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potato_hamster on 08 March 2016
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TheMessiah said:
potato_hamster said:


That's all 100% subjective. In fact in many cases your opinion goes against the predominant view of the game industry, especilly in Third Person Shooter (Uncharted or Last of Us), Sim Racing (Gran Turismo), Cinematic (kinda made up category, but Heavy Rain or Beyond), 2D platformer (LittleBigPlanet), Action Adventure (God of War or Ratchet and Clank or possibly Horizon),  and fighting (Street Fighter).

And, since you're counting the likes of Tomb Raider, there's plenty of timed exclusives that come into play: The Witness, No Man's Sky, Shenmue, Kojima Production's game, etc.

But I'll give you RTS (by default), and Arcade Racer (I guess, not sure what you're referring to here, but PGR hasn't been released in 7 years)

Your right. But this gen as follows MS wins in the genres with either no answer from Sony or they have released a game but wasnt as good.

This gen

FPS - Halo 5

TPS - Gears Of War 4

Cinematic - Quantum Break

Action adventure - Rise Of The Tomb Raider

Sim Racing - Forza Motorsport 6

Arcade Racing - Forza Horizon 2

Fighting - Killer Instinct

2d Platformer - Orin And the Blind Forest

Certainly if we take right now I don't believe MS loses on any of these. Of course I expect Uncharted 4 to give ROTR a run for that genre. Gran Tourism is only a demo this year so wont touch Forza 6 in the slightest. This is all my opinion of course.

If we use current metacritic scores for these genres on titles already released in the first 2 years the Xbox One wins all these genres quite easily.

So anyway, my point is MS are doing better game wiae than ever in the history of Xbox. We should be celebrating good times for Xbox.

It's all a matter of your opinion, and the fact that you seem to openly admit haven't  played any PS4 exclusives means the fact that you find Xbox One's exclusives better is pretty meaningless, isn't it? Like you think that Uncharted 4 will give ROTR, a game coming out on PS4, "a run". That is an understatement, but how can you say that when you will probably never play Uncharted 4?

Also, you seem like the first one I've heard call Forza Horizon 2 an arcade racer. It seems to be almost universally pegged as an simulation racer that's more shallow than Forza 6. Having less features, cars and tracks doesn't make it an arcade racer. But that seems like nitpicking on my behalf.

And if we use current Metacritic scores (we shouldn't, it's just favoring one person's opinion over another), SFV is ahead of Killer Instinct, and I haven't bothered to look the others. But I do know that there are 204 PS4 games with a metacritic of 75 and above, compared to X1's 128, so I would strongly suggest against using that argument. At least on the surface it appears that there are almost double the number of "great games" on PS4 based on sheer metacritic numbers, which frankly shouldn't hold much weight in people's minds. Metacritic is overrated.

But to counter your point, it seems difficult to argue that X1 is doing "better than ever before" when the Halo series has taken a nosedive in terms of quality and sales, when Gears Of War is a shadow of its former self, and Forza games now appear to be coming out at a faster rate than Assassin's Creed games. Those have been the big 3 of MS for a long, long time, and nothing has risen up to take the mantle where those have faltered. There's hope for Quantum Break, there's Hope for Crackdown 3, but frankly those games could be just as huge of duds as The Order or Knack was for PS4.

Xbox is in a state of flux with no definitive direction going forward. It has to be nervous times for those Xbox fans out there. Hopefully MS can sort its self out and remain competitive, for gaming's sake.