Agreed, you get more details on how to make one from wikipedia and it's been shown in many movies.
It's very original, sets it apart from the clones.
Sorry but blame the lawyers, it's a copyright issue.
They couldn't possibly police all the users using copyrighted pictures. By making users take their own pictures, they take themselves out of the equation and if copyrights are broken it will be between the end user and the copyright victim.
Edit: to the disagrees, google "youtube lawsuit". Do you really think a little 8-person development team (Media Molecule) could withstand that kind of pressure?
I believe those are not available anymore because consoles are like mini-computers now and have internet access; it would open too many doors to hackers. Also like others pointed, it would mess with achievements\trophies.
The solution is that each developer can add optional in-game cheats. When you use those cheats, you don't get achievements\trophies. There you go, win-win. A few developers do it but many don't, it's more work for them. Too bad, it offered some replayabilit...
Not at home at the moment, is there a free trial version like most 360 downloads? If so, I'll check it out for sure.
Just to put things in perspective, Valkyria so far sold about 0.14M in Japan out of about 2M PS3 in that region, that's about 1 in 15. Lost Odyssey worldwide sold about 0.77M out of about 20M X360, that's about 1 in 26. So for those saying Valkyria is a flop, than you have to say Lost Odyssey is a flop too.
I rather say that it sold well for a new IP.
Kind of misleading to compare Japanese-only sales of a new IP game on one platform with the sales for a multiplatform game over all Europe and US and based off a well known established IP accompanied on the heel of a blockbuster movie. Really, it's like comparing apples and oranges.
What about you compare the sales of Valkyria in Japan with the sales of a similar new IP game for a similar platform in a similar market. Oh wait, that would actually be fair.
I agree, I would take one or two great endings with great cinematics and with great character and story involvement over several hundreds shallow endings with generic dialog and generic animation.
The solution to his perceived problem is already on the market today. People can buy a PS2 for $129 or a Wii for $249 and soon a 360 arcade for a similar price. That covers your lower price gaming.
On the high-end people can get a PS3 or a 360 Elite. This covers the adults with more money to spend and the crowd that caters to performance and high-end graphics.
So the solution is two-tier gaming. And it's already available today.
I expect the future o...
Well having worked with remote software people in India for a few years, I can say this:
- save money on cheap labor? yes
- hidden costs? yes, delays due to culture (they tend to underestimate times), holes in initial product due to communication gap, and a lot of typos and mislabeled stuff.
The catch is they probably will sell your personal information to marketing partners unless you specifically opt-out which most people don't think of doing.
That pigeon looks pretty smart... he quickly looses interests with yet another generic rythm game.
Gears is a no-brainer, best 360 exclusive game to date.
@5.1, ah I see, kind of sneaky that the site defaults to the "all" setting even when you click on the News tab. You have to select News then News again to filter out rumors.
Personally I think it should be the other way around, rumors should be filtered out by default (meaning default to News tab) unless you expressively select All to see them too.
This is a rumor by their own admission posted in a blog. Isn't this NEWS for gamers?
Please post real news, interviews, previews. Not rumors.
Agreed and you can add to that list a ton of books, movies, TV shows, etc. It's ridiculous to react this way.
You're not missing much. There are many better fighting game out there including the recent Soul Calibur IV. For those that like boxing Fight Night is still better.
Played the demo and it was disappointing.
@7.1, it's simple really, they just down solder the HDMI receptacle on the motherboard. Everything else is the same. Without the HDMI receptacle in place, they can use the old 360 casing.
It was not a perfect game but it was innovative for its time (leaping from body to body, full 3D hand to hand combat within an adventure game, etc.). I remember that the last boss fight was pretty hard too.
I just got my 4th repair back in, I think I got lucky and got the newer motherboard. Cross my fingers that this one will last longer.
I can also confirm that return times are faster.
Still, it shouldn't have happened in the first place. That is why companies have quality control and environmental testing (like accelerated aging), there is no way something of that magnitude was not known at launch unless they bypassed these basics steps.