It's sad, but I think if I had made a definitive checklist of things I did NOT want the next Xbox to be before it was announced...it would have been pretty much identical to what Microsoft ACTUALLY announced in the Xbox One...
The ridiculous DRM already made it an easy "pass" for me, but with no indie support whatsoever, Xbox One will officially be nothing to me. I won't even be considering this a failed console. It doesn't deserve to COMPETE with the ot...
Everything from EA is worrying to me these days. In fact many things happening in the industry worry me these days.
.... mostly EA though....
I hope for the sake of the industry the XBOne fails miserably. It's a terrible, terrible precedent Microsoft is trying to set with that thing.
@darthv72
Who wanders around their house while they're playing games? I don't even do that when I'm playing handhelds. It's damned near impossible. Perhaps you're being ironic...
I agree with you about the bubble/agree/disagree system, for what it's worth. It kind of promotes a passive approach to meaningful debate and discussion, if you ask me.
Edit: And if I'm understanding things correctly (which I will admit that things are STILL a little unclear) you register games to an account which has to be actively online for you to play those games. So I would assume that you can only be actively online on one system at a time. The "bits" ...
I'm in the same boat as animegamingnerd.
This will be the first generation that I will not be buying all the consoles.
The funny thing is, I thought if this day ever came that it would be a difficult decision for me, but Microsoft actually made it very easy....
You would also have to log in on that particular machine.
And I would assume that, even if you were fine with giving your friend your login information, you would not be able to be logged into multiple systems at the same time, seeing as there is an online requirement to play the games.
So yes, this is still ridiculously terrible.
Very nice write up, man. I agree with you all the way on this stuff.
It's not that I think they won't pair a good team with the property. They have proven that from a content perspective, they have the potential to make some of the best AAA games around. There are some very, very talented development houses working under the cold, dark shadow of EA.
But EA, as a company, is moving in a direction that I simply will not follow for reasons other than ACTUAL game content. So in that respect, they could produce what could be the greatest St...
Personally...I kinda thought Dark Souls was massively more epic than Skyrim in the first place.
Sure Skyrim is technically BIGGER (and I love the game to death, to be clear), but as big as it was, everything felt pretty empty and lifeless 99% of the time. I mean, not even the dragon fights were all that epic or engaging after a few hours of leveling.
Dark Souls is a world inhabited by hulking deities and drakes and wyrms that can kill you in a couple of swipe...
I'm not trying to sound like a douche here, but I got a good-humored chuckle out of the fact that a few of you thought that "tampering with/destroying evidence" constituted stealing confiscated evidence from the authorities and destroying it AFTER it had already been logged, like...Ocean's Eleven heist-style or something.
I agree. This is pure poppycock.
Glad I'm not the only one just as sick of the backlash as the articles themselves.
Ironically, giving them this much attention is exactly what they intended in the first place.
Nice article, though I don't think I'm as optimistic about their future policy changes as you are. Gamers have a tendency to become very accepting of bs policies like these as time goes by, and the way EA has been PR'ing these little "scandals" suggests that's what they're banking on.
I have, in fact, been hearing the exact opposite concerning the controls according to a few hands-on sources. The game supposedly controls very, very well.
I mean, think of Dark Alliance or Ultimate Alliance. I loved the controls in those games, personally.
It's one thing to prefer a certain control method...it's a whole different thing to make stupid, elitist assumptions before you have even tried it.
While I agree with you, I think the fact that they have some amazing studios is kind of moot.
Maxis and Bioware USED to be incredible studios, but they have "mysteriously" started sucking under the management at EA.
I'm with you...but then it doesn't really matter in the long run. CoD heads are CoD heads for life, it seems.
I liked the story. It was a nice alternative to the soap-opera-like melodrama of the rest of the series.
It was good to just get some hardcore fantasy politics and an interesting cast of characters that didn't feel like they needed to discuss their feelings every moment they weren't battling (Vaan and Penelo notwithstanding).
Well, because you know what they say: "You have to capture all of them!"
Or something like that.
And obviously Japanese developers are not capable of abusing tropes, cliches, and generic design. They are JAPANESE, for gods sake.
We as gamers have an obligation to defend every pair of exposed boobs, every bikini in a fighting game, every dough-eyed "sexy loli," regardless of context or artistic intent. Because people obviously just don't understand the culture.
I'm with you, and we still gotta do what we can, but it's not going to stop the hordes of morons out there from throwing their money at Microsoft because "it's gonna have HALO!1!!"
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Halo, but at some point a very large chunk of gamers are going to have to make a stand, and I just don't think that's ever going to happen. As I said, there's just too many idiots out there...