Torrence Davis of STFUandPlay writes, "The next generation of console games is upon us. This year Microsoft and Sony will bless us with new hardware, faster networks and a more streamlined Eco system. After the many pains of this 7th generation of consoles, I’m hoping that they’ve learned from their mistakes and are planning on treating us like gamers and not fast food addicts. I’ve come up with a list of things I don’t want to see in generation 8. Rest assured, if I feel like I’m getting screwed over in generation 8, I’ll sell my consoles and stick to mobile and PC gaming. "
Microsoft recently revealed its plans to incorporate Copilot directly into video games, with Minecraft being the first showcased example.
F*** AI
"Hey Copilot, what's a good meme to prove I dislike AI".... https://giphy.com/clips/sou...
Two trillion dollar company that just can't wait to put as many people possible out of work as fast as possible.
It feels like every single thing they do is making gaming worse and destroying the industry.
....you know it takes people to program the AI.... right? It isnt like it is sentient. We haven't reach skynet level of situation or anywhere close to the matrix just yet.
That's next Thursday.
It takes a people to program the AI then that AI is used for who knows how many games eliminating countless jobs which only grows as AI is used for more and more game creation functions.
What you're saying is so ridiculously short sighted and truly larking any kind of understanding and foresight.
Why all the hate? Im actually excited about this! Always wanted this kind of immersion, and an AI companion with me all the time helping me out knowing the status of my skills/inventory/progress and giving me tips on the best approach or how to craft something specific is game changing for the industry.
Hate all you want about AI, but this is just the start and I can see the potential already. You wont be complaining in the next 5-10 years about this, but rather complain if a game hasn’t implemented it.
Yes we can't wait for the work of others to be used without the need to pay them so that MS can profit even more from the people they fire.
There is no chance I'd ever use something like this, especially if it's not part of the core game design, but a layer on top of it. It's way too much handholding. Many games already feel like busy work, because they don't let the player figure things out on their own. Having a real-time interactive guide defeats the purpose of playing the game in the first place in my opinion.
If this were to become the standard like you predict, we'll see more and more video games get away with bad design, because people will just be used to ask for help from the AI companion anyway.
Well Nintendo don't need this with some of their games these days, with invincible characters, items, easy bosses etc.. they do the hand holding built in
Because human nature xD Almost every new technology had these kind of comments.
There are no thoughtful ads in Video Games, EA. Leave them be.
I think the only type of games that can gets away with it would be sport games, having those sponsors ads on the side like on real life.
But don't put freaking Doritos ads in Star Wars or something, it breaks the immersion. If it is a pop-up ads, then big no.
One of my favorite series is the THPS franchise, and it was packed with ads, but it didn't bother me. Posters for skateboard companies, JEEP, and Nokia phones. It did sort of fit in with the game world, but that was the past, these days ad would be intentionally intrusive or unskippable loading screen type of imagery. Ugh, I know EA would do it in a horrible fashion. Screw them.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
The hardware faults were there because Microsoft and Sony tried to stuff hot hardware into a small case. They needed to make the case small for the hardware to satisfy their customers because a lot of the customers want small and fancy. There wasnt enough room for the fans to move air to cool the hot hardware. Another reason for some of the failures was some people were putting the consoles into spaces where there wasnt enough cool air getting to the console.
I agree with this list completely. I would also like to add no day one patches and no DLC for characters and skins unless it is an expansion that is worthy to enough to played separately. Fighting games should never have DLC only unlockables and patches for balancing.......
chances are very unlikely but the only thing i don't want to see next gen is all of the problems DLC has caused
Hardware faults is the only one on the list that isn't guaranteed to happen.
I want to see More LUSH enviorments. Not this static BS that looks like HD ps2 games.