[QUOTE="wakefulness"]All-Stars is fun. Seeing Kratos flex his muscles in a taunt than get slapped all the way across a Locoroco stage (in the middle of said taunt) by a Fat Princess holding a fish as a weapon is priceless. (To say the least)Â
Your sentiments on next gen kind of mirror the fatigue I saw happen in the dual gen transition between snes and n64 or sega genesis and PS2. Everyone later played on or owned PS2 and N64 and loved it; just not every ex-video game owner/enthusiast jumped onboard the hype train day one.
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The big difference between the previous gen transitions to todays ripe gaming environment might be the "Kool-aid" PC+Mobile devs and small time publishers (on PC, mobile, and similar open source platforms) have distributed to casual gamers. That Kool-aid might be sitting well in between the meals the big three have been giving gamers.Â
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And it wont surprise me to see these mobile and PC developers say to those fatigued on consoles say, "Hey, I know you don't own a console because your sick of it. Remember that [phone/PC] you have? Why not make a little upgrade? Buy a few games? Why not get on this new [service/contract]? Eh?" . . . Than next thing you know, these people are just sweeped into that ecosystems hardware and software. Bam! The Kool-aid worked!Â
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Not that I'm hating on PC and mobile, but I don't sip that Kool-aid. Mainly because it's closed-business on open-sourced platforms. Your basically heading into a path where you play games on something you might never be pleased while most of your games are DRM ridden backlog fluff.Â
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tl;dr I think a lot about people making statements on PC and Mobile over taking my precious consoles. XD
freedomfreak
That's an interesting take on how you see the industry, and where it is going. I'm not a fan myself of all that DRM stuff. Everything seems to be so tied to an account and everything. Even the whole moving against used games, online passes. All of that is just turning me off. There's too much control already, and I don't see it becoming any better in the future.Â
I agree. I mean, I don't like that stuff either (no one in their right mind should enjoy punching in an online pass). I've seen and experienced that evil side of the business through second hand observation (and VITA has online codes for some games). It's like consoles grab your precious time for gaming, put it through a field of crap, kicks it around, spits on it, looks at you and your time while it's laughing and spitting, than it locks you in a room with your time while the console is just their, farting up the room . . . and there is nothing you can do but sit there and take it all in.
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Thankfully though, we can go to gaming blogs and have conversations on games. I think these things give us a certain level of awareness and we can learn to avoid certain pitfalls in and around the gaming business. Some evil goings on are unavoidable (i.e. we probably don't know if a game we buy will need a patch day one, but we will probably know if it's good based on the developer behind it) but overall I get the feeling we know better than most. And we as consumers influence change.
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PS3's pitfalls already influenced changes. PS4 seems to fix a lot of the problems of previous gen. Game suspending. Background downloading. Video game footage sharing. I like that. It tells me SCE is a corperation that made the PS3 a laughing stock, got kinda ticked off and fixed all of it in the form of Ps4. It tells me you where a sacrifice and that's sad. But, hey, I can actually get the console you always wanted.
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Think about me, freedom. Think about the children. . . .
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