Dark Souls 2 coming to PS4 and XBone April 7th 2015

[kristianity77]

curl-6 said:

kristianity77 said:

curl-6 said:

VXIII said:

It is a business decision to attract more customers, it has nothing to do with "limiting creativity". They are investing into fresh experiences, as said, thier new IP, Bloodborne, is coming before this.

Look at all the next gen rehashes recently; The Last of Us Remastered, Wind Waker, Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider, the list goes on. That's a lot of resources that would be better spent on actual new experiences. 

I mean, if it floats your boat, more power to you, but I'd rather something fresh.

Did you also complain at the beginning of the last gen when the consoles got ports and slight up res games like King Kong, Burnout Revenge, Tomb Raider Legend, Gun, Need For Speed Most Wanted, Tony Hawks, Full Auto, Fight Night 3, Far Cry Instincts, Just Cause, Splinter Cell Double Agent?  That first year or so full of old gen games mixed in with a few new ones didn't do them consoles any harm did it?

I would have if I'd even been involved in gaming then, but the 6th gen was so disappointing I took a break from the medium from 2004-2009 save for Retro games.

Well thats totally fair enough.  But my point is, we went through the exact same thing last gen.  For perhaps an 18 month period.  Its quick, relatively easy and low cost for the developer to do this.  And as a gamer, its filler until the better stuff comes along.  Its not ideal, no one is saying it is.  But its not a new practice that has only been conceived in the last year.  

The problem we have now is that because consoles are getting more complicated, then development times get longer.  Your looking at minimum 18-24 months now for a game to go from conception to release.  Any less and you end up with bug ridden garbage like Unity etc.   So in reality what should developers do, have a release window that literally has nothing in it, or spend a bit of time and money  having a small team remastering titles that will still sell on the new consoles.  

Or to put it another way, this first year of console gaming for me personally would be alot worse if we didnt have Tomb Raider, Assassins Creed Black Flag, Metro Redux, Last Of Us, Diablo 3, Sleeping Dogs and GTAV to play on.

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And as a side note, to suggest the 6th generation of consoles was disappointing makes me think the problem doesn't lie with the games, it might be you?  Maybe you are just bored of gaming full stop?  I could literally list over a 100 games on that generation that are considered classics.  I'm not sure what else in that case a developer can do to satisfy you?