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07/10/09
No achievements :(
Unfortunately, don't think I'll be buying it again just for that.
Great game though.
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We often hear about how developers want to bring their games to Xbox Live. Meanwhile, Sony's online-division actually worked together with PopCap not long ago to bring some of their games to the PSN. Yet here we are again, with them just mentioning Xbox Live.
I find it curious, and I wonder if there's something about Sony's store-policy that is directly off-putting and makes developers shy away from porting it there.
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That is why the PSN is free.
I could be wrong, memory is a bit hazy at the moment.
07/10/09
Yeah, but the cost is pretty damn small. I remember a few publsihers being up in arms about it, and then after hearing about how much it was costing them, it made me see them a money-grubbing penny-pinchers.
I remember thinking the company that was complaining could have easily covered the cost by simply charging $10.25 instead of $9.99, and their game was about a Gig in size - PopCap games should cost a whole hell of a lot less to upload.
I think this is more an issue of exposure. Everyone knows what XBLA is. It's become a generic term for 'Online Video Game Service', in much the same way that Band-Aid has become a generic term for adhesive strip.
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That would be so amazing. I'd play it everywhere - during a business meeting, in the loo, while driving...
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Of course, they could probably just switch that to autocollector or have a wider cursor for collection, so maybe it'd work out with some smart changes.
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LB - shifts seed highlight left
RB - shifts seed highlight right
A - plants highlighted seed
B - shovel
Left analog stick - move cursor
RT - cursor speed
D-pad - move cursor
With the cursor automatically picking up coins and shines when passed over, I believe such a scheme would work. Remember Plants vs. Zombies is hardly a demanding game, so I don't think the mouse beats controller argument weighs too heavily on such a console port in this case.
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Of course, your setup there sounds pretty good, and the lack of lag that I have on my cruddy computer would probably help as well for making a console port as easy to handle.
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Dead Space: Extraction will probably be on it, if only because rail shooters are very NGF, "non-gamer friendly".
They're easy to jump into for a bit of 2-player fun, and easy to explain: "Move pointer on stuff, shoot stuff. If it moves, shoot. If it's red, shoot and watch it explode."
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I can't recall ANY rail shooters being released in recent memory... aside from... Sin and Punishment for the VC? (Awesome game)
03/15/09
The sad thing is that, although the Wii's control makes shooting games a lot of fun and much cheaper and easier to access, because it calibrates to the sensor bar instead of the screen, hardcore light gun fans aren't going to get as much out of the console as they would with a GUNCON or something like that. Hopefully it will bring light-gun games out of the niche, though, there's always been a lot of cenematic potential in them.
Personally, I have nothing *against* light-gun games, but there's something about being able to control your character that you can't replace. For example, in RE4, the Oven Man actually spooked me, *because* I was just wandering around when it popped out. In a rails-shooter, even if they don't give it away before it happens, they still have to have the enemy spawn far enough away that you don't instantly take damage, which takes away fear. The entire premise of a rails shooter also requires enemies to almost constantly be on screen, which takes away any ability to give a haunting atmosphere; or even survival horror in general. Of course, rail shooters work better when they're iiiiin spaaaaaaaace or police drama, but overwhelmingly the Wii's shooters are horror titles.
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Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the Wii, but how does that sound like a good idea whatsoever?
Dead Space's scares were already pretty predictable when you were controlling where you go and how fast you did it, but on rails?
When they announced a Dead Space prequel I was overwhelmed with excitement, I almost ran out and bought a Wii right then. Hope it turns out well though.
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03/14/09
Considering they've released almost no gameplay information on this game other than a vague description of the type, I'm going to wait and see what they have planned.
It seems like everyone is piling on the "OMG RAIL SHOOTER LOLZ" bandwagon without waiting for any sort of concrete details about it.
For all we know, they are trying something really fun and interesting which will advance the genre forward.
03/14/09
They call them First Person Shooters.
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Honestly, the idea of a long light-gun shooter based around horror actually gives them more freedom during story sequences and set pieces. Instead of being during a cut scene, it would actually be entirely possible to have you still able to shoot and change something during a story part while the actual set piece is happening. It'd definitely be a jump forward.
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@ericweber: Half-life 2
@HELLSRIDER is trying to get a job: Start at, it was a joke.
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Wait a minute, no I'm not.
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Wait a minute, no I'm not.
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Fail.
At least his comment was funny.
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I suggest that you're playing favourites, good sir. = (