They key is, if you run malicious software, the malicious software owns your computer. Period. There are ways to get around this, of course, but anything that has any sort of startup or auto-run format, and allows software to be installed on the system is not "internet ready"
Sorry to "me too", but I'm going to repeat something you said, because it bears repeating. In big, bold, capital, letters.
MUCH LARGER GAME LIBRARIES AND USER BASES.
Sony assumes that because the PS2 had the largest game library, the PS3 will have the largest game library. This is not true. The game library will go to the machine that has the largest user base, for obvious economic reasons.
If the PS3 jumps out of the gate to a lackluster reaction, barring uber-killer aps (Meaning beyond Halo level), they should expect similar 3rd-party support to what the GameCube received, if that much.
I hear a lot of talk about price cuts in 2008 and things like that...each of the three companies don't have this long. This is a drag race, not a marathon.
Actually I quit FFXI for the EXACT same reason, the inability to alt-tab. There was just something about it that made the game feel sufficating.
I currently play Guild Wars, mostly for the PvP aspects. I'm in a good PvP guild, Emergency Exit [EXIT] ftw, with some good players and good personalities.
The Factions PvE content, there's a bit less than in Prophecies, but what's there is WAY more developed and interesting.
As a matter of fact....yes I have.
When I first played the NES, I was playing Kid Icarus. I was about halfway through the second stage, when I literally dropped the entire console. The game messed up, but I kept going. I eventually died, however, when I put the console back up and started playing again, I was on the third stage.
How easily can it be completly removed? I think that's the big question when it comes to spyware designations or not. It actually doesn't concern myself if a program brings pop-up ads or things like that, as long as it clearly identifies itself as such, and easily allows me to remove the offending software.
Quite frankly, the only real security laxes that Microsoft has had over the last few years (after the OE preview patch, and limiting ActiveX componenets), were the Sasser/Blaster type things, I blame the IT people who ASKED for those services (the ability to run code remotely) to be included.
What people don't realize, is that once you run a malicious program on your computer, it doesn't matter what OS you're using. It can get its grips and do what it wants into anything. Short of running your OS off a read-only image, that is. (Which really isn't a bad idea)
Re: #4. "More money" is the last thing you want when it comes to screenwriting. More money usually means script doctors and other people coming in. In other words, writing by comittee. This is actually the problem with most bad movies.
It's about min-maxxing. It's about coming up with the best variety of skills, and using the strategy to beat the baddies. There are a couple of facets to jRPG gameplay. (Not just Final Fantasy, but everything in general)
#1. Setting up your characters in the right way for the situation at hand. Practically every jRPG since..FFV? Has featured some sort of ultra-involved and flexible character setup. Limiting it to FF series alone..it's about having the right Jobs, having the right Espers, having the right Materia, having the right Junctions, having the right Abilities, or having the right Gambits equipped.
#2. It's about the strategy and timing of the battle. Should you heal or attack? Buff or Defend? In some FF games, X in particular, it's about party formation and speed stats relative to the enemy. Fun stuff.
#3. The rapid advancedment of your average jRPG is fun. Very fun in my mind.
Actually they striped out a nationalistic PoV from the book, and replaced it with an anti-nationalistic PoV.
Book:Power-Armorded supermen, highly-trained and expected to come back alive.
Movie:Cannon fodder.
It was very campy. But it's one of the best camp movies ever made.
Actually, by those numbers they roughly should expect at the very least a 10% decline. And if they were being reasonable, then you could roughly expect about 19%.
James Cameron is actually working on developing technology to defeat the frame rate problem. Faster recording cameras (I believe 120FPS), and better projection technology, blah blah blah.
The problem is the people buying the games. The video game industry doesn't stifle creativity , in fact, the gaming industry tries to forcefeed creativity in a lot of ways. But the mainstream buying public doesn't want any of that.
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With the exception of Civilization, none of the games you mentioned feature the min-maxxing gameplay that the readership of Famitsu tends to go gaga over.
On Friday there was a major update, including a new spawn that dropped a new weapon. On Saturday, in a major dungeon, I spent about 80 minutes playing through with a team. I traded the drop I recieved at the end of the dungeon for that new staff Sunday morning. total grind time, about 90 minutes.
