There's a similar system for the PC, mainly used in flight sim games, where a head sensor detects which way you're looking and changes the view according to that. I'm guessing they change the sensitivity so you move your head but are still looking at the screen. The first thing I thought when I saw a demo, though, was how awesome using that and this would be. Total immersion
but they are too in front of your eyes, your periphial exists behind your eyes, and goggles will always feel like goggles, but then again a bank of screens wouldn't come in cheap. you don't need a bank of screens, just one for focus needding detail, perhaps another 1 each side, the rest can be low focus shadow/colour/movement screens.
I always thought peripheral vision was the area just out of your direct line of sight. If so, it would depend on how big the projection is. I actually had the same idea as you a while back. I wanted to build an X-Wing sim game (I'm a big fucking Star Wars nerd ) where the cockpit was totally replicated, and the field of view was artificially made by video screens. I abandoned the project when I told my best friend and he kicked me in the shins and told me to get a life.
Wiki agrees with you, worth a glance, concurs with the movement thing as well so your side screens would need far less detail, about time to resurect the project maybe.
Heh, I just noticed the member who made this thread has a grand total of one post. I wonder if she'll ever be back?
ooh, i played on a mate's DS a few weeks back, and now much to hubby's regret I REALLY WANT ONE! we did some Wii bowling as well, and that was fun; but for me the DS would get such a workout. I was staying with my mate for nearly the whole weekend, using her DS when I couldn't sleep and I killed the battery twice!! She said she's never killed it before, and I just couldn't get enough of it. Was playing Cooking Mama mainly, if you are interested. *blush* I was trying to get all the gold medals, but only got silver ones, except for a pot noodle ... got gold for that.
The Phantom Hourglass? I have it, I've got past the Ghost Ship level but haven't played it in a while, too busy.
I still don't like the Wii. Computer consoles, by tradition involve quite often, the usual teen goths or adult goths sitting in darkened rooms in front of a 14 inch tv playing such games as Sonic the Hedgehog, Vampire Hunter or Tekken2. All this dancing about like a duck on the dancefloor, waggling your bum about just so you can perfect that manouver to get yourself over that snow mound in some skiing game. Or clapping your hands or waving your feet about just to get Mario to collect some blue stars. Or to get a leg over Yoshi whilst riding through a triffid garden on some strange galactic world. Now they have invented Wii Step. Oh now you must step up and down like some soldier, just to move some 2d sprite on your tv. You move an arm, it moves an arm. You jump on the step thing, the sprite....oh it jumps. No surprises there then. Despite the fact that all gameplay is largely konetic. It dulls the pallet of those who have just put on a few pounds or are comfortably weighty. You need to be as fit as Chris Akabuski just to utilise this Wii system to its fullest. But the DS, what with its two dinky screens. If you have poor eyesight, it probably isn't worth hundred quid just to make out Zelda getting out his bag of healing power. But for those with good eyesight, the DS holds a brilliant alternative to the most bizarre konetically dictated Wii console. Plus you know that you can still enjoy such wii classics as Mario and Sonic, Zelda and Warioware. Without jumping about the place like some duck high on E numbers. the console is supposed to highlight the simple craving that we all get to just sit down and enhance our razoodox with a million different flickering colours, without jumping around. Besides the flying nun chucks and remotes of yesterday, the Wii for me, takes the Wii.It is difficult to get one, then when you get it, the games are deathly expensive, and they can only best be played if you move your body, waddling the bum and waving your arms about like a windmill on a Netherland landscape. Just stick with the DS. Classic gaming, but with the next generation upgrades that come as standard, at half the price of the Wii.
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH Have you been listening to ANYTHING I've said? I will say this ONCE MORE. In my eight months of owning a Wii, I have NEVER had to get off the sofa to do ANY sort of ridiculous move. My sister does, but she's doing it wrong. To reiterate; IF YOU PLAY THE WII RIGHT, THE MOST PHYSICAL EXERTION YOU WILL GET IS SHAKING OF THE RIGHT WRIST. It's really infuriating to be ignored and see the same INCORRECT statement being spouted every single fucking page. I don't know if it's some sort of a gimmick of yours, frankly I don't care. Two can play at that game. Welcome to my ignore list.
I have just discovered an official guide to Zelda Phantom hourglass. It is a like a strategy guide thingy. It costs 7.99 from Gamestation. (There is a copy in Lewisham branch) This is for those who want to figure out how to get through Zelda. When I played Links Awakening, I realised that everything in Zelda has some kind of process. For example, give banannas to monkey, he will put you to the princess, who will then give you the key to the next dungeon. Or to get the flippers, you must strike at a certain wall at a certain moment.
Furthermore: Zelda was the name of the Princess in the series. The player controlled the hero, who is called Link in the Legend Of Zelda canon. Since you displayed ignorance of this common knowledge, I can assume you know nothing about the Legend Of Zelda series. Since this series is one of the most well known video game collections, as well as only just realising there is a series of events within most Zelda games regarding object trading and that there are official guides for most video games out there nowadays, logical reasoning leads me to assume you know fuck all about video games.
even i know that bit, and (1) not a huge fan of Nintendo and (2) really loathed the Zelda games when I played them (just really couldn't get into it)
It's even more obvious in the game he mentioned. If the main protagonist was called Zelda, that particular game wouldn't have been "Link's Awakening". Fuck, I could go back even further. The second game of the series; "The Legend Of Zelda 2 - The Adventure Of Link".
When I referred to Zelda Links awakening, I was referring to an old classic Gameboy version. Most will remember that gold looking cartridge. Of course, Wii or Ds. Maybe you should get both. Additional: I am saddened by the demise of the GameCube.
I remember it, and it doesn't matter. My point still stands. The protagonist has been called Link since the series started. I already have a Wii and a DS, as I think I've stated or hinted at on this thread multiple times. Could you start actually reading my fucking posts before clicking that shiny "post" button, please? I've also had a look on Google and confirmed one of my suspicions; Link's Awakening didn't come on a gold cart. THe first game of the series did, and the N64 Zelda game did, but Link's Awakening was grey or black (DX version). John, if this is some kind of gimmick of yours, it's not funny.
You are obviously quite passionate about the Wii console. It is a new technology (The nunchuck and the remote and the whole concept). Unfortunately I cannot afford it and do not have the time either to go look around for places that may actually have Wii Stock. The Wii is a victim of its own success. But I say no more on this.
