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07/10/09
No achievements :(
Unfortunately, don't think I'll be buying it again just for that.
Great game though.
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We often hear about how developers want to bring their games to Xbox Live. Meanwhile, Sony's online-division actually worked together with PopCap not long ago to bring some of their games to the PSN. Yet here we are again, with them just mentioning Xbox Live.
I find it curious, and I wonder if there's something about Sony's store-policy that is directly off-putting and makes developers shy away from porting it there.
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That is why the PSN is free.
I could be wrong, memory is a bit hazy at the moment.
07/10/09
Yeah, but the cost is pretty damn small. I remember a few publsihers being up in arms about it, and then after hearing about how much it was costing them, it made me see them a money-grubbing penny-pinchers.
I remember thinking the company that was complaining could have easily covered the cost by simply charging $10.25 instead of $9.99, and their game was about a Gig in size - PopCap games should cost a whole hell of a lot less to upload.
I think this is more an issue of exposure. Everyone knows what XBLA is. It's become a generic term for 'Online Video Game Service', in much the same way that Band-Aid has become a generic term for adhesive strip.
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That would be so amazing. I'd play it everywhere - during a business meeting, in the loo, while driving...
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Of course, they could probably just switch that to autocollector or have a wider cursor for collection, so maybe it'd work out with some smart changes.
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LB - shifts seed highlight left
RB - shifts seed highlight right
A - plants highlighted seed
B - shovel
Left analog stick - move cursor
RT - cursor speed
D-pad - move cursor
With the cursor automatically picking up coins and shines when passed over, I believe such a scheme would work. Remember Plants vs. Zombies is hardly a demanding game, so I don't think the mouse beats controller argument weighs too heavily on such a console port in this case.
07/10/09
Of course, your setup there sounds pretty good, and the lack of lag that I have on my cruddy computer would probably help as well for making a console port as easy to handle.
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On the flipside of that, everything in PvZ moves from left to right and right to left, making it seem somewhat easier to monitor you defenses and enemy movement. What's makes this game awesome is that you have nearly the same degree of complexity with only 2 directions of motion. Also, the plants are so damn cute, especially that wall-nut :)
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In between each full round though you can switch out your plants to use ones you want.
It's utterly invaluable in the survival modes.
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i am also not new to pc games. ive been pc gaming since the 80s. i still remember playing CyClones (which is one of the first pc fps's to use the mouse). im still primarily a pc gamer with occasional use of consoles.
im also only 26. i do use my pc for more than just gaming though. but never have i played a game that built around quick, repetitive presses of the left mouse button than this one. not in all those years of gaming. its painful. and i can tell its going to cause injury if i keep playing this game.
otherwise an amazing game. but this issue breaks it.
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With all of the games we play, particularly certain kinds, and just generally computer usage, how many damn times have we clicked a mouse button?
How many clicks will I make by the time I'm old and decrepit? How many clicks have happened the world over? How many clicks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
05/17/09
That's like whining that WiiSports sucks because your arm got tired swinging around the wiimote. Grow a pair and man up, I've already beat the game twice and have yet to feel any strain from clicking.
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LOOK AT THAT PLANT THAT LOOKS LIKE A CAT!!!! ^_____^
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