The PS4 thread
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FerretGamer
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Has anyone picked up Infamous? I've been really enjoying it and the visuals certainly are pretty.
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Yup. Played through it already. Fun, pretty, but pretty easy and unimaginitive in the genre/compared to previous Infamous games. A meat and potatoes game that shows off tech...FerretGamer wrote:Has anyone picked up Infamous? I've been really enjoying it and the visuals certainly are pretty.
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Care to elaborate?dsheinem wrote:Yup. Played through it already. Fun, pretty, but pretty easy and unimaginitive in the genre/compared to previous Infamous games. A meat and potatoes game that shows off tech...FerretGamer wrote:Has anyone picked up Infamous? I've been really enjoying it and the visuals certainly are pretty.
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Sure. I feel like the "hook" for the previous Infamous games was that you could use powers in an open world setting with an original comic-book-like IP. That, along with some interesting interactive/online features in the second one (and some cool DLC), was what made them distinct from the deluge of open world games (sort of like how super-destructible environs made Red Faction Guerrilla distinct). The new one has a lot of polish and looks great and feels great etc. - it is well deserving of the B/B+ scores it has been getting - but it doesn't really offer anything "new" to the genre or the series beyond what the series did before (other than some nice effects, admittedly).oxymoron wrote:Care to elaborate?dsheinem wrote:Yup. Played through it already. Fun, pretty, but pretty easy and unimaginitive in the genre/compared to previous Infamous games. A meat and potatoes game that shows off tech...FerretGamer wrote:Has anyone picked up Infamous? I've been really enjoying it and the visuals certainly are pretty.
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Sounds exactly like the first Infamous. Imaginative games are hard to come by in this generation of me too developers all copying each other instead of thinking for themselves and creating new ideasdsheinem wrote:Yup. Played through it already. Fun, pretty, but pretty easy and unimaginitive in the genre/compared to previous Infamous games. A meat and potatoes game that shows off tech...FerretGamer wrote:Has anyone picked up Infamous? I've been really enjoying it and the visuals certainly are pretty.
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That's absolutely not fair - there have been more imaginative and interesting games in the past 5 years or so then I think there are in the history of gaming. Granted, most of them aren't AAA titles (though some are), most of them reside in indie-land, and plenty of them aren't popping up on Steam/PSN/XBLA/etc. But to claim that "imaginative games are hard to come by" and that we have a new/worse problem of "me too developers" is simply false.Gamerforlife wrote:Sounds exactly like the first Infamous. Imaginative games are hard to come by in this generation of me too developers all copying each other instead of thinking for themselves and creating new ideasdsheinem wrote:Yup. Played through it already. Fun, pretty, but pretty easy and unimaginitive in the genre/compared to previous Infamous games. A meat and potatoes game that shows off tech...FerretGamer wrote:Has anyone picked up Infamous? I've been really enjoying it and the visuals certainly are pretty.
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To be fair, it seems like the FPS genre is certainly over-used. Sure, there might be on or two minor innovations, but a lot of it is more of the same, and FPS has permeated many different genres - role-playing, horror, and action-adventure games. Only Nintendo isn't depending on it as a driving force for sales, and we all know how that's shaping up...
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There's always been a dominant genre. I don't deny that there's plenty of stagnation and me-tooism, but to suggest that imaginative games are hard to come by or that we have a generation of copy-cat devs is just not a fair read of the gaming landscape.Retrogamer0001 wrote:To be fair, it seems like the FPS genre is certainly over-used. Sure, there might be on or two minor innovations, but a lot of it is more of the same, and FPS has permeated many different genres - role-playing, horror, and action-adventure games. Only Nintendo isn't depending on it as a driving force for sales, and we all know how that's shaping up...
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dsheinem wrote:There's always been a dominant genre. I don't deny that there's plenty of stagnation and me-tooism, but to suggest that imaginative games are hard to come by or that we have a generation of copy-cat devs is just not a fair read of the gaming landscape.Retrogamer0001 wrote:To be fair, it seems like the FPS genre is certainly over-used. Sure, there might be on or two minor innovations, but a lot of it is more of the same, and FPS has permeated many different genres - role-playing, horror, and action-adventure games. Only Nintendo isn't depending on it as a driving force for sales, and we all know how that's shaping up...
Well it sure is starting to seem that way. Especially because they used to put a lot of games that were non shooters on the freebies for ps+ and it seems like 2-3 out of the 5 I think they add are smhups and fps at that. It seems like lately if you hear about just any game being advertised it's usually a fps. Which I'm okay with seeing one or two commercials about them, but really want to see ones for other games. Sure not all of them are copy cat devs, but it sure seems like a lot of them might be...
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I have a feeling that FPS genre is on its way downward, its not dying but no longer dominant like it was around '08 ->13 . I say this because hype about FPS games seem a lot more calmer than it used to be for games like Halo 3 and COD Modern WarFare II . I feel the next genre to dominate is 3rd person judging on the excitement built for games like Demon Souls II, GTA 5, Skyrim and MMORPGs .