TheMightyEthan

Yeah, I've never heard of anyone getting hurt by one, and even a google search only yielded a couple of results. I hate putting food in the trash. We don't fill up the trash bags fast enough, so it ends up stinking like crazy before the bag is full, so we have to take out a half-full bag and end up using more of them.

@P4: Yeah, I know how the sensor bar works, but just because it can be fooled doesn't mean it's not about absolute position. I know it would be possible for them to use only the M+, but I would hope they at least use the sensor bar a little to tell where the TV is. Otherwise it's easy to get off for stuff like aiming arrows or whatever, because the Wii doesn't know whether I'm pointing at the center of the TV or way off to the right. My TV has a motion remote that only uses the gyroscopes and has no absolute reference to the position of the TV, and while the motion tracking works surprisingly well it easily gets to where the cursor isn't pointing anywhere near where the actual remote is pointing because it has no absolute frame of reference.

It has to use the sensor bar to some extent, or else it would have no way of knowing where the TV is in relation to the player. That sounds like it'll make Rocky Ryan happy.

Yeah, I fucking loved Lair of the Shadow broker. As for Arrival, you're right: it's really intended (according to the devs) to be played after completing the Suicide Mission, but once you've installed it you can do it at any point. It changes very slightly based on whether you do it before or after the Suicide Mission, but it's not the kind of change that matters at all, it's just to avoid discontinuities.

Yeah, it bugs the crap out of me that DLC never drops in price. I bought the Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition because even though I already had the regular edition it was cheaper than buying the DLC... then I never actually played it and like a year later sold it for $130, so score.

Yeah, I don't like to be the center of attention.

Twilight Princess, finally. I mean, I've beat it before, but this playthrough took forever because I kept getting interrupted by wedding stuff.

On sale on Amazon.

So that kid got a code, but redeemed it on the wrong account, and they gave him a new one? wtf? They should have been like "sorry, pay more attention to what you're doing next time" *Edit* - "Yes sir, that's correct, I bought 53 copies on Xbox and 84 on PS3, and none of them had codes in them..."

With Call of Duty I guess Activision figures it's worth it. Call of Duty is like the biggest franchise ever in terms of $, so it can probably support the costs of adapting the game where other games might not be able to. As for Dead Space: Extraction, it's an on-rails shooter, not a semi-non-linear game like the others. Also, it's entirely possible that they decided to do an on-rails shooter and chose the Wii for it's light-gun-like controller rather than saying "We need a Dead Space game for the Wii, so come up with something". Any time a company is deciding whether to release a game on multiple platforms it has to do a cost/benefit analysis, and with the Wii the fact that its capabilities are so much different really drives the cost side of that up. That's not to say that it won't sometimes be worth it, just that it's less likely than with more comparable systems.

I think it's just that it's more work than it's worth. You would have to generate all new low res textures, new low poly models. You'd probably also have to rework the AI and physics to account for the system's limitations, change the numbers of enemies, etc. Background stuff besides graphics takes a lot more processing power than I think a lot of people realize.

Well this is irritating: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/20/l-a-noire-the-complete-edition-coming-to-ps3-360-this-novembe/ I mean, I know that games drop in price and that GOTY editions with all the DLC come out, but fuckin seriously? It hasn't even been 6 months yet. Ordinarily I'm okay with paying the premium to get the content earlier, but this is a little ridiculous.

Warner seriously fucked up and is handling this terribly. Having to prove to them you bought the game new is bullshit of the highest degree. However, I agree that the fact that they fucked it up has nothing to do with the practice of "project $10"-type things. It's a flaw in execution, not a flaw in premise. This is Warner's fuck up, no one else's. Not that I support project $10, I'm just not really opposed to it either. I'm indifferent.

It's sad but true: the only way to get significant 3rd party support (not counting shovelware) is to be sufficiently compatible with the other platforms that the third parties can release their games multiplat. Otherwise they just won't get the sales necessary to support development of higher quality experiences, especially when the system manufacturer is targeting a casual gamers who simply don't buy as many games to go with the system.

Yeah, I thought the difficulty spike sounded cool, until I heard the counter symbols were gone. Then again, I'm terrible at game combat systems that have any kind of depth. I never get beyond button-mashing stage.

I agree that the exclusives on the other consoles aren't enough either. Thing is, the PS3 and 360 have good 3rd party support in addition to their exclusives. Practically all the Wii has are its exclusives, and they just aren't enough. None of the consoles can justify a purchase purely on the exclusives, but unlike the PS3 and 360 the exclusives are all the Wii really has.

What Johnny said. The only reason I even have a Wii at all is because my brother never played his and said I could have it. I would have gladly bought SMG 1&2 and Twilight Princess (if my brother hadn't already had them), but that really is the extent of my interest in the Wii, and I have tried most of the games people give as examples of other great titles (getting ready to try Monster Hunter after I finish TP). I've also preordered Skyward Sword. Nintendo makes some great games that I really want, but that don't in themselves justify the purchase of a console. Now, maybe I'll luck out again and stumble into a free Wii U somehow, but I doubt it, and if not I'll be faced with either missing some pretty freakin killer apps or buying an entire console for at most like 4 games. THAT's why I want Nintendo to start publishing for other plats.

You're an evil, evil person.

When I said "go the way of Sega" I just meant I wanted them to move from a system manufacturer to a pure publisher. I know there's more to Nintendo than those two series, but I don't see why publishing on other people's hardware would automatically mean their games would have to suffer. When you get right down to it, from a game development perspective what difference does it really make whether the studios are developing for a Nintendo owned platform or some other company's platform?

Don't forget making you use the Wiimote on its side instead of letting you use the Classic or Gamecube controller. Noooo, that would just make TOO MUCH GODDAMNED SENSE!

That's kind of my point though: the only games worth playing on Nintendo consoles are Nintendo games. I'm not saying Nintendo doesn't make great games, I'm just saying I wish I didn't have to buy a whole separate console just for them.

Yeah, but Sonic kind of floundered around the transition to 3D and never really recovered. Mario and Zelda have both already successfully made the transition (depending on who you ask, anyway), so there's no reason they wouldn't be able to continue to have the same quality level on other consoles.

The only thing I ever used my PSP for was emulated NES-SNES-GBA games on car rides or plane trips. And Mercury.

I haven't played the DS titles, but I love TP, so