If you thought your only chance of getting your indie game out to the console community was with Microsoft's XNA Studio Express, you're dead wrong. It only took less than half a year and Nintendo is already opening up its doors for game designers worldwide. If you want to expose your game to Wii gamers, the Wii Software suite is the perfect opportunity to do so.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.
It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny
Armored Core VI?
Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.
Is something big coming soon to branch the story?
No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).
but there will really be no comparison. The 360 has the best (easiest) dev tools out there. And when people say that wii games cost less to produce, it's just because most wii games are crap. If devs were to make games that looked exactly the same on both systems, they would spend less money on the 360 version.
Being a parent and spouse, I don't always have time to play a lot. So, I'm all for some casual games but I hope that indie studios and the big studios don't just throw out a bunch of crap just to make a quick buck. Good thing there are games sites that review all of that junk. I'm hoping for a few cool games like some of the ones that have surfaced on xbox live (e.g. Geometry Wars)