Norris2k on 27 May 2014
| JWeinCom said: FFX would have had to be MASSIVELY scaled back to work on the PS1. Had we seen a game before with that amount of voice acting? The graphical leap between FFXIX and X was enormous. Compare that to the difference between Infamous 1 and 2 and it's clear how much of a difference it was. As for the SNES, that's an awfully cherry picked example. Could the NES handle Mario World? I'm not sure. There were a lot of levels and they were a lot longer than the NES games had. But, lets say that it could. Could the NES do Pilot Wings? Could it do F-Zero? Nope. You couldn't do Wii Sports on the Wii. Nor could you do Wario Ware or Raving Rabbids. I enjoyed these games very much. You can throw Elebits onto that list as well as Excite Bike and Red Steel. First two of those were underrated. The last was not so good. I didn't have a 360 or a PS3 at launch, but simply by virtue of the jump from SD to HD they were a big graphical leap. The reason we're impatient is because not only are no awesome new experiences available, but no awesome new experiences have even been ANNOUNCED. We have the order which seems so far to be gears of Steam Punk, Drive Club, another Assassin's Creed, another Arkham, another COD, a new Witcher, and so on so forth. On Nintendo's end, we've had Wonderful 101, Nintendo Land, Zombi U, and a bunch of sequels. Some fun stuff, but not much that couldn't have been done the generation before. There are only a couple of interesting games on the horizon. Sunset Overdrive looks interesting, but I have to see how it plays out. Looks like a mix of Dead Rising with Ratchet which could be fun. Project Spark looks interesting, but we'll see if the reality of it is as seemless as demos. But yeah, crappy generation so far. Hopefully that will change. |
I also think the problem in the reasonning is to diminish the impact of previous generation. F-Zero at launch had a tremendous impact, anyone at this time felt for sure it was impossible to make this game on NES. Any 3D game at the PS1 launch was impossible to achieve on the Super NES. PS360 added color, depth and HD, it was great.
Perhaps only at PS2 launch I felt "it's the same but slightly scaled up". And it took time to really push new things. I hope it's just a question of time... By the way, do someone think the social thing, like uploading game videos, facebook integration, etc. makes this generation awesome ?
