Video games are becoming more and more about interaction, and less and less about casual fun.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
I loved Mass Effect and how it just pulled you into the story and made you care about the people on your team. I was so used to games leading me down a one way story, so I was surprised that I got to choose for once.
Even through games are becoming more and more interactive, it's good. It actually makes the game more interesting and, like with mass effect.. you do get closer to your team.
You take a closer look at things, try to find out how interactive the game actually is. Where your limits are.
"Can I run up that wall and grasp the ledge then do a backflip off of it?" "Oh, I can't do a backflip? I can dive off the wall into people though? Awesome."
I love interaction in Video Games. It can only benefit us and the industry as our games become more of a force in the mainstream.
What this person is talking about is more on control than interaction. I consider interaction as massaging, PlayStation Home, video chat...etc. What this person is talking about is that we have control over what we do instead of being forced to do one thing.
Like for example Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots can be played in many different ways. That's control. With PlayStation Home you can talk to other PlayStation 3 users in a connected community. That's interaction.
So with games that have a squad for you to command is a form of control. In that very same game you can go online with co-op and use headsets, a form of interaction. The big difference here is that one is human the other is a program.
Non the less this is in interesting topic I just think this person used the wrong wording.
I also want to note a program can interaction with each other but the human always has control. So in Grand Theft Auto IV you shoot someone in the world, people will react to that in that world. Interaction is a form of communication. If a program has A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) things would be a little different and I don't mean how developers talk about A.I. in video games. More so of the Matrix creating a program that learns and thinks on its own or i, Robot.