Starker on 4/10/2013 at 20:37

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Coming from a country where only children's cartoons and soap operas are dubbed, original language with subtitles is the only way to play for me.

Starker on 5/10/2013 at 10:03

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Yeah, Germany's dubbing is usually pretty good, although I still prefer the original voices in most cases. I often can't even stand watching remakes, because I still have the original voices in my head. It happened for example with "Funny Games".

june gloom on 8/12/2013 at 23:16

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nice gif explosion, but this isn't tumblr or kotako so you can stop now

also those graphics aren't exactly leaps and bounds over anything else that's come out lately

Renzatic on 8/12/2013 at 23:51

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Once again, this generation isn't about better graphics, so much as more density. That level of detail is achievable for smaller scenes, but maintaining it over something the size of Skyrim with tons of varying, equally detailed environments, more high poly enemies onscreen, more effects, and all that good stuff is something only next gen is gonna be able to do.

To lean on Skyrim again, remember that scene where you have to fight in that big siege of...er...some fucking town I can't remember the name of, and the whole "battle" consisted of 6 guys running up the hill at you while the actual brunt of it was fought offscreen? This generation would be about putting you in the middle of that battle. The graphics aren't necessarily that much better than the previous gen, but there won't be nearly as many compromises.

Renzatic on 9/12/2013 at 05:34

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For graphics at least. We've still got a long, long way to go before we reach the same point with gameplay.

If anything, we elitist gaming snobs should be embracing the coming generations. Since we're coming to that point when each new platform will only be marginally better graphically, what else will the AAA studios do to compete with each other for our hard earned dollars? They're all gonna be roughly on par with each other graphically. Gears of War 15 running on the latest rev of Unreal Engine 8 won't look that much different than Far Cry 8 running on Cryengine 6. They can't say "look at all this new sparkly shit we've got", and expect it sell a few million copies based on the strength of that alone, because the wow factor for all the new sparkly shit was diminished when everyone ooed and ahhed over the old sparkly shit that looked about the same a couple years back, and really is only an improvement from a purely technical standpoint. So what do they do?

They make sure their games are more fun and interesting than the other guy's. We're gonna see a heavier emphasis on art and gameplay in the coming future. Because now that everyone's won the graphic fidelity arms race by default, they don't have anything else to lean on. Things are still gonna be interesting, though in a much different way.