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...a console conversion of Mazan - Flash Of The Blade!?

I can't bloody wait!

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 22 September 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

yay! i love mazan!

but i'll probably let you buy the revolution and then just come over and play it, rather than buying one one my own...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

That's hot.

We should turn this thread into a Revolution game concepts thread. We already had demos for Orchestra Conductor, Broccoli Chopper, Fish Catcher, and Camera Man. Swords are too obvious.

Atlatl Champion:
http://www.atlatl.com/images/thrower1-s.jpg

― TOMBOT, Friday, 23 September 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mickswhips.com.au/images/book.jpg

― TOMBOT, Friday, 23 September 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

maji? maji!? pancake tosser: road to the greatest champion

― rio natsume, Friday, 23 September 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Super Lasso Cowboy Rodeo Deluxe

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

One person using three controllers = JUGGLE JUGGLE REVOLUTION!

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

basquiat spray paint superstars

― rio natsume, Friday, 23 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/l/a/laf208/Zoolander.jpg

― TOMBOT, Friday, 23 September 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Matthew Pinsent's Pro Rowing!

(also, if colette's going to be playing Mazan in my living room, I need plenty of forewarning so I can put away anything remotely breakable)

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Tessa Sanderson's Pro Javelin!

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.asianmediawatchdog.com/banzai/pics/shakehands1.jpg

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

super mario brothers

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 23 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

http://themeparksonline.org/..%5Cpictures%5Csfot/btwackywire1med.jpg http://themeparksonline.org/..%5Cpictures%5Cdorneypark/wackeywire1med.jpg

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

so impressed with nintendo on this

... and I want one now

(there's a big article on the revolution in this month's EDGE... the console and the controller are gorgeous)

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I think this will be the first generation where I won't more than one of the consoles... absolutely no interest in the PS3 or 360 now...

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

OTM. However, I may have to rent one for a week just to play Resident Evil 5.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

^want

x-post

apparently the console isn't to be called "nintendo revolution" either? the name is still be announced

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

A baton-twirling game!
A cocktail-mixing game!
A dildo insertion game!
A homerun derby game!
A glasscutting thief game!
A lacrosse game!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

The funny thing is that I am now slightly interested in the 360 and depending on my free time in the far future can actually see myself possibly acquiring one, but I've practically forgotten the PS3 is even on the horizon at all! Sony's completely dropped the ball, I think.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

No Dan those are all the same game! "JORDAN'S RETIREMENT"

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Press the A button, Jordan! PRESS IT!

― The Ghost of First Game Controller Ribbed For Your Pleasure (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.michaeljordan.pl/pieniadze/hanes-jordan.jpg
Man, now what to do with myself?
You make the call in JORDAN: RETIRED

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

473 minigames all involving Hanes products in some fashion.
Now available from Electronic Arts.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

At least EA can give us a Road Rash game where you smash the other guys off their bikes by thrashing the controller out either side of you!

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

I figured that was the Jordan you meant.

Two controllers would make a great air drumming game possible!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

two controllers = "Requiem For A Dream: The Videogame"!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

(Okay, that might be one of the most shameful things I've ever posted.)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

an orchestra-conducting game!

(xpost HAHAHAHAHA)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

wait--don't you only need one controller? but the two players share it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

How do you register the different... scores?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I was about to reply to that, but now I'm sort of embarrassed, and don't really want to show how much I thought about it.

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

:-) :-)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I can't wait for the inevitable cooking game. I think in the trailer or preview video or whatever for the controller they showed veggie chopping, but there's got to also be like pancake flipping, stir-frying, um, maybe spice shaking or something.

I really think this controller is an incredibly great idea. I might actually buy a console for the first time in about 13 years!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 28 November 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile, some clever chaps at the Glasgow School Of Art have designed a motion detection controller that should work cross platform.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5045959.html

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 28 November 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

Motion detection != patented gyroscopic attitude sensor

I think stir-frying would be a great minigame, or have some kind of monster rancher withcraft pikmin knockoff wherein you must concoct your own homunculi in a cauldron with ingredients you collect and then mix by experimentation and from recipe where available.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 28 November 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

SHAVING

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

SHAVING OF THE COLOSSUS

― TOMBOT, Monday, 28 November 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

vaccuming! painting!

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

teledildonics!

― elmo (allocryptic), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

1UP: Is there anything in particular you would want to add to a game like this if you were to design it?

CC: I like fencing, so I'm the wrong guy to ask! I would probably design a game that was all finesse-driven and blocking based, and was super fun for fencing fans, and super dull for everyone else... it's why you can't have someone who practices actual martial arts do a fighting game! But if I had to do something, I would just totally rip off Bushido Blade (which had a first-person mode), with tons of one hit kills and stuff.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 28 November 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Who's CC?

