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Games and Stuff; Gaming talk, and so forth...
Topic Started: Oct 18 2004, 05:49 AM (229,999 Views)
Juron Pilo
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...Or even care once you've read them even. :P
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Arc
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*the owl looms steadily above*


...why hasn't it attacked yet?
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Don't worry, if the Bison ever take over the midlands Godzilla will take care of them. Just like he did with Bambi.
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Thanks to new Acme Tootsie Roll Pop Launcher!
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Arc
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You have to run out of ammo some time...
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Don't worry, if the Bison ever take over the midlands Godzilla will take care of them. Just like he did with Bambi.
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And when that time comes, I have a resume showing my nonpolutionary lifestyle, and shall hope that his priorities will fall in my favor.
In any case, I have this thing hooked up to the factory next door.
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Arc
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.....

....I know I'm going to be shot for this


OBJECTION!

HOLD IT!
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Don't worry, if the Bison ever take over the midlands Godzilla will take care of them. Just like he did with Bambi.
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Well, Hotel Dusk was entertaining. I recommend it highly.
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I'm playing Final Fantasy Tactics (the Playstation version, not the GBA version) since I had a badass file that I never beat the game with.
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White Mage with Draw out and Blade Grasp

FTW.
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"The biggest thing about my dad's world is he wanted people to have fun in life," Weinhagen said. "I think we get distracted by the everyday things you have to do in life and we forget to enjoy life and have fun.

"But my dad never did," she said. "He just wanted people to have fun."
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I only have the GBA version.

I almost considered making an RP out of it, but I haven't beaten it yet due to laziness.

Also, serious thought time:

Imagine how much more complicated we could make games if humans had four arms. So that game controllers there made the Xbox look like the NES in terms of buttons and doodads.

But imagine the sort of stuff one could do...
Dr. Wiley has surrendered. Mega Man has saved the planet from destruction. But will it last!!!

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"Good Morniii--AGH! I can't do it! I don't wanna be cute! I wanna be a boy!"

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Grandmaster Jogurt
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Who needs more arms when we still have four fingers that never get assigned shoulder buttons? Or, if necessary, stick some trackballs/analogue sticks onto a keyboard and presto!

And what more buttons do we need? Do we need to get to Steel Battalion levels where you have like four buttons devoted entirely to turning on your mech?
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-Tales games, where the skills a controled character can use in battle are limited by buttons
-Fighting games, see above
-Basically anything where skills or abilities need a button to be assigned to.
We're hitting the celing of 2-handed buttonality. Need more hands for more buttons, and more buttons fro more skills.
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Grandmaster Jogurt
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If your character has more moves than can be assigned to a keyboard, then I think the developers had wayyyyy too much time on their hands, and also probably some money burning a hole in their collective pocket.

If you give a stick/ball to each thumb, that's easily 16 keys that can be reached with the fingers. 24 if you want to use three rows instead of just two. Several dozen if you use the whole shebang.
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I speak of console games- Super Smash Bros, classic fighters, action RPGs, etc.
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Grandmaster Jogurt
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And what's stopping a system from adopting this freaky keyboard thing as its primary controller? We're already suggesting a complete controller overhaul.
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Eh, its possible, but the issue is mobility. A keyboard is expressly designed to sit in one place and be acted upon, whereas a console controller, especially now in the Age of Wii, is designed to be lifted, moved, and flow so that the player is more mobile.
A keyboard would not fit well with the dynamics and trends of console gameplay.
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BAH! Down with trends and dynamics! The world shall be shaped anew in fire and brimstone and silicon! *continues rant unheard*
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Grandmaster Jogurt,Feb 19 2007
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Who needs more arms when we still have four fingers that never get assigned shoulder buttons? Or, if necessary, stick some trackballs/analogue sticks onto a keyboard and presto!

And what more buttons do we need? Do we need to get to Steel Battalion levels where you have like four buttons devoted entirely to turning on your mech?

not all keys are made equal :P
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No, all keys are equal but some keys are more equal then others.
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If we had a hundred hands with the flexibility of tentacles... we wouldn't be content to push buttons with them anyways. Also, if we didn't upgrade our brains to match, we wouldn't keep track of them individually and would focus on the objects we manipulate more than the individual hands.

But 4 hands? Just add a foot pad and stomp a few buttons, that's like having a couple extra thumbs.

Also, I hope they don't make controllers that fully utilize every finger. My stepmom has a hard enough time playing Zelda without a left thumb.
Hey, the comic seems to be updating kind of regularly. Maybe we should vote to spread the word.

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