Comment Re:Logical inverse? (Score 1) 253
Can we imply the inverse: people with big mouths have small brains and prefer sushi?
Only if they don't cook the rice.
Can we imply the inverse: people with big mouths have small brains and prefer sushi?
Only if they don't cook the rice.
If crocs could somehow work space travel into their lifestyle, this could lead to something...
They've already done this for air travel. Unfortunately it's called "luggage". I don't think their plan was thought out very well.
It is actually a very interesting way to learn to not give in to annoying behaviour.
This alone tells me that you'll be one of the few parents that raise good kids.
And a decent moderator, too.
That's like taking 6 months of the Iraq war funding and just burning it.
You repeat yourself.
It's ok to blow things up if you just want to know if "there is water there."
For instance, I just blew up a watermelon 'to see if there was water in there.' It was moist, leading me to believe that there is, in fact, water in there. Then I blew up a junk yard Ford Pinto so I could verify that there was not, in fact, "water in there." As I suspected, there wasn't.
You blew up the wrong Pinto.
No.
The Megadrive, SNES, Cell Phones, and Game Boy all have exceptional games created for them. The only difference between those devices and the WII is that the WII almost requires you to use the motion capture controller and while we've spent over thirty years designing games using joysticks, controllers, and similarly keyboards this motion capture thing is still very new.
Let's also consider, that because out of the top three platforms only one supports motion capture, you might see less of a return on your investment as opposed to just creating a traditional game with existing code and hitting the 360, PS3, and PC.
TLDR: - Technology - Creativity - Existing Code / Legacy - And most of all MONEY
Stand in the way of exceptional games on the WII.
It's called the "Classic Controller". It allows you to play a game in the traditional method. So does flipping the Wiimote sideways.
The problem is that developers see this motion sensing technology and scream "GIMMICK! WE MUST IMPLEMENT GIMMICK!!!!"
Why do they care about poker but not about many other legal forms of gambling? What makes online poker worthy of the government's time? Are they using the criminal law to prop up government sponsored monopolies in gambling?
One word: Lottery.
Governments, however, do. And are able to monitor such activity. Having your house seized as 'proceeds of illegal activity' is something that would very utterly negate the benefit of using offshore banks.
Really? Last time I looked, activities concerning money in non-US banks, illegal gambling and seizure of homes was all the norm these days.
Can you make money on a revival product for a old favorite? Hell yes. Is it a sure thing? Fuck no.
Star Trek
Sadly, that's the same thing people said about a Firefly movie, and yet...
No hate to the fans, but Firefly is a bit of a niche story vying for space between the Treks, Wars, Battlestars and countless other sci-fi stories (I actually liked Space: Above and Beyond... I now don my fireproof asbestos lined fire suit).
Chrono Trigger is considered to be one of the greatest video games ever made. It constantly makes it into the single digits on "$WEBSITE'S Top 100 List". You can buy CT complete, or for roughly the same money go buy an Xbox360 (but who would do that?).
To a game enthusiast, Chrono Trigger is in a totally different league. There's very little you can compare it to.
Great, what does that have to do with the profitability of fan made mods?
Mother 3.
Any idea how many copies would sell if the fan mod were sold officially in cartridge format? I'd buy it at 50 bucks and not think twice. Millions would.
Wherever there is demand, there is money to be made. There are no exceptions.
And he's saying that argument does not have any logical/statistical/whatever evidence to back it up, thus making it an empty opinion.
Any idea how much an original Chrono Trigger fetches? Do you know how many people bought it originally (SNES)... the second time (PSX)... and the third time (DS)?
Then there's Chrono Cross. Care to take a shot at how many purchased that game? It made the "Best Seller" reprint list.
Square-Enix could make a king's fortune selling a third Chrono game. They know this... we've been begging (literally) for another Chrono game. But no... S-E is too busy milking the Final Fantasy cow to really care. Who wants a turn-based RPG anymore? It's all about the flashy graphics and real-time combat.
By the by, S-E, how's that mumorpurger of yours going?
Put simply, if they released another one, we'd buy it in a heartbeat (well, maybe not so much now). We don't make fangames or listen to symphony orchestras perform the music of those games because we hate 'em...
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