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Mon Nov 16
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10/26/09
Indeed. I want to see how they compare now. #easports
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10/11/09
Also, it's not talking about "revival"; it's saying "arrival".
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I'd love to see a good NBA sim be created, but I think Basketball is a sport that can only be successful as an arcade-type game.
10/11/09
Even the best shooters in the NBA only make ~50% of their shots.
Honestly, one of the big problems with video game basketball is that players tend to make TOO MANY of their shots. You can routinely shoot like 65% from the field and 95% from the free throw line in any NBA game.
10/11/09
That's what I mean though. If a player makes every shot, which is what would happen if the shot mechanic was player controlled, it wouldn't be true to the sport.
This makes the game pretty random, as you can't really control whether or not your player is going to make a shot or not. It turns into a game of coin flips.
I'm not offering a suggestion to this, as I don't have any sort of brilliant idea, but it just seems like a game you can't really master, because at it's core, it's a series of coin flips.
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The only sort of achievement I can think of that is worse than something like this is: any that involve having the 'most watched' uploaded video clip in your game (for example, Burnout Revenge). Unless you happen to upload the VERY FIRST VIDEO EVER, it's an impossible thing to get, because no-one actually watches those videos. They just click on whatever's already highest-viewed.
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The higher your gamer score the lower you life score.
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Things like this article and Brother's in Arms: HH easy 50 for logging on just seem like an excuse to get people to play the game together, as opposed to the gameplay being great and making them want to play together.
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10/03/09
These sorts of "achievements" though aren't achievements... it's not an achievement for the player to be online while 1000 other people are, that's possibly an achievement for the developer, but that's it.
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I also thinks it's funny when they say they're completionists; you're playing nba live 2k7 for the G, get a life.
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depends what the goal is. no? I could spend alongtime trying to get acheivements, then when a new comsole comes out it doesnt mean anything anymore.
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10/03/09
At best an achievement is nothing more than the game giving an approving ding when you dick around outside of the main objective of a game, as you do things you would more than likely already be able to do anyway.
I guess if this is enough re-playability for you, more power to your enjoyment; but games with real re-playability don't need to rely on such hackneyed devices to coax people into continuing to play and goofing off.
No, a game with real re-playability will stand on its own, and entice players simply by the quality of the experience.
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So, why the hell do people have to sign in within the next 40 minutes? Do the servers for the game go down or something?
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While some achievements are pointless they can also provide other challenges in a game. A lot of the things achievements are for are things that people already did in games. For example in crackdown finding all the agility orbs I remember me and my friend trying to find all the hidden tokens in spider-man 2 on ps2 despite there being no achievement. It just gives you some structure to the rest of the game.
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