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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    11/30/09

    In reply to Tony Hawk: Ride Review: Time To Bail
    I didn't realize the Tony Hawk franchise still had dignity.
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    Image of ShaSt One ShaSt One
    11/30/09

    In reply to Nintendo Sold Over 1.5 Million Wiis, DSs Last Week
    Is that Michael Jackson behind the guy's shoulder?
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    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    11/30/09

    In reply to Tony Hawk: Ride Review: Time To Bail
    Man, I went to Best Buy this weekend and saw a HUGE stack of these still laying around there. The casing was pretty uninspiring as well, looking like some kind of cheap toy.

    Tough. That sucks for the devs who made this.
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    Image of panikt panikt
    11/30/09

    In reply to Nintendo Sold Over 1.5 Million Wiis, DSs Last Week
    Is there any comprehensible reasons why people are still buying Wii and NDS?
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    alaren promoted this comment panikt was starred panikt was unstarred
    Image of alaren alaren
    11/30/09

    @panikt: Because they don't have one yet, and they want one.

    Or they know someone who wants one, but doesn't have one.

    Or in the case of the DS, they have one, but they want more. For example, I purchased two DS Lites recently for my two children, so they will stop monopolizing mine.

    Same reasons people buy anything, really.
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    Image of Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh
    11/30/09

    @panikt: Let's see, we bought a DS lite and a Wii during this time frame. Even though we own a DS already, we didn't own a Wii and felt the cost was now low enough to justify picking one up, since we never felt the cost for the system was justified, while we bought the DS lite as a gift for a relative during Xmas since he expressed interest in owning one.
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    Image of (Human) Gyaruson (Human) Gyaruson
    11/30/09

    In reply to Tony Hawk: Ride Review: Time To Bail
    "It's a definite step backwards for the series, but the board probably won't register that step anyway."

    Can I nominate an editor for Comment of the Week? :)
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    Image of zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ
    11/30/09

    @(Human) Gyaruson: lets make history baby. lets nominate and see where the chips fall.
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    Image of Black-Dog-Howls Black-Dog-Howls
    11/30/09

    In reply to Nintendo Sold Over 1.5 Million Wiis, DSs Last Week
    The game is afoot. Will Sony turn around and say how they had better sales? Will they say they were pleased with impressive sales that were not as good as Nintendo? Will they grumble begrudgingly because they were not as strong as they should have been with post price cut momentum?

    Who knows? The game knows, and the game is afoot!
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    Edited by Black-Dog-Howls at 11/30/09 5:21 PM Black-Dog-Howls was starred Black-Dog-Howls was unstarred
    Image of bakagaijin bakagaijin
    11/30/09

    @Black-Dog-Howls: According to VGcharts, (going on their 3rd update for numbers) Nintendo is the big winner, but PS3 has sold 500k for last week, with 360 around 325K, with 360 and PSP down 35% from last year. These numbers are NA only though.
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    Image of Killer7 Killer7
    11/30/09

    In reply to Nintendo Sold Over 1.5 Million Wiis, DSs Last Week
    Nintendo to Sony: Wanna take back that comment of yours now ?
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    Image of RockyRan RockyRan
    11/30/09

    In reply to Is This Game Ripping Off Mario Galaxy?
    This is terrible news for Nintendo. It's clearly going to make deep cuts to Nintendo's colossal PC game division.
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    Edited by RockyRan at 11/30/09 5:03 PM RockyRan was starred RockyRan was unstarred
    Image of Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do... Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do...
    11/30/09

    In reply to Nintendo Sold Over 1.5 Million Wiis, DSs Last Week
    That's alot of waggle!

    Say what you want about the wii, but the DS deserves all the praise it gets.

