Devil May Cry 4 PS3 'accomplishments' may hint at Home integration

A thousand curses be upon ye, Knight of teh Fenix! :-p

Now I just need to catch you online for some COD4!

I actually agree. As a PS3 owner, I don't care about Home or accomplish-ievements.

If and when I feel the need to measure my e-wang vs my friends', we just play the games. You don't need a "ran someone off the road" achieve-omplishment in Burnout when you go online and actually run someone's ass off the road. Then gloat. Oh the gloating that goes on.

The impact for PS3 owners should be small. Sure, trophies are nice, but I'll really only look once or twice.

However, I assume the tune you're singing would be quite different if they'd implemented this feature at launch. I say that because I was one of the people who poo-poohed Achievements when they first announced them for the 360...2+ years and ~30K points later, and I'm still quite happy they decided to include them.

It was a great idea and adds replay/exploratory value to good games that you might not otherwise take your time with (due to the fact that there are a ton of awesome games still out there waiting to be played.)

Couldnt agree with you more baby sea tuna +100 buddy ;)

Your assumption is wrong, BST. I really just don't care about someone's shopping list of random shit I should do in a game.

Fenix:
The e-wang comes from the score, the only purpose of which is to say "My GS is higher than ur GS". Viewing the list of things they've actually obtained is superior in every way I can think of, and you don't need points for that.

In General:
If you want the list of suggestions, fine, I just don't care. That's why I don't understand it when people say they'll get the 360 version of a multi-platform game "just for the achievements". I don't think they add anything worthwhile to the game; they won't make a bad game good and they don't make good games better. If you like activating skulls in Halo 3 because they have cool effects, the points don't (or at least shouldn't) mean squat to you. This is why I don't care about achievements. I don't need a list of suggestions to do what's fun, I will do the fun stuff anyway.

Trev, your set in your ways.

No biggie.

@Fenix:

2/10

I don't know, applied like this HOME could totally rule, if and only if you had an option to exit from the game and load straight into HOME

Integrating it as some kind of "game world" could make it the differentiating feature the PS3 has been looking for

What are you on about 'not impressed by the home beta'? You don't even have a PS3. :-\

I hope so. I don't want full screen notifications of anything DMC4 related that isn't horrible monster stabbing, for which they could just show the stabbing.

And the PSStore isn't bad in hd, but it is soul-crushingly bad in SD. It would be nice if it weren't web based and used some schmancy XMB category integration, but so long as it provides download buttons and demos, I find it acceptable.

The store is HTML and could be upgraded to be fancy-schmancyness... but really, it's functional, and I try to spend as little time in there as possible. Get in, queue up a dozen downloads, get out.... play a game or watch a movie while they download.

I have no idea what it looks like in SD. It probably sucks. Most HTML sucks in SD. In fact, most things suck in SD.

I'm guessing this is probably a call to an "accomplishment" API in the OS that hasn't been fully fleshed out by Sony yet. Either that, or it's a call to a "message box alert" API, and the DMC devs are just being idiots.

The SD store, FYI, only displays 3 store items at once and doesn't show the "Top Downloads" or whatever from the right side of the screen. It is made of hating commerce.

notable exception being Wii Opera

If i had a USB keyboard and it actually supported better versions of Flash player, I really wouldn't need my PC for anything but word processing...

SD HTML, tailored correctly, can be a perfectly satisfactory experience

Actually I think 'entitlements' would be more appropriate given that its Sony we are talking about here.

Achievements love them or hate them.

Achievements if done right are fun, entertaining, add value to the game and feel like you’ve done something extraordinary even when more than 1,000,000 persons already did the same, a good example is Dead Rising or The orange box.

Achievements when they go wrong can be infuriating, frustrating, boring and more like a second Job like the ones in Crackdown, Assassins’ Creed or Shadowrun.

There are also easy achievements which pretty much reward you for doing nothing like the ones in Bioshock and COD4 except for “Mile high club” that one is a bitch because the god damn awful XB360 controller makes it completely hard.

I like achievements but they are rarely fun to obtain, Gears of War for example I obtained every Single player achievement because the game was fun but I never got all the multiplayer achievement because depended on quantity and with my limited time I rather played something else.I love achievements that unlock gamerpics,those are awesome.

Now if this text doesn’t make sense is because I have a cold and I have an effing headache also I feel sleepy.

Leave Gears alone Mr Esc.

lul

"Accomplishments, even that word sounds like a rip off"

LOL! Its Sony remember, they love to jack everyones ideas but I dont feel like making a list of them. We all know what they are anyway =)

Why do people insist on "playing consoles" when the fun is in playing games? When I'm playing Rock Band or Uncharted, the fact that someone else has a different hard drive size than me or is playing a BluRay disc in their PS3 doesn't bother me one bit.

I wonder what you're a fanboy of, oh it's obvious.

Why do you attack everyone else, calling them fanboys, when you do nothing but spread Sony hate?