Did we ever work out what was likely to be the best 7th-gen console?

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ExciteTruck has a split-screen 2-player.

Played Wii last night, am in LOVE. The Zelda sword-swings aren't anything more than a wiggle of the remote, but that is still way more satisfying/hilarious than button-mash + button-mash. Also, when they come out with a Wii Fly Fishing game, I will be the first in line to buy.

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Also I don't think I'm alone in assuming FPS: Apocalypse In The Future is going to be way more fun on Wii, for 1/2 - 1/3 the price.

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i might buy a XBOX 360 JUST so i can play retro Sensible Soccer online as the good gamelord intended. altho this may not be necessary if the SS.de forum comes back up.

― not much money, even less sense, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

fucking can't wait for wii

― Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't the problem with the Ninetendo consoles that they just seem so... kiddie compared with the Playstations?

nintendo's a seven year-old, xbox and playstation are 15 - take yr pick.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I ended up doing a lot of jabs playing Twilight Princess, not necessarily because the enemies called for it, just because LOL I R jabbing w/ my hand!

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

likely to get the best range, the biggest games and the most staying power and I bet that'll be the PS3

meh:
http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/z?s=SNE&t=6m&q=l&l=on&z=m&c=NTDOY.PK&a=v&p=s

not at $700 a pop, and the company still losing money at that price, and developers shying away. a year or two from now somebody will write an article and the title will be "blu-ray killed the playstation star." And I'll get that fucking song stuck in my head, just like I did to myself just now.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

My main problem with the Wii is that most of the games look like gimmicky rubbish, and in the areas where it was supposed to excel (ie FPS) the limits of the controller are already becoming apparent. The only thing its got going for it is a Game Cube game. Whoop dee doo.

Nintendo: why didn't you bring out a proper console? Why have you gone down the Russell T. Davies route of destroying something good by remaking it for women and gays?

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

because Nintendo is actually Japanese for 'quiche stilettos', you clod.

― #, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/8400/womengaysao2.jpg

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

you dudez can just play xbox is the idea right?

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

a proper console
http://ed-thelen.org/Munich/Zuse3-console-800.jpg

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

"you dudez can just play xbox is the idea right?"

So the people who actually play games buy an Xbox and spend several hundred pounds on games and accessories. The Women and Gays who don't play games buy the Wii, play Wii sports for 5 minutes, then go off and talk about shoes or something.

Excellent plan.

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

The Women and Gays, still hoping for that breakout single to pitch them into the limelight

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: Why bring out a version of 'Brain training' when science have proved that women's brains cannot be trained? Surely some kind of parking/spacial awareness simulator would be more beneficial?

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

sub-darramouss at best

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

How I wish lack of driving skills was gender based...

Though Immanent Gaze deserve video games too.

― Lurka Lou, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I wanna see how the control schema for Super Smash Bros works with this thing.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Well your sub-Alexius II at best - and i had him strangled.

I tell you, back in my day we'd have dealt with tykes like you by having your eyes torn from your head. These days...pah! it's political correctness gone mad!

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe that's the wrong cognitive bias, but thinking that the system you bought is the best choice in spite of evidence is like Psych 101 dudes? (Although, I figure the XBOX360 is pretty good!) SEE: the ILG saga of me and my PSP

― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I tell you, back in my day we'd have dealt with tykes like you by having your eyes torn from your head.

bah, get a better gimmick

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know...you'd need a hell of a lot cognative balance to think the Wii was a good idea after your remote had gone through the tele, the autoupdate had bricked your system and you'd realised that all you had to play were shit minigames or crippled versions of 360/PS3 games that would probably work better with a decent controller.

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

there's no way you could break yr tv screen with that remote - you could break the remote tho.

anyway i'm gonna get this shits and i haven't owned a system since the nes (extensive snes and genesis @ friends houses).

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

also there's this

http://www.techepics.com/files/afro_1.jpg

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be so happy when pop industrial/product design trends get beyond the "candy-coated" approach.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't tell if trolling newcomer is Darramouss and/or Nude Spock.

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

What kind of retard pays $700 on a fricking game console? There's like no argument here; unless the PS3 forms Voltron and then cleans your house and I haven't been told about it, wtf are you doing. It really doesn't have any greater game reach than the X-Box seems to and it's nearly 2x the price.

I'm looking vaguely forward to "breaking my tv" playing MIME MADDEN, btw. But that is because I am both a Women and a Gay.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Surely if you are both a woman AND gay I would have thought something macho like Gears Of War would have been more up your alley? (as, presumably, would smoking a pipe and wearing a tweed jacket?)

No, i am neither your 'Darramouss' nor your 'Nude Spock'. I am me - the one and only Andronicus Comnenus.

