Re: Best NON-Sports-Gaming Year Ever?
I don't know if it's the "best ever" but it is really good. I find myself becoming less and less interested in sports games these days. I can't honestly say sports games haven't improved much in areas other than graphics on the the 360/PS3, so they're starting to feel stale to me. I didn't even buy Madden 08 and in previous years it would have been unheard of for me to not buy the newest NFL game (especially since the Pats are my home team and their roster would have been awesome to use this year!). I'm not even having that much fun with the NBA2k series anymore.
I think sports games have hit a wall with what they can do with AI and gameplay. We all want them to be more realistic, but that's incredibly difficult to program, so all they've done is make the graphics better and add some animations. The sports games aren't presented any better (and in some cases there's less presentation than previous years/consoles) and they don't really play much better. It's not like when I'm playing a sports game, like MLB2k7, on the 360 I'm thinking, "Wow. There's no way this gameplay couldn't have been done on the Xbox." The only thing that couldn't have been done is the graphics.
Non-sports games, however, have really taken a leap from the Xbox/PS2. I play a game like Mass Effect and it's the closest thing to an interactive movie I've ever played. The dialogue options are so much better than anything I've seen. Games like Bioshock, Gears of War, Oblivion, COD4, really feel like a generation jump in games, so I'm having more fun with non-sports games now and finding myself more and more disappointed with sports games this gen. Sure, I know sports games have the 1 year dev. cycle and the big non-sports games have years of development. I understand that. I still can't deny that I feel like I'm playing the same sports games I was on the Xbox with prettier graphics and that's getting boring to me now. I was hoping for a much bigger jump in things like presentation. I know AI is going to be tough to improve, but I was hoping there would be things like better physics, animation, etc.
At least I can't complain there aren't plenty of great games to play. I'll just stick to non-sports games for now.
I don't know if it's the "best ever" but it is really good. I find myself becoming less and less interested in sports games these days. I can't honestly say sports games haven't improved much in areas other than graphics on the the 360/PS3, so they're starting to feel stale to me. I didn't even buy Madden 08 and in previous years it would have been unheard of for me to not buy the newest NFL game (especially since the Pats are my home team and their roster would have been awesome to use this year!). I'm not even having that much fun with the NBA2k series anymore.
I think sports games have hit a wall with what they can do with AI and gameplay. We all want them to be more realistic, but that's incredibly difficult to program, so all they've done is make the graphics better and add some animations. The sports games aren't presented any better (and in some cases there's less presentation than previous years/consoles) and they don't really play much better. It's not like when I'm playing a sports game, like MLB2k7, on the 360 I'm thinking, "Wow. There's no way this gameplay couldn't have been done on the Xbox." The only thing that couldn't have been done is the graphics.
Non-sports games, however, have really taken a leap from the Xbox/PS2. I play a game like Mass Effect and it's the closest thing to an interactive movie I've ever played. The dialogue options are so much better than anything I've seen. Games like Bioshock, Gears of War, Oblivion, COD4, really feel like a generation jump in games, so I'm having more fun with non-sports games now and finding myself more and more disappointed with sports games this gen. Sure, I know sports games have the 1 year dev. cycle and the big non-sports games have years of development. I understand that. I still can't deny that I feel like I'm playing the same sports games I was on the Xbox with prettier graphics and that's getting boring to me now. I was hoping for a much bigger jump in things like presentation. I know AI is going to be tough to improve, but I was hoping there would be things like better physics, animation, etc.
At least I can't complain there aren't plenty of great games to play. I'll just stick to non-sports games for now.
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