MasonicGamer: With Microsoft keeping schtum on their next console Sony are taking all the thunder. As our current console cycle comes round to closing time, it seems that in many ways Sony lost the race with the PS3. Coming out after the 360, and unclear on what it’s edge was over the Xbox 360, it was like the PS3 never hit its stride.
This time it feels like the tide is turning for Sony, or that perhaps it already has.
CGM got a very extended hands-on look at Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and it looks like BioWare has made good use of the last ten years.
Graphically it could look better as I’m not a big fan of the WoW color palette but the gameplay and rpg elements look good. The graphics are decent enough that I can look past them if the gameplay makes up for it. In no way do I think it looks awful just not my kind of art style
Looks fine to me. Not super Current Gen graphically, but that's fine. Well, except for that hair physics. That's actually pretty current gen. But as long as it has a good main story, plenty of choices for the player to make and it's not bloated with crappy fetch quests like the third one, this should be good to go.
The reality is that aside from MAYBE Dragon's Age Origins, this series has never been that good. Fun, sure, but great? Far from it. So they certainly have their work cut out for them. And I get it. This is certainly not the old OLD - pre Knights even- Bioware we're talking about here and they sure are hell ain't Larian Studios. But if they can get close enough to Baldur's Gate 3 or at the very least Origins, then that's a win right there.
At least, when it comes to the Art Direction, this is certainly the most appealing Dragon's Age. With the second one coming a close second, character wise at least, but falling WAY short on account of being a half baked game in every respect. The first one being an abhorrent looking abomination, even when it came out, and the Third one being Good Looking but generic as fuck.
So we'll see.
Epic Games is working on another game-changing Fortnite mode, and according to a leaker, it will come out within two weeks.
Fortnite servers will have more problems than usual over the following month, and Epic Games revealed why.
They’re taking them all offline and replacing them with UT99 servers for the foreseeable future.
The PS3 never hit it's stride? It outsold the 360 coming out a year later, taking more chances w/ software, spending a billion less in advertisement all while focusing primarily on the "core gamer" or whatever you wanta call it. The PS4 is the continuance of that stride and everything is looking great.
I've been saying for weeks that MS's silence on the Xbox 3, or at least the rumors swirling around it, would only act to damage their image with gamers and the media. This is happening right now and if MS continue to ignore the situation more and more people will turn to Sony/Nintendo.
It's like they just don't care anymore, like losing their year head start of sales completely has drained them of the will to even try.
Sony have made themselves clear, they are in this to win it and all with gaming at the forefront of their ambitions. If MS wish to ignore this and hand the generation over to PS4 on a silver platter, then so be it.
They were always in first place.
With all the approaches Sony is taking, imagine if they allowed game mods on their system. And had their own workshop and called it "Playstation Extra" or "Playstation Beyond" .... Terrible names I know but still it would be another major reason to own a Playstation ....
It's just me hoping !!!!
Sony could basically stand still and win this race as it stands at the moment.
It's actually quite worrying.