SmartGlass is a cool technology, but it won't be available to the smaller publishers who've helped turn the Xbox platform into a home for innovative indie games.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.
It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny
Armored Core VI?
Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.
Is something big coming soon to branch the story?
No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).
I'm glad SmartGlass wasn't around when GTA IV launched. Can you imagine? Your actual phone "ringing", you answer it and on the other end you hear "Niko, it's your cousin! You want to go see some titties?"
On the plus side, if they implemented some basic voice and word recognition then you could tell Roman to screw off cause you're busy being riddled by police bullets.
Actually not a bad idea come to think of it
Sucks. In Australia we don't get the 'indie' games. Hopefully next gen Microsoft stop giving the US and UK everything. I'm talking about all the sales and specials and what not.
Australia always gets shafted.
XNA was also supposed to help the development between the PC and X-Box to be smoother. Any X box games made with the XNA should be able to be ported to the PC with little hassle and vice versa. Instead we years of X-Box only XNA indie releases and then we see them struggled to get any recognition when MS put the indie market way deep inside obscure menus of the X-box where no one would think of going and made the certification process a hellish experience. This caused a lot of indie companies to turn to Android and Steam in the last couple of years.
I guess this new announcement is not that surprising since the indie game makers have served their purpose and the rest, who still believe that MS might give them another chance, are harshly shown the the exit.
unless ur phone/tablet is docked & used as a real time map or inventory setup screen, i think it would be a bit distracting.. putting the controller down just to grab something else for a few seconds n putting it back down to grab the controller again doesnt seem fun.. Thats just me tho..
I have 3DS/DS & played many games with em & its annoying when your forced to use the touchscreen then go back to playing.. & the 2nd screen on there is in field of view.. I cant imagine it being separated & being better.. Even owning a vita, i wont use it as a method of control w a 2nd screen for my games.. Unless its something casual, i dont plan on using it for anything other than HUDs or inventory..