@28362g That's easy. If the gameplay on the television pauses for you to look at the touch screen, buttons. If you're using the touch screen on-the-fly, or in conjunction with the action on the screen, a couple of small zoom in/out buttons can be placed on the map screen for you to hit with a finger.
@Holyknight_CJ "I would say it should have been obvious to include dual analog (industry standard for good reason), but at this point I've decided I don't understand Nintendo fans beyond a love for their first-party franchises." That's saying a lot coming from a Sonic the Hedgehog fan.
Well no company is perfect. But think of it this this way: if Nintendo did everything right the first time, kids these days would be saying, "What the heck is a PlayStation?".
If I can't buy used games at discounted prices, then I can't afford to be a serious gamer. Simple as that. The day I start buying every game new is the day publishers stop making every game $50-60 on release and start putting in some reasonable price structures based on dev costs, game length and replayability. Someone from Nintendo said a few years ago that he'd like to see the industry scale it back a lil' bit and stop making every single game a big budget, million dollar project that takes years of development. Sounded crazy then, but makes more and more sense with each passing day.
@erix43 My Wii has gotten me so much booty (especially early in it's lifespan) that it's not even funny. Heck, a girl that I haven't talked to in a year just messaged me the other day to see if I wanted to do yoga on the Wii with her. Hint: it's probably gonna result in more than yoga. Friends and brodudes on forums try to tease me about owning "a system for babies," but I just ask how much dates or sex their PS3s, 360s or PSPs have gotten them. Oh by the way, I'm about to play Tenchu and Monster Hunter Tri on my Wii that supposedly has no gamer's games. I'm so enamored with them that I still haven't gotten to Super Mario Galaxy 2, No More Heroes 2, Cave Story, Final Fantasy Echoes of Time, De Blob, Conduit 2 and Deadspace: Extraction. Yep, I sure wish I had more hardcore games.
Ah! Jeff called Oregon Trail perfectly, right down to the last line about having to go to Math class (that was the class I had to skip to beat the game)... I always did feel like someone was watching me back in 3rd grade... Ain't it funny how you thought games were fun then, then look back on them to wonder how you ever played a turd like that? I should've stuck with "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"
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