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What shouldn't be carried over to next-gen?
- Thread starter BFIB
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This really needs to happen.
I've put up with it over the last few years but it is seriously beginning to bug me now, to the point where I feel inclined to give games that have limited activations and pointless inconveniences like GFWL and Uplay a miss from now on.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
Amen, no one is not guilty of this right now including Steam. They need to pass the savings they are making from cutting out the retailer to the consumer.
Pre order at Gamestop and you get Halo 4 for free!
Vinsanity.
Member
Motion controls....motion gaming.
Yeah, I said it.
Yeah, I said it.
Anticitizen One
Banned
"cinematic action games" and visceral/gritty reboots
Yep, and blockbuster games that you instantly know are getting trilogy treatment.
Motion controls like skyward sword need to stay though. Best thing this gen
Supermanisdead
Member
8 hour games that are 60$ and then drop down to 15$ in 2 months. Aka, everything from Ubisoft.
I don't want motion controls to be abandoned, but it does need a reboot. Nintendo simplified it for the casual gamers who feel more at home with a TV remote than a gamepad, and Microsoft and Sony followed suit with similarly uncomplicated controls, but now let's see what can be done for the hardcore gamers. Dual nunchucks, for twin thumbsticks and twin optical pointers, and with plenty of buttons and triggers would make for a really nice motion control setup, without breaking the traditional gamepad layout.
Freezie KO
Banned
That's fine. You can stop right there.
Darn. Beat me to it.
-Motion controls (looks like Nintendo is phasing these out with the Wii U, thank goodness).
-Crazy high prices for downloadable games on the Nintendo eshop and PSN. Old PSP games should not still be 5000+ yen to download and new 3DS games should not be MSRP.
-On-disc DLC and in-game purchases that require real money.
-Crazy high prices for downloadable games on the Nintendo eshop and PSN. Old PSP games should not still be 5000+ yen to download and new 3DS games should not be MSRP.
-On-disc DLC and in-game purchases that require real money.
1) Boring open world so called non linear games which have stupid fetch quests and lame side missions to pad up a games length so that so called hardcore gamers feel they are in control of the game. Rather have cinematic games if that is the alternative.
2) Paying for Online Multiplayer
3) Shooters.
2) Paying for Online Multiplayer
3) Shooters.
graywolf323
Member
this has got to be my biggest gripe as well
Buckethead
Banned
Controllers with battery packs that break constantly, Microsoft.
Kenshin001
Member
I meant in multiplayer. When you start off you get the wonky peashooter while people who've been playing the game a while already have the superscoped, insanely accurate, 100 round mag weapon. It just becomes a grind to get the better weapons/perks. I have no problem with unlocking different weapons/perks but I hope this philosophy of deliberately unbalancing the game by awarding better weapons/perks goes the way of the dodo.
Day 1 DLC
Paid for online multiplayer
Region locking
Halo, Call of Duty & Gears of War (at least in their current forms).
If you get rid of the 'plastic discs' the prices will remain higher for longer.
Paid for online multiplayer
Region locking
Halo, Call of Duty & Gears of War (at least in their current forms).
If you get rid of the 'plastic discs' the prices will remain higher for longer.
Criminal Upper
Banned
Ugh. I dunno, just about everything, I guess.
Fried Food
Banned
"Go here"
"press this"
"shoot that"
"Press Y to look"
"press this"
"shoot that"
"Press Y to look"
GravityMan
Member
- Excessive hand-holding
- Terrible pacing
- Achievements/Trophies need to stay, as I can see why people like them and I like them myself for those (few) games that implement them well. However there should be an option for players to disable them, either for specific games or for all games. Shouldn't be that hard to implement.
- Sub-HD resolutions. Every game next gen should meet a minimum standard of 720p, 30 FPS and no screen tearing.
- Exotic hardware architectures (CPU, RAM, video, etc.).
- Miniscule amounts of RAM
- DVD format
- Game prices that are higher than $50, unless they are collector's editions. Unlikely to happen though.
