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    Oh my god. Necronopticous is a sim!

    anyways I have seen the steel batalion controler. Its the size of 3 X-boxs (i.e. luxomburg.)
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    No...I like controllers. Then again I don't play games anymore so meh.
    I like Kung-Fu.

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    Controlers won't ever end. Aslong as most gamers don't feel like having to thrust their arm to the right every time they want to talk to an NPC or open a menu instead of pressing a simple button on a hand-held control, controllers will reign suprme.

    Although I do predict a change in controller design, involving the vibrate function, aimed at lonely males.

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    I play videogames so that I don't have to exert myself. If I wanted to dance, which I don't, I'd go dance. I don't need to buy a fancy pad to pretend I'm dancing on television. I have a radio. I have a floor. If I want to play a fighting game, I don't really want to get up and wrestle my friend to see the action translated on screen. They have bicycle racing games that use exercise bikes as controllers. I have a bicycle already, and the real world looks more realistic than the image on tv. Why in the world would anyone want controlling a videogame to entail doing the action physically that you see on the screen? If you're going to go and do whatever physically anyway, why waste $50 on a game?
    Knock yourselves down.

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    It's uneconomical to end the use of controllers. Think about it, how much more would games cost if they all came with their own controllers? A standardized controller for every system (or what would really be cool, one controller that fits every system) is so much easier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Garland
    I play videogames so that I don't have to exert myself. If I wanted to dance, which I don't, I'd go dance. I don't need to buy a fancy pad to pretend I'm dancing on television. I have a radio. I have a floor. If I want to play a fighting game, I don't really want to get up and wrestle my friend to see the action translated on screen. They have bicycle racing games that use exercise bikes as controllers. I have a bicycle already, and the real world looks more realistic than the image on tv. Why in the world would anyone want controlling a videogame to entail doing the action physically that you see on the screen? If you're going to go and do whatever physically anyway, why waste $50 on a game?
    Holy crap someone else ponders some of what I do!

    Yeah Garland, I've been asking that ever since I found out what DDR was. Doesn't mean I won't play them, but I certainly won't go pay $100s of dollars to play one...like so many people are doing lately.
    I like Kung-Fu.

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    There's a martial arts DDR game (yes I am serious) that uses a simplified motion detector for its movements. That's about as close to free-moving as you can get. As for holographic buttons, that's VERY expensive technology, so not for another 10 years IMO

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