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Post by Sonnington on Apr 7, 2017 16:33:11 GMT
Sonnington - I really don't think anyone is trying to pick a fight or score points on you. It's just a genuine disagreement about an issue that is really a huge deal in Europe. It's hard to have a discussion on divisive issues like this on a forum because it's too easy to pick up the wrong tone or intent of a statement. One thing is consistent though - the World doesn't think the US is as great as US citizens think it is. That's cool. I hope you like where you live! That's what's cool about sovereignty. You don't have to approve of our laws and I don't have to approve of yours. That creates the maximum amount of happiness among the most people. In any event, I think it's more important to focus on real issues in foreign countries like Syria, Iran, and North Korea. It seems rather misguided to focus on small details that differ among mostly free, developed countries when there's genocide and tyranny going on.
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Post by Sonnington on Apr 7, 2017 15:59:49 GMT
To me, it's not really worth debating since I don't think your perspective is reasonable or based on fact. It's like debating creationism. How do you debate with someone who has a preconceived position not based on facts? Are we going to sit here and pretend the media and the those in politics haven't been staunchly opposed to violence in videogames? Again, the only way I can justify intelligent people, such as yourself, saying such ridiculous things is to score points with someone- not to have a reasonable discussion. Yet you bring zero facts and simply aim to patronise by calling me "intelligent". What are you on about?? To me the facts are: - USA has the highest gun ownership and highest gun murder rate of any developed country. I'm aware of Canada and Switzerland having high ownership rates as well due to geographical and historical quirks, but nothing like the crime. Clearly, the media or politics in the US is playing a part in causing that situation. We all know the gun lobby is very strong in the US as well, so guns are socially acceptable on a national scale. - Video games are absolutely rife with violence. The highest selling game series of recent years is a crime simulator where you can murder at will with near impunity (GTA). The other being Call of Duty which has constant bloody deaths! - So, the idea that the media or the Govenrment would have any discernible negative impact on the availability of light gun games- most of which are arcade or cartoon style, makes little sense to me. If anyone can show that politics really are stopping this type of game, which I really enjoy by the way, I'd be genuinely interested. Yeah, I guess you're right. There's never been and there currently is no controversy over violence in videogames. How silly of me to suggest such a thing. /s Just found this lovely quote later on Yeah man. Rockstar has seen smooth sailing, right? They've never been sued before or anything. No one's ever tried to link violent videogames with real world violence before. And game developers/publishers aren't risk averse at all. Hatred didn't bomb despite the massive media coverage. Hell, the media didn't just work together to assassinate PewDiePie's character unfairly. PewDiePiegate had nothing to do with PewDiePie standing up against Youtube. It had everything to do with him being a raging anti-semite? Cuz, you know, nazism is all the rage among millennials. Come on bud, what you're suggesting is absurd and the way you're presenting your position is clearly disingenuous. That's something I don't have patience for. To quote Woodrow Wilson, "If you come at me with your fists doubled, I think I can promise you that mine will double as fast as yours; but if you come to me and say, 'Let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ from one another, understand why it is that we differ from one another, just what the points at issue are,'"
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Post by Sonnington on Apr 7, 2017 0:37:19 GMT
Are you really that unaware of American politics? It seems tough to believe someone as intelligent as you would say such a thing. To me, when smart people make such blatantly ignorant comments, it makes me think they're just trying to score points with someone. To give the benefit of the doubt is this something you want me to explain to you? I've actually been to the usa. let me tell you gun availability in your country is completely out of control. the cities are a mess. the infrastructure reminded me of a third world country. poverty not seen anywhere in europe and I've been to eastern european countries. money could be spend so much better there. What I liked about the us was it's tremendous nature and diversity. it made an incredible impression on me but it also has incredible problems, not the least of it how many fat people I saw. still can't get over that that is something that people there seem to be proud of. Yeah, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Thank God for our sovereignty. With that said, I hear the UK is a wonderful place. I'm mostly English and Irish so I have a great deal of respect for that area of the world. Even if I somewhat follow the politics in the area, I wouldn't interject my opinion on your laws. There's a great deal of diversity of opinion out there and if the laws work for you out there, so be it.
