Jonathon Blow, creator of the PS4 game, The Witness, has said some interesting things about the next gen consoles.
A third game in the Falconeer series has been announced as the second, Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles, launches.
While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.
Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.
I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.
Hopefully Hercule will at least get his jetpack.
I can see that happening considering the big gap un power between the two.
It is interesting to see more of these news stories trickle out. Several developers have been pointing out how much weaker the Xbox One is in comparison with the PS4 (especially with the requirement of 3 Gigs of RAM, 2 GPU cores, and 10% processor power devoted solely to the three operating systems).
What is important to note is that - unlike last gen - the architecture of these two consoles is fundamentally the same. It will not be a repeat of last gen where PS3 was "technically" more powerful but it was much harder to develop for. This time, software is going to run much the same way on both consoles, except that PS4 will have more resources available for gaming. Devs have already been confirming that the PS4 is easier to develop for and has better middleware and tools available to developers.
It's going to be interesting to see how differently games run on each system. I'd imagine that most devs would rather add more effects/physics/etc rather than optimizing for 60fps
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