It's going to be cool as shit when I finally jump on in two years or so, so W/E. Suffer, early fools!
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It's going to be cool as shit when I finally jump on in two years or so, so W/E. Suffer, early fools!
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Originally Posted by Will
Luckily, I buy games to play and not stick on my wall to stare at. That means if a system has enough games to keep me occupied and interested, it's a hit. The Wii U is doing great for me right now and there's plenty for me to play on a PS4, current and soon to be released, to keep me busy for a long, long time after I buy one.
I don't know what all these complaints are about not enough games. I guess if you want to play a new one every day. I have a pretty open schedule and still can't keep up with everything I want to play.
Yea there are lots of cool games. It's just a bit of a bummer to see all these crappy remasters, knowing in years past they would have been new releases.
Exactly. Roughly half of the games in my xbone/PS4 sections are trashy "remasters." I play maybe a half dozen games a year, so yeah, there's plenty to keep me busy. But how can you be fine with the fact that instead of putting resources into crafting new experiences and IP, companies are instead spit polishing relatively recent stuff? These early years in the gen are supposed to be the time that publishers throw all kinds of shit at the wall to see what sticks. That's what bums me out.
Despite it being completely out of my wheelhouse, I'm taking a positive position on these. I've had the "definitive edition" of most of these games for years. I can't keep up with actually new releases as it is. SOMA is a great example. I was excited for that on announcement but forgot about it before I saw the review, because there are just too many releases. The fact that several of the big publishers want to save me time and money with redundant releases is better than getting even further behind.
PS2----------PS3--PS4
Little tiny pond hop of an advance this gen.
Last time was 'you got a new computer', this time is 'you got the next model up graphics card and some ram'*.
*now buy back all your software, chumps
I was excited for and played a bunch of the PS2->PS3 remasters. Widescreen, HD, usually 60 FPS, and 3D if you had it (i don't) make for a pretty big leap between the remaster and the original. Plus they were cheap, always had at least two games in there, and the games remastered were console exclusives--it's not as though there were a better version of Jak 2 on PC all these years. The PS3 remasters really are definitive editions*. That kind of progress and value doesn't seem to be there for the current gen ones.
* not valid in instances of emulation or Silent Hill.
Another thing to consider is that we were halfway through that generation when they started popping up. We already had plenty of new IP at that point. Also for every well done remaster (Ico/SotC, Jak,Sly,) there was a Splinter Cell, Silent Hill, Zone of the Enders, etc.
Shit, was it only the Sony (and Nintendo) stuff that turned out well? I recall people hating on the Prince of Persia collection. Not sure about the Tomb Raider trilogy.
The problem I have with these new remasters is that they are all new games, with really good PC versions. It's just a waste of time. Of course I know that not everyone with a ps4 owns a PC, but Dishonored on old consoles is still a perfectly good game. There's no reason for that or Saints Row or Sleepy Dogs PS4 to exist.
Some games like DMC4 or GTA5 bring some new stuff to the table but that's rare.
Edit: MCC would have been amazing if it wasn't a disaster. It's still pretty cool because you get a remade Halo 2 and very solid versions of all the rest, and it mostly works right now. But still.