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the saga continues

No, I played them all when they came out but I still think my fondest memories were of DarkSouls 1, as the step up from a hub with multiple worlds to warp to in Demons, to an intricately crafted inter connected world in Dark was what really wowed me. The exploration aspect is probably what I enjoy most about these games.

Grosjean is having another great race so far

@twistedmerc94: yeh racing incident in my mind, hamilton only had eyes for rosberg and squeezed bottas too tight

Holy shit that start

wow williams made up some places

Holy crap did vettel's engine just blow up?

Oh right, I always meant to pick up TwoWorlds II but never got around to it. I played the first one and although it was a bit of a clunker it had a certain something going for it. The world although as much generic fantasy as oblivion actually managed to do a better job on the variety end with different types of terrain and I kind of liked the look of it better than Oblivion. The writing and overall game play were not up to par though and the mocap'ed fighting system couldn't save it from mediocraty.

I remember them touting the inovative magic system in TW2 which seemed interesting at the time since I feel this is where the Elderscrolls games have kind of been going backwards.

anyway I'll be interested to see what this ends up being.

I personally don't think the problem is with the ps4's (ailing hardware) but devs chasing the newest / best graphics/ video effects. I get that companies/studios want to remain relevant but isn't aiming for a moving target a lot harder than a stationary one?

I'm kind of afraid that in a few years we'll be in the same situation as we were after the switch to HD when most of the mid tier developers had to close shop because the cost of development was getting out of controle in relation to the pricing of games and their profit margins, and the size of the teams had to grow enourmously to be able to create all the extra art assets that HD would allow.

As an example I'll use Ubisoft where the 1st 2 AssCreeds were pretty pollished well flowing games the later ones have become these giant cobbeled together multi studio messes where they might look great but the games feel disjointed and badly scripted/programmed as a result of 14 different teams working on them.

Going to 4K is probably going to have about the same effect on studio's (in my mind). Ubisoft will end up with studio's employing the equivelent of half of the population of China to be able to make sweet looking games in 4K (that will probably still feel like they're held together with bailing whire and pieces of used chewing gum), anyone who can't afford to have a 500 or even more strong team won't be able to keep up. (I get that most of these people will be freelance or short term contract workers that get shed as soon as the title goes gold, but is this really the way we want this industry to head? no job security and people getting burned out and leaving after a few years of trying to work in game development, just to be replaced by the next wave of eager and naive college graduates who'll get chewed up and spit out the same way)

Going after increasingly better looking games is all well and good but I would rather they use some of that horsepower to actually improve other stuff in games like NPC AI and things of that nature instead of going for the easy answer of another bump in grapics quallity. I'd rather have my games look a bit more muddy than be walking around this pristene beautifull 4K landscape and still having to interact with the equivelent of damn cardboard cutouts. I get that it's an easy thing to show off to consumers with a little before and after 4K, but I would rather they didn't focus so much on pixel count and number of frames and instead work on improving the systems within the games.

Anyway I'll stop ranting now (I guess I'm going to have to build another gaming PC in a few years huh?)

seeing as the image is from Johnny Mnemonic (one of my favourite good bad science fiction movies featuring Ice-T) obviously they are going to get memmory upgrades installed in their brains and delete all their childhood memories in the process. Either that or they're hacking their own brains via US Navy trained hacker dolphins while laser garotte wielding jakuza thugs try to get their hands on the data they're transporting. Oh and maybe Henry Rowlings will show up to try to cure some cyber disease.

Man I really really love Johnny Mnemonic