One of our writers explores what achievement systems are doing to gaming culture: the good, the bad, and the unfortunate truth.
"The Game Music Foundation are today very proud and pleased to announce an additional concert, circling back to the roots of Game Muisic Festival in Poland. On April 28th, 2024, the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw will once again become a place to celebrate the art of video game music, featuring scores from The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II." - The Game Music Foundation.
Najam from eXputer writes "It's time fore a new installment in the series, not another pointless remaster."
They are working on something new. Not to be rude but it is impossibility stupid to think ND next major announcement is going to be a remaster or their next Last of Us entry is going to be another remaster.
I think this is in response to them releasing a remaster for the sequel, a game that didn't need a remaster.
Basically a "why did you put out a remaster no one asked for when you have all there options available"
They remaster is to put out something quick while they are deving new stuff. I don't get how people can be so static.
That was a Remake. I guess they could do that to 2, but man…. They should wait a couple generations so it can look like a major upgrade.
The team is sad for losing out on such a great project but celebrates its growth because of spending time on it.
All they had to do was make a basic online mode like their previous games. Instead they wanted more money and choose to go live service which makes games worse in my opinion.
What a waste of time and money, what a shame.
I can't wait for season 2 so they can kill Joel off in the first 2 episodes!! Then it will be just Abby and Ellies revenge plot!
Something is telling me that this won't happen though because it wouldn't make sense, oh wait
Not sure why they didn’t just make Factions 2. There was no need to make it a live service.
TLoU Factions was a great addition such a shame they couldn’t be bothered to remaster that for PS5 considering the crazy high price tag of the remaster of a remaster…
This is something to be celebrated. This studio is smart and they get it, even factions 2 wouldn't've have been worth the time. I am surprised they didn't just remaster the first one though, but actually how popular was Factions?
achievements/trophies can either make or break a game IMO ... gta 5 for instance i absolutely hate the achievements and it ruins an otherwise fun game... mainly the gold mission requirements that annoy me, especially considering i dont think there is a way to even check what the requirements for gold are on the mission the first time you play through without looking up a guide for it online somewhere(i could be wrong about that but i dont think i am)and other games i really enjoy like diablo 3 reaper of souls making you play hardcore and get all the characters to max level gives great length and varied gameplay instead of just maining one character and getting bored of being OP as hell :/
I regret about half of my platinum trophies. Seriously regret. Just not worth it unless you're having fun.
I'm all for the trophies, although a lot can feel like a chore (see: almost all RPG's that require hundreds of hours to get that platinum). The only trophies I flat out refuse to achieve are online-only trophies since they're a bigger chore than anything and just not worth it.
Regarding the article, I still gladly play older games that don't have any achievements. Those are some of the most fun and memorable games there are. And let's not forget the Wii U, which features amazing games that don't have an achievement system
I love the Trophy /achievement systems that both Playstation and Xbox feature for many reasons.
First the Trophies allow me to have proof that I actually finished a game or accomplished a difficult task within the game itself even if I no longer own or play the game I have proof of my video game accomplishments.
Think of all the great Trophies and Achievements that us old school gamers would have amassed after over 30 years of gaming.
I have been a gamer since the Atari2600 days and back then the only way to prove you finished a game was to take a picture.
To be honest I really wish that Nintendo would create their own Trophy system. I would buy a Wii U right now if it had its own trophy system in place.
I like Achievements/Trophies but just do away with the grinding ones and the ridiculous online ones.
Grinding achievements is never fun, it just feels like time wasting, i only get them because i like to fully complete my games.
Ridiculous online ones like GTA 4's Auf Wiedersehen Petrovic are just stupid. Without a team of boosters it is going to take forever to get those types of achievements.
I wouldn't mind if online achievements were done away with completely to be honest, nobody likes doing online achievments really. We play online to just mess about with loads of other online players, we don't want online achievements being a main focus of our online playing time.