You Are Lose writes: "Trophies work best for me when either the game itself is not excessively challenging, or when the unlocking of the trophy can be found through a mostly normal play through. For example, Pixeljunk Eden has a trophy for collecting all 5 Spectra in each garden...However, trophies are at their worst when they require you to go far outside the realms of normal activity within a game world. Sure, these types of achievements might be cherished by regular gamers seeking an extreme challenge from their tired old games. But I'm more of a Tourist/Completist, so events that force me outside the normal arc of a game don't interest me much."
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
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.
Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Is the PlayStation 3 retro? This is a surprisingly hard question to answer as the system definitely has the age to be considered retro, having launched in 2006, over 15 years ago now. But with it being home to so many massive games, many of which still hold up today and in fact were released for the PlayStation 4 when that console was released, make the PS3 a retro console that doesn’t feel retro."
Typically, the term retro is given to items which are at least 20 years old (but not yet 40 years old).
Quick google search
No the PS3 is not yet a retro console. But if you're gonna put 1 game from a series in this list, then LBP2 should be there instead of the original, Motorstorm PR is also an overall better game than the 1st game and to put Tools of Destruction over A Crack in Time is a blasphemy when ACiT is the best game in the series.
At least you can level up, 360's achivements are stupid because its just a score no real easy to pick comparisons
On the other hand trophys you can directly see if someone has a Bronze(Mostly Easy) Silver (Harder) Gold (Hardest) Platinum (All Complete)
On Xbox you have too scroll down abunch of scores.
The trophy system is simply better
Im not a fanboy i own both systems PS3 is simply better.
If you think otherwise your delusional or you don't own one.
Definition:
"A trophy is a reward for a specific achievement, and usually afterwards serves as proof of merit."
Trophies are a reward for predefined actions, and the more difficult is the action, the most valuable is the trophy. Trophies are like medals for soldiers, it's a reward we have to deserve it to obtain.
So if you just had to finish a game to obtain all the trophies, as 95% of people finish their games, they would be useless. Then you have to put a challenge to obtain them, something you will have to deserve it. In that case, normal people would forget about it or try it harder, and advanced player will consider it as a goal.
I think trophies and achievements are a way to put casual gamers (in the non-DS / Wii term) to become a little more hardcore, giving them another reason to be addicted to video games. Many of them will not be affected, but some will become future hardcore and better, future trophies / achievements whores.
I don't really care about this kind of stuff but props to sony for integrating this feature since many others seem to be wanting it a lot.
its like a giant mmo that spans dozens of games
:)
I just scanned the article, but was he complaining about having to earn some trophies by doing extra things in games?
Dude, that's fing stupid. Play the game. You'll get some trophies. The "extra" trophies are for the real hardcore people who want those bragging rights and are willing to put in the extra effort.
He sounds like a whiny btch.