It's undeniable that Microsoft's introduction of Achievements into gaming, with the advent of the Xbox 360, has had an impact on the way games are played.
But has this impact been a positive or negative one?
Achievements give us a goal, but can sometimes make us overlook the importance of the journey.
Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.
Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.
The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.
In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.
Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."
"Feminist Whore" lmao
ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.
its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.
ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.
They're not offensive.
And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!
Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.
The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?
I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.
The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
He wants to launch all his projects initially through close beta.
I think their influence has been largely positive, however it has led to some gamers placing a bit too much emphasis on their points accumulation. Not all points are created equal as some take far more work than others.
They do encourage people to look further into a game and it can be nice to feel rewarded by doing a task. But I don't tend to notice unlocked achievements much on 360 as the popup got annoying so I turned it off.
I think their influence has been largely positive, however it has led to some gamers placing a bit too much emphasis on their points accumulation. Not all points are created equal as some take far more work than others.
They do encourage people to look further into a game and it can be nice to feel rewarded by doing a task. But I don't tend to notice unlocked achievements much on 360 as the popup got annoying so I turned it off.