Posts by The Postman

  • SiN: Episodes

    If this is actually worth the $15 to purchase it I will be completely caught off guard and utterly surprised. Everything I've seen for it looks like unmitigated crap.

    Edit1: If it still has HL2 noises in it (like in the trailer) I'll laugh myself hoarse, too.

  • Failed Aprils fool

    Quote from TomWithTheWeather

    /me worries constantly about terrorists, video games, going to hell, bird flu, did I turn the stove off, anthrax-laced envelopes, what the latest trend on MTV is, job stealing Mexicans, whether or not I truly support the troops, email viruses, satanic guitars and the satanic music they create, all five locks on my door being locked, black people in general, weight loss, taxes, airplanes I can't instantly identify, my self-image, those crazy liberals, people without patriotic bummer stickers, etc...

    I love you Tom. Hahaha

  • Failed Aprils fool

    Quote from Section_Ei8ht

    Americans are scared of everything, including themselves.

    Ugh, yes. I can see how this played out already. Some scared 45-55 year old soccer mom franctically dialing her cell phone and hyperventilating into the receiver to some surprised officer. "OMG THERE ARE MYSTERIOUS BOXES WITH ?s ON THEM DEAR GOD SEND A BOMB SQUAD BECAUSE IF I WAS A BOMBER I WOULD PUT MY BOMB OUT IN THE OPEN WITH BRIGHT YELLOW PAINT AND SUCH. I AM A DUMB BITCH."

    Okay, maybe not the last part but seriously, this isn't a surprise for me

  • Revolution Gets Cooler

    Quote from Fletch

    USA sales, yes. Interntaional, no. The Gamecube outsold the x-box worldwide, with the PS2 in a huge lead. Also, the Gamecube hardwarre was the only one that was selling without losing money on it, which looks like the same situation with the Revolution.

    However it's important to remember which market is the biggest and most important. Japan and Europe are nice enough but the markets there aren't nearly as huge as America.

    Quote from Fletch

    Nintendo is just going for a different market, and it will be interesting to see how the Revolution turns out when it comes to that. Their console is probably going to cost somewhere from 200-250 at launch. They've said their games are not going to be in the 50-60 range, so a 45 price tag on games seems reasonable. They've also seemingly embraced a sort of universal compatability mantra. Gamecube games work on the system, you can download old system games. The DS will reportedly be able to cummunicate wirelessly with it. They seem to want to give developers more freedom to work within that framework (as opposed to the PS3 which I've yet to hear a positive thing about as far as the dev kits go).Also, Nintendo may have very well isolated themselves from the oncoming storm of political backlash for violent and overly sexual videogames. Sure, most of the laws are going to get thrown out on constitutional issues, but some are going to stick. And people like Parent's Television Council and the Institute for Media and the Family tend to hold long grudges and do a good job mobilizing people at boycotts. So when shit really starts to hit the fan (and it will within the next 6 months), Nintendo is going to stand back and say "Hey, we had nothing to do with that. We've been making fun games for all ages for years. We don't have GTA or Postal on our system. So when you're spending your holiday money on a console for little Johnny, be sure to spend your money on good old fashioned Nintendo products, like your parents did for you when you were a kid." Little Johnny might be pissed off for a few minutes that he didn't get an Xbox 360, but then he'll pop in Mario and Zelda and be happy for a good long while.

    In doing so they've also limited themselves in markets as well, though. People who want to purchase PG13+ or MA rated games don't go to Nintendo for it. Granted, the younger audiences are still a good market share, but have nowhere near the buying power of the good ol' 18-25 bracket. Furthermore, whether or not those laws stick doesn't mean they're any more enforceable.

    However, I will say that they've got the handheld market nailed down like crazy and I love my DS.

  • Revolution Gets Cooler

    Quote from mikezilla

    1) MAME is for arcade games. They are selling NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, and TurboGFX 16 games.

    Point taken, I actually meant to say emulation. However you are right that it's a smaller group of people who know about emulation, but it's also an ever smaller and smaller group that remember these old games and will buy them for nostalgia. That being said, this business model can't continue forever.

    Quote from mikezilla

    2) It's not a marketing tactic because they are offering a service. A service people want.

    It's a marketing tactic because they're offering a kitsche service because vintage is popular currently, although personally I see that trend waning a bit. Think of it kind of in the same vein of "vintage" tee-shirts.

    Quote from mikezilla

    4) I think it will be incredibly commercially viable. Nintendo has always had some of the strongest franchies out there, and I don't know many people that wouldn't shell out a couple bucks to play Mario 3 or Zelda : A Link to the Past again (or dare I bring up the Super Metroid, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger crowd.) This comes at very little cost to Nintendo minus some simple engineering costs. This means that even slow sales are profit.

    They market to the kitsche audience now. That's really all they've got and when that dries up, then what? Sales of the 'cube paled in comparison to other consoles like the PS2 and hell, even the XBox later in its life. Regurgitating old content can only keep the coffers full for so long. If Nintendo wanted to keep in the game, they'd re-invent some of those franchises or even seek new ones with strong ideas backing them. I do realize that there is nearly zero overhead for these to be "made" though, so I suppose that's a plus in their direction.

    Quote from mikezilla

    5) You're not rebuying them at anywhere near the cost. They aren't going to charge you fifty dollars to play Mario 2. It's a low price that's a lot lower than what you'd pay in a store for one of those older games (I see Gamestop charge 25+ for snes games that are good.) For certain people this is a good deal because they don't have the means to get another NES or SNES and set it up.

    I'm still re-buying them though. I'm re-buying games I've already purchased. That just rubs me the wrong way. It might not bother you, but it bothers me, let's leave that one to opinion, eh?

  • big bang

    Quote from RD

    what corner?

    I think he's alluding to it "pushing" god into a narrower and more precise definition while removing a lot of the mysticism and well, ignorance surrounding many religious assumptions. It is a valid statement and argument to suggest that all of creation explained by science is well within the powers of God(s) to create. It is not a valid or defenseable position to suggest that all evidence against biblical creation mythology or other creation mythology is false simply because it disagrees with the mythology's storyline. IE: Nexus's all-caps post of "NO IT'S NOT!" which is so much chaff in the breeze when it comes to a real argument.

  • big bang

    Quote from Nz-Nexus

    NO IT'S NOT

    THE GOD EXISTS!

    it's not funny and not ridiculous.

    you just dont belive.

    Thanks for contributing. Get out of poli-disc.

    What Mikey and others suggest is a possibility and religion isn't necessarily against anything science finds out. I would see that as a very valid opinion, although it is not my own. It at least acknowledges logic and science.