It's probably just unlocks when X number people do something, they already had lots of stats on how many people had done so many Y things through AC3.
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Whizzo 41,155 posts
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Bremenacht 11,256 posts
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Registered 6 years agoI hope AC4 is an all-in piece of irritating social shit updating everyone with trivial, irritating bollocks every two minutes of play
Bremenacht has found 10 doubloons.
Bremenacht saw a monkey.
Bremenacht has upgraded his cannon.
etc.
It's what people deserve.This post is unsuitable for those with a high rumour-sensitivity.
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FogHeart 716 posts
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Registered 5 years agoWhen I first played Umbrella Chronicles I pressed a button on the Wiimote to reload. It wasn't long before I was giving the wiimote a shake to reload instead. I never expected to go 'the other way'. I think it's because I could keep my finger on the trigger and thumb on the top button the whole time I was playing.
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The best case scenario for this 'Single Connected Player' scheme is that they borrow from Demon's/Dark Souls for concepts. Other players influence the gaming world but you don't interact with them directly. One thing I hope developers will not be afraid of in future will be tweaking the servers every so often to lend variety to the experience. Think of those 'Black World Tendency' days, or how Gearbox tweaked the likelihood of finding specific types of rare loot on specific days. (I think Valve do things with TF, not sure). It means the game you play can behave differently from day to day and feel less 'flat'. -
oceanmotion 13,185 posts
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Registered 10 years agoI would like to see less shite pop up on screen. XP that, unlocked this, found 1/20 useless tat, upgrade available.
For all the effort they put into presentation, they stick that in your face. Keep it clean and offer a simple upgrade menu if you must have all that stuff. You know, like you had before the XP copy carrot system, otherwise people don't play games I'm guessing.
The connected experience they talked about in Watch Dogs sounds interesting, you have a contract but another player is out to get you before you do the job but a bit, never going to happen that well. I know they had something similar in Assassins Creed but that was a game mode pitting players against each other. Whole different thing when single player is involved. Be interesting to see how seamless they make it, could offer good replay value. -
sanctusmortis 8,647 posts
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Registered 7 years agoZack and Wiki was a great demonstration of how pre-MP Wiimote controls sucked. It needed well timed precise motion, and was nigh-on impossible as a result. Sport Resort's Table Tennis the greatest use of the controls Dead Space Extraction a close second (better on more accurate Move though). Motion makes a simple action tiring, which is why devs used it little; a button press/stick twiddle far more useful.
Big article on Techradar today bemoaning the lack of real GPU advancements this year as big 2 announce mid-range rejigs and nowt else. Also decrying Titan as utterly pointless, as 60% of tech for supercomputer use and utterly useless in a commercial machine. That's what I was talking about last week - the next gen consoles make no big leaps as graphically the tech's pretty stagnant right now. MS resultantly pushing CPU not GPU for new Xbox. -
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Registered 6 years agoInfinity Ward Steam Box.
Just to clarify, it's that Piston box with 'Infinity Ward' printed on it. IW Tweeted the pictures. Not exciting really.This post is unsuitable for those with a high rumour-sensitivity.
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sanctusmortis 8,647 posts
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Registered 7 years agoDoes mean more and more devs piling on the idea of a Steam-linked mini PC, though, which is certainly a thing.
New Xbox being shown off behind closed doors this week - leaked conference notes include talks on "Xbox Gold", which is currently the new rumour of an actual release name (possibly alluding to tiers - Gold being the premium box, Silver the base model). All very hushed, maybe leading to a post-GDC reveal. -
sanctusmortis 8,647 posts
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Registered 7 years agoGetting 403'd every time I try add a better link, but if you go to the source on that article it's got better deets. Seem's it normally partners only, but "select media" are invited. Partners for the reveal maybe?
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timetraveler 61 posts
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Dirtbox 73,746 posts
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djronz. 95 posts
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Lol... seeing as you're a time traveller you could go back in time and buy that xbox you're thinking about on launch day!
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CosmicFuzz 18,837 posts
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Vizzini has a gun to their head. Maybe he goes round to the lead developer's house like Sarah Connor in T2.
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crashVoodoo 3,219 posts
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Registered 11 years agoMrTomFTW wrote:
So no more backward compatibility ... again!
They'll admit the x86 architecture was a mistake and go to CELL2.a Nexus a day keeps the apple away
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kalel 76,473 posts
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Ignore me...
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sanctusmortis 8,647 posts
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Registered 7 years agoStill pretty unlikely unless they have one hell of a production ramp up.This post is sponsored by Apple and the iPhone 4S. Think different.
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ecureuil 74,192 posts
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Registered 8 years agoThat's how many they want to ship to stores then, not how many they expect to sell to the consumer? Is that a standard amount?
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sanctusmortis 8,647 posts
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Registered 7 years agoI'd say at a push they might ship 750k a territory a month. That's 13.5 million in 6 months, if they managed such a massive feat, and that's less than their stated goal. It seems ridiculous, unless they already committed to silicon.
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neilka 12,054 posts
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Registered 8 years agovizzini has already preordered 15 million of those.Even the toast is a ghost, and your daddy is in the toast!
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Registered 9 years agoHow under their PS Vita forecasts were they after 6 months?
Edit - google says they projected 16m vita/PSP combined for first year of sales, which they have since revised down to 7million. Combined.
So over 50% less. Given Sony's recent history of clouding sales numbers by combing platform totals maybe that 16m figure is for PS3 and 4 combined.
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sanctusmortis 8,647 posts
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IronGiant 4,133 posts
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Registered 10 years agoThere's too much competition out there now for any console to sell anywhere near the amount that this gen has. I'll undoubtably get a new console but i know lots of other people who are happy paying 69p for games on their phones and tablets, the consoles are relegated to being DVD players.
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Registered 11 years agoHistorically there has always been at least 6 consoles in the market per generation, sometimes a lot more, the difference being they were unique enough to have their niche. This current generation has 9.
The video game crash during the first gen had something like 18.
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sanctusmortis 8,647 posts
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Blow: New Xbox "Not Strictly About Games"
Yoshida: PS4 "more about services than the system"
Anyone else see some cognitive dissonance here? So far the biggest things we've heard about PS4 are the 4K streaming service, social all up in your games, and Gaikai Gaikai Gaikai.
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“To me[,] they talk about a console that is not strictly about games. It’s trying to be the [center] of the living room device, which is fine and maybe it’s the right thing for Microsoft to do
No. No it is not. Not in any way shape or form.
Every time a console manufacturer has tried to be 'the centre of the living room' they have failed.
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