So, a free CD for people who probably wouldn't care for it and New Super Mario Bros. Wii with just one controller, no price drop, and it lacks GameCube support.
Wouldn't you think NSMBWii would make a great game to pack-in an extra controller? I think Nintendo of America is looking to make sure the Wii market is about as dead as it can get. Have they started advertising Kirby yet? Why am I even asking that?
I'm not really impressed with the hack, not that I could do anything close to it in any respect.
A lot of the moves, like his dashing A attack, borrow animations from other characters. His body seems to take hits that don't actually connect. Things like that are a bit rampant. Considering how long character hacks have been in development at this point, I was hoping to see more, despite how complicated the project is.
That's not what the issue is, Nate. The problem is a stale game. In Melee, the "best" character would grow and change over time. Skill and talent developed a good portion of the characters. In one example, the Ice Climbers were thought to be sub-par characters, but a player came up with some interesting and unique strategies to use with them, and they rose up very high in the tier lists as a result.
Now, in Brawl, because Meta Knight is such an over-centralized character, these shifts aren't happening. People are using Meta Knight and winning, and using Meta Knight and winning. It isn't a matter of "fairness." It's a matter of entertainment, a matter of public interest, and a matter of enthusiasm. I can tell you that I'm much more interested in seeing what happens to Brawl now that he's to be banned in January. Why? Because he's a boring character to watch, and nearly every high-skilled match has at least someone playing Meta Knight.
There's dozens of reasons for him to be banned, but he wasn't banned because of a lack of "fairness" for other characters. More, he was banned to keep the game from stagnating, or from moving in just one direction. He was banned to give a lot more potential to Brawl's game, and in other fighting games, less broken characters have been banned when they were used by far fewer people, so I'd say this isn't even something to be considered drastic at all.
I should say right out that I meant to talk about the new Xbox video service thingamajig, but it slipped my mind. Next week, I'll hit on it, and by then, let's hope more information is available on what's included in a Gold subscription and what needs more than that.
Well, I also think it's worth noting that the ESPN deal that arose before was drastically different, from what all I can see. For access to ESPN 3 on the 360, it takes XBLG and an internet connection.
What I'd prefer, however, is something a little bit even more piecemeal. Want to play Xbox 360 games offline and use hulu+? Hulu+ subscription is all you need. Want to play games online, but don't need access to facebook on your 360? Oh, hey, just order a Gold account for a real premium price. Want to watch ESPN 3? $5-$10 for a year. It might sound contradictory to what I said above, but it's different.
Rather than blanketing in every cost in a $60 a month plan, why not let people pick what they want to use, and pay for that? I don't care for nonsense about content providers. That's part of the reason I dropped cable: We could get all the channels we didn't want for $70 a month, with just a handful channels we wanted included, too! I decided to switch over to things through the internet because I could pick exactly what I wanted, and take that without more or less. I'd still have cable if I could choose a handful of channels of my own, and not be charged outrageous prices to make up for the fact I don't want all those other ones.
Anyway, this'll all be talked about on tonight's PB & Jason. Maybe I should hold back from posting much more for it...
I'm absolutely not as excited about this as a should be. I cut my cable nearly a year ago, and watch my own DVDs and regular ol' Hulu at this point in time for entertainment. As it stands, websites that offer television content on the web are trending toward requiring some sort of cable package or extra subscription fee to see the show shortly after it airs. Dish Network subscribers get access to more shows and shows sooner than even some hulu plus subscribers. Fox has put all their shows on a one-week delay. Syfy's shows get posted online after their seasons are over.
This seems like an awesome deal, but considering so many of those "Strings attached" networks are on the list, I'm convinced it won't be, and in many cases, several things will require extra subscriptions of some sort. HBO GO, for example, requires customers to have a regular HBO subscription, and will require the same thing when this update goes live.
In that sense, the 360 is adding a bunch of functionality, but it does so at a premium above Xbox Live Gold that doesn't always make sense, similar to how NetFlix on the 360 requires Gold, as does FaceBook and even hulu+. Now, we're seeing a large variety of content providers that are supposedly the reason why Gold went up in price last year, but the reality is that to access these providers, it just means more extra fees and more mishandled services, a la the 360's botched NetFlix program. I say botched because it requires two subscriptions to use, which, looking at the Wii and PS3, makes no sense.
It should go without speaking that I'll be recording another one of these tomorrow. Any listener mail out there? JasonrATpixlbitDOTcom is the email address to go for if you do!
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Maybe I'll just play Bloody Roar: Primal Fury in disappointment that the BR 5 rumor was false.
What's there now is tough to navigate, has a lot of weird redundancies, and doesn't seem very impressive. I'm willing to accept almost anything else with open arms.
