Conina said:
BOTW, where streaming/loading speeds of 0.060 GB/s are good enough. |
Well BOTW obviously looks a bit simplistic, but I'm guessing it would look helluva lot better on next gen consoles capable of streaming 8k movie quality assets and rendering limitless geometry. However, the overall gameplay design, sense of scale and freedom you have in BOTW is pretty amazing.
In any case. I think what we'll see next gen is more of a blend of what typically would be different genres. Before, developers always had to make compromises depending on what type of game they're making. If it's a open world game, the environments couldn't have the same level of detail as in a story driven linear game like Uncharted, and highly detailed story driven games couldn't be truly open world. Next gen, developers probably don't have to make such compromises, giving them the creative freedom to merge both.
Take GOW for example. It was always about epic scale and fighting gigantic monsters, but when they decided to make it a 3rd person game, they probably couldn't have that sense of scale and boss fights on the back of titans anymore. Therefore, they had to make it a much slower paced game instead. Who knows but it wouldn't surprise me if GOW2 on the ps5 will go back to its roots and it will be a 3rd person open world game with the same sense of scale and giant boss fights as the older GOW games. We'll see but SSD sounds like one of the most promising things we've seen in new consoles for a long, long time. And something that could completely change level and world design as we know it.
Last edited by goopy20 - on 18 May 2020
