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twesterm on 14 November 2007
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Entroper said:

ROFL @ embedded video. You really put your money where your mouth is, twesterm. :)

EDIT: The remote thing is just a complaint. He's not making it out to be the end of the world like "OMG TEH REMOTE IS BLEUTHOOTH IM RETURNIGN THSI SYSTEM!!!" It's just another niggling disappointment. I'm sure if you spent $100 or more on a universal remote to get rid of your 6 other remotes, you too would be disappointed that it doesn't work with your Blu-ray player.

And honestly, Bluetooth is better than IR, but is it better in any tangible way that matters for a remote control? How hard is it exactly to point your remote at the TV? My guess is, the PS3 already had a Bluetooth interface, so they used that for the remote instead of adding IR. That makes sense to me. I'm sure if the Wii had DVD playback, they too would use the built-in Bluetooth (probably just use the Wii Remote, honestly) instead of adding another interface.


Exactly, the remote thing is only a complaint. Like I said, I enjoy just having one remote and hate the fact I now have to have an extra remote. I live in a pretty open space and I can't think of a time when the Blue Tooth features would come in handy. I can't even think of a situation when I lived in a closed space and the Blue Tooth features would come in handy. And if I had a Blue Tooth headset I wouldn't complain because that would actually make sense.
Tetsuo Shima said:
Entroper said:
Tetsuo, play a game like Gauntlet Legends or Dark Legacy, which has a similar two-button combo system, and see how well you do by randomly pressing buttons while not looking at the screen, and not aiming with the control stick. I'd wager you'd do much worse than that video showed.

Sure but you do realize he picked out the smallest arena in the whole game. Opponents are so close to him that it would be strange if he doesn't hit them. For me this video is just lame and proves nothing. Pure BS. Say what you will. This game is really cool. It has an obvious flaws like framedrop, screen tearing, some collision detection problems etc. but definitely combo system is really good there.


The thing is though with God of War, if I just sit there and randomly tap two buttons and nothing else, I'll die. God of War doesn't play for you, Heavenly Sword does. In that video I am just pressing random buttons and Nariko is moving all over the platform and performing finishing combos. All this with just randomly pressing two buttons. To make things even worse, I was doing pretty good. And yes, I know I was in the smallest area of the demo but that's because I really didn't want to take the effort to get further. As I said in my original post, the game bores me to tears and even that 2 1/2 minute video was pretty excruciating to make. If you watch the end of the video you'll notice that I keep fighting after I kill everything because I'm just simply not paying attention, I was reading a magazine while making that. -edit- Also, I'm going to assume that a bigger area wouldn't make things harder, just easier since I would be backed into a corner most of the time.