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[PATV] Monday, January 28, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 2, Ep. 33: A Modest Proposal
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Okay, THQ didn't listen, but maybe Atari will.
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What are you doing on the internet wasting time when you could be out there saving lives with this magical skill? You monster.
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Also, it seems DMC (not DeLorean Motor Company) is doing all right. Not great, but not terrible. Good enough.
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OH GOD THAT JUST MAKES IT SOUND MORE PAINFUL
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I love classic Nintendo games. But after buying them a certain number of times, I have zero desire to pay for them again.
Even if they continue to make a handful of new, great first-party titles per console generation, I wonder if it is enough to warrant the cost of a new console when there are so few. Filling the gaps with classic games repeatedly is merely obfuscation for the lack of actual new games worth playing.
That aside, they really need to broaden their development horizons. Maybe bring in some fresh talent. Like someone who could think of things like using the WiiU as a lens of truth perhaps...
People read into vitriolic and contemptuous yarns inherently searching for obfuscated rhetoric; time has ever replicated
intelligent, idealistic characteristics halfheartedly. Recently, every government ubiquitously legalizes arbitrarily,
tangential implementations of nihilistic ideals, solely for optimized revenue tides, having each person or
organization resign.
I'm not sure I saw a truly great use of the Wiimote past Wii Sports and Wii Play.
And while the 360 and PS3 designed with online play in mind, the Wii was focused on in-person multiplayer.
Now the Wii U allows only one player to use the new controller. Either you design a game balanced for 3 Wiimotes and one tablet (only works with 4 players, and not really with 2 or 3 so much), or you do chase and find mechanics which they pretty much covered in Nintendoland.
I don't know that we'll see many innovative uses beyond what they've already shown us at launch.
Any fan of Nintendo over the last 20 years has known this. Surprisingly, they have one of the few economic models for hardware development that has been profitable year over year until last year.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, though. Nintendo doesn't pay for exclusives, developers go where they get their games subsidized, the platform gets a reputation for not having 3rd party games (and those that do exist have to compete against Nintendo), and therefore less 3rd party developers plan on developing for the system. It's why Nintendo looks to not just be an also-ran in the hardware biz, because the more unique an experience they can bring, the more they can leverage that to make 3rd parties try something new.
Naturally it backfires on the console end, but hey.
Though it needs the full Michael Bay treatment. The Paperboy needs to be a tough, gritty character who is absolutely jacked and spitting out one liners, the tornado needs to be an F7, every other driveway will have a car being washed by a bussomy lass in a tiny white top, and putting a newspaper through a window will cause the house to explode. Heck, most things will explode, and each and every time you put a newspaper in the mailbox you'll get a The Who/CSI: Miami style "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!"
Modern Blastfare
Demon's Soul-blast
Super Mario Blastworld
Subsequent sequels have more blasts added in.
Moblast Blastfare
Blastmon's Soul-blast
Super Mario Blastblast
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
It all ends in chaos after our legal system collapses on itself under the weight of an unending series of eight-way lawsuits with n^defendants countersuits over the rights to "Blast Blast Blast Blast".
Every time I see Kate in a video, hear someone mention her, or whatever, my brain automatically echos "BOOM! Kate Stark", like it's her full proper name, rank and title or something.
Like it's implied that her entrance into any scene be heralded by a dramatic *BOOM!*, akin to Captain Marvel, Jack Nicholson, or the Kool-Aid Man's arrival ("SHAZAM!!!" *thunderbolt*, *axe through door* "HEEERE'S JOHNNY!", or *wall smash* "OH YEEEAAAAA!!!!" ).
Just sayin'.
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Then I wrote on it with a Sharpie: "This is my BOOM stick!"
I got a good deal on the whole thing because the sound wasn't working. After painstaking replacing a few transistors (soldering on 15 year hardware is nerve wracking) to no avail, finding a couple of blown fuses fixed it!
After lubing up the spinner knob ( I don't want to hear it!), Blasteroids came to life! So great having a real arcade game at home.
It's not the complete fun that Asteroids was, but it does feature 2 player co-op that's a 'blast' !