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misterd on 07 November 2008
BoleroOfFire said:
misterd said:
and according to some surveys, many women prefer food to sex...

 

I resent that!  Why can't we have both?  At once?  

To be fair, the surveys may have just been with the women I'd slept with.

 



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misterd on 07 November 2008
BoleroOfFire said:
tabsina said:
BoleroOfFire said:
misterd said:
 many women prefer food to sex...

 

I resent that!  Why can't we have both?  At once?  

that very same question probably led to creation Mr. Pacman's wife

 

There was sex in Ms. Pacman?  Lol, j/k.  Although I must admit that I enjoyed Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness.  I wonder what ever happened to my copy of the game...  Oh well.  

Well, there's your answer folks: The Wii provides women with food and sex simultaneously!  With Cooking Mama and force feedback, the sales just won't stop!    

 

In the cutscenes, we had Ms. Pac meet Mr. Pac, and eventually they had Pac Jr. Therefore, something must have been going on between those cutscenes.

 



BoleroOfFire on 07 November 2008

^^Lol@ survey.

Damn, did we miss out on the action because of the crappy non-HD graphics?



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.jayderyu on 07 November 2008
The Mr Endiadi said:

I ve always dedicated  my life to videogames. Since the very late 70s and early 80s, videogames have filled every night of my existence. I still have in my house an intellivision, a magnavox, a vic 20, a commodore 16, a commodore 64 and 128, a spectrum 48k, many pcs, an Amiga 2000, a playstion1, ps2, a dreamcast and now a ps3. I think I can be considered an hardcore gamer..

I must admit that i ve never liked nintendo brand and all that kind of games, but i ve always appreciated some games like zelda and mario.

But now, it is for me impossible to understand why wii is selling so much. I tried and tried againg to understand what's happening in these years but unfortunately I 'm not able to undestand why someone has fun with nintendo wii.

Maybe i'm becoming old (i am 35) but it's hard for me to enjoy myself with a console with that graphic, with those title (i hate wii sports)...and i'm disappointed bacause maybe i'm losing something important of this generation.

i'm very enthusiastic of my ps3..I can play some good games (in this period mgs4, wipeout, fallout3, lbp) i can watch blu ray (on my 52" lcd it is spectacular) i can use internet in my sitting room, i can listen music and watch all my 5000 photos on a big screen.. Now i'm waiting killzone, resistance, Re5...and i think the future will be brighter..

but when i see my nephew playing with her wii, i still continue to not understand...maybe if I were 7 years old and I lived in the 80s, wii would be a fantastic console...unfortunately almost 30 years have passed.

so what's wrong with me?

 

Because your capacity to understand people is 1/10 while your self interest(not self undestanding) is much higher 9/10. Is there something wrong with that. yes. Your now questing why the Wii is doing so well. That's because your being baffled that the world isn't you. The world doesn't think like you. And now your trying to find some form of justification to have the world fit into your perspective. Well it won't. If you just move on to undersand that the average person is not a technologist freak and is pretty happy with good enough and simple to use. Then maybe you would get. I'm a tech freak myself, but I do understand the idea about simplicity and good enough. Also the Wii can do stuff the PS3 can't do, and that's truly penetrate into the common consiousness that video games arne't for losers in the dark hunched over watching blood splattering on the TV. :)

Or your a troll. Either way. Just open your mind and do a search next time for such a simple quesiton.



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StiC on 07 November 2008

The Wii sells so well because everyone plays games (and I don't mean just video games). The Wii managed to capture the essence of gaming and combine it with an interface unlike anything else currently available. Suddenly all of the gross/fine motor skills, hand/eye coordination, and reflexes we have been using since infancy become relevant in a video game.

To put it a simpler way
Everyone wants to play video games, but not everyone can......until now.



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lazyrider on 08 November 2008
BoleroOfFire said:
misterd said:
I'm 38. I suspect if you really did cut your teeth on games like Galaxian and Defender, you wouldn't have one issue with the graphics of the Wii. While not on PS360 levels, they are likely far and away beyond what you ever thought you'd see on a home console, and surely your heritage would have taught you how game play is superior to image (or did you play Vanguard for the story?)

As for the Wii, it sells because it is simple and fun. The controls are intuitive. Think about all the breakout games in the past - usually little more than a joystick and one or two buttons. There's a reason Defender never became a cultural phenomenon like Donkey Kong, and the only game that garnered broad appeal among females was PacMan, which just had a joy stick (or it could be that it was about eating, and according to some surveys, many women prefer food to sex...).

"Core" gamers are comfortable with complex controls, and often get off on the sweatly palms and pulse pounding finger twitching of titles like Halo, but true hardcore gamers are a minorityof the gamers, and gamers of any stripe were a minority of the broad population.

Nintendo set out with the intent to make everyone, especially women, gamers, while Sony and MS chose to chase after the same crowd that has been playing games for the past 30 years.

 

I resent that!  Why can't we have both?  At once?  

My friend George Costanza tried this, and it doesn't work... Food or sex, you have to chose. Believe me, it wasn't pretty!

 



Elaine: I will never understand people

Jerry: They're the worst.

tabsina on 08 November 2008
lazyrider said:
BoleroOfFire said:
misterd said:
I'm 38. I suspect if you really did cut your teeth on games like Galaxian and Defender, you wouldn't have one issue with the graphics of the Wii. While not on PS360 levels, they are likely far and away beyond what you ever thought you'd see on a home console, and surely your heritage would have taught you how game play is superior to image (or did you play Vanguard for the story?)

As for the Wii, it sells because it is simple and fun. The controls are intuitive. Think about all the breakout games in the past - usually little more than a joystick and one or two buttons. There's a reason Defender never became a cultural phenomenon like Donkey Kong, and the only game that garnered broad appeal among females was PacMan, which just had a joy stick (or it could be that it was about eating, and according to some surveys, many women prefer food to sex...).

"Core" gamers are comfortable with complex controls, and often get off on the sweatly palms and pulse pounding finger twitching of titles like Halo, but true hardcore gamers are a minorityof the gamers, and gamers of any stripe were a minority of the broad population.

Nintendo set out with the intent to make everyone, especially women, gamers, while Sony and MS chose to chase after the same crowd that has been playing games for the past 30 years.

 

I resent that!  Why can't we have both?  At once?  

My friend George Costanza tried this, and it doesn't work... Food or sex, you have to chose. Believe me, it wasn't pretty!

 

Typical Jerry.. not listening to George

Food and sex were fine together.. its when he tried for the trifecta (portable tv) when things went sour



lazyrider on 08 November 2008

^you're my new hero! Tks for setting the record straight!



Elaine: I will never understand people

Jerry: They're the worst.

tabsina on 08 November 2008
lazyrider said:
^you're my new hero! Tks for setting the record straight!

hehe.. watching eps of seinfeld almost every night for the past two months gave me that ability i think :P

 



retroking1981 on 08 November 2008
Hawkeye said:
Its a secret to everyone.

 

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