1st May 2004, 10:05 AM
It's not an easy bake oven! It's a cool retro-fitted design that's based on the new generation's values of symmatry and.... yeah it's an easy bake oven... :D
But the PS2 is a formless brick, and the XBox atleast has the big green insignia but is still a formless brick 3 times the size of the PS2, the only system this gen that actually looks cool is the GBA SP. I hope next gen the smooth and sleek style comes back. Curves are good for consoles.
DJ/ I dunno which SSX I played and from what I remember it did look to have more features and it is a very well made game. EA has a really strong series for itself. I think what companies realized, after the release of Waverace and the first 1080 is that snowboarding, or any sport racing doesn't have to be a sports game if you implement it as a racing game with tricks and jumps, the same formula that made Wave Race so popular. It (the design) started a whole genre on N64 where racing was the main goal and tricks was left for more advanced players just to show off, then came Snowboard Kids, Excitebike 64 and all kinds of games using the same design instead of being a straight racing game or a straight tricks game, or the worst in my opinion; the techie games where pulling off a trick requires you to read a manual. The first 1080 had a taste of that, but that's why most players dont pull off 1080's while racing. :D
As far as online play, I want it to the point that I turn on my GC, and start up Metroid Prime 2. I go to the multiplayer menu and there's a menu item marked as "Online death match". I go there, and I get a list of who's playing Metroid Prime 2 in the world right now. I click on the name "Dark Jaguar: Warrior Prince/Princess you decide, or not - I'm comfortable with my mascuninity" and then ask you to play with me by sending you a message either verbally or by text (I would prefer the headphone/mic setup like Xbox has). You reply and confirm that you want to play. The level loads and we play a two player Death Match, or a 20 player death match with all kinds of TC peoples. And it's full screen for each person playing, and there's no lag, no jumpyness and everything is super smooth. If Nintendo can do that, then by God Nintendo needs to get their ass in gear. If they cant, they should, in my opinion, wait until the technology is there.
I keep thinking about the Virual Boy... Gumpie designed it, he also designed the Gameboy and lots of awesome games, he had the Shiggy magic touch. Gumpie wanted it to be in color but wanted to keep price down. If he would have waited until technology caught up to his demands, Nintendo could have released a better system that people would have immeadiately loved, instead of hating it the first time they see the red and black graphics. And that hurt Nintendo alot, their first complete failure in every sense of the word. I bet they had alot of meeting about that and i bet they all decided to look before they jump next time, and that's what they're doing with online play. Nintendo wants to release the best and easiest to use online gameplay system the world has ever seen, and they just cant do it yet and keep the price reasonable.
Using the same example, you may not agree, but the entire industry will eventually go true 3-D through headsets, glasses or consoles that dont need a TV to be played, every developer wants their game to be in true 3-D and they're all biting their time until it gets here, the VB could have been the system to push the whole thing in to existence but instead, pushed it back. Imagine what would happen to online play if Nintendo could make it cheap, effective and a thousand times better than anything out there today. We're not the only people with dreams of seeing virtual chat rooms where you walk around in a 3-D RPG environment and converse with people you can actually see and interact with, where just chatting on a message board is an RPG all itself, it's coming and I think Nintendo is going to put it on the map.
And yeah, Nintendo formed that line as a "here, this'll shut you up" statement. :D
On topic, i really hope that in the DM of Prime 2, when you get locked on by another player you can somehow wiggle out of it, maybe by charging your beam cannon to give off too much interference to be locked on to or maybe counter measures like on a submarine. You get locked on, you fire a missile (or something similar) and the lock on will follow that, instead of you.
But the PS2 is a formless brick, and the XBox atleast has the big green insignia but is still a formless brick 3 times the size of the PS2, the only system this gen that actually looks cool is the GBA SP. I hope next gen the smooth and sleek style comes back. Curves are good for consoles.
DJ/ I dunno which SSX I played and from what I remember it did look to have more features and it is a very well made game. EA has a really strong series for itself. I think what companies realized, after the release of Waverace and the first 1080 is that snowboarding, or any sport racing doesn't have to be a sports game if you implement it as a racing game with tricks and jumps, the same formula that made Wave Race so popular. It (the design) started a whole genre on N64 where racing was the main goal and tricks was left for more advanced players just to show off, then came Snowboard Kids, Excitebike 64 and all kinds of games using the same design instead of being a straight racing game or a straight tricks game, or the worst in my opinion; the techie games where pulling off a trick requires you to read a manual. The first 1080 had a taste of that, but that's why most players dont pull off 1080's while racing. :D
As far as online play, I want it to the point that I turn on my GC, and start up Metroid Prime 2. I go to the multiplayer menu and there's a menu item marked as "Online death match". I go there, and I get a list of who's playing Metroid Prime 2 in the world right now. I click on the name "Dark Jaguar: Warrior Prince/Princess you decide, or not - I'm comfortable with my mascuninity" and then ask you to play with me by sending you a message either verbally or by text (I would prefer the headphone/mic setup like Xbox has). You reply and confirm that you want to play. The level loads and we play a two player Death Match, or a 20 player death match with all kinds of TC peoples. And it's full screen for each person playing, and there's no lag, no jumpyness and everything is super smooth. If Nintendo can do that, then by God Nintendo needs to get their ass in gear. If they cant, they should, in my opinion, wait until the technology is there.
I keep thinking about the Virual Boy... Gumpie designed it, he also designed the Gameboy and lots of awesome games, he had the Shiggy magic touch. Gumpie wanted it to be in color but wanted to keep price down. If he would have waited until technology caught up to his demands, Nintendo could have released a better system that people would have immeadiately loved, instead of hating it the first time they see the red and black graphics. And that hurt Nintendo alot, their first complete failure in every sense of the word. I bet they had alot of meeting about that and i bet they all decided to look before they jump next time, and that's what they're doing with online play. Nintendo wants to release the best and easiest to use online gameplay system the world has ever seen, and they just cant do it yet and keep the price reasonable.
Using the same example, you may not agree, but the entire industry will eventually go true 3-D through headsets, glasses or consoles that dont need a TV to be played, every developer wants their game to be in true 3-D and they're all biting their time until it gets here, the VB could have been the system to push the whole thing in to existence but instead, pushed it back. Imagine what would happen to online play if Nintendo could make it cheap, effective and a thousand times better than anything out there today. We're not the only people with dreams of seeing virtual chat rooms where you walk around in a 3-D RPG environment and converse with people you can actually see and interact with, where just chatting on a message board is an RPG all itself, it's coming and I think Nintendo is going to put it on the map.
And yeah, Nintendo formed that line as a "here, this'll shut you up" statement. :D
On topic, i really hope that in the DM of Prime 2, when you get locked on by another player you can somehow wiggle out of it, maybe by charging your beam cannon to give off too much interference to be locked on to or maybe counter measures like on a submarine. You get locked on, you fire a missile (or something similar) and the lock on will follow that, instead of you.