
When I played my first multiplayer shooter, it was a much more straight forward affair, it involved little more than sitting in a room with my mates, playing Quake 2 or Duke Nukem split screen, passing the controller between ourselves each time someone was beaten, and laughing a lot.

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.

A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.

Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
i must say i hate the prestige within multiplayer. I have a nasty habbit of being stupid when playing with mates, thats why i play multiplayer. people have become fixated on prestige now so my mates see my profile and i become a joke because of my low prestige scores. then there is my little brother who has un-used player in the game and he rakes in a big prestige and my mates hail him as a god?
personally prestige should be for online. for your hardcore players and your multiplayer should be for fun with mates.
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some1 need a tissue?
Competitive multiplayer online changed gaming. But some days, I'm not sure it was for the best. For instance, I gave up playing plunder in Uncharted 2 cause 80% of the time, someone will leave the game as soon as it's 2-0 for the other team. And being one less is a serious disadvantage in a 5v5 game, especially versus good players. Just because you were "unlucky" to be put in a weaker team doesn't mean you should quit!
It's too bad people are taking the game so seriously these days. It does take away from the fun experience sometimes.
I guess this guy's never heard of a 10th prestige lobby.