Journey, Flower, Dear Esther shows what the next gen games should be like

Have you yet had the chance to play any of the above titles? No? Well you probably should, it is by miles the best £10 investment you can do at the moment. These 3 games offer what we lacking in so much in gaming industry, fresh and innovative approach. An entirely new concept of how to experience games, but more importantly aimed directly at personal reception.

[FutureTechnologies]

"Now, the reason I believe the next generation should emphasize such a direction is because we currently seem to be reaching the limits of technological capabilities. There are changes here and there, none of which really have a heavy impact. And even with more powerful hardware at hands, there is only so much that can be changed. You can make things bigger, faster, technologically smoother and more advanced. You can even improve physics, AI, graphics, but ultimately, the core elements will stay…"

The core elements can improve, change, upgrade, but the problem is that console are stuck in time, they make PC gaming (500$ GPU's, 300$ CPU, 100$ insane RAM) almost irrelevant since 99% of games today are console ports and are far from utilizing full CPUGPU potential that PC's have. Mark my words, next-gen will have amazing graphics and bring us something new, but only for a short period of time since they will continue to hold PC's back like they always do.

[SilentNegotiator]

Oh, that's right; because most PC gamers have freaking $1000 gaming computers, right?

No, actually, many of them chug through games on their laptop (the current dominant form of computer on the market), have weak cards, or have mid-range systems. MOST of them, I would boldly say.

Consoles aren't holding back PC gaming because consoles are much closer to what the majority of people are willing to spend. And with a heavy OS like Windows, you need to spend almost twice as much just to get similar results as a console.

The point is, you can't "hold back" something when you represent the average.

Blame consumers for not being able to afford your little fantasy of what the average PC gamer is.

[theeg]

@silent

consoles have 2004 tech in them brostantonopolis,

the average gamer has a dx10 or dx11 card and a dual or quad core with 6gb ram, according to steams 40 million member polls, those specs there, they make games look AMAZING, you see uncharted 3 after gaming on that and it looks LAST GEN!

ati and nvidia sell in 1 year more money worth of HARDWARE than ps3, 360, psp, vita, ds all combined

way more people in the world game on pc, just in the us, canada, austrailia and uk are consoles the most popular, you know, where the sheep are

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[ginsunuva]

$1000 is cheap for a gaming pc.

[SilentNegotiator]

First of all, Steam polls aren't representative of the average. The average gamer doesn't take polls on Steam. I don't think you understand the idea of "average". And 40 million? Ooooooooh! I'm so impressed! What a shame that 200M+ people with standard hardware are "oppressing" ~40M people with PCs capable of more that care enough to take a poll? Such a shame. Clearly the industry would be in better shape if all hardware where too expensive for most of those 200M+....then you could dance about as hundreds of developers go bankrupt so that games can use better technology. And at that point, I'd bet they'd have a REAL passion for the work, as they work for minimum wage to afford operation.

Oh, and DX10 cards are not automatically impressive. Some DX10 cards are fairly low end.

"ati and nvidia sell in 1 year more money worth of HARDWARE than ps3, 360, psp, vita, ds all combined"
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What does that have to do with ANYTHING? ATI and Nvidia are in the computer hardware industry, not just gaming hardware industry. Their parts are used in all sorts of computers and devices that have no business playing 3D games at all. So what does that at all have to do with this discussion?

"$1000 is cheap for a gaming pc"
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Your standards and what is actually required of a PC to play games are two totally different things, then. Or else you're under the impression that only alienware computers are "gaming PCs"

[kasasensei]

A short, linear and non-interactive story telling game with almost no interaction, no difficulty and no real gameplay?
I hope not.

[SilentNegotiator]

Dear Esther is BOOOOOOORING. Walking around listening to boring jabber does not make for a good game.

Flower is okay, though, as a nice little downloadable game.

[Nitrowolf2]

I think ICO and Shadow do an excellent job, but TBH I like the titles for what they are and how rare it is to come across them.

Can you imagine if every game followed this style?
Sure it would be cool for a while, but it would totally ruin the whole point of it for me.

For me these games are there to supply gamers a new experience and draw them away from their normal FPS, Save the princess, ect, ect, ect. I like it a lot, but don't shove it down my throat, because that would ruin the point for me.
Don't think they are meant to be games to be abused

[raytraceme]

I want more games like heavy rain, alanwake, and other games that can involve our emotions to the game.

[theeg]

more like games like metro2033 dx11, arma 2, stalker cop dx11, crysis warhead dx10, bf3 dx11, the witcher 2 uber,

if next gen consoles even get close to those games in 1080p it will be a miricle, i wouldnt count on it though, pc is too far out ahead for them to catch up now.

[olorin818]

I love how console/PC war rages so often for no apparent reason ...