| Zekkyou said: This has been my biggest complaint against Nintendo this gen. They finally have 'HD hardware' (a silly term, but you get the point), yet outside of shinier visuals (often literally) they've done very little to justify the new hardware... In-fact some releases, such as 3D World, have actually felt like a step back from the ambition of their Wii predecessors. That's not to say their WiiU games haven't been great, but we shouldn't have to wait 3~ years for titles like XCX and ZeldaU to start arriving. Not when the rest of the industry had spent 5/6 years building the foundation for such titles before the WiiU even released. Anyway, rant over o/ |
Ambition doesn't equal great, games like The Order were ambitious but only turned out to be ok, to complain about 3DW imo is some what skewered as it's still one of the best games this gen and the game you're saying it's a step back from is considered one of the best in history.
The industry also isn't delivering Zelda or XCX, I'm willing to bet that no game in the industry will be like these two games when they arrive in fact in regards to XCX we already know no other game is similar except for the original, ambition with Nintendo and ambition with the industry vary significantly and imo only a company like R* is on the same wavelength as far as ambition go. XCX has you exploring a giant world in a mech, if you've played RPGs like FF the gif below is reminiscent of getting the airship and exploring new places only in XCX you're in a mech and an open living world that responds to you.
Zelda we haven't seen as much of granted but I wouldn't bet against the franchise, the attention to detail and anime concept art direction that's inspired by the likes of Ghibli is something that imo is well above what we see in the industry from most.
