I could not agree more with you good sir! I feel like aesthetics, along with a multiplayer mode is used more often now a days just to cross a checkbox in a list of todos for each IP. Think Crysis and similar IPs. When a company focuses more on story, gameplay and optimization (to get push for most triangles while still…
I think the point I'm trying to make is that indie is on its way to become the new mid-end. I was originally skeptical about the indie scene, since all that was being made were retro platformers, or arcade games. But nowadays indie projects are getting more and more complex. Some of the Kickstarter projects are getting…
I remember the time when getting a console in your home, that was like an arcade machine, was the most exciting thing ever. It was first when the SNES and Megadrive had games like Streetfighter II and Mortal Kombat. Then came the time when you could play Ridge Racer / Daytona / Virtua Fighter in the comfort of your home.…
While I don't come from the art side, a game artist told me: "get as many things moving as realistically as possible, and you'll have realism", and I'm inclined to believe him. With the PS4 having multitudes more power than the PS3, to me this means... 1/ >30 cars on track in the PS4 Gran Turismo, full field of cars and…
A lot of great points Mark. I've been struggling to communicate my thoughts on this sort of next-gen not really feeling next gen thing. As a consumer I could care less about graphical improvements, some of my favorite all time games do not have the highest end graphics(TF2, Journey). But I do enjoy games like BF3, but…