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E3’s Unsolved Mystery: Are Watch Dogs and Star Wars: 1313 Really Next-Gen Games?

Are we actually seeing PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720 video games at E3 and no one's admitting it?

That's been a popular theory all week here in Los Angeles and reporters and game creators buzz about the extraordinary-looking gameplay demonstrations of Ubisoft's Watch Dogs and LucasArts' Star Wars 1313. Both games looked way too graphically impressive to believably be running on an Xbox 360 or PS3.

RedDead4360d ago (Edited 4360d ago )

Mebe

Star wars 1313 was essentially Uncharted in Star wars though. The gameplay is so like it.

SilentNegotiator4359d ago (Edited 4359d ago )

A lot of people think these are "next-gen" because 1313 was running on the typical veritable supercomputer with unrealistically high settings that most multiplat games are presented on at E3. Otherwise the one part was a lot like the escape scene from Enslaved and the shooting part was....well, a typical corridor shooting level but with a "decompression" effect.

Watch Dogs looked well put together, for sure. But it didn't really show anything not doable on current consoles. Looked maybe a bit more complicated than GTA4's world (and hint, this is 4 years later).

So if you have the idea that they're "next-gen" because "ZOMG consawls cant handle dem!", I nthink you can pretty much throw that idea out.

If you're saying so because the next generation of consoles are coming at some point....then congrats, you made an uneducated, random guess!

Nimblest-Assassin4359d ago

Im being very careful with 1313... the last star wars game I was so excited for... I anticipated.. was TFU2... and it tanked so hard, I felt like my nuts were being crushed by a force choke.

Watch Dogs on the other hand, I completely support

GamingPerson4359d ago (Edited 4359d ago )

watch dog is open...
Also his looks sick.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

h311rais3r4359d ago

Just shut up. There's a reason people hate you fanboys.

Kantor4359d ago

That's because neither one was running on PS3 or Xbox 360. Both were running on PC.

Both will be on the HD consoles; they just won't look as good.

SilentNegotiator4359d ago

Exactly. Heck, most PC gamers won't even be playing it at that fidelity because the average person doesn't have anything near a 680GTX.

Eyesoftheraven4359d ago

Yes but what Nvidia hardware was in the PC they used? A single 580? a 590? A 680? A 690? Tri sli 680s? I really hope my 7970 OC is up to par for early next gen games.

StrawberryDiesel4204359d ago

Yet XBOX 360 fans swear they look better than Last of US and God of War: Ascension. They can't even acknowledge how amazing those games look. All they can talk about is Watch Dogs and this Star Wars crap which were both on PC. I swear the general 360 fanbase is retarded. Beyond, Last of Us, and God of War Ascension mop the floor with every 360 game due out til 2014.

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Eyesoftheraven4359d ago

All I want to hear is that my overclocked 7970 can run games looking like this smoothly.

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20 Awesome Canceled Games You'll Never Get To Play

You can understand some games getting canceled, but these awesome looking games still baffle us to this very day.

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-Foxtrot68d ago

"Tommy saving the planet from an army of aliens after they abducted him and his entire bar, with the game ending on the promise that Tommy would be back, but that promise was never fulfilled"

The thing is with the original Prey 2 that Tommy wasn't even the main character, they replaced him with some generic looking space bounty hunter. It was a refreshing change to see an awesome Native American character with ancestral like powers fight aliens yet they ditched him. It was only after an outcry they showed much later in a new preview that Tommy was in the game as an NPC.

I'd have prefered a real sequel with Tommy as the main character, literally picking right up from the originals ending.

As for Eight Days...Sony really needs to pick this up

If Amy Hennig was still at ND, I'd have loved to see her tackle it after what she did with Uncharted.

isarai68d ago (Edited 68d ago )

I thought that was awesome too, and honestly i wish people werent so damn critical about cultural variety in games. I feel like people try to ruin devs lives if even one detail is off about their culture in a game and so everyone is too scared to try anymore

isarai68d ago (Edited 68d ago )

One of the lead engine programmers for Prey 2 at Human Head was my programming instructor when i was taking game design. This game was in limbo at the time and we asked once and only once about this game, the misery in his eyes when he told us "this is the 1st and only time ill ask you to never ask me about that game" was something ill never forget😅 he used a couple assets through the curriculum for teaching purposes but nothing very tangible. Just a function here, a 3d prop there. Such a shame. Years later i saw him at a magic tournament, we caught up and he still thinks about that game and how it's "practically done" probably sitting on a drive somewhere

shinoff218368d ago (Edited 68d ago )

Practically done? Jeez that fking blows because that looked much more interesting then what bethsada made. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the one bethsada made.

Lmno looked interesting.
I'd knock titanfall and fez off the list. Add something else. Scarface 2 man only if would've been awesome. Prey 2 should be higher to. Either way not a bad list. Out of 20 there's only 2 I'd hate on.

isarai68d ago

That gen got a lot of games canned right before the finish line. Cipher Complex, Battlefront 3, legacy of kain dead sun just to name a few

XiNatsuDragnel68d ago

Games that need to come out: Battlefront 3, 8 days, and timesplitter 4.

Skuletor67d ago

One that's not on the list is Killing Day, I remember seeing the trailer in 2005 and being impressed at the time. Being Ubisoft you know it would have been a AAAA game too, lol
2 Days to Vegas and The Getaway 3 are two other games that seemed promising but never came out.

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The entire WatchDogs series is 87% off and it's not even Black Friday

If you are looking for a bargain, check out the huge discounts across the entire WatchDogs series on Steam.

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5 Ambitious Games That Shouldn't Have Been Canceled

Sometimes even promising titles never see the light of day. These are five of the most ambitious games that shouldn't have been canceled.

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GaboonViper299d ago

Silent Hills cancellation was a travesty.

mrbearbear298d ago

I still wonder to this day if it was a reboot, or sequel.

cammers1995298d ago

Lol. The tags made it so I didn't have to visit your website.

goldwyncq298d ago

Kojima wouldn't have started his own studio if Silent Hills didn't get cancelled so even if it stung at first, I'm fine with it.

chobit_A5HL3Y298d ago

i remember being so excited for patriots for years, only to have them release that siege trash. i hate how multiplayer games, pvp in particular, have ruined so many potentially good games.

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