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There is this pretty big guy who I live with and by midway through the 1st round of boxing on the Wii he was sweating like a pig. It's quite the workout

QUOTE(Brains @ Dec 19 2006, 10:11 AM) seems like a machine I should get then. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Honestly, Brains. From what you and I have talked about in this forum and in PM. You should get this before any other.

The sports bundle is perfect for people who have little time to game, you can bite a hour off a day, and and still have fun. Rayman adds some oddity and impact to the fun, and you can play a 10 minute round of minigames. Games have the same skill as some of the most high impact shooters and run and gunners, but not nearly the violence level. Konami's Elebits should not be underestimated as a high quality first person scavengerhunt with a distinct "I am a telekenetic ghostbuster" feel. Make me BEG for high quality Jedi Action. or a good solid game about a psychic warrior. or a MAGICIAN game.

Oblivion for the wii would be ... priceless.

BTW, They are saying Zelda Twilight Princess is one of the greatest and largest adventure games ever made even on the Gamecube, and the wii controllers just make it more immersive and fun (with the exception of zoomed in bow shots, which are the biggest pain in the console port.)

The other thing is with the Message board, and calander, and full record of every game you play on the system available day by day, and the progress tracking in the sports bundle, it is a sheer joy to ramp your own scores and it plots your progress on a timeline. For an gamer/analyst like me, that is like porn you can eat. There is also a online store to get your staple NES and other products, promises of an opera browser by year end, a few good console games (if you have a gamecube controller, or virtual console controller) out already, and you can pick up a handful of gamecube titles for pocket change, if you know where to look.

I am ashamed to say I got home from going out saturday night and couldn't sleep cause my wii was coming in Sunday, so I played my 360 from 2am - 2pm, until I went and got my Wii. Since my Wii came home, the 360 has not even been on, and prolly won't come on until my friend Tim gets his for Christmas and we play online.

... and now I am still waiting for Fable2 which I REALLY want to be all it promises, and Metronome (which looks eerie good in a sim city meets dark city kinda way), but a number of outstanding 360 titles upcoming became a little lower on my priority list, and I will certainly up my demand for gesture recognition arriving on the 360. Some of the straight killer apps coming for the 360 may just have to wait.

The Wii is the one console to have, unless every person in your family is a solid gamer, or you live alone. Now, if only the PS3 could save face and launch a killer app or two. I know people who bought it, and feel jipped, and i really didn't want to see that. i know there were issues, but consumer reviews and even Time Magazine are BRICKING the system's reputation. and still Phil won't shut up and stop saying stupid things like "no one will ever use 100% of the PS3's power."

As it is, there are third party "sixaxis" attachments for your Ps2 and a 40 dollar Hd-DVD drive that attaches by USB. And I know of two motion-sensitive games in development for the ps2 already.

With a simple pricetag of 70 bucks, you can upscale your PS2 to a HD-DVD player (and not burn your game drive out), and play motion sensitive games.

QUOTE(Brains @ Dec 19 2006, 10:11 AM) seems like a machine I should get then. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Honestly, Brains. From what you and I have talked about in this forum and in PM. You should get this before any other.

The sports bundle is perfect for people who have little time to game, you can bite a hour off a day, and and still have fun. Rayman adds some oddity and impact to the fun, and you can play a 10 minute round of minigames. Games have the same skill as some of the most high impact shooters and run and gunners, but not nearly the violence level. Konami's Elebits should not be underestimated as a high quality first person scavengerhunt with a distinct "I am a telekenetic ghostbuster" feel. Make me BEG for high quality Jedi Action. or a good solid game about a psychic warrior. or a MAGICIAN game.

This make games fun like you wouldn't imagine. Imagine having to go put some sweats on because you are about to go play a video game. Man wii Boxing will wear out a grown man out.

Oblivion for the wii would be ... priceless.

BTW, They are saying Zelda Twilight Princess is one of the greatest and largest adventure games ever made even on the Gamecube, and the wii controllers just make it more immersive and fun (with the exception of zoomed in bow shots, which are the biggest pain in the console port.)

The other thing is with the Message board, and calander, and full record of every game you play on the system available day by day, and the progress tracking in the sports bundle, it is a sheer joy to ramp your own scores and it plots your progress on a timeline. For an gamer/analyst like me, that is like porn you can eat. There is also a online store to get your staple NES and other products, promises of an opera browser by year end, a few good console games (if you have a gamecube controller, or virtual console controller) out already, and you can pick up a handful of gamecube titles for pocket change, if you know where to look.

