This generation the two main focuses have very clearly been motion control and improving graphics.

We have reached a point where it is very clear that all three of the next generation consoles will have visually amazing games.  I could care less if the next gen game have no visual improvement over uncharted 2 for example. I just want more innovative features to be added so new games don't just seem like more polished versions of old games. Motion Controls are nice and all but having a different control method to do the same exact thing isn't exactly innovation in my opinion.

I also desperately want AI to be the focus next gen. Because while the graphics jump from last gen to this gen has been incredible.Enemy and teammate AI are still as dumb as ever. Long examples of things that I feel should be improved for next generation, at least among "triple A" games, are coming up so incase you don't want to read them, what do you think should be the focus for next gen in terms of improving games.

I think games where you interact with other humans or other type of intellegent creature are the ones that need the most improvement. Because I have not played one game where I have felt the humans in the campaign have any form of intellegence at all.

Games need to stop being linear. Games need to actually change every time you play them. No, an rpg having 6 different paths you can take that lead to a few predetermined endings does not count. If the game is an rpg, I should be able to kill anyone and still have the story progress to some type of ending. I should be able to do nothing at all and wander around pointlessly for days and have the story progress. If I decline to do a mission to save a city from orcs, the mission shouldn't be there waiting for me to finish it hours later. The orcs should have taken over the city and begun planning new attacks on different cities or buiding up a stronghold in the city.

If I'm playing an fps, increasing the difficulty shouldn't just make the enemy ai have auto aim and have their bullets do more damage. They should fight me in a more intelligent matter. Fighting enemy rebels shouldn't be the same exact experience as fighting enemy special force units. If I am sneaking up on special forces and they alert me they should not blindly charge me until I kll them all. They should try to ambush me. They should plant boobytraps. They should act as if they have some form of military training.  If I am sneaking up on enemy terrorists and I alert them, then by all means have them blindly rush me. But once they see that their fellow men are getting slaughtered because I'm hiding behind cover around the corner, they should stop rushing me and think about what to do. I understand the game can't be completly realistic or there is no way it would be fun, but I just want to be able to play the campaign of a game without facepalming at enemy and teammate decisions every 10 seconds.

lol, those are some demands you got...

As far as me, if next gen games have fun gameplay and kill off this whole scripted, story driven nonsence, I'll be happy. Doesn't look like its gonna fly looking at the trends... COD franchise is going to become one giant quick time event sequence. Who knew that Sega CD games had it right all along...

1. better graphics/presentation
2. New ips
3. Stronger online with more integrated stuff
4. Better and stronger Digital distribution

better gameplay.

Gameplay has always been good in every generation. it always will be. Its the center of everything. ask for something else dammit

LMAO. well thats what i always want to get better. Developers and publishers will think of other things as well but to me i feel that gameplay should always be pushed the furthest. to me a developer being able to use a new systems capabilities to push gameplay further is next gen. Not how pretty the game is, though i do love me some pretty graphics.

Graphical improvements are always nice, but some recent games have been looking so pretty that I don't really need significant graphical updates for some time. I just finished LA Noire and I thought that game looked quite beautiful. Uncharted 3 and Gears 3 look to set the bar even higher.

Next-gen improvements needs: More capability for huge online maps and huge multi-player counts. I hope MOVE and Kinect are standard add-in with all future PS/M$ systems. I am still eagerly awaiting an online samurai game that encompasses 1-1 sword fighting, archery, and other ancient warfare tactics.

Updated graphics will be nice, but these new systems are going to need something else to draw me in. Otherwise I will repeat what I did this generation and wait for a price-cut before buying.

What I want is for us gamers to come together and not bow down to the corporate dictators. I'm sure this will never happen, considering the sheep that surround me.


Undereducated, fat, lazy, self-entitled . . . enjoy your endless war

(sorry if you're not fat)

the sad thing about the future is that we should be getting AMAZING AI, but because so many and i mean so many gamers SUCK, there is no way we can have amazing AI without them bitching about the game being too hard.

hell just watch some videos on people bitching about the witcher 2 combat.

there is a video where a gamer is bitching that the enemies are attacking him all at once, that the enemies continue to chase him when he is running away, that the enemies block and counter his attacks, that the enemies do more damage hitting him in the back, that the guys with full armor and/or shields are tougher than the guys without, how you can't block nonstop and its based on your energy(vigor), how the enemies can hit you for combos, and i could go on.

i mean wtf, to me that sounds like what a gamer should be bragging about how this game is amazing becuase it is doing all this and it has such smart ai, and yet to him and many others its a BROKEN combat system and the game sucks. FYI the game developers later patched the game to make it EASIER. he then brings up how assassins creed does group fighting amazingly. Yea sure, have 10+ enemies surround you while you hold the block button and then push a button to OHKO counter each one one by one. that is so fun and realistic and smart. i love how enemies WAIT for their turn.

No it hasn't. This gen especially feels like it needs to guide the player like a child, holding his hand through a series of scripted events at the cost of gameplay and control.

"Here, just mash A button...we will kill the big bad guy for you". Get out of here...

Valve needs to come back to the Half Life arena next gen and school all these clowns how to make a proper FPS set pieces...