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CGI-Quality said:
Uabit said:
Being a very boring gen so far. Im glad it'll end soon...

It will? And even if it did, what makes the next one a sure bet to be better?

More powerful hardware i hope so developers don't have to downgrade games only because of consoles not being able to run them as they were first shown.

And maybe who knows? The return of good things like backwards compatibility (full backwards compatibility not this wierd things the X1 and PS4 have) and free online. i haven't lost all hope.

Sorry for my english.



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CGI-Quality said:
Uabit said:

More powerful hardware i hope so developers don't have to downgrade games only because of consoles not being able to run them as they were first shown.

And maybe who knows? The return of good things like backwards compatibility (full backwards compatibility not this wierd things the X1 and PS4 have) and free online. i haven't lost all hope.

Sorry for my english.

Consoles will always be less powerful than the PC and games will always have changes made to them to accomodate the lowest common denominator(s). That's where the majority of the money is. So the natural progression of consoles next gen won't fix that.

As for free online and backwards compatibility, I only see the latter in the future. Paid online allows for strongers services and more features. While, of course, I'll take things for free, I would never want to go back to the barebones PSN that we saw on the PS3.

The problem is (at least in my case) that ps4's online isn't working much better than ps3's. I don't know what do they do with the money people pays every month but for now i don't think they are investing it on PSN. Xbox Live on the other hand is pretty much the best online service i have seen (dedicated servers for all X1 games) but still Microsoft could offer it for free considering how big it is.

Also Steam doesn't charge to play online and it offers good online service and good features, i don't see why two giants like Sony and Microsoft can't offer a decent service without a monthly fee (at least playing online, a very basic thing should be free) they could include with plus and gold premium features and the games they give each month, but online playing is a very basic thing and imo is a very greedy thing charging for it.



Quantum Break, Horizon, For Honor, The Last Guardian, ReCore, and Dreams are probably going to be big. There's a bunch of new IPs that are semi-confirmed that we just don't have details on yet. Criterion is working on a new IP, Starbreeze is making a new IP with EA, Visceral's next game is a new Star Wars IP, Sony Bend's game is probably a new IP, etc.

Destiny, Watch Dogs, Titanfall, Shadow of Mordor, Alien Isolation, and The Evil Within may have been cross-generation but their sequels will probably all be exclusive to the eighth generation consoles. Aside from that, there's Dying Light, Splatoon, Bloodborne, The Order, Ryse, The Division, and Sunset Overdrive.



A lot of new IPs don't hit their stride until the second iteration. If you look at the generation defining franchises from last gen, most of them didn't really come into their own until the second iteration; Uncharted; Mass Effect; Assassin's Creed. All didn't really become massive hits until the sequels (both critically and in terms of sales).

Destiny, Watch Dogs and The Division have the potential to have gen defining sequels. Beyond that we have the likes of No Man's Sky, Horizon and Quantum Break coming this year. We also have VR just around the corner which could become this gens defining moment.

At the moment though, I'd say the most impressive games this gen have been Witcher 3, Bloodborne and Fallout 4.