Killiana1a said:
Molyneux before he became Microsoft Game Studios Creative Director was known for hyperbole in hyping up features about his upcoming games that never came to fruition. Now that Molyneux is in a position of authority where he has to always paint a rosy picture, Molyneux is just piling the bullshit even higher.
Don't believe a word. He is speaking to investors and potential shareholders of Microsoft stock. Of course he is going to hype it up to the nth degree.
I trust Crytek because since Far Cry and on to Crysis, their games have been at the cutting edge of graphics capability. Crytek knows exactly what the limits are and how much they will have to downgrade Crysis 2 to get it running at a 40-60 FPS for the 360 and PS3 version.
BTW, don't blame Crytek for the subpar Far Cry 2. The makers of the Assassin's Creed series, Ubisoft Montreal, developed Far Cry 2, while Crytek has done Far Cry, Crysis, Crysis: Warhead, and Crysis 2.
Crytek is up there at the top in terms of development studios who take the due diligence and devotion to routinely put out gems of games.
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On the one hand, yes, Molyneux has a reason to be pushing the positives of the Xbox360. On the other hand, going by the dev from Crytek, he's essentially saying that this generation is over and nothing more can be done. I think this is kind of an ignorant point of view given the ever-expanding surprises and capabilities of the PS2, even 8 years after it was released--effects were being pulled off in titles like The Force Unleashed that people didn't think they could do on the system. So, I think he's over-simplifying based on hardware specs.
Essentially, I think Molyneux is overstating, and the Crytek dev is understating. The Xbox360 and PS3 are very powerful machines. Sure, they aren't quite on the level of the highest current PC platforms, but seriously now--there's a lot that can be done with both machines, and if Kinect and Move are properly supported, there will continue to be impressive and creative games. Very few systems, it seems, are allowed to be fully maxed before being retired. The GameCube certainly wasn't, and it took an extremely long time before the PS2 had finally been completely put through it's paces.
Clever developers will be constantly finding new tricks and gimmicks to pull surprises out of the Xbox360 and PS3. I think the Crytek dev is spoiled by the general unlimited (as it's ever-growing) ceiling of PC gaming, and while there is that clip out there showing that Mafia II is ever so slightly more graphically advanced, that's hardly enough of a leap to warrant a new generation. The next gen machines need to make this generation look like last generation. Not "This Generation 1.2."
There's much more to great game design than generally unlimited hardware power.
