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What do you hope a "Next Gen" Game will offer
So with the new systems offering more power, more memory and more storage space what are you hoping will be added to make a new game feel "Next Gen"?
With both Xbox and Playstation using BluRay one thing I hope to see is more speech options for NPCs. When I play a game like Skyrim one thing that really bugs me is when you talk to a character like a shop owner and they always say the same one line every single time, I would like multiple options when I speak to them and possible even a few random lines which only appear every 100 times you visit that character (Maybe even keep a few errors in like an actor coughing during a take). With Skyrim I remember keep been told that I should visit the Mages College in Winterhold even after I had visited, joined and completed the college mission line, some new speech lines to acknowledge that would have been really cool.
With both Xbox and Playstation using BluRay one thing I hope to see is more speech options for NPCs. When I play a game like Skyrim one thing that really bugs me is when you talk to a character like a shop owner and they always say the same one line every single time, I would like multiple options when I speak to them and possible even a few random lines which only appear every 100 times you visit that character (Maybe even keep a few errors in like an actor coughing during a take). With Skyrim I remember keep been told that I should visit the Mages College in Winterhold even after I had visited, joined and completed the college mission line, some new speech lines to acknowledge that would have been really cool.
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Perhaps most importantly though, do away with obvious loading screen during in game play, just go to a load screen or don't
I know that sounds like a nitpick but i don't really have that many huge problems with this gen that could be solved, for lack of a better term, in the next gen
Publishers don't always like risks as they don't always make money. Devs like doing different stuff but it's not always feasible.
You need to be looking to the Indies for the crazy/new/different stuff.
that's a great idea, and possible. The console could retrieve the weather forecast from the internet, based on your location. Actually, not sure how accurate that would be
I'd like to see less FPS, more action/puzzlers, more heros created. The only hero this gen that I can think of is Drake, well, the only hero I actually liked and enjoyed playing.
More small developers should be allowed to express themselves, there are some cracking indie games on the PC that would work just as well on console. Open up the whole system to anybody with talent, instead of just big companies that work to time frames and profit margins.
Consoles are pretty dull compared to what can be found on PC.
In the short term I would expect no more than better looking versions of what you have now - a bit like where PC is at the moment.
Should be no reason not to have pc scale multiplayer numbers on next battlefield
True. Bizarre as it may seem to some people but writers are paid to write every bit of dialogue in games, even 'barks' (short, often random, dialogue) and actors of various degrees are paid to speak them. Not sure why the budget for either of these would be increased just due to a next-gen platform...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u7xZh1s8UlY
Back in the real world just no loading screens and better AI.
Not necessarily how you describe above - but certainly changing conditions.
Like take a multiplayer FPS map, it always looks the same. A dynamic weather and time-of-day system for that kind of game would be awesome and keep the map fresher for longer.
Another thing I would love to see - but we probably won't as it would stifle DLC sales - would be more player generated content.
So more stuff like map creators, circuit creators.
ModNation Racers is great fun for that, their DLC is in the form of new content to add to your creations so it is feasible.
I don't mind MultiPlayer, Just hate it how it seems in some games that all the focus was put into the online side & the Single player campaign ends up been short, glitchey & somewhat dull (Medal Of Honor would be a recent example that I've played).
Linked into that Id also like to see online trophy's/achievements separate from the non-online ones. Couple PS3 games where i've done all the single player trophy's yet can't get the platinum because there's a ton of online trophy's to get & I don't want to play the online side.