I am ashamed to say I got home from going out saturday night and couldn't sleep cause my wii was coming in Sunday, so I played my 360 from 2am - 2pm, until I went and got my Wii. Since my Wii came home, the 360 has not even been on, and prolly won't come on until my friend Tim gets his for Christmas and we play online.

... and now I am still waiting for Fable2 which I REALLY want to be all it promises, and Metronome (which looks eerie good in a sim city meets dark city kinda way), but a number of outstanding 360 titles upcoming became a little lower on my priority list, and I will certainly up my demand for gesture recognition arriving on the 360. Some of the straight killer apps coming for the 360 may just have to wait.

The Wii is the one console to have, unless every person in your family is a solid gamer, or you live alone. Now, if only the PS3 could save face and launch a killer app or two. I know people who bought it, and feel jipped, and i really didn't want to see that. i know there were issues, but consumer reviews and even Time Magazine are BRICKING the system's reputation. and still Phil won't shut up and stop saying stupid things like "no one will ever use 100% of the PS3's power."

As it is, there are third party "sixaxis" attachments for your Ps2 and a 40 dollar Hd-DVD drive that attaches by USB. And I know of two motion-sensitive games in development for the ps2 already.

With a simple pricetag of 70 bucks, you can upscale your PS2 to a HD-DVD player (and not burn your game drive out), and play motion sensitive games.

tt, pigs don't sweat...And neither do dogs...Weird, people always say those, Sweating like a dog, or like a pig...

Fat folk that are out of shape, however, lol... /:D" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt=":D" />

I know they don't sweat, but it is just a saying. It is wierd how people say those kind of stuff though

QUOTE(AYHJA @ Dec 19 2006, 11:45 AM) tt, pigs don't sweat...And neither do dogs...Weird, people always say those, Sweating like a dog, or like a pig...

Fat folk that are out of shape, however, lol... /:D" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt=":D" />

originally there was a Cockney idiom "sweat like a bull", in 1880.
"Sweat like a pig" is a American idiom, and means really the opposite of sweat like a bull.

"Sweat" at the time did not mean "prespire" it meant to work hard, to labor tirelessly.

thus "sweating like a bull" was engaging in heavy exertion, (huffing and puffing like you are a bull)
thus "sweating like a pig" laying around in your own filth like the pigs.

when the meaning of the words "sweat like a bull" was "workin like you f#ckin"
and the meanings changed as the expansion led West, and more people were integrated into the melting pot.

now you know...

and now you know...

QUOTE(raum @ Dec 19 2006, 05:44 PM) Honestly, Brains. From what you and I have talked about in this forum and in PM. You should get this before any other.

I start to get that impression as well. And am seriously considering investing in it. I would love my girl to show more interest in games and this might very well do it... moreover since Rayman is one of the few games she has enjoyed playing in the past - back in the PS1 days. I could imagine us fighting for the nunchucks at a certain moment... who gets to play first and all. Haha. Would be really nice.

QUOTEMetronome
thanks for pointing that out to me. Had not heard about it before. It looks intriguing indeed. One to watch.


QUOTEThe Wii is the one console to have, unless every person in your family is a solid gamer, or you live alone. Now, if only the PS3 could save face and launch a killer app or two. I know people who bought it, and feel jipped, and i really didn't want to see that. i know there were issues, but consumer reviews and even Time Magazine are BRICKING the system's reputation.
yeah. I read about these. I wonder what got into these reviewers heads. I have not read the article, so I do not know which arguments they have used, but it smells of subjectivity. The PS3 certainly is not a dead-born. It has lots and lots and lots of potential and you get an awful lot for the high intake price one needs to pay. I seriously believe so... cell, rsx, blu-ray, bluetooth, card readers, wifi, hdmi, hdd, gigabit ethernet, free online, a desktop system, media center. Come on. It is not TOO expensive. It is just a high price-point for a console, but PS3 IS more than that - or has the potential to be.

I would have liked not to touch on 360, but I have to... because I wonder... a lot of Americans swear by it. Says it is better value for money than ps3, but with the online you need to pay for it quickly fades over the lifetime of the console - and then you do NOT have blu-ray, wifi, card readers, hdmi, hdd and so on. I also do not understand MS's strategy of allowing media downloads when their cheapest model does not even have space to store it. How come their is so little fuz about that? MS also promised backwards compatibility; it is a lot more lacking than PS3's backwards compatibility. Again: no significant fuzz for the former, although the latter's current incorrectly playing of 2.5% of games (granted - including blockbusters) is a disaster. But what can we say: well done MS on marketing your machine in the US. Cheers that.

