What Features Will Define This Generation of Gaming?

**YellerDog** · 02 Dec 2013, 06:32 PM

The final death of physical media for anything but AAA games will hit in the next year or so.

**Tyler_Durden** · 02 Dec 2013, 09:54 PM

Social media
Ricochet effect
Nascar driving
Air horns
The Stockholm Syndrome
"Now you see it, now you don't"
Mass Poop Affect
That New New
The Crystal Ball
Bitches in Mercedes
Haters in White Ts and Paranoids w/ Tinfoil Battle Armor
Rabies vs the T Virus
Super Smash Brothers Stupid
Assholes and the Mics They Spit Their Racist Shit Out Of
Interactivity
The Old Normal
Transparency
Nuclear Frisson
Dusty Old Cunts in Beat Sedans

I have no fucking idea though

**kedawa** · 02 Dec 2013, 10:03 PM

I don't know either, but it's bound to be something I don't care about.

**Bacon McShig** · 03 Dec 2013, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by Tyler_Durden

Dusty Old Cunts in Beat Sedans

I heard Japan's up to Dusty Old Cunts in Beat Sedans 7.

Seriously though, I'd like to see split-screen multiplayer become a fairly standard inclusion again. It's a non-issue for us adults most of the time, but being asked to pick out a game to play locally and pawing through heaps of players: 1 before finding a rare outlier kinda makes me feel for the kids today. In particular, I believe its exile has really constricted the market for arcadey driving games. That genre was hugely buoyed by being the inoffensive-but-still-cool thing for parents to get their kids playing together. Now that's all the territory of Lego shit and Skylanders. If this gen hadn't constantly taught parents that local multiplayer is the exception rather than the rule for driving games, they (vis-à-vis we) would all be enjoying rad new installments of Burnout and Split/Second and whatnot.

**Brettmatic** · 03 Dec 2013, 01:18 AM

Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

I heard Japan's up to Dusty Old Cunts in Beat Sedans 7.

Seriously though, I'd like to see split-screen multiplayer become a fairly standard inclusion again. It's a non-issue for us adults most of the time, but being asked to pick out a game to play locally and pawing through heaps of players: 1 before finding a rare outlier kinda makes me feel for the kids today. In particular, I believe its exile has really constricted the market for arcadey driving games. That genre was hugely buoyed by being the inoffensive-but-still-cool thing for parents to get their kids playing together. Now that's all the territory of Lego shit and Skylanders. If this gen hadn't constantly taught parents that local multiplayer is the exception rather than the rule for driving games, they (vis-à-vis we) would all be enjoying rad new installments of Burnout and Split/Second and whatnot.

Sonic Racing is a good split screen racing game (my 4 yr old plays me in it all the time). Lego Batman 2 and Lego Marvel are both great split screen games we play. I am with you in hoping they expand on quality splitscreen multiplayer games moving forward.

**Hero** · 03 Dec 2013, 02:00 AM

Originally Posted by Brettmatic

Sonic Racing is a good split screen racing game (my 4 yr old plays me in it all the time). Lego Batman 2 and Lego Marvel are both great split screen games we play. I am with you in hoping they expand on quality splitscreen multiplayer games moving forward.

Funny you mention splitscreen co-op - the Wii U version of Marvel Heroes has two screen co-op: one on gamepad and one on screen. Was great playing it with the niece over Thanksgiving - she thought getting a whole screen to herself was cool.