Adorkably's Christopher Dobrolsky writes:
"Recently, there has been a substantial amount of rumors circulating around the video game industry in regards to the next generation of consoles. However, there has been a general consensus on one topic. Physical copies of games, meaning DVD and Blue-ray discs, are being abandoned to make room for digital games and media. While some may be pleased, others including myself find this change a little disheartening.
As the industry continues to age, gamers have begun to hold pride in calling themselves collectors. These gamer’s collections span across multiple platforms as old as The Magnavox Odyssey and as new as the recently released PlayStation Vita. However, in the fast growing video game market today, physical copies of video games are threatened by the convenience and rise of the digital video game era. This very change in the market also threatens the growth of a gamer’s pride filled physical collection by removing accessibility of the hard copies of newer generation games."
It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.
The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.
Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."
1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.
If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).
Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.
Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.
@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.
I approve of this god damn message.
Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.
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Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.
There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.
Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.
Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.
This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.
Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One
Never gonna happen.
I hope not. I like actually owning the case, instructions, and disc/cartridge. If u just buy and download a digital game, what value does that have? It would eliminate "rare" games, and no games would be valuable anymore.
I am in southeast asia (philippines), so...not yet is my answer.
I haven't met any gamers that wanted games to go digital so hopefully it wont be for a while.
Like Steam?
Buy games, get No physical media, no box, no books, no shipping to stores etc etc.... and yet games cost the exact same.
Yeah I'll just buy the Physical Media then thanks tho.