You do know that achievements are mandatory on the 360 correct? Considering the 360 has around a 55% market share of 3rd party sales, it doesn't seem like developers mind them. If they don't mind its mandatory, why should the consumer?
I enjoyed the good ol' days just as much as the next guy, but having something tangible for my accomplishments even if only to highlight my gaming habbits just adds that much more to the experience. Oh, and did I say unlimited instant SD/HD streaming for 9 bucks from Netflix on my 360 was awesome?
I know this is a Sony article and we xbots aren't supposed to post here, but I think Sony deciding to make it mandatory is the smartest thing they've done with the PS3. I'm not going to go into a long list of why I think its smart because I right now don't have any time to. Some of the games have crappy achievements (F.E.A.R, was terrible) while some had great ones ( Mass Effect). A lot of people I know who own a 360 love them, I've never heard one 360 owners say they don't like them. Some people don't care for them so much, but how can having a feature that you can literally ignore if you don't like it be a bad thing? Its not hurting the gameplay experience if there are achievements that you could care less about.
Anyway, good for Sony. I might actually consider getting a PS3 now.
Oh, and do you think developers really care all that much that they have to incorporate them? They've been doing it for 3 years now and most likely multiplat games will have the same achievements/trophies. Hell, some developers make some really clever achievements. Some have even had contests where fans got to choose some of the achievements. Achievement points can even be selling points for games if the reviews say they have good achievements. I can think of no reason why trophies are a bad thing.
I think more people are just kinda feeling like Sony is ripping MS off a bit and they don't want to feel like they are basically getting a 360 feature on their PS3. If trophies were around from the beginning I'm sure all the Sony fans would like them just like we xbots like our achievements.
Are they going to have point totals like achivements that would add to your ovverall total, or are they just game specific and don't tie to any total number? That would be lame if it was that way.
Ok, so maybe I had a bit more time than I though... ^^
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That's what the story said, the cost and risk of modifying that for only a portion of Halo players isn't worth it.
Yeah, I installed Halo 3 last night so I'll make sure I go ahead and delete it. Loads in Halo aren't bad any way and the campaign once the game loads the first level, there's never loading after that (unless you quit and start a different level).
I didn't know about this until reading it today. I do check bungie every friday so I would have found out by then, but you're right Jason, a lot of people won't know and be wondering why they're game is taking so long to load.
I'd guess more like 2-3 years for the next box. Next fall will be Halo Recon, following fall will be Gears 3, following that will be the announcement of the next box coming out the fall of 2011 with Halo 4 being a launch title. Think about the craziness of Halo, then throw in a launch coinciding with the game arguably bigger than anything else. It'll be madness. I also think the next xbox will have full retail games available in both physical and digital forms as standard. It'll launch with all units have a terabyte HDD or bigger as an option. BluRay disc drive for storage purposes only when it comes to gaming (all units would run games right off the HDD as mandatory). It'll also function as a BluRay movie player, although that would be second to its more robust movie download (see: purchase not just rent) service. Just a couple of guesses, and my two cents.
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You do know that achievements are mandatory on the 360 correct? Considering the 360 has around a 55% market share of 3rd party sales, it doesn't seem like developers mind them. If they don't mind its mandatory, why should the consumer?
I enjoyed the good ol' days just as much as the next guy, but having something tangible for my accomplishments even if only to highlight my gaming habbits just adds that much more to the experience. Oh, and did I say unlimited instant SD/HD streaming for 9 bucks from Netflix on my 360 was awesome?
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256mb memory card comes with arcade
refurbished 20gig= like 20 bucks right now.
I know this is a Sony article and we xbots aren't supposed to post here, but I think Sony deciding to make it mandatory is the smartest thing they've done with the PS3. I'm not going to go into a long list of why I think its smart because I right now don't have any time to. Some of the games have crappy achievements (F.E.A.R, was terrible) while some had great ones ( Mass Effect). A lot of people I know who own a 360 love them, I've never heard one 360 owners say they don't like them. Some people don't care for them so much, but how can having a feature that you can literally ignore if you don't like it be a bad thing? Its not hurting the gameplay experience if there are achievements that you could care less about.
Anyway, good for Sony. I might actually consider getting a PS3 now.
Oh, and do you think developers really care all that much that they have to incorporate them? They've been doing it for 3 years now and most likely multiplat games will have the same achievements/trophies. Hell, some developers make some really clever achievements. Some have even had contests where fans got to choose some of the achievements. Achievement points can even be selling points for games if the reviews say they have good achievements. I can think of no reason why trophies are a bad thing.
I think more people are just kinda feeling like Sony is ripping MS off a bit and they don't want to feel like they are basically getting a 360 feature on their PS3. If trophies were around from the beginning I'm sure all the Sony fans would like them just like we xbots like our achievements.
Are they going to have point totals like achivements that would add to your ovverall total, or are they just game specific and don't tie to any total number? That would be lame if it was that way.
Ok, so maybe I had a bit more time than I though... ^^
imding:
That's what the story said, the cost and risk of modifying that for only a portion of Halo players isn't worth it.
Yeah, I installed Halo 3 last night so I'll make sure I go ahead and delete it. Loads in Halo aren't bad any way and the campaign once the game loads the first level, there's never loading after that (unless you quit and start a different level).
I didn't know about this until reading it today. I do check bungie every friday so I would have found out by then, but you're right Jason, a lot of people won't know and be wondering why they're game is taking so long to load.
I'd guess more like 2-3 years for the next box. Next fall will be Halo Recon, following fall will be Gears 3, following that will be the announcement of the next box coming out the fall of 2011 with Halo 4 being a launch title. Think about the craziness of Halo, then throw in a launch coinciding with the game arguably bigger than anything else. It'll be madness. I also think the next xbox will have full retail games available in both physical and digital forms as standard. It'll launch with all units have a terabyte HDD or bigger as an option. BluRay disc drive for storage purposes only when it comes to gaming (all units would run games right off the HDD as mandatory). It'll also function as a BluRay movie player, although that would be second to its more robust movie download (see: purchase not just rent) service. Just a couple of guesses, and my two cents.
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