Sentences with phrase «used as a gimmick»

as a owner of a Wii u i find it very disappointing system, the game pad is a very mixed bag i mean it could work really well like the off screen game play works great but for the fact that you never really need to play off screen for any game and in fact i think the game loses a certain enjoyment level like NSMBU it mean it works but you lose some of those great looks the game has and i find colors to be washed out, next with the game bad is that they use it as a gimmick in quite a few games (zombu) and i found that over a long game play with having to look up and then down every few seconds to every minute in about 1 - 3 hours i had a huge head ache which sucked, next the biggest issue with the system is that 32 GB console are you kidding me 32 GB only?

Coogler treats the character of Rocky Balboa as an integral part of this story instead being used as a gimmick to bring in an audience base.

I can see where you feel this film is like Malick's... cheap time plays, schizophrenia and spiritual mumbo jumbo used as gimmicks to hide a dramatically weak script.

They are using it as a gimmick to make their products look more attractive.

However, most pet food experts suggest that the addition of marigold is used as a gimmick in order to appeal to owners and that marigold isn't present in a large enough amount in any food to actually be beneficial.

touchpad is good for bringing up menu's / sub menu's For anything else it would be a gimmick and I'm glad it's not being used as a gimmick like most nintendo controllers...

Not exact matches

The point of the feature, which I initially had pegged as a gimmick, is to eliminate the need to use two hands to manipulate the larger device.

At a public health forum in Downtown Brooklyn, he railed against the current administration for using «one shots and fiscal gimmicks» to balance its budgets, and slammed Bloomberg's large soda ban as nothing more than «big PR.»

Rantala doesn't think that it's too far - fetched to see this pheromone used as an advertising gimmick.

Yoghurt can be a nutritious food, though its potential is often exploited by companies who like to use yoghurt's healthy halo as a marketing gimmick.

Think of it this way... a diet that focuses on natural, unprocessed foods such as whole grains, quality lean proteins, healthy fats and lots of fiber, regardless of the media and advertising gimmicks and hype that are used to promote it, is going to be a very effective diet.

Marketing gimmicks that use words such as «virtually no» are misleading.

I always thought using your iced coffee as a prop was the most ridiculous blogger gimmick ever.

A lot of games try to just use a gimmick as a way to drive sales despite having an unpolished product.

Groups help you in your quest to meet the perfect partner, as you can find those who share your interest (not just those with your desired eye colour or other silly gimmicks other dating sites use).

There are no gimmicks involved, this dating site simply offers solid matchmaking, using cutting edge features such as «datecast» which allows you to broadcast to your five favorite matches.

This leads us to believe that the notifications are used strictly as a gimmick to get people to see who's checking out your profile, who winking at you and who added you as a friend.

The fictitious notifications are used as another marketing gimmick to try to get you to communicate to the bots sending you instant messages or the bots «viewed your profile».

Accost defenders using each player's dribbling skills, as opposed to relying on gimmick moves.

Yes there is a gimmick of being shrunk but wisely Payne chose not to focus solely on this but used it more as a jumping off point for the more important themes this story brings about.

In this way, The Artist is as shallow as Sucker Punch — both use a «story gimmick» to cover weak story and characters (Sucker Punch was conceived as a send up of a various video games.....

Moland uses title cards to mark the «order of disappearance» of characters as they're killed, a gimmick that sort of works by creating comic interludes as a counterpoint to the violence.

Even the side - scrolling games, such as Sonic 4, haven't been as well received as SEGA might have expected, but there's a good reason: SEGA hadn't ever attempted to actually recreate a classic Sonic game, they kept throwing in gimmicks, using modern moves (such as lock - on attacks) and making the levels with a more linear design.

Strange Creatures basically uses its title as a gimmick, covering up for an otherwise ridiculous effort about carnival freaks and fortune tellers.

Also, in recent weeks, we had Chronicle, an ambitious spin on the Superman mythology with a script by Max «Son Of John» Landis, though that was an example of a film that would have worked just as well without the use of the found footage gimmick.

It doesn't because this element is used as a cheap plot gimmick, as a means for the novelist to find a satisfactory ending to his new book, an ending his publisher (David Paymer) demands be «bulletproof.»

It's been interesting how some filmmakers have ended up using it as a great tool to enhance the atmosphere or the film itself (I can't see myself seeing Pina in 2D) instead of just a cheap gimmick or a quick way to make some money and I'm glad that Brian Singer isn't just using it to sell more.

Gamers benefitted from that just as they benefitted from the games that did use those machine's gimmicks well.