No, what I'm saying is that in the OP, the games mentioned are NOT what you consider to be "innovation" either. Like I mentioned. I just didn't enjoy SotC, or Ico for that matter..they're great games. Just not my taste. (As well is Final Fantasy Tactics, or the various stealth games. Not my cup of tea)
Exit? How about Sink or Swim actually originally a DOS/Amiga game apparently, or S.O.S, also for the SNES. Both feature puzzle-platforming gameplay where the goal is to rescure a group of people. Exit without a doubt is done better than those games. But that's not the point.
I have Amplitude as well, and love it. But from the videos I've seen of Guitar Hero, it should be fairly easy to pick up...the GUI of the basic gameplay looks similar. Does the guitar controller change things? Without a doubt. But it doesn't make it a completly new genre. I still desperatly want the game however.
Lumines is amazing. Way better than Tetris. But it's still a block dropper. (Meteos is MUCH better however)
Psychonauts again, is amazing. I suspect however, if the Meat Circus stage was at the beginning of the game, and not the end, our view of the game might be a bit different. For some reason that stage was awfully poorly designed, especially one certain boss that had awful hit detection...then the rest of the bosses are easy as pie.
Okami...I'm a Clover Studios fanboy. What can I say?
What I'm saying is that electronic games that create new genres are VERY rare for such a mature industry, and if you include other forms of media, probably don't exist. And when they do, they're blatently obvious. The two that come to mind are the 3-d platformer, and the empire building sim (which had been attempted in board-game form) .
I'm just tired of people being predictable by trying to be "independent". The gaming industry, as it stands is pretty damn good in the signal-to-noise ratio. The Half-Life2s are JUST as innovative as the Psychonauts are JUST as innovative as the various Final Fantasy games are.
Psychonauts is a very well made platformer. Guitar Hero is a sequal of sorts to Frequency and Amplitude. Shadow of the Colossus is a rather vapid platformer. Tramua Center is Operation:The Video Game, Exit..there was a very similar SNES game I remember. Gemoetry Wars is a Robotron clone. Lumines is a block dropper (I.E Tetris), Okami is Zelda-like.
All of those things are based on existing games and genres. Sure, most are great (yeah..even SotC is great. I just think that design them makes games that are better to look at than they are to play). They all have different twists and great executions.
Compared to the other games you mention...well...Madden is just football. But they do try something new every year. Have to give them credit for that. It doesn't always WORK......but whatever. Half-Life 2 introduced a physics playground into a FPS. Every Final Fantasy game with the exception of 1 and 4, and 3,5,X-2 and11, runs some sort of interesting system in order to gain power. (In the latter case, the job system is actually so good that I personally don't mind that they reused it.)
Gaming does not run on revolutions.* In fact, nothing in culture does. We all build on the back of giants. Those that expect that to stop are deluding themselves.
*Even the Revolution will not be a revolution...merely a massive step forward.
Think of controlling...let's just say for common reference point, controlling a Macross style Veritech fighter in robot mode. You can make the robot go in any direction in any time by moving the controller in that direction. This ALONE would actually provide much more control than any other single controller that I've ever seen. Full 3-d axis control. Put on top of that the ability to change the angle of reference by pointing the controller in a different direction.
It would probably be foreign for about..10 minutes? Then it would become comfortable. After a few hours, then it would become natural. After a few days of play, assuming a top-notch level of responsiveness, you'll be amazing yourself with the feats that you can perform.
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They key is, if you run malicious software, the malicious software owns your computer. Period. There are ways to get around this, of course, but anything that has any sort of startup or auto-run format, and allows software to be installed on the system is not "internet ready"
Sorry to "me too", but I'm going to repeat something you said, because it bears repeating. In big, bold, capital, letters.
MUCH LARGER GAME LIBRARIES AND USER BASES.
Sony assumes that because the PS2 had the largest game library, the PS3 will have the largest game library. This is not true. The game library will go to the machine that has the largest user base, for obvious economic reasons.
If the PS3 jumps out of the gate to a lackluster reaction, barring uber-killer aps (Meaning beyond Halo level), they should expect similar 3rd-party support to what the GameCube received, if that much.
