, though that doesn't necessarily have to be an OSD. But without physical media they're eliminating the portion of the market that lacks either internet access altogether or lacks the technical knowledge to get it set up with their game console. I would guess (though I have nothing to base it on) that that's not an insignificant portion of the market.

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Hey, all we need is a trillion of them and we can light a small room!

Yeah, I really enjoyed what I played in the demo. I put 33 hours into that thing, which is more than most full games I buy.

I haven't touched multiplayer yet (except the demo).

No, just thought it was funny.

Some things never change... (unrelated to Strange's post)

I hope not, cause then I'd feel bad for blowing off Miranda. I was wearing the hoodie for a while, and I liked it a lot, but I thought it looked too weird in cutscenes when I was talking to people in Alliance uniforms and I'm wearing a hoodie (specifically Admiral Hacket), so I switched back to the uniform. *Edit* - I wish there were actually 3 levels of uniform: combat, non-combat on-duty, and non-combat off-duty.

Oh yeah, a full-fledged console Pokemon at launch would do it too. By "full-fledged" I mean big ass open world RPG, like the handheld ones. *Edit* - That will never ever happen though. *Edit 2* - Though depending on what kind of motion sensing is in that tablet they could potentially do a pretty cool sequel to Pokemon Snap with that thing. That obviously wouldn't be even close to enough to sell me on the console though.

Launch day Zelda.

Before reading your explanation about what this is, I seriously thought it was some kind of sex toy.

I lolled when the turian general told me that Garrus was in the weapons room, and that he said something about needing to do some calibrations and Shep was like "That sounds like Garrus."

lmao! (minor spoiler about returning character) *Edit* - Rather, the spoiler is the fact that the character returns, not the thing I noticed about them. *Edit 2* - Also, different spoiler

I still don't think I understand what you mean about handedness. I mean, yes, the face buttons are on the right, which I would guess is due to the fact that most people are right handed, but the DS3 is like that too.

It's got to be dialog options then, cause my Shep never mentioned the kid early in the game either. AFAIK my Shep is the only person in the universe who even knew that kid existed.

Oh okay, it doesn't say that gorillas have more genes in common with us than chimps, it says 15% of our genes are more similar to gorilla genes than they are to chimp genes. They still think we're more closely related to chimpanzees (gorillas split from humans and chimps 10M years ago, humans and chimps split from each other 4M years ago).

Yeah, I'm going to get it, just right now I'm in Mass Effect. If it was discounted I was going to go ahead and buy it now, but since it's not I'll just wait until it either goes on discount or I'm ready to play it.

How is it related to handedness? It's easier to go from the lower position to the upper position with precision than the other way around, no matter which hand you're using. It's also more comfortable to rest your hand in the upper position, no matter which hand you're using. Has nothing to do with handedness.