    It is simply just a fantastic device!
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    Image of -Skyline-:Offering FREE Grunt Birthday Parties! -Skyline-:Offering FREE Grunt Birthday Parties!
    11/30/09

    In reply to Nintendo Sold Over 1.5 Million Wiis, DSs Last Week
    Reggie will be pleased

    Mwhahahahahahahahaha
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    Image of Shinta Shinta
    11/30/09

    @-Skyline-:Offering FREE Grunt Birthday Parties!: I swear you made that even scarier than the last time I saw that.
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    -Skyline-:Offering FREE Grunt Birthday Parties! promoted this comment Shinta was starred Shinta was unstarred
    Image of sbtim sbtim
    11/30/09

    @-Skyline-:Offering FREE Grunt Birthday Parties!: it's like he's staring into my soul.... and then molesting it.
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    -Skyline-:Offering FREE Grunt Birthday Parties! promoted this comment sbtim was starred sbtim was unstarred
    Image of cjlopez cjlopez
    11/30/09

    @-Skyline-:Offering FREE Grunt Birthday Parties!: he is looking at my sould, checking if at least 40% of it still has the nintendo tag.

    man, i think he will bite me if it aint
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    -Skyline-:Offering FREE Grunt Birthday Parties! promoted this comment cjlopez was starred cjlopez was unstarred
    Image of Duin Duin
    11/30/09

    In reply to Ubisoft's Big Franchises Win, Wii Games Lose
    So you're saying that games with a tried and true pedigree within the industry, designed with the enthusiasts who spend hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars a year in mind are more successful?

    Not the by-the-numbers made on the cheap gimmicky 'games' with no market parity on the NPD charts?

    Wow, call me stunned.
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    Image of Orionsaint Orionsaint
    11/30/09

    In reply to Tony Hawk: Ride Review: Time To Bail
    A message to all developers of extreme sports games. For the love of God, stop making those annoying and confusing graffiti menus! It's not cool!

    No skateboard is looking at that menu and thinking. Wow, that looks just like Skateboard culture, oooh! SSX On Tour is a prime example of having one of the worst menus in game history!
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    Image of Orionsaint Orionsaint
    11/30/09

    In reply to Tony Hawk: Ride Review: Time To Bail
    So Nintendo gets motion control right with a few games. They end up #1. So the rest of the industry wants a piece of the motion control pie.

    The only way motion control could take over the entire industry, is if motion control is perfected 100% and it's not!

    The other way is to have the process happen gradually, by giving players the options to use regular controllers.

    Tony Hawk Ride, did neither of these. All those videos. Where they showed us how accurately the game played. It was all just one big ruse.
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    Image of Handsome Al Handsome Al
    11/30/09

    @Orionsaint: This. I'll get on the motion control bandwagon when it's perfect and can still be played 5-10 years later. Until then, I'm happy playing games while laying back on my recliner.

    I'm thankful that most PS3 games have the option to disable SixAxis controls.
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    Image of cin1122 cin1122
    11/30/09

    @Orionsaint: Every time I see ruse, I remember what Dante said in Clerks, "I don't appreciate your ruse ma'am"
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    Image of RaginKaGin21 RaginKaGin21
    11/30/09

    @Orionsaint: I think you're wrong in saying that only Nintendo did motion controllers right. I would point to Guitar Hero which came out on the PS2 before the Wii was released(by about 2 years actually). That is the reason ACTIVISION has gone for these huge clunky plastic controllers, but since they forced Robomodo into a short development cycle with a very limited amount of time to develop for a game with a peripheral it hindered development.

    Also I'm fairly certain ACTIVISION didn't have RedOctane make the board hence the lack of functionality of the board controllers in relation to Guitar Hero controllers.

    This is an ACTIVISION rides any good idea to death in as many ways as possible thing...not a Nintendo and their control scheme are ruining the industry thing.(not that I disagree with that)
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    Image of Koztah Koztah
    11/30/09

    @Handsome Al: Sixaxis controls can be done right - some games make good use of it when and only when appropriate (MGS4 comes to mind).

    I can even think of one game where using it as the primary control scheme makes the game better (L...er..Flower)
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    Image of Orionsaint Orionsaint
    11/30/09

    @RaginKaGin21: How is Guitar Hero Motion control? You're pressing buttons. Except the buttons aren't on a plastic controller. They're on a plastic guitar.
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    Image of Orionsaint Orionsaint
    11/30/09

    @cin1122: Yeah that's a funny scene, hehe.

