Rumors are already beginning to surface in the Sony and Microsoft camps, and while they are just stupid rumors, there is a large swath of the gaming community that jumps before they look. This leads to thousands, if not millions of people, completely uninformed. But I think when console companies straight up lie or provide half-truths, that says even more about how much humanity has the capacity to suck balls.
One rumor circulating mentions how the PS4 is going to support 4k resolutions. This already has uninformed idiots believing that teh grafix are going to out out-of-this-world. When Sony announced 1080P support, they had the PS3 fanboys laughing their asses off at the 360's comparitively puny support for 720P (before Microsofted updated this with a simple firmware tweak). What was the truth? The truth was that neither the PS3 nor the 360 could output natively at those resolutions without suffering ridiculous framerate hits. So the vast majority of all games today are natively rendered at 720P (or even lower), and simply upscaled to the HD resolution that the TV supports.
4K I hope is nothing more than a rumor, because I really don't want to see the industry devolve into a stupid numbers war that does nothing but hurt and confuse the consumer. Marketing is one thing, but forcing a video chip to include a spec that never gets used because its totally impractical is nothing short of misleading people.
There is a big difference between healthy competition, and lying & cheating.
So I've been looking for something that can tide me over until Borderlands 2 and I was thinking of downloading Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Thing is, watching videos and reviews of it remind me of Ubisoft's Rainbox Six series as far as the clunkiness of navigating the game world and a not-so-polished graphics engine. After playing a story-driven, non-linear sci fi game like Mass Effect, would playing Deus Ex seem like a let down?
You seriously just compared Deus Ex 3 to Rainbow Six. Amazing just how wrong you got it.
Play the game. it's awesome.
Would Splinter Cell have been a better comparison?
That is irrelevant. Products should be charged on a cost and reasonable profit basis. Anything more is price gouging. Nothing entitled about that at all. If $40 is a reasonable return on a price of a game, then that applies everywhere. If it is retail, then other factors are at play.
My staff get $26 an hour by the way, but the absolute minimum is about $16.
Actually that's not irrelevant at all. The consequence of governments forcibly setting a high minimum wage means the cost of all goods have to be high in order to pay those high wages in the first place. This is the basis for inflation. You may think that an engineer making $50 per hour in your country and an engineer making $50 in the US are one and the same, but they are not. The company employing the engineer in the US isn't paying their cleaning staff, their cafeteria cooks, the people making deliveries, etc. the $14/h Austrailian minimum wage. Now, I'm sure you understand this, but what you are wondering why the hell would this affect downloadable/electronic content? The answer is simple. Aussies are already conditioned to pay more money for stuff, and game publishers know this. Are more people going to buy the games if the prices were $20 cheaper? Of course not! Any Aussie gamer is already willing to pay the premium because they've been doing it for over a decade. Now why would any publisher want to lose out on making all that money? That is, after all, why they are running a business. It's harsh, and crappy, but unfortunately the world kind of sucks that way.
So I've been looking for something that can tide me over until Borderlands 2 and I was thinking of downloading Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Thing is, watching videos and reviews of it remind me of Ubisoft's Rainbox Six series as far as the clunkiness of navigating the game world and a not-so-polished graphics engine. After playing a story-driven, non-linear sci fi game like Mass Effect, would playing Deus Ex seem like a let down?
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - The overall world had a great dark and gothic feel to it, and every monument and craggy mountain felt like it belonged in that world.
Alan Wake - It features some of the densest atmosphere I've ever seen. Beyond that, it grounds all of its characters, locations, and supernatural elements into firm existence.
Red Dead Redemption - It's a no brainer. You can look at the three distinct major locations and find different influences from Western movies everywhere, ranging from John Ford to Clint Eastwood to Sergio Leone. Mix that in with a world that actually feels living and breathing. Seriously, it's fucking gorgeous.
Dead Space - We're talking about the original here. It's another game that dishes out tons of atmosphere, but how all the areas of the Ishimura link together feels seemless, and the drenching tension of turning any corner is undeniably satisfying and frightening.
World of Warcraft - I think you'd be hard pressed to find a more fleshed out game universe anywhere in the industry, whether you like the game or not.
Vagrant Story - Maybe it's just because it's a personal favorite of mine (*cough*GREATESTGAMEEVERMADEPERIODEXCLAMATIONPOINT*cough*). It's not, though. The game features another seemless blend of atmosphere, characters, and a bit of mystery to it. Speaking of mystery...
Myst - WHY THE FUCK HAVE NONE OF YOU PUT MYST ON YOUR LISTS?! It's one of the most ICONIC game universes out there.
Doom - It's Hell in low resolution, but everything about it just feels right and iconic. When I think of Hell, I think of Cyberdemons, not Satan.
Dante's Inferno - As much as the game sucks, the world that Visceral created around Dante's epic poem is worth kicking the difficulty to easy and having a virtual tour of Hell.
Katamari Damacy - There are very few game universes that are nearly as unique and wild as the Katamari franchise. The original game absolutely deserves to be on this list.
Myst is more like looking at a picture of something cool. I never felt like I was actually living there. Dead Space is creepy in a sci-fi slasher kind of way. Alan Wake is creepy in a child-molesting serial killer kind of way, and while it was a great game, its too creepy for me to ever consider playing again. Doom 3, I am in complete agreement. One of the first games where the textures literally popped-out at you (thanks to the newly utilized "normal mapping"). The Mars atmosphere could be considered the precursor to what we have in Dead Space. Dante's Inferno? Definitely an interesting pick, and the hellishness was definitely well realized.
Definitely a great one, and I own all the games in the series... I just think about not having toilets or bathtubs in that game, and the giant spiders, and I would just not rather live in that kind of environment. Then again, playing Skyrim actually resulted in me making my own mead, and I'd go into pubs and drink mead in the game while emulating it at home. Damned immersive if you ask me!
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