I hear a lot of talk about price cuts in 2008 and things like that...each of the three companies don't have this long. This is a drag race, not a marathon.
And Sony is looking to have spun their wheels.
Actually I quit FFXI for the EXACT same reason, the inability to alt-tab. There was just something about it that made the game feel sufficating.
I currently play Guild Wars, mostly for the PvP aspects. I'm in a good PvP guild, Emergency Exit [EXIT] ftw, with some good players and good personalities.
The Factions PvE content, there's a bit less than in Prophecies, but what's there is WAY more developed and interesting.
Actually that's one thing that's bugging me about E3, is that there's nothing by Treasure :(
My laptop (a Toshiba) actually can do that sort of thing.
As a matter of fact....yes I have. When I first played the NES, I was playing Kid Icarus. I was about halfway through the second stage, when I literally dropped the entire console. The game messed up, but I kept going. I eventually died, however, when I put the console back up and started playing again, I was on the third stage.
How easily can it be completly removed? I think that's the big question when it comes to spyware designations or not. It actually doesn't concern myself if a program brings pop-up ads or things like that, as long as it clearly identifies itself as such, and easily allows me to remove the offending software.
Actually, there are OS X botnets as well.
Quite frankly, the only real security laxes that Microsoft has had over the last few years (after the OE preview patch, and limiting ActiveX componenets), were the Sasser/Blaster type things, I blame the IT people who ASKED for those services (the ability to run code remotely) to be included.
What people don't realize, is that once you run a malicious program on your computer, it doesn't matter what OS you're using. It can get its grips and do what it wants into anything. Short of running your OS off a read-only image, that is. (Which really isn't a bad idea)
Winning the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD war is going to involve a lot of blood, a lot of monetary losses, and all that other stuff.
And the winner, when left standing will occupy such a small portion of marketshare that the war won't be worth the fighting.
The audience....is now deaf.
Re: #4. "More money" is the last thing you want when it comes to screenwriting. More money usually means script doctors and other people coming in. In other words, writing by comittee. This is actually the problem with most bad movies.
It's about min-maxxing. It's about coming up with the best variety of skills, and using the strategy to beat the baddies. There are a couple of facets to jRPG gameplay. (Not just Final Fantasy, but everything in general)
#1. Setting up your characters in the right way for the situation at hand. Practically every jRPG since..FFV? Has featured some sort of ultra-involved and flexible character setup. Limiting it to FF series alone..it's about having the right Jobs, having the right Espers, having the right Materia, having the right Junctions, having the right Abilities, or having the right Gambits equipped.
#2. It's about the strategy and timing of the battle. Should you heal or attack? Buff or Defend? In some FF games, X in particular, it's about party formation and speed stats relative to the enemy. Fun stuff.
#3. The rapid advancedment of your average jRPG is fun. Very fun in my mind.
Actually they striped out a nationalistic PoV from the book, and replaced it with an anti-nationalistic PoV. Book:Power-Armorded supermen, highly-trained and expected to come back alive. Movie:Cannon fodder. It was very campy. But it's one of the best camp movies ever made.
One cell phone call. And I go to the movies about 10 times a year.
Actually, by those numbers they roughly should expect at the very least a 10% decline. And if they were being reasonable, then you could roughly expect about 19%.
Which means they're ahead of the game. Congrats!
James Cameron is actually working on developing technology to defeat the frame rate problem. Faster recording cameras (I believe 120FPS), and better projection technology, blah blah blah.
But you're right on the rest.
The problem isn't the industry.
The problem is the people buying the games. The video game industry doesn't stifle creativity , in fact, the gaming industry tries to forcefeed creativity in a lot of ways. But the mainstream buying public doesn't want any of that.
With the exception of Civilization, none of the games you mentioned feature the min-maxxing gameplay that the readership of Famitsu tends to go gaga over.
On Friday there was a major update, including a new spawn that dropped a new weapon. On Saturday, in a major dungeon, I spent about 80 minutes playing through with a team. I traded the drop I recieved at the end of the dungeon for that new staff Sunday morning. total grind time, about 90 minutes.
Of course, the main difference being that Nintendo actually rereleases their old games.
