The Second Generation of 360 Titles 36
Microsoft has been able to put a very attractive foot forward this E3, with the second generation of their next-gen titles on display. Joystiq has a quick list of new Live Arcade titles we can expect to see soon. Gamespot talks about the big guns, the AAA titles coming for the 360, including LucasArts headliner: Indiana Jones. It's about what you'd expect: "LucasArts has announced that Indiana Jones 2007 will head its E3 line-up this year. The name is provisional at this stage, but it will launch on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and features an original story written under the direction of George Lucas. The game is also a technological collaboration with Industrial Light & Magic, which is based under the same roof as LucasArts. The new adventure will feature locations from around the globe, and Indy will be able to use his fists, whip, and revolver against enemies."
oh my... (Score:3, Insightful)
alas, it seems for those other two boxes i am propbably not buying for quite a while....
Re:oh my... (Score:2)
Get yr games in now MS and Sony, I think it's gonna be a long Winter for you!
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This game could in fact be terrible for Wii. Imagine whipping the controller and not seeing any on screen action until a few seconds later. Or the whip whps the wrong way. Or with not enough force. Etc.
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So you argument boils down to "they could screw up the programming"? Substitute any other system for "Wii" and "pressing a button on" for "whipping" and you get exactly the same argument against another console. Nintendo is not responsible for any idiot programmers other than their own. The Wii remote would
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Don't take it the wrong way, I expect I'll buy a Wii as I have every Nintendo console in the past, I'm just getting tired of all this hype and oohing and aahing :).
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I'm sure the Wii controller will be great when applied well. But a little common sense will tell you it won't work with many types of games. And more importantly, the quality of a game shouldn't have to be dictated by the controller it uses.
Just like graphics shouldn't be the defining aspect of a game, neither should a controller or some other random bit of hardware. Gameplay matte
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Women? (Score:3, Funny)
Nothing about backstabbing, semi-attractive women? No time for love, indeed!
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I mean, they were adventure movies. There is no corresponding game genre for that, is there?
If you're not killing somebody, moving fast, using a ball, or falling off the edge of something, it's not a fun game.
</sarcasm>
Game genres are a scale from First person shooter to Cartoon Golf. It looks something like this:
First person shooter -> First person combat w/o guns -> Third Person Combat -> Plaftorm ->
Re:Women? (Score:2)
Oh, and you left CRPGs and RTS games out of your continuum. And sandbox games. And puzzle games.
Re:Women? (Score:2)
They're slowly becoming a combination of platform/third person combat games.
You're right about the RTS games, But the other types? They're in the vast minority, would wreck my ranting!
Pinball? (Score:2)
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pinball (Score:1, Informative)
How open-ended exactly? (Score:4, Insightful)
"Pixelux Entertainment's Digital Molecular Matter has also been employed, which is a technical way of saying that walls will crumble, glass will shatter, and organic plant life will sway in the game. LucasArts promises that the power of these two consoles has been utilized to offer open-ended and completely destructible environments."
I doubt the environment will be *completely* destructible, but it will be nice if there are some gameplay options that involve multiple paths. While at least one scene trying to outrun a boulder is inevitable, I'd like to see tombs filled with puzzles that can be attacked from any direction. I just have a bad vibe about linear Prince of Persia type gameplay here.
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Am I wrong in thinking that given the last three Star Wars movies that it was Steven Spielberg who made Indiana Jones into what it is? I am willing to grant that George Lucas might have helped make it possible as a producer but that Spielberg did all the directing.
Second is that they talk about so many types of weapons. Indiana Jones is an archelogist. A universty professor. Please tell me they ain't gonna do another Tomb Raider with lots of bad shooter action because guns are "cool".
Be honest, who of you thought that the increased amounts of pointless shooter bits were the most boring in the Tomb Raider games?
But who am I kidding. Indiana Jones has been platformer, a Tomb Raider clone and an adventure. The adventure is the one I loved the most. A lucasarts adventure "Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis".
So offcourse it ain't gonna be anything like that. They might slap the label adventure on it but only if it is certain to drive another nail into the genre's coffin.
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-Rick
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-Rick
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Lucasarts wanted to focus on Star Wars exclusively, and apparently felt that producing adventure games were too cash intensive and earned too little revenue. Seeing as Sierra was one of the most successful game companies in the early micro computer age, I find that hard to believe.
Nowadays, a few adventure games
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-Rick
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Raiders:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0082971/ [imdb.com]
Temple:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0087469/ [imdb.com]
Crusade:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0097576/ [imdb.com]
Frankly I am stunned (Score:2)
Contra (Score:1)
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Therefore I really wouldn't really go on about your memory there champ. It's actually Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select(Optional), Start. I can't have you go back to retro games and wasting hours trying to get the extra lives only to be denied.
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Bah, another FPS (Score:2)
Hyped about Indiana Jones... (Score:2)
What will be interesting for me is to see how the cross platform games compare to one another. In the past, the Xbox version usually received the best score compared to the same game on the GC or PS2, but