Dead Horse Interchange

Kugelfisch wrote: ↑

Thu May 10, 2018 3:28 pm

The consoles haven't made a large enough step forward in the last eight years to offer a benefit to better graphics anyway.
I chose a DUSK over a better looking CoD any day of the week. The gameplay, the atmosphere and the replayability are all there.

Not to mention current gen consoles are basically "unfucked version of the jumbled architecture of the PS360" and their pro versions are "unfucked unjumbled versions of the PS4BONE but with better processors to better play all those dollar store Unreal Engine 4 games" and it's a recipe for disaster for the next N amount of years they'll spend milking the upgrades of the consoles. PS5 is a long way ahead given how the PS4 is now a steam box that can get half-updated hardware every 5 years and normies will eat it up as hard as the early launch Switch. And thos faggots still want them to be PCs that connect to your tv.

At this point SONY needs to follow Ninty's example and make a console without chasing the PC, like they did with the PS2, except with no gimmicks like touch pads, netflix and shit. That'd be step 1 and the devs will know what to do next and the consoles will have value again. So of course nobody's gonna do that.

Sony's winning right now though. They don't have to do jack shit.

Without context, they still semi-operate in losses compared to Nintendo because of previous years of blunders and they still haven't made their money back from the PS4Pro.

I don't think Sony or Microsoft compare themselves to Nintendo. Not with their main consoles anyways. They just fight each other. Nintendo is the special kid in the corner eating glue and doing his own thing, cannibalising his marketshare between Switch and 3DS.

The 3DS died the day N3DS came out and they released Hyrule Warriors on both 3DS. Nobody ever recovered from that asshurt, even when Fire Emblem Warriors was the second game to get the "only on New3DS" label. Not to mention the Nintentard never wanted a portable console, their wet dream was a home console they could carry with them like the autists they are.

While SONY doesn't compare itself heavily, they still take notes from Ninty since they still don't sell with a profit like Ninty does(Ninty has had 2-3 resupplies of the Switch? Even counting their shitty short-stock tactics, that's impressive for something that isn't an amiibo) while the PS4 just got a ressuply order for their Monhun special editions and regular PS4s and people begrudgingly bought PS4 Pros(almost to the point of ressuplying) since they wanted the normal ones due to the heavy price difference. It's enough for Sony to keep an eye out until they even the playing field and start operating at a profit and then it'll be a PS2-gamecube situation for them again and won't bother with Ninty at all.

Which to be honest, might come from Spider-man this september depending on how they play their cards. Because The Lesbians of Us 2 : Hellen Paige'd and Gays Gone : Zombi Edition aren't exactly looked upon with such excitement due to fad overload. Dad of Boi might give the PS4 a second wind if it breaches Monster Hunter World numbers but I doubt it.

AngrySpoonySnob wrote: ↑

Thu May 10, 2018 10:14 am

They really need to make shorter games then or stop giving a fuck about upgrading graphics.

Give me an ugly game with actual choices then!

Imo its the only thing that can save gaming.

They hire people to make overly large maps and copy and paste in resources (which they also got people to make) and called it a day. Many games with good graphics are still ugly as fuck because they have a washed out/limited colour palette and everything is wet clay (like Skyrim) because they're so shit at making stuff properly.

No games are required to have best possible graphics at the time of their release, just good art direction, which is far more important and will make sure the game is still appealing when it's cutting edge graphics become dated, which happens like half a year later anyways.

But of course, that's not only much harder to do, but you can't market it to idiots like DSP (I'm using him as an example, but there are millions of people that will buy games like Battlefield simply because of how they look), because anything that looks like it's not trying to imitate reality for some reason looks worse for people with no imagination, which is 90% of gamers anyways. I don't have anything against games that have good art direction and also great graphics, but the latter is clearly far less important to the player.

Some Sick Fuck wrote: ↑

Mon May 14, 2018 6:53 pm

No games are required to have best possible graphics at the time of their release, just good art direction, which is far more important and will make sure the game is still appealing when it's cutting edge graphics become dated, which happens like half a year later anyways.

Damn right. Super Metroid, Mega Man X or even early 3D stuff like Jet Set Radio are either timelessly gorgeous or at least totally work.

A lot of games from before the hd console generation still look timeless because they had good art direction.

All games need to be successful are waifus, if you keep trying to make things "realistic" you go against what a waifu is.