XMNR: During a Dragon Con panel Friday, Dishonored developers Ricardo Bare and Seth Shain from Arkane Studios joined former Epic Games President Mike Capps, Saints Row IV Creative Director Steve Jaros and Obsidian Entertainment’s Chris Avellone to discuss designing “awesome games.” The five sounded off on the PS4 and Xbox One game development during the discussion with the Arkane developers saying that graphics are no longer the end all and be all for video games.
It’s a shame, really, that so few games have “borrowed” Dishonored’s Blink – in the right hands, such a power could be game-changing.
There was a small game called Aragami that “borrowed” the blink, that was a good game.
Unfortunately I heard the sequel wasn’t good so I stayed away from trying it out.
The sequel changed some of the mechanics from the first game but it was still a very polished and enjoyable experience. You should definitely give it a shot sometime. The game's currently on sale on Steam
Okay thanks for the heads up, will look out for it being on sale one day.
I really did like the first and played it back to back as soon as I finished the first play through.
Remember this year's Saints Row(opens in new tab)? Volition would probably prefer that you didn't, which might go some way to explaining why the studio recently decided to upgrade everyone's copy of Saints Row 4(opens in new tab) to its full-fat Re-elected Edition, containing all the game's story and cosmetic DLC and even introducing cross-play between Steam, Epic, and GOG versions of the game.
Unfortunately, that upgrade seems to have backfired, and players now report a myriad of bugs with their new version of SR4. Both the Saints Row Steam forums(opens in new tab) and subreddit(opens in new tab) are filled with players complaining of broken saves, crashes, and mods failing to function. It's also received a few hundred negative Steam reviews(opens in new tab) since the update. If it's succeeded in washing the taste of Saints Row (2022) out of players' mouths, it's only because it tastes even worse.
I wonder if Volition's getting reorged under Gearbox impacted the quality of their release.
Dishonored's engaging lore, creative levels, and timeless gameplay are well worth revisiting for fans of the immersive sim and stealth genre.
I really don't like the music comparison when discussing digital games... its two completely different scenarios... Most people have hundreds of songs some thousands.. its much easier and convienent to store, access, and take that much content with you digitally... Games are products we sit for hours in one place and enjoy, digital doesn't offer much incentive in this environment.. If digital games were significantly cheaper cthen digital would have an advantage...
I think the way forward on next gen isn't only interactivity, although it is important from a gameplay point, being able to interact with the environment in new and interesting ways. I think its fair to say we want fidelity and better graphics too.
I mean COD has always had great graphics, but everybody wants big and noticeable improvements on next gen. Thats why some gamers aren't too pleased with COD this year, because its not on the same par with other next gen titles, in the graphics department. But as IW said themselves it's pretty awkward to make that huge leap with their first attempt. So I reckon after Ghosts they'll pour all their resources into next gen and we'll see a huge improvement with their next COD.
' both Jaros and Capps expressed disappointment with Microsoft’s decision to roll back the initial DRM and sharing plans for the Xbox One. '
“Some of the things that Microsoft was going to try, while very unpopular obviously on the internet, nobody hits up Steam for not letting you resell your codes that you buy on Steam,” he added before bringing up the digital transition of the music industry.
I do think its a shame as well but the always-on element of it really was too much. Lets hope a digital future will be realised one day, when gamers are ready for it. Hopefully the industry can transition console gamers into it more smoothly.
The problem with MS's plans where that it wasn't an all digital console. If it was then distributed through physical copies wouldn't be needed. What MS tried to do was to control/limit the way physical content works today by converting a physical licence into a digital one which in turn meant they could control/limit how you resell or trade your physical games. Hell with their plan game renting was pretty much dead. The problem here is that they tried to attack physical copies and added "bonuses" like family sharing, no disc swapping, etc to try and cover up what they were doing.
But if you look at it closely you will see all these features can be done with digital content today as they have shown as already and family sharing may come back someday.
What they should have done is either launch the Xbox one with no disc drive meaning it's all digital or launched it with an option of physical and digital like they are doing now after the 180s.
The video game industry is full of too many fanboys, too many wanna be tech people who don't have a clue, and just too many living at home with mommy in the basement gamers. It pains me when all these fanboys were compaining about Microsoft when it was all based on a biased attitude instead of objective thinking. No one gave Microsoft the benefit of the doubt and no one even took the time to question Sony or realize Sony was going to do the same thing but turned their back at last minute just to make Microsoft look bad..... and it worked- again, gamers are like sheep and Sony played it to a tee.
Gamers think playing games and spending all of their money on building a PC for games makes them a computer engineer/ game designer! Wow! They run around and use misleading terms or benchmarks such as 60fps as the gold standard when it's nothing more then a determining factor on looks, whether a game looks cinematic or video broadcast resolution.
I could go on but hopefully some of you get the point. To you guys who are truly gamers because you love video games, I consider you brethren, but you guys who act like Sony or Microsoft actually cares about you personally and you receive checks in the mail for sleeping with your Xbox of Playstation, don't use protection the next time you make love to your systems- hopefully the shock will cause your nutz to burn off and you'll have something more important then gaming as part of your life.