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@slag: I've been on the fence about DB:X. How are you liking it? I've been curious about the multiplayer aspect of it, but haven't found much info online. Is there enough content to keep you coming back for multiple playthroughs or is it just one and done?

I haven't played many games that were released in 2015. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is about the only one I've finished and I really enjoyed my time with it. It's just as intense and heart-pounding as the first one, and the soundtrack is incredible. I picked up Battlefield Hardline last week to play with friends, but so far I've been regretting it. The game is just not fun, most likely because I'm four or five games gehind everyone else in experience. The learning curve is very steep. Plus, the TDM spawns are horrendously broken. So, as it stands, my vote is Hotline Miami 2, but that should change once I get more games under my belt.

Welcome to the internet, bud! :P HLTB is an integral part of my gaming process. Cool site.

@zevvion said:

I completely agree.

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Good point. The recent flux of indie game popularity has shown that it doesn't take massive open worlds, photo realistic graphical fidelity, and superbly detailed animation to sell games. It's interesting to see that graphics are getting better and better, but becoming less and less the focus for game designers.

@williamhenry said:

Fully destructible environments would be friggin' sweet. Maybe even destructible environments made completely out of next gen hair, YEAH! Now we're getting somewhere.

I'd also like to add that I'd like more realistic collision detection in a game. I hate how your super soldier badass that slays hordes of alien zombie hybrids can't navigate his way around a chair because it's an object firmly planted in the game world instead of able to be knocked over like the stupid puny chair that it is.

After listening to a segment on The Gameinformer Show about what some of the editors thought should change going in to the next generation of consoles, I’m curious to find out:

What did you see this gen that you’d like to see done differently? Or something that you’d like to see improved specifically because the current gen didn’t have the capabilities to do it properly? Or even a feature that wasn’t implemented this gen that you’d like to see?

For me, it’s a minor thing: video game hair is horrible and can make any—even greatly designed character—look completely unrealistic. Cell-shaded and cartoonish games get a pass because that’s a stylistic choice, but a game going for a photo-realistic design suffers from shitty hair physics. In stills, most characters look fine, but in motion the hair begins to take on a life of its own. Too many times in the middle of a fierce combat sequence I’ve had to do a double take because I thought some alien-like creature was attacking my head.

Do this:

Not this:

Or just give every character hair like Paul from Tekken - that's good too:

It's fine for game consoles to have other features that might be attractive to potential buyers that aren't gamers; like social media, music, and TV. But I think the difference between Sony and Microsoft is that Sony seems to be taking a very "games first" approach, infusing these new features into the core gaming experience with something like the share button. Whereas Microsoft seems (again, based on rumors) to be pushing games to the back burner while they focus on making the new console more of a media hub than a gaming device.