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naznatips on 30 November 2007
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rocketpig said:
The_vagabond7 said:
I agree with gameboy, the graphical leap this generation was minimal. My bro does have a 360 with HD TV, and I've seen Heavenly sword and Ratchet on a big screen HD TV at my friends house, and it's not the same leap as in previous generation. From NES to SNES you went from blocky things (almost just symbols) that represented characters, to bright colorful worlds that were very distinct and recognizable. I mean play Super Mario Brothers 3 on the VC and see how dull the colors are, the flicker at the edges of the screen, the vacant single color backdrops and that was the best graphics on the NES right there. Then play super Mario world with it's rich colors, virbrant backgrounds, huge enemies, it was beautiful at the time, and the later games like Super Metroid are still gorgeous. 

You're completely ignoring the fact that this generation is barely getting rolling. Two years into the sixth generation, we were still seeing games that were marginally better than the PS1 generation and the Xbox/GC still hadn't even released.

There is still three to four years left in this gen and games will continue to look better and better.

PS. If you don't see huge advancements from GoWII (last major release in the previous gen) to Heavenly Sword, Gears, and Mass Effect, you aren't looking very hard. It's not only the graphics; the physics, environments, AI, and number of things onscreen are making huge gains. 


This generation may be young, but it's already run its course graphically.  We already have Crysis above even the possibility of being run on any home console and Mass Effect pushing the hardware past what it can really do.  I don't think you should be expecting much if any graphical improvement in the future.  

As far as AI leaps, what games are you talking about?  Because a few big next gen games come to mind for me:  CoD4, Assassin's Creed, and Heavenly Sword.  None of those have AI better than last gen.  Some of them arguably much worse.  I know theoretically AI should be better this generation, but it simply isn't.  Not yet.