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Post by Sonnington on Apr 7, 2017 0:04:59 GMT
Are you really that unaware of American politics? It seems tough to believe someone as intelligent as you would say such a thing. To me, when smart people make such blatantly ignorant comments, it makes me think they're just trying to score points with someone. To give the benefit of the doubt is this something you want me to explain to you? I know enough. I stand by my point, thank you. As Davyk says, if there was a market it would happen. I also agree that there is no good that can arise from discussing the merits of gun ownership on this forum. That said, if there is proof that political forces (not liberal media, I must stress) are stopping light gun games, that would be interesting. To me, it's not really worth debating since I don't think your perspective is reasonable or based on fact. It's like debating creationism. How do you debate with someone who has a preconceived position not based on facts? Are we going to sit here and pretend the media and the those in politics haven't been staunchly opposed to violence in videogames? Again, the only way I can justify intelligent people, such as yourself, saying such ridiculous things is to score points with someone- not to have a reasonable discussion.
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Post by Sonnington on Apr 6, 2017 2:24:40 GMT
I just wanted to say the political influences at work, here in the states, would assassinate the character of those trying to promote guns in this way. Light guns that you could aim with by looking down the sights would sell like hot cakes here. It would be absolutely HUGE and would likely even sell consoles just for the lightgun itself to a new demographic. That's it, nothing more. I'm much more interested in seeing you attack that argument than use boring emotional arguments we've all heard before about gun laws. Sovereignty among nations is a wonderful thing. Great. Who cares, it's a gaming forum. It's the political influences that are the biggest obstacle to lightguns, as described, not how popular they'd be. In a country where you can in most cases buy lethal weapons with ease, the idea that political forces are stopping light gun games is ridiculous. It will be a decision made by the big game industry companies based on technical and commercial reasons. Are you really that unaware of American politics? It seems tough to believe someone as intelligent as you would say such a thing. To me, when smart people make such blatantly ignorant comments, it makes me think they're just trying to score points with someone. To give the benefit of the doubt is this something you want me to explain to you?
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Post by Sonnington on Apr 5, 2017 15:53:21 GMT
I just wanted to say the political influences at work, here in the states, would assassinate the character of those trying to promote guns in this way. Light guns that you could aim with by looking down the sights would sell like hot cakes here. It would be absolutely HUGE and would likely even sell consoles just for the lightgun itself to a new demographic.
That's it, nothing more. I'm much more interested in seeing you attack that argument than use boring emotional arguments we've all heard before about gun laws. Sovereignty among nations is a wonderful thing. Great. Who cares, it's a gaming forum. It's the political influences that are the biggest obstacle to lightguns, as described, not how popular they'd be.
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Post by Sonnington on Apr 5, 2017 6:31:17 GMT
I love a light gun game but sadly the problem is enough people don't seem to want to pay for them and another peripheral only adds to the cost. Maybe something clever could have been done with Kinect instead of an effing Star Wars dance game? Nah, people LOVE guns. Especially in the states where gun sales and ownership is through the roof right now. It's not that lightgun games wouldn't sell. It's that every big publication is... shall we say... politically bent against gun ownership and the major news publications, gaming or not, would try to assassinate the credibility of the developer/publisher. Some are scared of the powers that be and others buy into the philosophy wholesale. Not trying to be politically, but, I mean, lets tell it like it is. In any event, it would still sell like hot cakes. People -love- guns and parents would definitely buy it to play as a family to teach their children responsible gun ownership with a fake gun. Handguns are illegal for civilians in the UK, correct?
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Post by Sonnington on Apr 4, 2017 2:05:43 GMT
Well, a camera is dirt cheap and the processing power would be miniscule. All it needs to do is measure the x and y coordinates in a rectangle. Can someone mention this idea in a neogaf thread so someone could steal it from me and make it happen?
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Post by Sonnington on Apr 3, 2017 2:18:39 GMT
Pretty cool stuff! I love me some lightgun games.
It got me thinking. What if they built a lightgun with a camera in it and primitive kinect-esque software so the lightgun knew where it was pointing while pointing at a TV screen? That would sell -so- well... in fact... why hasn't it been done yet? It seems so obvious.
