N-Gage: N-Gaged for Success!

[Great Rumbler]

Yes, complete with that really cool thing they did where everything was in slow-motion.

[A Black Falcon]

Yes, she is really annoying..

[alien space marine]

Chronic boredom is painful and I say! ........ very painful!

[OB1]

Originally posted by A Black Falcon
Yes, she is really annoying..

Sshhhh!! You'll make DJ insecure about being a hick or something like that.

:D

[A Black Falcon]

OB1, that was actually a reply to

I can't stand that Glad woman!

. :D

[Dark Jaguar]

Now THAT'S a slip of the Freudian kind!

[A Black Falcon]

You mean I missed page 2. Not sure how I managed to do that, but I did... :)

...

See, my computer was broken like all day yesterday... I was on on another computer sometime in early afternoon, but other than that I wasn't online until about 2:30am this morning when I finally fixed the stupid thing. Over three hours straight, about... after having it running much of the day doing something that didn't help. Evil, evil, Microsoft!

[OB1]

ABF, I know that you were talking about the Glad woman. I said that because DJ made a remark about how people that talk about commercials (even though DJ started an entire thread on Nintendo commercials, figure that) are hicks.

[A Black Falcon]

Ah. I wasn't sure who you were referring to...

And no, I did not have a fun day yesterday.

[Great Rumbler]

I am NOT a hick!! *realizes no one was talking to him over even vaguely in his direction* I mean...hey look over there! It's a UFO!! *runs away*

[Dark Jaguar]

You see, this is what I mean... It's called humor.

What I wanna know is how you managed to start and CONTINUE an argument with someone that wasn't even arguing with you!

[OB1]

Uh... agreeing with ABF on something was contiuing an argument?

[A Black Falcon]

I don't think DJ was paying attention...

[Dark Jaguar]

That's the most accurate thing I've heard all day! Let's eat!

:D

[A Black Falcon]

How about saying once again that DJ, you really need to "read" our "posts" before complaining to us about what we say... its getting really old to hear you constantly complain about us "arguing" when we aren't, like you have done several times recently... talking about a subject is not by definition arguing!

[Dark Jaguar]

Not getting it King award goes to.... YOU! Congrats! :D

[A Black Falcon]

You must admit you do that fairly frequently...

[Great Rumbler]

No, I do that farley...frigum...dem...lop...what?

[A Black Falcon]

N-Gage R0><0R!!11!!

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/december...gevirtues/

[alien space marine]

thats scary to think.

[Great Rumbler]

Those features would be good if the games and the console itself didn't suck so much.

Verdict: N-Gage is teh poo. GBA roxorz.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, those features could be useful in some cases (well, except for the 12 buttons thing... trying to make that awfully designed pad with so many buttons so close together into a feature is ... creative ... and I really don't mind the GBA's shoulder buttons...), but with all of the drawbacks of the N-Gage? Not at all. Trying to make it sound good just makes them look foolish for trying. :)

[Great Rumbler]

Gamespy must be on Nokia's payroll.

[Weltall]

I wonder how much N-Gage's Bluetooth multiplayer is really worth when you consider how unlikely it is that two people in the same city own one.

[Great Rumbler]

Heh heh :D

Remember the infrared multiplayer the GBC had? That thing was so worthless.

[Weltall]

As a basic calculation, considering that there are about 10,000 N-Gages in America right now, here's how useful Bluetooth multiplayer is.

The range of Bluetooth is 33 feet. There are ten thousand N-Gage users in America. Therefore, taking the size of America into consideration, and assuming that the N-Gage user does not know another N-Gage player, there is a 1 in 565,749,600 chance they will ever take advantage of a multiplayer game on their unit.

[Great Rumbler]

That's not very good odds, especially considering that there are only 250 million people in the US.

[Dark Jaguar]

That's because it used a poor wavelength of light, infrared, for communication! Blue tooth is far better, but Weltall is dead on accurate about why that feature sucks when it's on an N-Gage. When the link thingy Triton Labs is making is released, THAT will actually proove far more useful than the plain worthlessness of the GBC infrared (with the distance of 2 inches if I remember correctly) and what sucks is some features FORCED you to use that rather than at least give one the option of using a link cable, so it's currently VERY hard to find a way to unlock certain things that required that.

However, N-Gage also has the online network via Nokia's cell phone network. Again, sucky due to the utter lack of owners so there's likely to be a hard time finding any online games. Also, you'd be playing against people who actually bought an N-Gage, so there's that. However, on a Gameboy (or any succesfully introduced Non-Nintendo handheld), it'd be a great idea. Nintendo, if everyone will recall, even tried doing online play via the GBC with Pokémon Crystal, but only in Japan where there's a common standard in ports on all cell phone brands so their device for linking a GBC to a cell phone could actually be sold without making about a million adapter parts. That's why one can only catch Celebi in-game in the Japanese Crystal game, via the online colloseum. Suffice it to say it never took off in Japan so they haven't considered the online thing since.

[A Black Falcon]

I actually used the GBA infared once... to get that Mario Deluxe medal... but yeah it was pretty much useless, and even with the advantages Bluetooth has over it, when the system is as rare as the N-Gage...

And as for internet, it's a good idea, but doesn't the N-Gage online arena mostly have just minigames and stuff and not the actual full games because of bandwidth problems?

[OB1]

Originally posted by Great Rumbler
Gamespy must be on Nokia's payroll.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

[Dark Jaguar]

Hmm, hadn't heard about that, or even thought about it until now, but yeah bandwidth would result in some pretty big lag issues I think. Telephone systems are grossly outdated anyway. Oddly enough, ham radio in and of itself isn't outdated :D. Anyway, I suppose it'd take stuff that doesnt' require a lot of data, like an online turn based RPG or whatever sort of minigames N-Gage is using there, to make use of it I suppose.

Ya know, when the price finally drops to around $50 or less like the poor Virtual Boy did just before it blinked out, I might just pick one up JUST to have one :D.

[A Black Falcon]

Like Tomb Raider. It's got a netplay mode, all right, but it's just some minigame, not actually Tomb Raider...

[OB1]

Uh oh, I'm responding to yet another one of DJ's posts! What ever shall you do??

[Great Rumbler]

Explode. What? That's what I'd do.

[OB1]

Huh.

Yeah, I guess you could do that.

[A Black Falcon]

The sequel!

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/february...dex2.shtml