Gameman

THE ELDER RANTS

Where's my flying car?

Tired of missed opportunities & lowered expectations, The Elder rants to
Shane Kim,acting chief of MS Game Studios.

When I was growing up, the prognosticators said there would be flying cars by
the year 2000. Well, it's four damn years later and we're still earth bound.
The same situation holds true for xbox. Some of the promises & expectations
have yet to be met. To wit;

RPG's

Yeah, yeah, I know...Morrowind. If you're a fan of PC- style rpg's, your appetite
has been somewhat staisfied. K.O.T.O.R? A great game to be sure. Fable ? I'll
let you know as soon as I get Xbox 2.

What about fan's of Japanese style r.p.g.'s? Where is our game? You mean to tell
me games like Skies of Arcadia:Legends, can't be ported over to our beloved Xbox?
Grandia, Star Ocean, Legend of legaia are titles just screaming for the Xbox treatment.
Green light a couple of these titles will ya' Microsoft?

MUSIC IS MY LIFE

Another title that seems perfectly suited for the black & green beauty is MTV Music
Generator 2. Imagine creating your own tunes, (in glorious 5.1 dolby no less) saving it
to your harddrive and then, ripping them into a game like Project Gotham Racing 2. Tie
in some connectivity to the Xbox music mixer and being able to send/trade those songs
with friends over XBL! Sweet!

COME FLY WITH ME

While I'm begging, Can we have an air combat game? Don't get me wrong, Crimson
Skies is awesome but, my top gun fantasies cry out for a F-18 Hornet. I have a need
to do a bombing run on a enemy stronghold. I have a need to shoot down some poor
sap flying a Mig 21. I have a need... A NEED FOR SPEED! (Sorry... I got carried away.)

So while we're all waiting for our flying automobiles, maybe a couple of these games will
ease the pain of waiting. How about it?

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GSmiles

Great speech Gameman.... come to think about it you really make a lot of sense...

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Prior

That was great Gman,but like gsmiles said it does make alot of sense.

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GeN

Beautiful.....just beautiful.

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Viper 776

i've never been parial to flying games, and music mixer doesn't sound amazing, but more rpgs would be great, and i want a flying car.

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Elburro

You make much sense. What blows my mind the worst is that companies actually still try to succeed with games that can't be played online. The whole reason I continue to play games is the online factor.

EB

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minion7

oh i play games because i want to beat them. i have beaten all my games except one THE THING

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Rith

I agree with EB, as much gameplay as you can get through singleplayer. The MOST EFFECTIVE WAY is through online play. Literally, how long would any fps, racing, or almost any other genre last without ONLINE MULTIPLAYER? Not very long, once you beat the game, your the best, theres no competition. BUT, in the world of online, with stats, your not always THE BEST, theres always some1 who is a little bit better on a certain level, so what do you do? You compete, adds TONS OF EXTRA hours of gameplay, no questions asked.

Online Gameplay will be a must, infact, there is very few games I buy now that DON'T come with Xbox Live. (Only exception is games that have a REALLY good storyline (RPGS), and multiple endings.

We need more RPG's! M$ needs to get a contract going with Squaresoft ASAP!!!!

Cheers,
~Kain

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The_Rage

Yeah, i have to agree we need more games, and those games have to have online, cause games just kinda get boring after you beat them once or twice

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Core-Point

As soon as people learn to drive good on flat ground Gman,I would be all up for that one! and giant mechs.. where the freak are those? >_>;


And it would be great to get a deal going with Square for RPGs etc.
The xbox does need more of them. I believe if xbox got more rpgs, then they would have better sales over in japan.

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