What should developers NOT continue doing after this gen?

[noiseredux]

I know I wouldn't have got into videogaming if my first game had been Starcraft instead of Putt-Putt Joins the Parade. Real videogames are often too overwhelming for noobs to enjoy.

I think messageboard posts about "noobs" not being hardcore enough should probably just stay behind when the next gen rolls around.

[Gamerforlife]

No more bloody screens, thank you. Bloody as in blood, not the British slang term.

Agreed, agreed! Thank you!

I'm so sick of the bloody screen. I don't know if the idea is to be more realistic or just to clean up the hud, but I do know that its god damn annoying.

Just give me a freaking health bar. It doesn't have to be big. Even a tiny little percentage in the corner of the screen would be fine.

Bloody screens are a bit silly, but they did a variation of this in Peter Jackson's King Kong that I liked. You take a hit in that game and if it doesn't outright kill you, your vision blurs, the sound gets a bit muted and you can just barely hear the NPC characters screaming your name and freaking out. It worked well because it felt realistic rather than gimmicky. You get attacked by a freaking dinosaur and you're going to get disoriented and you're going to be knocking on death's door and I felt the game portrayed that well

[BoringSupreez]

I know I wouldn't have got into videogaming if my first game had been Starcraft instead of Putt-Putt Joins the Parade. Real videogames are often too overwhelming for noobs to enjoy.

I think messageboard posts about "noobs" not being hardcore enough should probably just stay behind when the next gen rolls around.

By "noob" I just meant someone new to games. I didn't mean it in an insulting way. Basically, I was using noob's original meaning, which used to mean someone who is new to something, rather than someone who is stupid or not "hardcore." Everyone here was a gaming noob once.

[CFFJR]

Everyone here was a gaming noob once.

Man, I've been pro since birth.

[noiseredux]

I think messageboard posts about "noobs" not being hardcore enough should probably just stay behind when the next gen rolls around.

By "noob" I just meant someone new to games. I didn't mean it in an insulting way. Basically, I was using noob's original meaning, which used to mean someone who is new to something, rather than someone who is stupid or not "hardcore." Everyone here was a gaming noob once.[/quote]

I actually think I read your post backwards -- you were saying you were GLAD that you played the "casual" game before the "hardcore" game? I misunderstood that. Gotcha now.

[isiolia]

By "noob" I just meant someone new to games. I didn't mean it in an insulting way. Basically, I was using noob's original meaning, which used to mean someone who is new to something, rather than someone who is stupid or not "hardcore." Everyone here was a gaming noob once.

Maybe I'm off, but I was always under the impression that the spelling when you intended that meaning was "newb", whereas "noob" is the derogatory spelling.

[saturnfan]

I felt there were not enough console exclusives, particularly between Xbox and PS3. I would like to see those two systems have more unique content in their eventual new systems.

[BoringSupreez]

I felt there were not enough console exclusives, particularly between Xbox and PS3. I would like to see those two systems have more unique content in their eventual new systems.

It's not that the PS3 lacks exclusives, it's that the 360 does. I've had both, so I'm speaking from experience here.

[swiftzx]

I felt there were not enough console exclusives, particularly between Xbox and PS3. I would like to see those two systems have more unique content in their eventual new systems.

It's not that the PS3 lacks exclusives, it's that the 360 does. I've had both, so I'm speaking from experience here.

It's not that the 360 lacks exclusives, it is that it lacks good exclusives. This is coming from someone who owns both. Other than Gears, Halo and some shmups, there isn't much that interests me.

[BoringSupreez]

I felt there were not enough console exclusives, particularly between Xbox and PS3. I would like to see those two systems have more unique content in their eventual new systems.

It's not that the PS3 lacks exclusives, it's that the 360 does. I've had both, so I'm speaking from experience here.

It's not that the 360 lacks exclusives, it is that it lacks good exclusives. This is coming from someone who owns both. Other than Gears, Halo and some shmups, there isn't much that interests me.

Well, good exclusives are the only ones I care at all about, so same dif.