CES 2007, Live Anywhere Demo, including Xbox 360 vs. PC play.
Lately, a number of notorious difficult ARPGs have added difficulty options. Is that a good thing or does it ruin the experience?
As long as it is just an option, it is totally okay, but it's also OKAAAAY! To simply ignore that option.
Long as fromsoft never does it. This was only expected since the soulslike genre is so popular now.
Stuff like this really shows that people completely missed the point of that argument. The argument was never that souls likes shouldn't have a difficulty option. The argument was that if someone makes a game, particularly souls likes, that did not want to include difficulty options, that you should just respect that instead of demanding and berating the developers to add them.
I see the lack of difficulty settings as one of the key traits that defines a Soulslike. It’s not just about being challenging. It’s about how the game is built around that challenge, expecting you to learn through failure and grow by mastering its systems. Once you introduce difficulty options, you’re changing that foundation. You’re giving players a way around the intended experience, actually you are killing the whole idea of a "intended experience".
That doesn’t make the game worse, necessarily, but at that point, it’s just not a Soulslike anymore. It's a action RPG.
The Soulslike genre is a lot more than just 'hard' games. There is so much more to it than that.
In most cases, for a genre to be successful, there must be multiple entries in that genre from different franchises, some easier and some more difficult. The Soulslike genre has grown impressively well so far with most of the games being on the difficult end of the scale.
The other aspect to consider is WHAT makes Soulslike games hard. In the best examples, it isn't just because the bosses and enemies are engineered to be difficult, but because the entire gameplay (from the hard-to-master combat, to the labyrinthine levels, to the additional punishment for dying) is geared towards creating a world that seems to be trying to prevent you from making progress. Beating a boss isn't the only thing that makes you feel as though you've progressed in a Soulslike - finding a shortcut, a particular item, or learning how to defeat a particular enemy type are all forms of progression.
An 'easier' game can still exist with all those elements.
The new trailer has dropped and looks interesting.
Have to say....the more I see of this game the less impressed i am unfortunately. The reveal trailer had me so interested, but the last 2 looks at the game have been underwhelming.
Looking really good.
For some reason this game is giving me serious Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain vibes.
Definitely interested.
Gun X is available now for Meta Quest, and while it may seem it's a game for gun nuts only, this review reveals there's more to it.
I can't believe how simple it is. This is really going to grow the XBL community and will push developers to creatively think about ways to integrate the PC and console communities. LIVE Anywhere only makes sense and it's only on Vista and the 360!
Wow.. thats awesome.. seriously this should be the top story. Finally after decades of PC and Console gamers being at eachothers throats.. we can now play together. Tell me this isnt amazing? And this will grow LIVE to amazing levels... simply with the LIVE arcade games... looks like achievements and everything will work on the PC..
This just shows the PC to console functionality. Just wait for MS to get the cell phones lit up on Live also. Now tell me that this is not worth paying a little less than 1 dollar a week for. This is that type of thing you will not get with a free network. They might be able to pull off the PC to Console multiplay connection, but to have it all intergrated in this manner...not a chance. The rest of you non-Live gamers enjoy your free second rate mashup solutions.
Let's hope we get the whole xbox live experience on vista including demo and movie/tv show download. IPTV would be sweet also. The ability to stream the downloaded movies/tv shows to the 360 would also make the need for a bigger hard drive on the 360 unnecessary.