Chris

Just like in Spore!!!

Man, this movie was such bullshit. I saw it with much of the Thumbs Crew and we were literally laughing through a good portion of it, it was so absurd. Getting into my myriad problems with the film would take some time, so I'll wait until someone mentions something I can latch onto, then I'll respond at far too great length.

Oh man, he's magical. Also: Wow, the new Xbox really looks like a PC from that distance.

Well, at least it's outsold RTX Red Rock...

Scarface ate my balls

Ok, I understand you like it and it makes it more complete, I'm just saying not to confuse it with gameness, that's all.

That was deliberate.

Especially since narrative development has a billion times less in common with the concept of a game than do, say, minigames.

I don't think it's so much that those things are ignored as much as they're not really considered as relevent. In terms of how to live your life and so forth, the New Testament should be the template, since that's when Jesus came and laid down all of his guidelines and teachings. (That's why it's the "new" and "old" testaments instead of just the first and the second one, or something)

No, they don't show any slides. Once Spore itself starts being presented, it is shown.

Yeah, this is what I decided I should have said like two seconds after I made my post (with any number of examples) but I didn't feel like editing.

Well, again, probably it'll be similar in game-ness to other Sim-esque games...

You should buy a t-shirt that advertises as such.

Well, mockup rendering, Photoshop, whatever. My point was just that I don't think they are photographs. But yeah some of those colors look nice.

Ok, but I still think the picture itself is fake, even though it's from an official source. The reflections look ridiculous, not real at all. Look at the green one and the one at the top center. Those reflections look terrible. Considering this is already a mock-up model by Nintendo's own admission (since the real one is going to be smaller) it doesn't surprise me that it would be easier to just photoshop a bunch of variously-painted ones if actual prototypes weren't available yet.

Those pictures look really really fake. Someone clearly just copied and pasted the original pictures and colored them, then skewed them to make them look like they were photographs taken at varying angles.

It won't. Miyamoto forbade it. The director of the game thinks it might be cool to have voice recording for short words like "Oh" and "Yeah" but even that is not definite.

My shock regarding the backwards compatibility thing caused me to miss the DVD thing, but honestly being able to play DVDs is not really covered by the "making waffles and coffee argument". It should be a totally standard feature by now. Talking about doing other wacky things sort of implies having other attachments or peripherals, I don't know, but a DVD is the same exact size as a game disc! It's absurd to have an extra attachment to do something that the machine could very clearly do itself. If it means the system has to be bigger than two matchbooks or whatever, fine. This seems like Nintendo is basically saying "Well, we know you'll have another console that can play DVDs, so ours doesn't need to"--which is undoubtedly going to be true in most gamers' cases, but it just seems like Nintendo is ready to be third place all over again.

HOLY SHIT

Wherefore?

Ask, and you will (probably) receive...

Ha ha! As if an Xbox could fit into a house!

Dude, they don't have "force feedback". They rumble.

We have a bajillion humongobytes of space on the server, but it's up to Doug I guess whether we want to host random stuff.

19, eh? For some reason I thought you were already 19. Well, Happy Birthday.