«It's disappointing that for something as important as strengthening teacher preparation programs, NCTQ chose to use the gimmick of a four - star rating system without using professionally accepted standards, visiting any of the institutions or talking with any of the graduates,» Weingarten said.

a gimmick which journos will use the shred tyres as the main function of largely irrelevant videos, sadly.

I remain unsure as to how, exactly, I was supposed to use this gauge, but as needless gimmicks go, at least it's sort of interesting.

Hopefully Barnes and Noble could follow our lead by taking their own great app store, that took a long time to build up and use it as a marketing gimmick to really sell their next e-reader in vast quantities.

Though just as much a gimmick as it was on the G2, the feature is a much better fit for the slate, since users are more likely to leave a tablet on a flat surface to use it than they would a smartphone.

This feature could be seen as a gimmick, and rightly so; but it's also a bona fide, easy - to - use, and fun way to capture your own video in 3D, and it certainly adds an element of intrigue to what could otherwise be considered a garden - variety tablet.

As part of back to basics month, let's use today to explore how you can get out of debt without gimmicks or games.

Some people call me a «dog whisperer», but I don't like using that term because it is used by many companies as a marketing gimmick.

Many breeders will use PR as a sales gimmick, but it doesn't necessarily mean that their puppies are truly purple ribbon.

The pad isn't a gimmick really, it adds to the experience and tbh most games only use the buttons (that are literately the same as most controller) with the touch screen limited to inventory, menu, etc..

As a sidenote, I actually liked Kirby's Epic Yarn — it was fun at least until all the «yarn / string» gimmicks were used up, and the game turned ran out of steam, and turned into a typical overly difficult and overly demanding, soulless production line platformer with the annoying ice caves and all (is there any platformer that doesn't have an ice cave?).

As the sequel to Sonic Dash, the game features similar endless running gameplay to the original but with new gimmicks such as using the enerbeam to lock onto sky - railAs the sequel to Sonic Dash, the game features similar endless running gameplay to the original but with new gimmicks such as using the enerbeam to lock onto sky - railas using the enerbeam to lock onto sky - rails.

main gimmick is the hero's transformation abilities: As an ancient relic brought to life (yes, really), Knack grows larger whenever he comes into contact with more artefacts while progressing through levels, which allows him to take on more dangerous enemies and use the environment and its objects in new ways.

Not only is that mecha's sprite impressively detailed for an NES game, but the gravity - reversing mechanic is used not as a gimmick but as an essential gameplay feature, requiring the player to fundamentally change the way they looks at the game's stages and enemies» attacks.

@RubyEclipse so from what i can get is that sega purchased the rights to the extra life track nice oh and i love the way the minecart is being used here only as a section and i like the torch gimmick though next time im really excepting to see better physics and more like the classics unlike the rush engine oh and cant wait to see what you did to the pinball act

Thus far it appears that the main «gimmick» of the game, if it can be called that, is the use of very simplistic depth during gameplay, meaning most of the time you'll be in the foreground but sometimes you'll be forced to hop around in the background as well.

There are some gimmicks with touch (front screen and back pad) as well as camera shenanigans and even a couple of nifty mic moments, all of which are used to drive home the point that you affect this world in unique ways.

On top of that, Smart As is also held back by having to take use of the Vita's gimmicks and a lack of nearly any depth.

I ding the Wii as a gimmick because so little really used the motion control scheme effectively, and top flight games often kind of dropped it or relegated it to the odd waggle or a side role.

It's just wild guessing, but it seems very much like something Nintendo would do considering their love for integrated hardware and software gimmicks and their use of «simple» codenames (remember that Super Mario 3D Land was initially known as Super Mario 3D).

One thing I truly enjoy about the avatar and Modern Sonic's stages, or at least in the 3D segments, is the sheer amount of multiple pathways there are, no matter how convoluted they may seem.There are also stages where both the avatar and Modern Sonic run along side each other, which opens up the multiple pathways even more, and instead of switching a character out, each of their moves is assigned to a specific button, making them act as one character, which take some getting used to due to the visual appearance of both characters appearing on screen, but is definitely optimal.There's also some level designs with certain gimmicks: at one point you're playing pinball in the middle of a bright forest with classic Sonic, and in that same forest, you'll be playing pinball with some enemies down a water slide with the avatar, were the control starts to get kind of out of hand, while Modern Sonic will face a boss that combines the level design from Lost World with this game's boost mechanics, which was probably the intention for the departure in the 2013 game.

This would allow the user to make a movement or gesture that would do something in the game, such as hit a button, go to a home screen or anything else Nintendo can find use of such an interesting gimmick.