Morning Discussion

Monday, already? It seems like I barely got anything accomplished this weekend.

Really, I just played an hour or two Resident Evil 5, co-created and tested a Peggle drinking game, cleaned the apartment, watched some Wire, and read a few chapters of Snow Crash. The rest of the time, I was either sleeping or doing something here.

There were also about five minutes spend on a hammock. Hammock weather, at last!

On the plus side, um, I've got another chance at the weekend here in a couple days?

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    March 16, 2009 7:07 AM

    Repost from last night:

    Madworld

    Sometimes when I'm fighting bosses and minibosses I'll get an action symbol showing both the nunchck and the Wiimote, but it's not the "shake me" symbols. If I do...something...when that is on screen, it will trigger a quick time even that does massive damage. The problem is, I have no fucking clue what the "something" is I'm supposed to do.

    What does that instruction mean? What triggers its appearance? I'm at a point where knowing is actually important, and I have no fucking idea. :(

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      March 16, 2009 7:10 AM

      Does it show them moving in any direction? (I know there's at least one "pull apart" horizontally, swipe left/right, swipe up/down, and a "split" up/down when both are up. There';s a streak of yellow to tell you how to do it.

      The only other thing I can think of is that it works like the wiimote "circle" action, that is, it shows you the wiimote, with no action, but if you hold it steady, it then shows you to transcribe a circle. Maybe you need to hold both steady for a moment before it shows you the next action?

      Do you know what boss it happens on? The bosses have unique moves....

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        March 16, 2009 7:13 AM

        I've seen it so far on the first few bosses. I'm on the dude that throws tornadoes and shit now. I'll see if it happens to him as well. Like Arcanum says, it seems to happen sometimes, but I don't know if it's something that I'm doing to make it happen, or what.

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          March 16, 2009 7:20 AM

          Man, I can't recall the killing moves on tornado guy, though I thought it was twice to disarm both his air guns and a final finisher to use one gun on him; the first two definitely are the shake motions the last just a swipe.

          Try holding them steady for a moment if you see them; maybe the game (since it's only motion sensing and not using the IR) needs to recognize a default position.

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        March 16, 2009 7:21 AM

        No, that's the problem, no yellow streaks. It happens on all the bosses and minibosses, as far as I can tell. I just can't figure out why or what I'm supposed to do.

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