One of the best gaming podcasts not on Giant Bomb, the Idle Thumbs podcast, talked about this in their show this week. There are studies that have shown that people who start to associate doing a task with a reward (games = achievement points) tend to not be interested in/want to do the action when there isn't a reward being offered. But people who don't have the reward (people who play games without achievements, or don't see them as desirable) will continue doing the task longer. The catch is, this behavior is true EVEN IF THE PERSON LIKES THE TASK THEY DO.
Achievements are great in that they can encourage interesting explorations of game types you weren't normally going to find/check out. But the rise of people who won't play games without achievements, or who buy bad games because they have easy achievements, is probably more of a blow to games than it is a good thing.
WAY bigger hard drives, much faster load times, get frame rates locked down (even if it's only locked down to 30 FPS). More color would be great, too. More of a game design thing, but ... just sayin'. Also, if I'm going to have to manage patches and updates and whatnot, expose more of the options. Either make a console or make a PC without a mouse, but this half assed middle ground is getting old.
@DocHaus: I always report the 'fuck u faggot' kids for their trouble. Not only does it feel like the only satisfying response, but if enough people do it the person will learn their lesson (probably the hard way when they get kicked from live).
Further hilarity will ensue when they eventually post to the 360 boards (or any gaming forum) about how they'll sue microsoft for kicking them, despite their clear and repeated violations of the ToS.
97: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (originally Star Fox 64, bad at dates) 98: Pokemon Red and Blue 99: Final Fantasy VIII 00: Skies of Arcadia 01: Silent Hill 2 02: Rez 03: Prince of Persia Sands of Time 04: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 05: Killer7 06: Elite Beat Agents or Final Fantasy XII, 06 kind of sucked for games, neither of these are ones I'd fight too hard for. 07: Portal, though Mass Effect is a close 2nd 08: Fallout 3, Mirrors Edge, and No More Heroes are all strong contenders. Probably Fallout 09: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Game series that exist in this time that I feel bad about not putting on here: the portable Castlevanias, though SotN is the best and came out in 96; (EDIT: I'm an idiot, and SotN is apparently 97, list updated to reflect that) and the Professor Layton games, which are never the best but always awesome.
If you're gaming seriously on a PC, you're probably running Windows 7 anyway. It's a nice operating system, well worth upgrading to. Tested agrees, if you want full on Whiskey justification.
It's still 7 AM in Bombcast land, so I imagine that they're just rolling out of bed. I'd be if you checked back around 10-2 pacific time, you'll get what you're looking for.
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