GR: "As the shadow of the next-generation looms over this current one, I'm ultimately hopeful for the future. A new console hopefully means new games and a new IPs. Well, at least it'll mean new games for sure. As the Xbox 360 and PS3 take forever to ride-off into the sunset, I realize that there are far too many franchises.
In order to make room for new ideas and new characters in the next generation, here are five franchises I never want to see again."
Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.
Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.
GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales
Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.
@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol
Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.
If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.
Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.
Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite
I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.
Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts
I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.
Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.
We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.
I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.
I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.
I definitely would like to see more new IPs next generation.
The one I don't feel like I'm completely done with is Uncharted. But that's because I'm a fanboy, and Nathan Drake is so dreamy.
That said, I found the write-up on why Uncharted should die pretty damn hilarious. "sack-of-bones grandfather" and "Elena needs to crack the whip and keep Drake at home" made me spit out my drink laughing.
no this might be stupid but let say they do make a Uncharted for PS4 i got an idea/ people been bitching about its always about the gold and lost ruins what if drake and elena have a child and then some people kidnap him so its up to the dad and mum to find the child and kill the kidnappers? what you guys think? stupid? idk just a fun idea i had.
As much as I like to see more new IP's this will not happen all 5 of those will be on next gen consoles mainly because they are cash cows. The only one you "might" not see is Uncharted mainly because each new console gen Naughty Dog usually makes a new franchise. You can bank on Pokemon, CoD, Halo, and Assassin's Creed to all be on next gen systems.
The great and mighty uncharted series still have much more to offer the world and I think it will be announce right beside the majestic PS4 console, uncharted 2 is the greatest game this gen and it will be foolish for the kings to not have uncharted 4 on the PS4.
A lot of the sony studios are working on new topnotch perfect IPs, so bringing back atleast uncharted should be mandatory in society.