So apparently the 360 is getting a tiny keyboard that plugs into the bottom of the controller.
WHYYYYYY?!
Now USB support for occasional use in like an MMO or quick typing info for signing up I can see, but this is apparently for online chatting.
Major problem here, it's WORSE than what the system is already capable of. It COMES WITH A HEADSET, and you can talk with people all you want via live with an actual VOICE (though for some reason, very annoyingly, they took out the voice filter, I mean sheesh all they needed to do was get rid of the robot voice). Why would anyone willingly use a keyboard instead of talk? I mean, aside from that mute kid over there?
So I got a 360 on Friday, and I've played around with it a little bit. The only game I have is College Hoops 2K7 for now, but I have downloaded a few demos from the marketplace. Nintendo really needs to include demos for the Wii, but it's tougher with the small harddrive in the Wii. Anyway, my gamertag is IlliniDRock if anyone wants to befriend me. I'll add Gamertags to this post as people post them.
DMiller: IlliniDRock
Great Rumbler: Great Rumbler
Dark Jaguar: Dark Jaguar
Well now this is interesting. Squeenix basically had made a concious effort to dedicate themselves to the "business model" of remaking all their old games ad inifinitum. Once the ad nausia sets in though, I think this could backfire in a major way.
Sad though... I wish they never realized just how much someone is willing to pay for an extra dungeon. I mean Nintendo, for example, originally felt they could only sell " games we already made" by packing 4 enhanced versions into a single cart called Super Mario All-Stars. With the GBC and GBA, they reached a point where they realized they could sell the games with a lot of additional gameplay features as SEPERATE entities, no more collection packages. They died. Then AFTER GBC's Deluxe SMB, they actually had the gall to release the original and completely dull by comparison NES versions of the game, seperatly as well, no package.
Instead of doing remakes over and over again, I think they really need to take advantage of downloadable content. Release a final remake once more and then from that point on, whatever crazy feature or dungeon you want to toss in, make it a downloadable content pack. Or not, since for now at least people seem willing to pay for these games AGAIN.
On the night of 4/20, very much stoned with 3 friends, I saw Hot Fuzz. It was awesome. It blew me away. I was skeptical, because the trailer made it look dumb, and because the theatre only had about 7 other people in it, but I gave the Shaun of the Dead guys the benefit of the doubt for accurate trailers. Damn shame that the crowd was so thin. I tell you, it's probably the best movie released this year. Most of the shit they package as trailers is further evidence that Hollywood is going even further down the tubes and ought to be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.
Hot Fuzz is a breath of a fresh air, and a great blend of comedy, gore, and British silliness. I highly recommend it, especially if you loved Shaun of the Dead. The only possible gripe I can give is that it was long - about two hours. I was stoned and hungry for munchies, though, so perhaps my impatience was subjective. They showed a trademark of self-referential humor, a wonderful craft of set-ups and many pay-offs, and a few nods to Shaun of the Dead to boot. I plan to own this movie as soon as it's released on DVD, pending personal funds.
Go see this movie. Even if I were sober, I still would have loved it and laughed the entire time.
Okay, it has come to my attention that apparently my brain is broken. I say this with full confidence that the obvious insults will be unspoken :D.
You know those funny 3D images where you cross your eyes and see a 3D shape? Well apparently I see them in reverse from everyone else. The "background" for them actually sticks out from the page and all the shapes I see are indentions in it instead of coming out. Am I doing something wrong?
To "celebrate" Earth Day today Boomerang (Cartoon Network's classic-cartoons channel, if you forget) had a Captain Planet marathon... that cartoon is so awful that I even noticed how bad it was when I was a kid... yet somehow I watched parts of five episodes today... :(
Well here's another incident. Unfortunatly you know what sort of thing this is going to do. Two incidents back to back are going to send the media into a "are we in a CYCLONE OF VIOLENCE THAT WILL UNMAKE THE EARTH?" sort of hyperbole that makes the very word "hyperbole" an understatement.
