Is anybody else watching Dust 514?
It's a free to play FPS game coming to the PS3 that ties in to EVE Online (which is a spaceship MMO, I guess).
The cool part is that the FPS parts and Spaceship parts can actually work together as one package via the EVE Online economy. So essentially players of Dust 514 can earn in-game money by essentially working as mercs for the EVE players (ground forces for hire) and the EVE players can earn in game money from the Dust 514 players by delivering space based assistance (such as airstrikes) fired from an entirely different game.
It blows my mind that they are doing all this as a Free to play game for PS3 and it's the first FPS game in a while that has me legitimately excited. A big problem with me and FPS games is that I get no feeling of accomplishment other than repeatedly headshotting some D-bag whose spamming the voice chat until he quits. M.A.G. tried to address that by experimented with a system that allowed victories to carry some meaning but it didn't really work all that well. It seems like Dust 514 is trying to achieve the same thing by integrating it with EVE Online and it's dynamic economy.
If they pull this off it's going to be an unbelievable achievement and making it Free to Play means when it comes out there really is going to be no reason not to try it. I'm very excited,
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I see there were a bunch of layoffs at Sega. I'd like to be sad about that buuuut seeing as they still refuse to port over the
Valkyria Chronicles III I feel that is karma giving them a spanking.
I mean, why Sega? I want to buy it! The previous game sold quite well. Why won't you let me throw my money at you! Why are you so determined to localize games like
Yakuza: Dead Souls instead, which I would not play if it was free. Why?!