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

it's why you can't have someone who practices actual martial arts do a fighting game

aw c'mon. Tekken(among many others) had plenty of legit actual m.a. styles.

Also, pro-wrestlers get hired to design wrestling games.

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

"yeah, make my package look bigger there, thanks. lookin' good!"

― latebloomer: Do I have a large frog in my hair? (latebloomer), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

paid journobloggers and self-proclaimed nintendo fanboys in being slower on the uptake than ILX shocker marquee and blink tag shocker

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Konono no 1 redux.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Video of Half Life 2 being played with the Revolution controller

But I don't see how the hardware could handle any next-generation FPS' that come out! I hope this low-power hardware thing doesn't come back to bite them.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Actually, that's probably fake. Sorry.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

But that doesn't make the Revolution controller any less potentially great for first person shooters!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

Sorry about that. I got carried away just by the thought of the Revolution controller + Half Life.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

paid journobloggers and self-proclaimed nintendo fanboys in being slower on the uptake than ILX shocker

Ha, that's quite satisfying, I should send this thread to joystiq and make them GIVE ME A JOB.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

I hope this low-power hardware thing doesn't come back to bite them

I believe the line from developers on the gamecube was that while it had less resources available than the other consoles, it was easier to make better looking games for it. Hence, I suppose, so many games for the gamecube which look more impressive than similar titles for PS2/xbox.

Frankly, if it's only 2x as powerful as the GC, I can't see having any problems with the gfx on the Revolution. It's been alluded to over and over again by dozens of people in the game publishing and design business that we're well past the point of diminishing returns in graphics.

Some people are still saying that there won't be a "killer app" for a Revolution out of the starting gate, but that's A) horseshit, B) irrelevant. What's the "killer app" for the 360? It's twice as expensive as the Revo is likely to be and still selling out. The "killer app" for the Revo is backwards compatibility, Twilight Princess is being developed for GC but I think I recall reading that it's scheduled to come out about a month or two before the Revolution does. Take a hit on GC sales to boost the Revo's performance.

At least the Revo has a lot of buzz around it. In the US, at least, the PS3 is the most un-talked-about consumer product since, uh, blu-ray (except when people feel the need to mention that they don't care/Sony sucks).

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

have you guys seen this yet? antexit sent it to me; totally great revolution preview commercial!

http://media.revolution.ign.com/articles/670/670515/vids_1.html

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Thing I really would have liked to have seen would be the actual games they were supposed to be playing; otherwise it's just people fooling around showing off the concept instead of the implementation.

How do we even know that the concept will work like that?

― PlayfulPuppy (playfulpuppy), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

B-but the concept is what's interesting! To me it's the perfect kind of teaser-trailer for this kind of change in technology; it made it a lot more clear what could do, but maintained all the suspense about what it will do. Plus it's very entertaining!

What it made clear to me is how ACCESSIBLE it'll make games to people who feel the tech and learning curve have left them behind.

― antexit (antexit), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

yeah puppy i think you're missing the point of the ad!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

Ah I'm probably just over-thinking it a bit, I'm just dubious of new tech like this when I haven't actually seen much proof that it'll work. As I understand from what I've read, it works a lot like a light-gun, so there are going to be points where the controller is out of range meaning that flinging a fishing-rod or swinging a sword like that will only actually have an effect over about 1/3rd of the motion shown. Sitting further or closer from the TV will have wierd effects, too.

There's also the problems the user-perception. The 'stick' itself is quite short, and aiming a gun or swinging a sword could result in many "I so didn't fucking do that!" situations as it's hard to tell exactly where the hell you're aiming. Then there are other things; would swinging a tennis racket feel right in third-person? How else would you do a tennis game with 4 players? You could split-screen it in first-person, but would that affect the users perception of how the racket is swung and they now only have a tiny corner of the screen?

I'm sure Nintendo have gone over these things about a million times, and fine-tuned everything to feel great, but what I'm concerned about is the third-party devs. Most dev houses dont have the time or statistics to know how to get such a controller to feel right, meaning we'll probably have a large selection of awkward-feeling titles or have a lot of titles that just ditch the funkiness of the stick and make you use the more conventional controller adaptors. Most console developers also have clauses for titles that make you use their new tech in an innovative way, which could make a lot of developers go "Fuck this shit, Sony's where the money's at anyhow".

I don't doubt that there are going to be some very cool and innovative titles for the Rev, but I'm very concerned that there's going to be next to nothing in the way of games.

