Thoughts on this new generation, which is off to a great start.

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d21lewis said:

But don't you see what you've done?  You've taken a pic from one of the absolute best looking PS2 games (and an FPS at that--those always look good) at the end of its life and you compare it to one of the worst looking Xbox 360 games at the beginning of the launch.  Then you toss in one of the best looking PS4 games released so far.  Why not compare something like Killzone 3 to Killzone Shadowfall?  And not just any pic.  Try to find one of the best looking Killzone 3 pics that you can find.  THEN you'll see why people are a little disappointed in the jump.  And even COD2 came in with seemless online play which prompted a spectacular reception across the board.  That's a pretty good leap that justifies a new generation, isn't it?

Black was an intentional nitpick just to show how things can go when you want. Killzone 3 vs Shadow Fall wouldn't be fair. one is a late gen title and the second one is a launch title. We could use Halo 3 vs Shadow Fall (and that's a stretch because H3 isn't a launch game). Of course COD2 isn't good looking, but neither is Destiny. About online conectivity, I see it more as a feature of the consoles. They had it, the games started using. We could note on PS4 and X1 too about how the share functions and the streaming adds to the gaming experience.

And even if we compare KZ3 with SF, SF is way better looking, despite KZ3 being really spetacular. I'll give it more points because it has 3D support (pretty good one) and Move support.

People aren't disappointed by the jump, they just have short memory. 360 was once dubbed "XBox 1.5". Every gen is the same thing over and over, people compare best looking games fron the end of the last gen with the launch games in the current one.