    "I don't appreciate your ruse ma'am. Your cunning attempt to trick me."
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    Edited by Orionsaint at 11/30/09 5:12 PM Orionsaint was starred Orionsaint was unstarred
    Image of bangbangblah bangbangblah
    11/30/09

    @Orionsaint: Starpower . . . it's always been motion controlled. Before the Wii was even a phrase.

    I'm going to agree with ReginKa here. This is much more of banking off of Activision's previous success on Guitar Hero than banking off the Wii. It's no coincidence that GH was also made by Activision.
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    Edited by bangbangblah at 11/30/09 6:10 PM bangbangblah was starred bangbangblah was unstarred
    Image of RaginKaGin21 RaginKaGin21
    12:22 AM

    @Orionsaint: there is motion control...star power is activated with it. Granted it's very limited in use, but it is motion control. So I'll give you that it's not really motion control in the sense that the Wii is. I made a mistake in comparing them possibly.

    Then again if I made a mistake there it will definitely be a mistake to compare the Wii to Natal(if it works the way it's supposed to)...
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    Image of RockyRan RockyRan
    11/30/09

    In reply to Tony Hawk: Ride Review: Time To Bail
    It's crap like this that gives motion controls a bad name. People unfamiliar with good motion sensing are going to be more discouraged by this junk and everybody's going to think all motion sensing will be inherently inaccurate and bad in all circumstances.

    There have been just a few glimmers of great motion sensing scenarios in gaming these days, so you CAN actually see great potential. It's just overshadowed by worthless software and it makes the possibility of a major game with great motion controls as its primary method of input seem at 0.

    Motion sensing is fundamentally revolutionary. It can provide a completely unprecedented degree of precision that no amount of buttons and joysticks can recreate. It can create intuitive, graceful and simple motions that are not only far more complex than what a standard controller can communicate, but also does it requiring a lot less buttons or none at all.

    The problem here is crap like this. This is unrealized technology here to some degree, and it's a lot easier to make something like Tony Hawk: Ride than it is to make something like what I've mentioned above. 90% of core gamers really don't believe in motion sensing at all, and it's shovelware like this that makes it obvious why they don't believe it. I still believe in motion sensing as being the next great step in gaming and will always do until something truly revolutionary comes along that proves everyone wrong, but until that happens I'll just sit here becoming increasingly frustrated at the complete and utter trash that gets released like this here game.
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    Edited by RockyRan at 11/30/09 4:26 PM RockyRan was starred RockyRan was unstarred
    Image of Psudonym Psudonym
    11/30/09

    In reply to Tony Hawk: Ride Review: Time To Bail
    You know what I've learned from Motion Controls so far... I like buttons. I really like buttons. And analog sticks. And pressure sensitivity. And things that make little clicks. And Home buttons. And power buttons. Remote controls. Type writers. Switches. Levers. Stamps. And Gutenberg style printing presses.

    I've been a proponent of new fangled technology for a long time, and I still most definitely am. Hell, I'm still telling anyone in earshot to take every chance you can to see animated movies in 3d. And I can't wait to see it implemented properly in the home.

    But sometimes, a button is just the best way to control something. I mean, would a big red nuclear missile launch button be nearly as cool if it was replaced with a wave of the hand? Wait... wait... don't answer that. I'm picturing it in my mind right now... and it's kinda awesome.
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    Image of DukeOfPwn DukeOfPwn
    11/30/09

    @Psudonym: Waving your hand would certainly be cool, but would make it all too easy for mistakes. What if all the guy had to do in WarGames was wave his hand with the partner? When he would refuse, the partner would insist "WAVE YOUR HAND, SIR!" but would eventually wave both hands, and the world would be screwed.
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    Image of Psudonym Psudonym
    11/30/09

    @DukeOfPwn: As humorous as the ensuing nuclear holocaust would be, it just points directly at the heart of the matter. Good controls need to have zero tolerance for misread signals.
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