Or maybe you're finally realizing that game development is taking a whole generation for a project, but it took this major hype crash to realize that? Have you ever wondered that Sony is afraid of showing stuff that could be 3-4 years away when Microsoft got flak for that?
I personally don't feel the need to defend Sony, they have people with exorbitant salary for that. My statement also not just for this particular thread which I assume because of the reaction to Sony showcase, but to overall outlook from enthusiast forum such as GAF, toward the game development aspect of the industry.
We don't know exactly if they are really far or not, games like these tend to come out in a year or two at worse, Hyenas that has almost the same trailer advert art as FairGames was revealed only with CGI but had a closed test hapenning at the same time where some gameplay got leaked.
If there is gameplay, they should show gameplay. Regardless, they showed us a bunch of nothing. If they had the time and effort to do that for these GAAS games, they could have made teasers for their big first party SP titles on the way. They did it with SpiderMan, Wolverine, and others in the very recent past. There is no excuse.
As a player, understandably, top end graphic is a coveted goal for games (and their developer, too, I guess). I, too, hope that Insomniac still developing the game further down the road up to the launch.
It still happens. That Haven game got ratioed.
Nah, I knew someone would say this shit. In the gaming space its unique.
I think the tragic truth is that the crusty old men ARE the ones liking these events. The millenials are PEAK consoomers and are the whales who encourage the microtransaction bullshit.
Excuse me?
well yeah. The art style is still pretty cutesy. It's easy to see how someone can see it as cutesy, and i was saying if that's all it takes for you to get thrown off a game you need to grow TF up. because like... There's a company who's been around for 40+ years making some of the most high quality games, and they're also very 'cutesy'
what do they play? I’m genuinely curious. My genz little cousin just started college and he’s all Fortnite, Minecraft, sports games.
Very similar. Fortnite, Minecraft, and a ton of baaaaaad mobile games.
Unfortunate, but true.Games are surely coming, but the typical hardcore gaf user is really out of touch with reality, we're just a small subset of gamers and we're not the market... And we're snobs... Oh god if we're snobs
My sons (8 and 4) love playing Fortnite and Spiderman, and I was really surprised to see how much Fortnite is easy to play for a kid. A kid doesn't want a strong story or good gunplay, he just want a small, easy, addictive, nice looking (for him) gameplay loop, and Fortnite is the de facto standard in that (having player made content for them is like the old 1000 games in 1 cartridges), kudos to epic for that, they did really deliver, I can totally see why this game prints money.
True. It feels odd to us because it's different. From them, it's perfect.
It's like you forgot multi-player shooters have existed for 20 plus years at this point. Fortnite is the closest thing today to those old arena shooters,which makes sense since the battle royale portion was made by the same team who were going to make the next Unreal tournament.
I didn't forgot, in fact I said we did the same at the arcades or early pc/console gaming, we cared about the gameplay mainly, as we grow older other aspects become prominent, I think it's the same as always and will always be like this, kids like something, adults don't understand it, it's the circle of life... And btw forums aren't used by kids anymore so this is an echo chamber, it's our generation that was raised on boards,mirc and mailing lists, now they discuss stuff on other places, this is one of the main reason gaf is out of touch, same as the other forum we're made up of a small homogeneous minority of people that share a mindset
I am no longer the target audience anymore.
Yeah I'm aware. I'm not one of you by the way. Probably the only young person on this site,it's like visiting the retirement home.
Its time for us to become game designers ourselves.
I think PS4 era graphic is already more than enough, personally I'm neither "graphic doesn't matter" camp nor "every game need to be Matrix demo" camp. The graphic just needed to be around or above average compare to other triple A title, unfortunately, most people likes to go extreme on both direction
I'm in the same camp. For the Spiderman 2 case, IMO, the graphic is fine, maybe youtube compression play a bigger part in roughing it down, but in the end, if the end product improves the graphic a bit, but with smoother framerate, better animation and enemy variation, more fun gameplay (the most important part aside graphic) and great content-wise, that is better than just pushing for the graphic to the UE5 or Matrix demo level, and making sacrifice on framerate or other aspect of the game.
