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Gamescom 2013 Discussion - Xbox One Edition
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I haven't played the third yet (although I downloaded it for free on XBL), and the multiplayer in Fable II was pretty bad. Hopefully they do a much better job with this one.
Giving indie developers access to achievements is something I thought they should have been doing when achievements were introduced on the 360... even if it was less than the 200 XBLA get. Getting two free development kits is really nice. I wonder how many devs will qualify?
Mutliplayer is a huge focus for the new Fable. Fable Legacy is like a fantasy L4D. You have 4 heroes and a 5th player can use Smart Glass. The 5th will be pretty much a DM or what they call the villain. He can summon monsters and place traps.
Ryse revised: How Crytek altered combat for the better
Many people really latched onto Ryse: Son of Rome's execution system when Crytek showed off the game at E3 earlier this year – but probably not in the way the developer wanted them to. Ryse's executions, which grant the player various in-game perks – and see protagonist Marius stabbing, gouging, slicing, bashing and otherwise maiming barbarians – are performed via short quick time events. Even though the majority of Ryse's combat has an ebb and flow similar to the Batman Arkham games – flurries of attacks sprinkled with timely parries – many prospective players, myself included, worried about the QTE-infused combat getting stale.
Crytek has responded to those concerns, and the build of Ryse being shown at Gamescom has a significantly altered execution system. Gone are the garish button prompts. Instead, enemies are subtly highlighted with the color of the appropriate button: Yellow for the shieldand blue for the sword (X). By watching Marius' animations and keeping an eye out for each color, I easily slipped into the rhythm of various executions, something I can't say about the E3 build I played in June.
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and blue for the sword (X). By watching Marius' animations and keeping an eye out for each color, I easily slipped into the rhythm of various executions, something I can't say about the E3 build I played in June.Sounds like a nice, small tweak/change, and that it has improved since the E3 build.
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Huhh.... I hope they make a similar game for the Wii U. Seems like it would be a perfect place for it.
Pretty sweet news, if you live in Europe and like the FIFA franchise. It'd be awesome if they did something like this in N. America, though I'm sure it's mainly because Microsoft knows they have a much bigger challenge, selling consoles in Europe, then in the US and Canada.
They aren't even launching in many european countries and the ps4+game is still cheaper.
If they offer europe a free game, they should offer USA as well. This strategy makes no sense to me.
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I'm pretty certain that the free game is for people that preordered the console, only for it not to be released this holiday season in their country. I could be wrong, but that's what I'm getting out of this.
A new trailer/video for Titanfall is up on JoyStiq.com (click here). This is definitely looking like a day one purchase.
I'm not a big fan of the free to play model, but I don't think this sound bad. All characters, for the season, for 20 bucks, and if you spend $40 you get all the characters, additional accessories and costumes, and the 1994 arcade version of the game. Not mentioned in the article is that, although not available at launch, they're working on an online play update for the 1994 arcade version. Also, if you only buy a couple characters, but then decide you want the entire game, you only have to pay what is required to "top off" the game. You'll never pay more then $20 for everything (YouTube Interview w/ Ken Lobb).
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I don't know much about this game, as it really doesn't interest me, what does a "season" mean. Is it a tournament schedule? Does that mean that what you purchase only lasts for the season in which you purchased it?
The game is being broken-up/rolled out in seasons. A second season has already been confirmed for 2014, and will add another 8 characters. I haven't seen anything that says previous characters don't carry over. They're just adding more to the game. The Combo Breaker Pack is the equivalent of a season pass, found in other games, where you pay once, up front, and get access to all the content rolled out during the course of the season.
Perhaps there will be tournament stuff for the season, and when the next season comes they will reset things, but I don't know. I honestly haven't read too much about it. I thought I heard their goal is to have three seasons. That would mean, should you decide to buy everything and when it's all said and done, you'll have spent the price of a regular, retail game. Maybe they hope to go beyond three seasons (I don't know), but there's certainly examples of F2P games out there, that if you want everything, or you want to reach a certain goal in a reasonable amount of time, you'll have ended up spending far more than $60 bucks. It's part of the reason why I don't particularly care for this model. It sounds like they're going about it the right way though.
Perhaps there will be tournament stuff for the season, and when the next season comes they will reset things, but I don't know. I honestly haven't read too much about it. I thought I heard their goal is to have three seasons. That would mean, should you decide to buy everything and when it's all said and done, you'll have spent the price of a regular, retail game. Maybe they hope to go beyond three seasons (I don't know), but there's certainly examples of F2P games out there, that if you want everything, or you want to reach a certain goal in a reasonable amount of time, you'll have ended up spending far more than $60 bucks. It's part of the reason why I don't particularly care for this model. It sounds like they're going about it the right way though.
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That's what I was thinking. Place your bet now on the launch date I'm calling November 5th
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Apparently you can watch the action here:
http://tech.uk.msn.com/features/the-best-of-gamescom-live
http://tech.uk.msn.com/features/the-best-of-gamescom-live
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I hate Major Nelson.
That would an anticlimitic way to announce a release date
Yeah, but no different than Sony's announcement, yesterday.
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This live dealy is pretty lame so far.
Good to know. I've been waiting for devs to fold the GM into the RPG mix again since NWN.
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Yeah, super lame. Shouldn't have wasted my time.
For 90% of it I was eating lunch and just listening to the audio. I'm glad I didn't actually sit through all of that.
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Oh, did they do that Xbox One announcement for today? I thought it was supposed to be starting this afternoon or something.
This isn't a Gamescom story, but the other couple Xbox One threads cover some other specific stuff, and this was more for general discussion during Gamescom, and I didn't want to start a whole new thread for this particular story. Anyway, apparently Microsoft is giving Xbox employees a very limited Edition Xbox One (source w/ photos). I think it looks better white... though it's a little weird with the Kinect only having white sides.
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I think it looks better with the white color too. Honestly, though, the color isn't the BIGGEST problem with the appearance of the Xbox One, although it does make it look less like a VCR.