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ethomaz said:

Ronster316 said:

Destiny & Driveclub?

Destiny & Bloodborne.

To be fair I didn't played DriveClub or The Order for example... Bloodborne is the first non-plus game I played after Destiny.


After a shaky start, i have to acknowledge that many folks now have a lot of good things to say about Driveclub, i will check it out down the road when i can afford a PS4 too.

Got my driving fix covered for a long time though..... not only do i still have tonnes to do in FH2 retail....... but also the Fast & Furious DLC is free on friday with another 1000 gamerscore added. (on both 360 & X1 too, no retail copy required)

I wish i could get in to a game like Bloodborne (i like hack & slashers) but i literally have an allergy to games with heavy RPG elements.



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Just looking at the Wii U library alone renders your entire thread wrong. Now add in PS4 and Xobx one titles like Sunset overdrive and Bloodborne and we see that you are completely wrong. This gen has barely even begun yet



 

Bloodborne and No Man's Sky. <------- My opinion as to why you're wrong. 

They have games in the works. Stop being so impatient. 



There are some snags in the industry right now that aren't all the greatest. The trickle of great titles is a little slow but hasn't it always been?

The software environment is a lot different than it used to be. Today we have a huge flood of mobile games out there and with strong digital networks we have a good deal of smaller titles. These all have drastically shorter development times and cost much less than a standard counterpart, not necessarily even AAA. These games are fast to market and cost a lot less. In past generations we have seen inflation affect the price of games, in the US it seems that inflation doesn't exist anymore and full price is a locked in $60. This makes no sense but when you have to compete with indies and mobile games for $1-$20, no publisher wants to deal with the potential backlash. So they've been steadily increasing route of revenue through DLC. micro-transactions, ports, and remasters as a way to have their cake and eat it too. AAA titles are very expensive to make and they don't want to take chances.

We also haven't had the greatest economy lately and the minimum wage is a sad stagnant consta-broke that hasn't kept up with inflation at all. No one has the discretionary money to support where the industry should have gone so the industry is nickle and diming us.



Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(

If last gen is anything to go by, then we have seen nothing yet. In any case, it's too soon to judge.



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I personally think (if we are ignoring gen 1 and 2 and 4.5 lol that was horrible) that gen 7 is the worst. It is the generation that let everyone get lazy and that idiot consumers bought up the same game every year. While yes there were gems, most of the crap was just reduce, reuse, recycle. And here we are with basically the same thing, but in HD!!!

I am not denying I am a Nintendo fanboy, but we should give credit to Nintendo for at least trying to switch it up every gen. And if they hadn't released the Wii U when they did, we would probably still be playing on our PS360. I do plan on getting the PS4 as it has some key games that are definitely worth it, but it still isn't a must buy for me yet. We also need to remember that gens take time to ramp up and settle in and start pumping out great games. We are getting there.



Starts of generations are always slow-ish, bar a few exceptions. You should wait a while.

I'll agree as far as saying the 8th Gen is 'underwhelming' so far and the onslaught of (pointless) remasters and Nintendo's not-so-revolutionary-as-we'd-hoped-for-titles are disappointing for now, but I'll wait a couple years more before I'll give my final verdict, given what I experienced in previous generations. There is potential still, and even WiiU should only be at about it's midpoint by now, but I'd like to see it.

Even though it had the Dreamcast, the 6th Gen was still overall the worst for me, discounting the era's PC games, the very first generation and putting the current on hold. This is considering only home-consoles though, the 3DS has been a great contender.



No. I think critics have been harsh. I've enjoyed greatly Killzone SF single player (very open and free and fun to tackle with a lot of variation in environments), Resogun, Infamous SS and First Light, The Order, and many of the PS+ games as well as many of the cross-gen games like LBP3 (favorite in the series), SoM, and FC4 which I think are FAR superior on next gen (not just graphically but functionality wise and getting to play with DS4) ALSO some remasters like Sleeping Dogs and TLoU were fun to platinum again.

Now that that epic sentence is out of the way, I'm also anticipating GoW3 Remastered, Until Dawn, Ratchet Reboot, Uncharted 4, Ryme, Everybody's Gone to Rapture, Batman Arkham Knight, Witcher 3, MGS5, KH3, and many more



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Darwinianevolution said:

360 had no bc,

This is false. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games_compatible_with_Xbox_360

I played Morrowind and Conkur: Live & Reloaded for the first time on my 360. 



Compared to last gen, yes. It really sucks. There a lot of upres ports rather than new games. So far, no game has surprised me, but it was expected considering this is like the 6th gen were every console was boring. Maybe next gen is as exciting as the 5th gen (N64/PS) or 7th gen (Wii/360/PS3).



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