I want Lego God of War.
Based on the description in the article it basically sounds like a rumble vest. FWIW, I think it might be kind of cool but hardly necessary.
Sort of like 3D.
Anyway... I actually was surprised at how rumble features in controls help with immersion and feedback and that's just a controller. The vest could rumble in different spots to indicate direction of fire in an FPS, etc. This sounds like it'd be pretty darn cool as an optional accessory for certain games if you...
Yeah. IMHO, this is clearly a slow news day topic. The answers so obvious that it's kind of a dumb question to even ask. Everyone knows single player is still important. Look at stuff that is trying to push the boundaries of story telling like Heavy Rain. As well as games that have a heavy cinematic plot influence like Gow3, Alan Wake, ME2, and UC2.
MAG desperately needs some kind of offline training mode. That game is dying.
Each faction only has one map per mode and the modes that require large numbers (64v64) and (128v128) are to the point where I sit in a queue forever unless I'm playing at peak hours.
As a result, I only play Sabotage on it (32v32) and since there are only three maps and no offline modes, the gameplay is becoming super stale super fast and the disc is rapidly becoming little more than a c...
This. The PSP sells mainly to grown ups. The DS cost about half what the PSP did at launch, it's titles are cheaper and it's what the parents buy for their kids. Most American kids over ten are already on their second DS series device.
Some American adults (like me will also get the DS because they know Mario and the gang) so the DS has some cross over appeal but the PSP is more like an iPhone, you wouldn't give one to a small child and say have at it.
The DS is a weak piece of tech. It's a mass market device designed primarily as a high volume seller targeted primarily at children. The PSP is a high end piece of hardware aimed at hardcore adult players and as a portable media solution.
They're just not similar. My kids play their DSs but I hardly ever touch mine... it feels completely pointless when I have a PSP sitting there with SOCOM3, Dante's Inferno, Resistance Retribution, FFVII, Syphon Filter, and GTA loaded.
Somewhere in the darkness... the Avatar sullenly bows his head... and weeps.
Facepalm.
This game is going to suck dog balls. Very few people will buy it and the online will die within a month or so of release. People are willing to pay $60 for a top tier FPS (BFBC2, MAG, MW1&2)
The guy that runs this company is an a**. Will not buy. There's enough other cool stuff for PSP that I don't have to give him $$$.
For what it's worth, aside from a couple of out of body experiences, I've experienced the vast majority of my life through a first person perspective and have experienced a wide variety of novel and interesting things this way.
I'd daresay that almost anything that can be experienced visually by a human being can be realized via a first person perspective. So, really the sky's the limit in terms of original ideas. You guys need to look on the bright side.
Why does every Japanese game look like some kind of weird soft p0rn?
@1.10: The fact that publishers screw the developers does not give the industry the right to in turn rape the consumers. The majority of Devs will ALWAYS be paid peanuts. They have a "game job" they're trading their $$ income potential for more rewarding work, studios and publshers know this when they set salaries it doesn't matter how big their profits are, devs will always be paid the going rate. This has NOTHING to do with them. Ubi is not a dev they are a publisher.
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Yet another generic SciFi FPS with a plot that reads like it was written by a bunch of high school age kids on mushrooms? Sounds groundbreaking to me. (facepalm).
You know after this most recent hype push on MGS:PW I'm a little MGS'd and Kojima'd out from a gaming news standpoint.
As a hardcore gamer, I'm willing to give Move a shot BUT you guys had better NOT start gimping stuff for the goofy new whizbang controls (ala Wii and the retarded touch screen schemes I've seen on many DS titles) or I'll boycott your stuff. Traditional controllers first, move as an add-on/alternative.
It's about time they tried to popularize a Call of Duty game... No one ever plays those games from what I hear, they're so cerebral... they should dumb them down. (facepalm)
This whole thing strikes me as the old "three sides to every story" situation. Fact is huge sums of money became involved and everyone acted like an a-hole. West and Zampella look like the good guys in most of the reporting only because they're standing next to an even bigger douchebag (Activision/Kotick).
You know, none of this'd be an issue if they sold the entire game upfront rather than meting it out bit by bit.
Don't get me wrong with a game like Fallout 3 for example, I think the original game was "complete" and the expansions added enough value that the DLC was warranted and the original game was worth its price and some of the DLC was. But I think EA (in particular), Activision, and Ubi are all getting dollar signs in their eyes now and we are only just seeing the...
@5.3: Set it in the "near future" and that's solved. You can knock them for lots of stuff but I'm sure Activision has a top notch legal team making that stick when they own the freaking studio may be kind of hard... ;)
I agree with bubbles, too. Game looks AWESOME. Lead Engineering guy who keeps swearing all the time and jabbers like someone with ADHD on a crack binge is NOT.
Of course they give him the most camera time because people love trashy low-brow crap these days.