After receiving countless entries for our Daily Reaction giveaway, we narrowed it down to a handful of our favorites, and chose one topic that will take away the grand-prize of a $20 PSN code. Terrell Smith asks – what will happen to the PlayStation Network as we move toward Sony’s next console, the PS4? With that, the Daily Reaction crew of Seb and Dan discuss what the future may hold for Sony’s online network, and just what are the problems we could see as we move forward.
It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.
The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.
Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."
1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.
If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).
Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.
Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.
@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.
I approve of this god damn message.
Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.
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Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.
There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.
Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.
Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.
This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.
Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One
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For the better.
Hopefully they'll maintain what they're doing already. PlayStation Plus is kicka** and the PSN works well enough for free. Just a few tweaks and they'll have an amazing platform.
My (probably ambitious) predictions:
What they should do/add:
There's just no way they can take the importance of social gaming/online for granted next gen, after Xbox Live seems to have sealed that aspect of console gaming up this gen.
- Gaikai for PS1, PS2 and PS3 games (solves backwards compatibility if absent). Instant streaming of demos, and full games as part of PS+.
- Due to increased RAM, multiple background tasks such as actively pausing the game, and opening web content in a (vastly updated?) browser. Basically, beging able to do anything in the PS4 OS whilst a game is paused, without having to exit the game.
- Modern interface, possibly a modernized version of XMB - not flashy but classy.
- Revamped social features including PSN profile integration, auto-synching trophies, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. There's rumours of Sony building a social network type thing, who knows...
- The rumored 15-minute gameplay recording could play a large role in social gaming. Streaming your gameing sessions to friends, uploading to YouTube, Facebook etc.
- PS+ expansion with new features such as cross-game chat, although I think these will be free network features, just like on Vita.
- Vita integration in some form. Remote play for every PS4 game perhaps, from the get-go?
- More Cloud wizardry!
- No damn installs for downloaded content (that's a personal request).
- Kick SCEE up the arse in regards to the PS Store.
What I don't see them changing:
- Free basic online play, because regardless of what people seem to think, they don't need to charge for it when PS+ exists and is growing popular.
I would like to see:
Improved trophy list- Like steam acheivements where they show your progress to getting the trophy.
Improved browser.
Cross game chat using skype and more integrated social feature.
Gaikai for PS1-PS3 games but with PS3 backward compatibility as well.
More involved cloud features.