GameplayToday discusses why Xbox Live Indie Games should get Achievements, and how it benefits nearly everyone.
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Nah they will be tho look at rscs3 they have psn made in there emulator why not xenia bro?
Booo!! I was hoping that was Rainbow Six: Black Arrow...Boo!! again. I thought this coming to Xbox. I don't even read it I was so excited.
Sure, there was online gaming back in the day but the modern age of online video gaming began almost twenty years ago with Xbox Live 1.0.
Haha. Yep. To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today.
That is arguable seeing as how good similar PC services are these days. The lack of cheaters on console is the closed ecosystem rather than extra effort by MS/Sony
"To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today."
The horrible lag back then was due to peole not having the speeds needed to run games, peoples internet speeds were all over the place. Hacking is as bad today, if not worse than back then. People now have access to sophisticated hacking programmes that were nowhere near as prevalent as they are today. Anticheat software was also available way before Xbox Live and the paid online services became a thing.
I gamed online a lot from 1999 onwards and had great times playing without having issues with people cheating and no one had to pay for an online subscription.
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Yes and No.
1. Indie Games are games that can vary. I mean you have "companies" with just 1 person in it, and that 1 person may not know how to implement them in.
2. They're games that are around 80MSP. I mean how many achievements could be afforded? 1 or 2? Not exactly worth implementing if its just a couple.
3. Achievements are still fun so it "might" be good.
4. I would agree it would boost sales
5. But they're called Indie games for a reason. Yes, they're independent games, but over the years, indie games have gone into the back of peoples minds as "the small games with no achievements"
Its rumored to be included in XNA 4.1 as well as Kinect support. obviously achievements will need to be reviewed if they do this though.
I think they should definitely add achievements. Think about how many Indie games would sell to "achievement whores" knowing they could get achievements for a couple bucks.
The whole point of indie games is that they provide creativity and good gameplay with a limited budget.
I would rather the limited resources are spent on polish and the actual meat of the game rather than something redundant like achievements.
So no, we don't need achievements with indie game unless they are established and the developers feel they can patch it in.
I guess if it helps sales of these games then achievements should definitely be added.