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Late Night Consoling
by jason bergman, Jun 10, 2002 8:30pm PDTI promised I would, so over the weekend I played around with some alternative formats for LNC. As I expected, it's not an easy task...I cram a ton of news into this single post, and making it easier to read inevitably makes it much, much larger. Here's one test format I came up with. That's clearly an improvement as far as readability (and I incorporated the much-requested system icons for news stories), but look at the size of it! Friday wasn't even a very big news night. I will of course, keep playing with it, and suggestions are always appreciated. Keep 'em coming.
- Square's really fallen into the same MMORPG curse as every company before them...there are still more problems with Final Fantasy XI. Apparently the game won't run on certain PS2 models. Doh! Considering how many different PS2s have been released in Japan, this isn't too surprising.
- Get ready for lots of Capcom...the company has announced plans to release 74 (!) titles this fiscal year. Hopefully they won't all be Street Fighter games with increasingly wacky titles.
- Would you believe Link is going to be a playable character in Soul Calibur 2? According to Gamers.com, it's true. This has also appeared on several other places, lending some credibility to the rumor. Apparently it'll be the adult one, not the 'toon one from the upcoming GameCube Zelda.
- The other big Nintendo rumor of the evening can be found at Computer and Video Games, where they have posted screenshots from the mysterious Super Mario's Universe trailer that's floating around the web. Is it a hoax? It certainly looks that way...but Nintendo hasn't come out and said so for sure.
- Congratulations to Microsoft...they finally outsold the GameCube in Japan (or at least for one week, anyway). Hey, it's a start.
- New media from Super Ghouls n' Ghosts and Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance can be found at pocket.ign.
- GameSpot has posted shots from Gran Turismo Concept Geneva, an upcoming GT game that is currently only planned for release in Europe, which features cars from last year's Geneva car show.
- Remember Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, the Xbox port of the original PS2 Silent Hill 2? Well it's been ported back to the PS2 for release in Japan. Nutty.
- And finally, here's an interesting project, where the author hooked a GBA up to one of those PSOne LCD monitors (thanks slashdot).
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Serif is good for on paper, but in electronic format it's much better to use Sans-Serif.
http://members.shaw.ca/kgwells/xbox/xbox_small.jpg
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btw the "classic game" was Super Metroid
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http://forums.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?s=f44658ef8b28099a013d47e39369fe6e&threadid=101470
Unfortunately the graphics look to be lowest common denominator, but at least the gameplay should be there.
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1. System icons on the very left, like bullet-points.
2. The font is, um, "ew!" =) What is that, courier? It's a unitype font, which are hard to read and take up more space. Moving to a more legible font (times or helvetica maybe) would be easier on the eyes and take up less room, maybe shortening the post a little bit.
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If you absolutely must include icons, making them float in the first column of a two column table (second column holding the news story, of course) might work. Then you'd have a little bit of space or a separator line before the next story. I personally prefer to read about all consoles, so I couldn't care less about the categories.
Doesn't funk.y support voting on a news story, now? We should do a poll on icons/no_icons.
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Actually it's two weeks now (shows what a price cut can do). PS 2 is still outselling both combined by 6:1.
That new format is a little better, what about boldfacing the game name/subject though and making it the link?
So for example:
New Castlevania Preview:
The game is out in Japan, so GameSpot has posted a hands-on preview of Castlevania: White Night Concerto (or Harmony of Dissonance as it will be known as when it's released over here).
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Usually I don't want to read the full explanation of what I'm linking to just to understand what you linked. And my biggest gripe with the current format is that you have to. One more example:
Instead of:
Would you believe Link is going to be a playable character in Soul Calibur 2? According to Gamers.com , it's true. This has also appeared on several other places, lending some credibility to the rumor. Apparently it'll be the adult one, not the 'toon one from the upcoming GameCube Zelda.
Which you have to read to understand your link to "According to Gamers.com"
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You could do:
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Link to be in Soul Calibur 2?
According to Gamers.com its true. This has also appeared on several other places, lending some credibility to the rumor. Apparently it'll be the adult one, not the 'toon one from the upcoming GameCube Zelda.
crosses fingers
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no, theyre gonna all be Resident Evil games with increasingly wacky titles.
start a new franchise already!
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Late Night Consoling [Jun 10th 2002, 10:30:00 pm]
34 Comments / (Options) -jason bergman
I promised I would, so over the weekend I played around with some alternative formats for LNC. As I expected, it's not an easy task...I cram a ton of news into this single post, and making it easier to read inevitably makes it much, much larger. Here's one test format I came up with. That's clearly an improvement as far as readability (and I incorporated the much-requested system icons for news stories), but look at the size of it! Friday wasn't even a very big news night. I will of course, keep playing with it, and suggestions are always appreciated. Keep 'em coming. Latenight Consoling Links >>>
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So for example:
bNew Castlevania Preview:]bu
The game is out in Japan, so GameSpot has posted a hands-on preview of Castlevania: White Night Concerto (or Harmony of Dissonance as it will be known as when it's released over here).
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Usually I don't want to read the full explanation of what I'm linking to just to understand what you linked. And my biggest gripe with the current format is that you have to. One more example:
Instead of:
Would you believe Link is going to be a playable character in Soul Calibur 2? According to Gamers.com , it's true. This has also appeared on several other places, lending some credibility to the rumor. Apparently it'll be the adult one, not the 'toon one from the upcoming GameCube Zelda.
Which you have to read to understand your link to "According to Gamers.com"
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You could do:
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bLink to be in Soul Calibur 2?]bu
According to Gamers.com its true. This has also appeared on several other places, lending some credibility to the rumor. Apparently it'll be the adult one, not the 'toon one from the upcoming GameCube Zelda.
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I'm a ps2 fanboy, so don't think i'm happy :(
I hate these invalid posts