There’s been plenty of buzz today about the unveiling of the Xbox One. Boasting updated hardware, revolutionized Kinect integration, and the ability to become the central entertainment hub for a living room, Microsoft is certainly pushing the envelope on gaming as we know it. They’re not only doing this through raw processing power or ease of use, they’re shaking up one of the cornerstones of gaming: used games.
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
Bad news after bad news
Xbox One should play used games with no restrictions. PERIOD!
There should be an option to fully DL a game to your hard drive or just remove that feature. I have no problems picking up my well toned a$$ and swapping a disc out. Save that switching to an app to game feature for downloaded digital games only.
I loved the features of the X1, I think it would be great to have in my game room since I do not have a cable box in that room but I refuse to give up Gamefly.
Sigh...
Unless of course every game dev and publisher decides to implement DRM for their game. then I will take up the guitar.
Very well put together piece. Definately worth the read.
It puts things into a new light, and shows how this is affecting gamers on more than a financial level along with showing how it can affect the smaller devs/pubs. Some of it is speculation of course, but to me, playing around with industry standards which are good for the gamer is just playing with fire.