Most of those old games on the ROM CDs, quite frankly, without illegal digital distribution will be lost to the dustbin of history.
No, what I'm saying is that in the OP, the games mentioned are NOT what you consider to be "innovation" either. Like I mentioned. I just didn't enjoy SotC, or Ico for that matter..they're great games. Just not my taste. (As well is Final Fantasy Tactics, or the various stealth games. Not my cup of tea)
Exit? How about Sink or Swim actually originally a DOS/Amiga game apparently, or S.O.S, also for the SNES. Both feature puzzle-platforming gameplay where the goal is to rescure a group of people. Exit without a doubt is done better than those games. But that's not the point.
I have Amplitude as well, and love it. But from the videos I've seen of Guitar Hero, it should be fairly easy to pick up...the GUI of the basic gameplay looks similar. Does the guitar controller change things? Without a doubt. But it doesn't make it a completly new genre. I still desperatly want the game however.
Lumines is amazing. Way better than Tetris. But it's still a block dropper. (Meteos is MUCH better however)
Psychonauts again, is amazing. I suspect however, if the Meat Circus stage was at the beginning of the game, and not the end, our view of the game might be a bit different. For some reason that stage was awfully poorly designed, especially one certain boss that had awful hit detection...then the rest of the bosses are easy as pie.
Okami...I'm a Clover Studios fanboy. What can I say?
What I'm saying is that electronic games that create new genres are VERY rare for such a mature industry, and if you include other forms of media, probably don't exist. And when they do, they're blatently obvious. The two that come to mind are the 3-d platformer, and the empire building sim (which had been attempted in board-game form) .
I'm just tired of people being predictable by trying to be "independent". The gaming industry, as it stands is pretty damn good in the signal-to-noise ratio. The Half-Life2s are JUST as innovative as the Psychonauts are JUST as innovative as the various Final Fantasy games are.
Psychonauts is a very well made platformer. Guitar Hero is a sequal of sorts to Frequency and Amplitude. Shadow of the Colossus is a rather vapid platformer. Tramua Center is Operation:The Video Game, Exit..there was a very similar SNES game I remember. Gemoetry Wars is a Robotron clone. Lumines is a block dropper (I.E Tetris), Okami is Zelda-like.
All of those things are based on existing games and genres. Sure, most are great (yeah..even SotC is great. I just think that design them makes games that are better to look at than they are to play). They all have different twists and great executions.
Compared to the other games you mention...well...Madden is just football. But they do try something new every year. Have to give them credit for that. It doesn't always WORK......but whatever. Half-Life 2 introduced a physics playground into a FPS. Every Final Fantasy game with the exception of 1 and 4, and 3,5,X-2 and11, runs some sort of interesting system in order to gain power. (In the latter case, the job system is actually so good that I personally don't mind that they reused it.)
Gaming does not run on revolutions.* In fact, nothing in culture does. We all build on the back of giants. Those that expect that to stop are deluding themselves.
*Even the Revolution will not be a revolution...merely a massive step forward.
Agreed. But this controller IS the first step.
#1. True 3d control. Not just 360, but 360x360x360. Lateral movement+Depth+angle. This is the Revolution controller.
#2. 3d-imaging. Your standard VR helmet. Look where you want to look, combined with the 3d control.
#3. Full body immersion. Walk in the direction you want to walk, duck, all that stuff. Actually fight in a fighting game.
Both 2 and 3 DO exist, but not at the consumer level, and quite frankly not developed as much as they could be.
Think of controlling...let's just say for common reference point, controlling a Macross style Veritech fighter in robot mode. You can make the robot go in any direction in any time by moving the controller in that direction. This ALONE would actually provide much more control than any other single controller that I've ever seen. Full 3-d axis control. Put on top of that the ability to change the angle of reference by pointing the controller in a different direction. It would probably be foreign for about..10 minutes? Then it would become comfortable. After a few hours, then it would become natural. After a few days of play, assuming a top-notch level of responsiveness, you'll be amazing yourself with the feats that you can perform.
Warcraft 2+3
Diablo 2
Devil May Cry 3
Ratchet and Clank series.
Shadow Hearts 2 (forget the name)
Super Mario World 2:Yoshi's Island
Do I need to continue?