- Homogeneous game pricing for most games. (I.E. most games launching at $59.99). Allow variable pricing a la Steam. Give devs and publishers more power to set their own prices, with an upper bound.
- Retailer-specific DLC
- Games that are only available at specific retailers.
- Non-skippable company and technology logo screens when you boot up a game
- Firmware updates in their current form. That goes for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Especially Sony. I'd like the industry to get to a point where firmware updates are infrequent and as unobtrusive as possible.
- Console boxes only coming with composite cables, not component or HDMI. The boxes should include HDMI cables. The HDTV generation has matured to a point where I think it's safe to do so.
- Developers and especially publishers playing it too safe in their games. I know it's not easy to turn a profit, and I know there's XBLA/PSN, but we want to see more high-profile AAA retail games that take risks and show some real ingenuity.
- Terrible pacing
- Achievements/Trophies need to stay, as I can see why people like them and I like them myself for those (few) games that implement them well. However there should be an option for players to disable them, either for specific games or for all games. Shouldn't be that hard to implement.
- Sub-HD resolutions. Every game next gen should meet a minimum standard of 720p, 30 FPS and no screen tearing.
- Exotic hardware architectures (CPU, RAM, video, etc.).
- Miniscule amounts of RAM
- DVD format
- Game prices that are higher than $50, unless they are collector's editions. Unlikely to happen though.
- Homogeneous game pricing for most games. (I.E. most games launching at $59.99). Allow variable pricing a la Steam. Give devs and publishers more power to set their own prices, with an upper bound.
- Retailer-specific DLC
- Games that are only available at specific retailers.
- Non-skippable company and technology logo screens when you boot up a game
- Firmware updates in their current form. That goes for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Especially Sony. I'd like the industry to get to a point where firmware updates are infrequent and as unobtrusive as possible.
- Console boxes only coming with composite cables, not component or HDMI. The boxes should include HDMI cables. The HDTV generation has matured to a point where I think it's safe to do so.
- Developers and especially publishers playing it too safe in their games. I know it's not easy to turn a profit, and I know there's XBLA/PSN, but we want to see more high-profile AAA retail games that take risks and show some real ingenuity.
I actually want this, but modernize the system so it downloads in the background and installs when you aren't using it (or just takes a simple restart like Chrome).
megarockexe
Member
I hope we're long-past the need for double-A batteries. While they're at it, better battery and input lag reduction. That can always get better.
EatinOlives
Member
Thisthisthis.
I'm not giving Microsoft a dime of my money if they keep up with their "pay to use your own internet connection to play the games you already paid for" model. They can gently GTFO for another 6+ years if they want to stick with that.
This +region-locking.
Aka: playing a videogame
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
What games have you played that the higher level weapons/perks are substantially better than the starter weapons/perks?
Heck all the MP games ive played in recent years the early weapons were just as good as the later ones.
In some cases the starter stuff is actually the best for most situations, and then the later ones are good for specific play styles.
If we get rid of all progression in multiplayer games the games would last alot shorter.
Half the fun of this gens Multiplayer games has been the psuedo RPG elements that have been added.
If we go back to the Quake days ill feel like we just went back in time
Cyber Caesar
Member
less shooting
People have to stop this meme that gaming companies control prices. We who buy games are the ones who decide the prices.
Stop buying games day 1 for $60, wait for price drops. The publishers/distributors will either drop the prices or have crappy revenue, which one do you think they'll choose?
CadetMahoney
Member
buying reviews.
review embargoes.
corporate allegiances.
review embargoes.
corporate allegiances.
CadetMahoney
Member
What issue can you possibly have with this?
ScepticMatt
Member
retailer exclusives
overpriced/day 1 DLC
always online DRM
forced multiplayer
dumbed down/appeal to masses/streamlined linear action/shooter games
overpriced/day 1 DLC
always online DRM
forced multiplayer
dumbed down/appeal to masses/streamlined linear action/shooter games
You'll never get flexible princing with physical retail, since pricing a game lower than others decreases the publishers margin due to the fixed cost of goods.
Sohter.Nura
Member
This entire generation should be discarded and we should start all over 