The Future that Shouldn't
Now for something that isn't Katrina related, videogames.
I'm probably not the only one who will say this, I'm not looking forward to the next generation of consoles.
Currently, the only thing I am looking forward to is Nintendo's Revolution download service, which is more about retro gaming the current gaming. For Nintendo, I can't get excited about something that isn't (Nintendo: JUST TELL US WHAT THE ******* **** CONTROLLER IS).
As for Sony and Microsoft, I just don't see anything that will come from them that's truely new. If anything, developers are going to have a not-so-great time as well. Gabe Newell (story: http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=10480 ) has bashed X-Box 360 for it's lack of a standard hard drive and PS3 for making ports harder by having a multicore machine.
Let's face it, all we are looking forward to right now are sequels. None of the next-gen games are doing things anything that this generation systems couldn't, other then maybe have HD.
Despite some claims to the contrary, Nintendo's President Iwata was right in that there are games that produce games that are almost, if not exactly, the same graphical quality as next gen games will produce.
On a similar point, there have been few games this generation that wow-ed me in terms of graphics. I could easily count them: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2&3, Star Fox Adventures/Conker (mostly character models), Half Life 2, Zelda: Twilight Princess and Resident Evil 4. That's a total of seven games.
This in comparison to the 32/64 bit generation where game after game exceeded graphics and wow-ed people. Back then, Nintendo, Rare and (the now dead) Acclaim ruled the day with graphics.
But those days are gone. It now seems like hardware is the only way to produce better graphics, and that's mostly for effects that could easily be simulated and just don't add much.
With both Sony and Microsoft being only really about graphics with the next-gen, I do hope Nintendo gives us a real reason to upgrade to the next-gen. As is, it is all about HD.
I'm probably not the only one who will say this, I'm not looking forward to the next generation of consoles.
Currently, the only thing I am looking forward to is Nintendo's Revolution download service, which is more about retro gaming the current gaming. For Nintendo, I can't get excited about something that isn't (Nintendo: JUST TELL US WHAT THE ******* **** CONTROLLER IS).
As for Sony and Microsoft, I just don't see anything that will come from them that's truely new. If anything, developers are going to have a not-so-great time as well. Gabe Newell (story: http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?a
Let's face it, all we are looking forward to right now are sequels. None of the next-gen games are doing things anything that this generation systems couldn't, other then maybe have HD.
Despite some claims to the contrary, Nintendo's President Iwata was right in that there are games that produce games that are almost, if not exactly, the same graphical quality as next gen games will produce.
On a similar point, there have been few games this generation that wow-ed me in terms of graphics. I could easily count them: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2&3, Star Fox Adventures/Conker (mostly character models), Half Life 2, Zelda: Twilight Princess and Resident Evil 4. That's a total of seven games.
This in comparison to the 32/64 bit generation where game after game exceeded graphics and wow-ed people. Back then, Nintendo, Rare and (the now dead) Acclaim ruled the day with graphics.
But those days are gone. It now seems like hardware is the only way to produce better graphics, and that's mostly for effects that could easily be simulated and just don't add much.
With both Sony and Microsoft being only really about graphics with the next-gen, I do hope Nintendo gives us a real reason to upgrade to the next-gen. As is, it is all about HD.
posted by SeanM at 7:39 PM
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