I could be mistaken, so many things were thrown around, but I coulda swore I saw the same thing on their site.
no clue i never saw anything on their website about it, just a picture with the xbox logo on it that had some bullet points and someone wrote their own comments about each one on the image.
if that came from their website then lol nevermind, had no clue, hence the 1%. every link to that image was to some imageshack link or something.
How is that bad? Its basically like giving soemone you all family even ont he other side of the world a demo of the game which would be better than an actual demo.. where is the problem with this, its an awesome idea?
Your actual family who is physically able to access your xbox could play the full game. So its the same as now execpt you can't give friends or family a 45 min blat on a game they are curious about from their own homes.
I could be mistaken, so many things were thrown around, but I coulda swore I saw the same thing on their site.
Actually I didn't know that, but I guess I should have.
How is that bad? Its basically like giving soemone you all family even ont he other side of the world a demo of the game which would be better than an actual demo.. where is the problem with this, its an awesome idea?
Your actual family who is physically able to access your xbox could play the full game. So its the same as now execpt you can't give friends or family a 45 min blat on a game they are curious about from their own homes.
No, it's a stupid idea. If companies want to release time limited demos, they can do that right now. It's a bullshit idea.
MS was using double speak; your family can "check out" your games. We thought it meant like a library, what MS actually meant was "hey, check out this game."
I'm pretty sure the Jimmy Fallon quip was the final straw.
you can still play games off the hard drive, just download them.
you can play your games on any xbox any time as long as you are on your account and are digital downloads.
instead of selling digital versions of a game, to specific retailers that participate and set the programs, we can now sell our disc based games, to anyone, and also rent them.
family sharing is the only thing that is gone.
As I saw pointed out elsewhere, the information was in front of us, we just didn't put it together. At one point a statement by an MS employee indicated that if you went to a friend's house, you could log in with your account and play the game just as if you were at home. But that after you left your friend's house, they could only play for an hour.
That's pretty much exactly what this "family sharing" revelation sounds like.
The fanboys that were saying they could share their game collections didn't stop to think that sharing your entire library of games with 10 people was never actually going to happen.
Yeah... I told this guy who claims he's not a fanboy the news from the MS employee and he pretty much said he didn't believe it. He also didn't believe me when I told him a lot of XBL is P2P hosting. He pretty much refused that even one game was hosted P2P, and that's why you pay for XBL. Living in serious denial.
That's not a surprise. Duh, the most obvious applications will be the first applications.FYI, it doesn't look like AwesomeCloud is going to be used for anything besides game saves and dedicated servers any time soon
Oh, and this reminds me: I was having a conversation with a local GameStop manager (I know... I had some time to kill), and we were talking about the second screen support on the PS4 and XOne.
I theorized that second screen support would be most useful and popular when:
1. Oriented towards a secondary player who was a casual or non-gamer.
2. Had a different experience than the primary player that would directly and immediately benefit them
3. Immediate drop-in and drop-out so that the secondary player was not chained to the primary player
4. Not necessary to core gameplay, yet valuable enough for the primary player to promote it
5. Needs to actually be fun for the second player (ie, a good game in and of itself)
Funny as it is, Puzzle Pirates is the model I'm thinking of. You've got these little mini-games, and it's basically drop-in, do some stuff for ten minutes, and then you're free to either play more or not. But to make this work right, you'd really have to have it in mind from the design phase, and not just shoe-horn it in.
I can't read the link at work, but from what the developers have been saying it seems that it really is a good fighting game. It has the campy, goofy stuff of a KI game; it has the cool combos; and it has a skill gap that is easily hidden. Casuals and mashers can score huge combos and do flashy moves, while people actually skilled can do combos optimized for damage. And the neutral game Max talked about sounds amazing, because he was right about KI being terrible at it in the past.
He didn't talk about how strict the inputs were, but I hope they don't include short cuts and keep it Third Strike style.
Between KI and the new Guilty Gear, the FCG should be happy for awhile.
I think they were were looking at Azure/Cloud support to be a further integration with other games similar to how they were implementing it with Forza5. That your 'drivatar' would be uploaded to the cloud and would be used as an online competitor instead of a programmed AI. What if you COD profile would continue to play deathmatch while you were not online? Something along the lines of your virtual self maintaining a similar k/d ratio etc? Or that you could set a farm or craft task that took say 12 hours and it would continue on after you shut off the game? I see this a little in State of Decay on the 360 in that your tired/hurt players heal and day/night cycles continue while you have the game turned off/not logged in.