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Post by Sonnington on Mar 31, 2017 2:45:19 GMT
Also there are alot of secrets for other holidays. If you set your system clock to the proper dates, you will get themes for I think Halloween, Valentines Day maybe? Can't remember all the ones that were included. On April Fools it lets you play Raela too, I believe. I didn't see anyone mention the music mixer that lets you change the emotions of the Nightopians for the full release version of NiGHTS. This let you change the music in the game, which was SWEET!
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Post by Sonnington on Mar 15, 2017 1:32:04 GMT
I could see NiGHTS being released today as a -very- high quality indy title.
Panzer Dragoon Saga. This game was SO far ahead of its time. Light years. I've raved about it before, but the pacing is so modern. It was short and sweet, very unlike games at the time and much more like games of today. The combat was a very fresh and rather complex take on turn-based(at the time). It never forced you to ever level grind and the variety of enemies combined with the nuances of combat never allowed the combat to feel stale.
There's a good reason why so many game reviewers kept Panzer Dragoon Saga at the top of the list as the best/second best RPG of all time for so many years.
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Post by Sonnington on Mar 11, 2017 5:47:08 GMT
Dark Savior and Story of Thor 2 are still pretty good. I -love- Dark Savior. The characters and their big futuristic 80's hair. The beautiful bright colors and 80's synths. The difficult and satisfying platforming. The terrible combat and even the minecart level. Holy shit, that minecart level. So cheap. So-so cheap. Does it really hold up though? I think the controls would probably feel clunky to our sensibilities. I think Mr. Bones really holds up. You could port it to Steam or phones and no one would know it was designed 20+ years ago.
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Post by Sonnington on Feb 28, 2017 7:25:58 GMT
Yeah the Rhea is GREAT! I have a rather old version before he added a GUI and it works for every game I've probably tried except for Rayman, Contra Legacy of War, and Bug!. I've tried over a hundred games, all the biggest names on the system, and those three were the only ones I had an issue with. But this was over a year and a half ago and he's updated the Rhea and the firmware, so I'm not sure what the improved compatibility is like now.
1. Why do you need to mess about with the ram to check compatibility? IIRC, it had to be a model 1 and you absolutely had to take the ribbon out of the optical drive to count the number of pins. Some of the newer model 1s had more pins and there was no way to tell without opening it up and counting.
2. You could, but it would be a lot easier to just download them though.
4. Discjuggler is the best. Apparently it was the format the Rhea was originally designed to play, but I've had no more success with discjuggler than cloneCD, and cloneCD is free. So that's what I use.
5. Oh, yeah, absolutely, that's exactly what I did. I just downloaded the bin/cue files from the websites and converted them to CCD in cloneCD.
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Post by Sonnington on Dec 16, 2016 23:00:12 GMT
Quick question. I´ve just picked up Xmas Nights into Dreams (should arrive before xmas ) so want to get some tips for Gilwing (I think that´s his name), since he is the boss of XMNID. I hate this boss as I find it obnoxiously awkward and tough to kill him with a loop. Anyone got any advce on how best to tackle him? It's been a while, but I used to always use Gilwing for a reliable 2.0 modifier. First you need to make sure you have some energy from the last track. If you don't have enough energy you won't get a 2.0. Start the level by holding backwards and dash towards his tail. Get underneath Gilwing at about the second spike on the bottom of his tail. Go relatively parallel with his tail for a second so the trail will be where you want it. It's pretty forgiving, you don't have to get too-too close. You don't have to touch it. Then just do a loop. That was my strategy and it worked out well.
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Post by Sonnington on Dec 14, 2016 6:34:37 GMT
PDS really blew me away. Maybe it was the 15 year wait an anticipation of what many call one of the best RPGs of all time. It was really something special though. What was really surprising was a game fro the late 90's had a similar pacing to most story-based games of today. It was short, sweet, with none of the tedium. Most RPGs at the time were 30-40-50 hour affairs. PDS was only 10-15 hours long and 4 disks long. Nothing was skimped on. It had impressive visuals, an enthralling story, and a unique and engaging combat system. 10/10
I respect the other games in the series a lot; I've just never been able to get into them.
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