inFAMOUS: Second Son Judged by Prominent Developers: “The Bar Has Been Firmly Raised”

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Zekkyou said:

Justagamer said:
Come on now guys.... It's a fun and solid game, but has not raised the bar in any sense. To say it raised the bar graphically implies it surpasses the best on pc too... It does not. It tells a fun, but average story. The gameplay is fun, but nothing that hasn't been done before.... I'm not knocking the game, I have it a 9/10, I just think everyone is filled with hyperbole, and needs to come down to earth and reality. Let's not rewrite the bible, with second son as it's core element.... Let's keep it real and say what it is: a fun game, that's very much worth buying. Bar setting standard, it is not.

When people talk about the bar being raised, it's generally in reference to consoles, not PC (there is a high end PC bar too, but it's kinda silly to include it with the consoles one. A $400 console i never going to outpace a $3000 graphics beast). In that respect inFamous has very much raised the graphical bar. It's in line with Killzone and Ryse's visuals, while being an open world. That's a hell of an achievement, especially for a 1st gen PS4 game.

Well, even on PC, no open world reached such graphical level.