I've been talking to some shop-owners here about 360 and Wii sales. The former does not seem to sell all that well ("people seem to wait for ps3", one seller told me), while the latter is hard to get. I have not seen a single Wii box - unless dummy - in stores. There are backorders. I would like to think that may be a first here - although visiting one of the major outlets here, DS's were unavailable as well. Nintendo at the forefront again aye? Well... very damn good job so. They friggen deserve that!

And then there is Japan, where you know 360 is not selling either. Wii is and PS3 is (in that order as far as I can judge). Hmm... that analysis I made a couple of weeks back here could very well turn out to be true.


QUOTEand still Phil won't shut up and stop saying stupid things like "no one will ever use 100% of the PS3's power."
yeah. that is stupidity. it is a bit strange to imagine how he wants to sell the console like that - one of his functions, being an executive spokesman for Sony. "Buy ours, but you will never get to use the potential"?! "Buy ours, but know that developers will never tap it completely." or maybe... it is more generic and applicable to Wii and 360 and PSP and DS as well?! Or, did he just refer to one of the SPE's Sony dead-flashes to increase yields?! /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

I met the guy once back in the days of PS1. Some presentation in London about the newest stuff happening for the machine. Gave him a tip: if "your" engine could predict the workload for rendering the next frame, you could address the level of detail prior to setting it up... somehow, about a year later, SCEE came up with the performance analyser... it seemed eerily close to what I was hinting at. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

QUOTE(Brains @ Dec 19 2006, 05:49 PM) I start to get that impression as well. And am seriously considering investing in it. I would love my girl to show more interest in games and this might very well do it... moreover since Rayman is one of the few games she has enjoyed playing in the past - back in the PS1 days. I could imagine us fighting for the nunchucks at a certain moment... who gets to play first and all. Haha. Would be really nice.

Rayman Raving Rabbids has become foreplay for us. nuff said. Wii is *full contact* gaming.

This is simply a multi-level arena of minigames. but damn is it fun!!! and the girls I have had over all love it, even though some of the guys were a little bit self conscious about loosing their cool while trying to drown bunnies in carrot juice. oh well, their loss.

QUOTEyeah. I read about these. I wonder what got into these reviewers heads. I have not read the article, so I do not know which arguments they have used, but it smells of subjectivity.

the simple gripe is the apps fail to live up to the hype or the price point. I see on average five go back a week, and another five each weekend. Sony completely failed to "bring it" this holiday season.

QUOTE...The PS3 certainly is not a dead-born. It has lots and lots and lots of potential and you get an awful lot for the high intake price one needs to pay.

yawn,.. we have that thread already.

QUOTEBut what can we say: well done MS on marketing your machine in the US. Cheers that.
Sales are picking up with the release of some very solid apps. Gears of War has increased XBOX live accounts by 80%. Blue Dragon has helped gain some street cred in Japan. Lost Planet is the third most popular game on the lineup having already reached Platinum status, and it is not out until March of 2007. People are playing the online demo, and things are getting hot in the snow! Those same people go and pre-order the game. This was made by the Father of Mega-Man: How could it not rock?

QUOTEI've been talking to some shop-owners here about 360 and Wii sales. The former does not seem to sell all that well ("people seem to wait for ps3", one seller told me), while the latter is hard to get. I have not seen a single Wii box - unless dummy - in stores. There are backorders. I would like to think that may be a first here - although visiting one of the major outlets here, DS's were unavailable as well. Nintendo at the forefront again aye? Well... very damn good job so. They friggen deserve that!

I have had my DS Lite for about 9 months, and I love it. Wish it had a planner, though. My wii is a food group in my entertainment diet.

The 360 is not in high demand, but it is in steady growth. Obviously, domestic sales are better, but that is the same with all the Japanese as well. The Msitwalker RPG's though will guarantee Microsoft will even see a larger market share in Japan. Growth is as +70% UPD standard as they could ask for.

My 28 dollar limited edition copy of Zelda Twilight Princess came in today. the hook-up is good.

Expect a full review : in VU-style. to be forthcoming.

BUMP!

Raum do you have Super Smash Bros Brawl? Also, any new games?