Gamespresso's Sheldon Jones tackles an indie horror game created by game critic Yahtzee Croshaw titled The Consuming Shadow.
This week on Slightly Civil War, Yahtzee Croshaw and Jack Packard debate whether backwards compatibility is actually necessary for new consoles.
no it's not necessary, nobody wants to play crappy graphic or gameplay with the worse AI!
Ask Sony if 110+ million and Nintendo's 50+ million console sales made BC necessary. Obviously not. If you give it to me, I'll take it. If not, BC wasn't what I was looking for on new hardware anyway.
It's a feature that's cool to have and is convenient in not needing multiple pieces of hardware hooked up. New hardware can make old games sometimes look better.
But it's not necessary when the reason we buy new consoles, is to play new games that take advantage of that new hardware. If new, quality games are coming in constantly, you'll find less an less time to play old games.
For the billionth time.
Definitely not necessary but from a marketing standpoint it's pretty clever. If someone had a console this gen and amassed a collection of games for it, they may be less likely to switch to a rival console if they can carry those games over to that console's next iteration , possibly with advantages like a higher resolution or higher frames etc.
I mean its helps also knowing i can play all my ps4&xboxone games on my ps5 or Xbox series x via backwards compatible makes me wanna buy both next gen consoles even more
Whistler writes, "Dread and insanity drenches our unlikely hero as the god’s play games with the fabric of reality and a consuming shadow looms over the United Kingdom. The Consuming Shadow by video game critic, writer and indie game developer Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw (best known for his Zero Punctuation series) can be best described as a Lovecraftian roguelite that takes similar elements from games like FTL, Oregon Trail and The Binding of Isaac then marries them with a densely oppressive world à la the Cthulhu Mythos."
The latest game from Yahtzee Croshaw is a spooky Lovecraftian Rouguelike. Does it work out?
