Three More Video Game Nerd Follow-Ups
Because you should never blog about video games when you’re trying to finish the rest of your stuff to go and play one.
1) I’m very, very excited about Spore. Due 7 September, it’s the new Will Wright (SimCity, etc) project where you essentially start a civilization from scratch, eventually having it evolve to the point where you can explore other people’s worlds. I really hope it can live up to the hype.
2) EA retains the exclusive contract with the NFL until 2013. Sigh.
3) Electronic Gaming Monthly had a great piece (not online yet) about achievements and gamerscore on the XBox 360. One person profiled was a father who played 60 hours a week, obsessed with raising his gamerscore.
I personally love the achievement process on the 360 - it really increases replayability for me and it’s fun to try and do bizarre things to get achievements (my favorite so far is the one in Crackdown that requires you to keep a bad guy up in the air using a set number of rockets). But I also know that my 2500 gamerscore or whatever isn’t ever going to reach an upper echelon of scores, either. But wow, sometimes the gamerscore thing can get crazy.
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