When are we going to get real next gen games?
You may be confused about this question thinking, ozy is at it again, hasn't he seen how good the games look, perhaps they will ban him this time, etc.
Well the thing is high res tectures don't make a game next gen if the gameplay can be done on old hardware minus the textures and poly count.
Take a look at the previous generations, N64 and PS1. Perfect dark for example squeezed every bit of juice out of the N64 and it had great graphics of it's time, yes? Yes. The levels were big for it's time and the story and gameplay was the best since golden eye a few years before.
Then you have the xbox and ps2, on the xbox there was Halo on release day, this was even bigger and much better graphics and had better gameplay with great physics (ah, warthog jumps
) and raised the bar to what people were expecting from console FPS with things that weren't possible on the N64 like flying and seamlessly transition to ground firefights while shooting rockets with 25 AI people all shooting and no slowdown.
Now we have the x360 (well in few weeks) and the games look good, but the gameplay is the same standard as the xbox, DoA4 and PD0 could be done on the xbox with lowergraphics.
You may say that the games aren't using the full power of the x360, but tell me this;
Halo wasn't using the full power for the xbox but still managed to be much better than any previous generation of console shooters in terms of graphics, physics, AI and general gameplay fun, so why don't these games on the x360 seem to have this big gap like the previous generation jump did?
The only game near release that I would call next gen offering better gameplay, better AI and physics is Oblivion (damn that game rocks
).
So my question remains, when will we see true next gen games and why hasn't the gap between this generation and the next being as big as before?
