It's got me pretty interested in trying it, plus it adds a few things that I thought should have been in the original remote, like the throttle on motorcycles and etc.. And for 20 bucks it's not going to break the bank. Like other people have said though in the future I hope they make a new Wiimote with it built in, and as long as developers release games that use the new features I'll be happy :).
To deathwish: it's not your fault you liked to play games when you got home instead of hanging out with a bunch of uptight losers. I was the same way. I'm glad I grew up having video games available, because if I didn't I'd probably be an alcoholic like a lot of my old classmates who partied every weekend are now. Videogames (mainly RPGs with exceptions of course) taught me how to accept other people, no matter how different they are, as well as how to keep a bright outlook on life. Most of the games I played involved overcoming impossible odds and fighting for what you believe in...something school made me bitter about. Sure there's a a ton of games with bad messages if you interpret them literally, but there's so many that have a positive message and outlook for life.
To crazymoose: Did you know they've created an over-eaters anonymous? Ridiculous, I know, but it's true. I think psychologists (and people in general) are becoming addicted with creating addictions. Next thing we know we'll have a nail biters anonymous and a nose pickers anonymous.
Fedgem's got the right idea. I've played video games nearly every day for the past 10 years of my life, and at least once a week for 10 years before that. Does that make me an addict? No. It's what I like to do, and there's no way I'm letting some psychologists tell me what I can and can't do. Is enjoying something on a daily basis wrong now? Is striving to feel good on a daily basis an addiction? What about people who go crazy if they don't work every day? Should we open a workaholic clinic? IT'S NATURAL TO BE ADDICTED TO SOMETHING. It's called a passion. I'm not saying that it's okay for a coke user to use this as an excuse to do more coke, but almost all people naturally have a routine they follow every day. The teen who shot his parents for taking away Halo 3 had some underlying psychological problems caused by bad parenting and/or surrounding himself with the wrong people. You have a similar case with the IBM guy who shot a bunch of people because he got laid off. Besides, the internet is far more addicting than video games. So many more people are addicted to it. So many people say they couldn't live without it. The bottom line is (and it's obvious): Anything that causes pleasure (or pain for some people) can be addicting.
I'm kind of bummed too that there's no GBA slot too. Although I already own a GBA, it's worn out, the screen is scratched to hell, and if the game is wiggled a little while I'm playing (by my fingers...or somebody else) then it freezes. Not to mention I'd rather play the games on a little larger screen. And I have so many more GBA games than I do DS games. Oh well...but it would have been nice.
Well, it's a problem on Punkbuster's side for the Battlefield 2 online problems, and I'm sure most of the newer games will have patches released at or around the time of Vista's launch. And like other people have said, the beta is still buggy. I uninstalled it and reinstalled XP because it was an inconvenience at the time. XP still had some problems at launch, but they got most of them worked out in the first few months, not including security flaws, but that's mainly because there's a higher user base to find those flaws than other operating systems. The improvements in DX 10 are good enough for me to leave behind XP. If I really want to play a game that doesn't work for some reason, I'll just install both. It's not that big of a deal, and when most people have at least 100Gig+ hard drives, it shouldn't be for others.
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