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Results 1 - 10 of about 23,700 for Andronicus Comnenus. (0.31 seconds)

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah? how many of them:

-Slept with most of the female members of their family
-Did away with their troublesome nephew, and most of the nobility
-Directly led to the downfall of one of History's greatest empires

I'm the one and only, baby.

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

ban nude spock

― Kenneth Branagh (gcannon), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

true, most roman emperors never had gmail addresses or friendster accounts with vaguely child-pred-looking photos

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Well we didn't have Gmail back in my day, obviously. Its only in the retired tyrants home that i'm allowed near a new-fangled computerbox.

Do you actually have some evidence for any of your claims? If its because i don't like the Wii i think its a little unfair - it does, after all, only mean i am a sane rational human being.

Honestley, you're lucky i'm in a good mood. Otherwise you'd all be a bit 'Renier of Montferrat' by now.

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

2/10

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.madcatz.com/Images2/products/4758.gif

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

2/10? Which are you: A woman, or a gay?

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey nude spock, did you get bored with trying to circumvent my blog's spam filter? Some troll you are. You have no game.

― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

That secondary Wii controller looks awful. Everyone else gives you form-fitted grips, Nintendo gives you the option of a Super Nintendo controller.

Why do all the display Wiis in Best Buy/Gamestop/etc. have no controllers? What's the point?

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

(xp) That's why you're a reject. Never had no game, no shows, no movies. ILX, that's it.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Darramouss was better, and he wasn't even trying.

― teh_kit, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the Super Nintendo style pad is for people who want more of a throwback design. The Wavebird is also 100% compatible, I imagine most people will wind up going for that instead.

― THE TOMBOT MAN, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Does the classic controller have a Z trigger or whatever?

― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Why do all the display Wiis in Best Buy/Gamestop/etc. have no controllers? What's the point?

the one at EB has it where you leave your ID at the desk, and you get the controller to play with

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Only for women and gays with proper ID.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

well, yes, but women and gays have been allowed to drive for at least 3 years now

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, i'm rather entertained by nude spock's ability to pop up in a thread on any subject and be a douche. Does he show up on the football or cricket or cooking threads with the same approach?

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I think those two little buttons just inward of the R & L buttons on the classic controller are BOTH Z buttons!

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1568496915.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Andronicus - on the hatorade since 1183 (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

oh sweet, i just realized that this thing can be used to play Odama, assuming it hasn't gone out of print and $80 on ebay by then

http://media.gamespy.com/columns/image/article/700/700544/planetfargo-get-your-odama-on-20060406061336673.jpg

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The classic controller is ok.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

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there's no way you could break yr tv screen with that remote - you could break the remote tho.

www.wiihaveaproblem.com

― D.J. Anderson (D.J. Anderson), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

This "I smashed my telly with a wii controller" meme is catching on.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Bleah. Big whiff from the Onion on that one. I'm going to assume that Chris D. didn't write it.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

WILMINGTON, N.C. - A young man accused of robbing a fellow college student of two new PlayStation 3 video game consoles was shot and killed - possibly while holding a game controller - by officers sent to arrest him.

Peyton Strickland, 18, was killed Friday at a house he shared with three roommates, Sheriff Sid Causey said.

Roommate Mike Rhoton said Strickland was unarmed when he got up from playing a Tiger Woods golf game but may have been holding a controller when he went to the door as officers bashed it in. Strickland's dog also was shot to death.

The sheriff said Strickland was shot by members of a specially trained team who went to help university officers serve arrest warrants. Causey said officers considered the arrest a high-risk situation.

"Anytime that someone beats a person severely and commits an armed robbery, I certainly would consider him a risk and a danger," Causey said.

The sheriff said the robbery victim waited in line for three days to buy the units for $641 each at a Wal-Mart. He was unloading them at his campus apartment when one man beat him to the ground while another took the consoles, Causey said.

The Associated Press

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://quietmountain.org/dharmacenters/buddhadendo/wheel_of_samsara_thanka.jpg

― obi strip (sanskrit), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's not forget about the greedy dude getting beat down. That was karma for buying 2 PS3s

― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

remember the SuperScope?

http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/mania/images/ss/ss_smbmovie-dvd_02.jpg

― latebloomer! (clonefeed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

He's supposed to be Koopa, and those guys behind him are supposed to be Goombas. That movie is so fucking weird.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i know! the movie is really creative in its interpretation of the game. sadly, it's also terrible.

― latebloomer! (clonefeed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i enjoyed its reinforcing of negative italian-american stereotypes.

― obi strip (sanskrit), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

"stereotypes"

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the "sequel set-up" ending. Yeah, riiiight.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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