― PlayfulPuppy (playfulpuppy), Friday, 9 December 2005 06:23 (twenty years ago)

Revolution will be to PS3 as DS is to PSP.

Write that down. (The number of games released to date for the DS and PSP is actually about the same! But which one has more games?)

Hands up who wants to play ports of Xbox 360 games that don't have Live functionality?
Hands up who thinks the promise of more cookie-cutter Square/Enix and Level 5 exclusive RPG titles are enough to maintain, much less grow, the installed base of current PS2 users? At $500 a pop? At a loss per unit sold? When no other division of your company is profitable?

― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 December 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry, but Sony's been trucking on nearly 20 years of having little to offer besides their own brand name. They have exactly one solid product left, and they're about to fuck it up by being way late to the party with a third-verse-same-as-the-first $500 doorstop.

Blu-ray is just the latest version of Betamax. After every other keiretsu and chaebol whups your ass 5-6 times in a row at media format checkers you think you'd figure it out!

End of Rant!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 December 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty certain I didn't buy a Playstation because it was from the guys who made the Walkman. Wipeout, Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot, FFVII, Tekken were more on my mind. That and it was the cool thing to do, in 1996.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I bought my Saturn almost solely for Virtua Fighter II. I am actually on the verge of buying a PS2 for Soul Calibur III.

There's nothing out on the X-Box 360 that I want to play right now but when Dead Or Alive 4 comes out...

― Dan (SHORYUKEN) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I am still using my PS2 to play Final Fantasy Tactics. I am planning to keep a PS2 around for this and katamari.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 December 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

PS2 is the new SNES

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 December 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

1. Posted Dec 9, 2005, 9:40 AM ET by Raphael Azcueta

Next year, all the buddies in my house is buying four Revolutions and playing WiFi sword fighting all day everyday. We'd do that with the 360, but then we'd have to take out loans.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 12 December 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

until then, just the usual "swordfights" every night

― kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.windycitynovelties.com/Epaysoft/prodimages/olddetail/NOV003dz3.jpg

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Nintenyo-yos

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

"Ball...in a cup! If you miss the cup, just try again!"

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

I predict Wario Ware will have a long and successful run of games on Revolution.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Wii? WTF!!?

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Wii!!! Rhymes with WEE! The nintendo WEE!

Nobody is going to go into a shop and say "hello, can I have a nintendo wee please?"

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.scotdebt.net/images/main/page_images/head_in_hands2.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

...contemplating whether you'll still be desperate for a Wii in the corner of your room come November...

har!

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

hahahahahahaha they are completely insane
this is the best marketing coup ever, though. Regardless of the controller/demos etc. 50% of conversations at E3 are going to be over this shit

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

also I see they confirmed gyroscopes or whatever in the left-handed nuchaku attachment part of the controller.

I feel like I'm sitting in a rollercoaster. Has anybody else looked at the screens for Red Steel?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

link?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

GIS for red steel and look for the FPS

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Nobody is going to go into a shop and say "hello, can I have a nintendo wee please?"

Oh I bet you a dollar that's not true.

― Dan ("Can I Have a Wee? *Giggle*") Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Also imagine the ads!

― Dan ("Mom! I Have To Have A Wee!") Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

YOU NEED A WII

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

(profile shot of person's hand waggling the controller about)

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

If the controller is made of flexible rubber and latex this will go down in history as the most geniusly wrong thing ever.

― Dan (Shake Shake Shake) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

I like the way CVG have already started referring to the controllers as wii wands.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

(also, whenever I type wii it makes me think of WWII).

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

I like the way CVG have already started referring to the controllers as wii wands.

why doesnt nintendo just ship the damn thing with a wiffle bat filled with piss?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

because Microsoft has the patent on wiffle bats, and Sony has the patent on filling them with piss. Iwata was so angry when he found this out.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

iwata probably gots a son named pipi and if people chuckle when learning this he goes what? it's a beautiful name for a little boy, why people are always laughing

I would like to read the transcript of nintendo meetings when they went through the pros and cons of going with the name wii.

― Joe Crocker (Joe Crocker), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Wii isn't trademarked and isn't part of any patent documentation.
People are starting to think this is a set-up to steal thunder from everyone else, and the pre-E3 press conference is going to announce a different name.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

and perhaps more importantly unlike every other product release ever the WII doesn't have its own domain yet. wii.nintendo.com doesn't even redirect you to revolution.nintendo.com, it simply doesn't exist.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

BRILLIANT

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

that's what this guy said

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

still says revolution on the nintendo homepage, as well.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

and we can now append to the thread title, apparently, METAL SLUG ANTHOLOGY from SNK.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

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