The original Xbox innovated in many ways and borrowed in others. It didn't succeed as Microsoft had hoped, but did it completely fail.
Despite its flaws, and the mistakes made by this large company attempting to claw its way into the games space, the original Xbox made a huge difference to gaming.
By the end of its life in late 2005, it had set the stage for the gaming world we know today. Xbox changed gamers' expectations, technology's standards, and the future of other hardware companies' console ideals. Here are ten ways the original Xbox changed the world.
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 $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.
I approve of this god damn message.
Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.
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Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.
There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.
Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.
Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.
This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.
Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One
Lol half of em werent even introduced by M$. Thank you for dlc. Nickel and diming should have been on that list. 10 years of screwing over the gamer.
I thought gifts were supposed to be free? Alot of these you get after being charged, which sucks. Games is what I'll thank Microsoft for, some great ones. Everything else on that list.. not so much. Parental control? I've had that since my NES. It's called parents who actually parent.
Most were on PC but MS did a great job bringing them to consoles.
MS had some pretty forward features last gen and they tried pretty valiantly to push some great features.
I remember hearing about the HDD and streaming music from a friend back in the day and wondering how to do that with my PS2. The idea was foreign to me, yet today it's something standard.
It's ironic how much they traded spots with Sony this gen when it came to making the console
PS 2 had Hard drive storage and online capabilities shown in the early 2000's well before Xbox was on the assembly line.
The Xbox did it right though, but didn't introduce it, lol. nor is it a gift. it's just there, it was there waiting for someone to do it right and that is what Microsoft did.
The Hi-Def argument is poo. PC was doing Hi-Def for gaming again, before Xbox came out.
Downloaded content, from what I can tell is just a scam. But love it or hate it once in awhile there is a piece of "DLC" that you just can't ignore. I don't know if MS pioneered this, but I'd go out on a limb and guess that Steam or PC introduced DLC. Modern Gaming has been around quite awhile, before PS3 or Xbox 360 or even the Xbox. The Xbox took what PC had and simplified it. That's all I can see.
Their, Microsoft's ability to draw in a community is what I'd more or less call their number 1 gift to "modern gaming"
*Before reading the top ten list*
I count Halo and Xbox Live. That's two...
*After reading the first five*
Alright, I'll give them Hard Drive, Downloads and Firmware updates...
*Laughs hysterically at page two*
Made Microsoft a player? Really IGN? Isn't that a bit, idk, trivially obvious?
It's like saying: "And the gift the N64 gave to gaming is... it kept Nintendo from going under..."