| Zones said: Few personal takeaways from this and their PS4 article... First, Eurogamer has consistently fueled the fire over the resolution and frame-rate war through their own Digital Foundry. And now they have the audacity to say "small wonder that we are reduced to arguing over display resolutions and frame-rates when both new consoles offer so little in the way of fresh game experiences to justify their existence.", which is rather ironic, as they seem to be obsessed over an infrequent and insignificant amount of frame drops, and this is not even remotely new as they couldn't stop talking about how third-party games were performing worse on PS3 last-gen, but now that the roles of the platforms have reversed, they come out as hypocrite by saying it's due to lack of fresh experiences. As far as the whole ‘fresh experience’ narrative is concerned, can anyone really point out to any other era outside of the early PSX/N64 era which were blooming with fresh experiences from the get go? I realise that the PS2 era also opened the door to some new genre due to its technical capability of going away from pre-rendered background, but even then, many of those games required years to mature and come out. The whole tone is unnecessarily snobbish. They don't present valid arguments, but they are quick to reach some naive conclusions. EG comes across like those teen snobs and elitists from other media who simply dismiss others taste just so they appear ‘cool’ and ‘edgy’. If only they had experienced a previous console's first year... |
Yeah I too thought this article was way too harsh.
But I do agree with the new experience thing they talked about. This gen's games aren't special (well except for Nintendo ones) and are kinda just the same as last gen games.
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