Last gen was a disaster. Everyone whined how their visually outdated game was looking better than other peoples visually outdated game and most games looked the same (because devs couldnt be bothered to create great art-style at all)
I was tired by the look of the games in 2008/9 or so thank god around 2010 people made some use of the shaders/lighting (Battlefield3, SaintsRow3, Hitman Absolution etc look okay again) but the worlds looked way to blocky. )
PS4 introduced Crysis 1 graphics with modern shaders/lighting etc but we are still at least 3 years behind in terms of visual quality. The lenght made me almost stop gaming completely at least for realistic looking games. PC saved my hobby even tho my PC is roughly 5 years old.
Way to much money was wasted on trying to squeeze the last bit of visual power out of antiquated technology and games got worse because of that. ( wasting XX% amount of budget to get a 1digit% visual increase and then you have less money for more important things)
If the devs and their games would be better okay but if the whole industry is focusing on visuals but incapable of delivering for several years it gets annoying. A easy fix for that would be good art-style and not trying to make everything realistic but devs simply dont want to do that.
TBH I hope this gen stops around 2018. I dont want to wait 6 more years...
