The Take Out Bandit
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I'm afraid the longer I own a Nintendo Map Screen console; the more the infallible logic of our glorious emperor Drinky Crow becomes my doctrine. 
The stylus / touchscreen one, two NAMBLA punch just offends my gaming sensibilities. Okay, so a game developer can now assign functions that they've been implementing for years to a touch screen instead of the D-pad, or by displaying a map somewhere in the corner of the screen, or on a sub menu. My eyes can only be looking at one thing at any given time, so it's not like having a separate screen for a map benefits a game.
The only two justifications I can find are:
Ouendan, or however you spell it. Wacky Jappy sure! But the Gitaroo Man developers are gods among men, and I had a similar idea for a particular game. In the context of something like Gitaroo Man / Oendan where you're tracing a line, it makes sense to trace it with a pen device. It's intuitive.
It's not intuitive in something like Castlevania though, where I've been summoning panty shot pixies, or casting slowdown causing spells with joystick motions. It's game breaking. That would be like designing a Street Fighter game where you moved and jumped with the d-pad, but had to grab the stylus to draw a quarter circle to shoot a fireball. Somewhere, I just caused a bunch of morons pants to tighten around the crotch, and those people must be found and shot. Removed forever from the gaming gene pool.
The only other justification I can find for the existence of this sad piece of kit is Metroid Prime, or any console based FPS / game involving precision shooting period. Problem with that is FPS on consoles are not something I enjoy outside of Deathmatch. It's not a genre like fighting games, or action RPG's that I look forward to buying and playing. It's a "well there's nothing else interesting and I've got some money to blow" genre.
So, anybody know what the going trade-in rates for a NintendoDS are? I feel like a sucker owning this thing, and I can't play Tetris Plus on it.
The stylus / touchscreen one, two NAMBLA punch just offends my gaming sensibilities. Okay, so a game developer can now assign functions that they've been implementing for years to a touch screen instead of the D-pad, or by displaying a map somewhere in the corner of the screen, or on a sub menu. My eyes can only be looking at one thing at any given time, so it's not like having a separate screen for a map benefits a game.
The only two justifications I can find are:
Ouendan, or however you spell it. Wacky Jappy sure! But the Gitaroo Man developers are gods among men, and I had a similar idea for a particular game. In the context of something like Gitaroo Man / Oendan where you're tracing a line, it makes sense to trace it with a pen device. It's intuitive.
It's not intuitive in something like Castlevania though, where I've been summoning panty shot pixies, or casting slowdown causing spells with joystick motions. It's game breaking. That would be like designing a Street Fighter game where you moved and jumped with the d-pad, but had to grab the stylus to draw a quarter circle to shoot a fireball. Somewhere, I just caused a bunch of morons pants to tighten around the crotch, and those people must be found and shot. Removed forever from the gaming gene pool.
The only other justification I can find for the existence of this sad piece of kit is Metroid Prime, or any console based FPS / game involving precision shooting period. Problem with that is FPS on consoles are not something I enjoy outside of Deathmatch. It's not a genre like fighting games, or action RPG's that I look forward to buying and playing. It's a "well there's nothing else interesting and I've got some money to blow" genre.
So, anybody know what the going trade-in rates for a NintendoDS are? I feel like a sucker owning this thing, and I can't play Tetris Plus on it.
