gamingeek said:

Usually there's a bunch of cool new shit each generatio that we remember for years to come.

So what has been your experience with new IP this gen and how do they stack up to other generations?

Pretty terrible. We got watch dogs, I liked it but it's nothing new. Destiny still a huge work in progress. Splatoon probably the best new IP. Overwatch everyone seems to like. Loads of indie stuff that may never see sequels.

There is nothing like Assassins creed, uncharted, gears of war, dark souls, mass effect, dragon age.

So when you say IP, do you mean stuff that'll blossom into a franchise, or are commercial failures and one-of games also good?  Because of all those you listed, I can see only Splatoon becoming a franchise in its own right.

Some great one offs and indie stuff, aside, a lot of garbage.

Watchdogs is trash



Destiny is a mind numbing skinner box, which could at least be argued that it's genre of loot rpg is just supremely shit, but fuck that even as a shooter it's a fucking mess. It's same round of bungie shitty level design paired with a multiplayer that absolutely eats, and they fucking made Halo. Where did the people who made Halo go? The game is basically Halo with hoods as it is

The Division? It's destiny, slightly better loot game, except at least destiny is the race for the best space weapon. Division is the race for the best ak47 in the world. Yeah, what the shit.

Bloodborne - it's dickensian dark souls

Drive club - i can't believe it's not forza

Order - Gears of Yore

The two best new ips this gen that had a bit of a marketing campaign behind them, were by Blizzard (Overwatch) who hasn't been doing new shit voer over a decade now, and fucking Nintendo (Splatoon) who is historically conservative as all hell when it comes to their actual game making.

Last gen had a bunch of new ips that were straight trash too: Dragon Age is a thing, The mass effect were sorry excuses for rpgs, Uncharted had like one good game out of 3 entries, there is no such thing as a good Assassin's Creed game. But we also got Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, Dead Rising was actually pretty rad, Company of Heroes gave us one of the best strategy campaigns since fucking Jagged Alliance, FEAR was amazing and then it got sequels, Crysis was beast, and then it got sequels. Portal was divine, and it's sequel was pretty good, Saints Row came out of nowhere and grew into this weird thing, Uncharted at least got us to Uncharted 2, and The Last of Us was a thing. Cliff B went from making dope ass Unreal Tournament to Gears of War, not as good as Unreal, but a damn good game regardless.

And yeah in between bad ips like Assassin's Creed where at least brand fucking new, and yeah Mass Effects universe up until its shit ending was good (the playing it part? Not so much).

Point: If actually think about games I like this gen, a lot of them actually aren't sequels, they just dont' come from Triple A companies, because that side of gaming kind of sucks.

Titanfall was at least cool, just light on content, and pretty low skill ceiling.

Sometimes I wonder if Gagan likes anything. He's the opposite of Archie. lol

There are no new franchises...just sequels and remasters. Watch Dogs was good, but Ass Creed was better. Shadow of Mordor was really good. Destiny is good but could be better. There's really not ONE new franchise that I can say is going to be remembered as a classic or anything.

SupremeAC said:

Splatoon.  You just didn't play it.

I'm waiting on the remastered version. lol

robio said:

Don't forget Affordable Space Adventures... which is actually quite boring and not worth playing without a second character. But it's new all the same.

How far in did you get?

Can anyone think of a new IP that has wowed them on the same level as a new IP did on past systems?

I know I found a lot of N64 games wow like because it was the first 3D era. But then on the PS2 era and Wii/360 etc era I can think of wow experiences there too.

This gen..... well I haven't played as much from other systems. Is there anything on there that has wowed anyone?

gamingeek said:

Can anyone think of a new IP that has wowed them on the same level as a new IP did on past systems?

I know I found a lot of N64 games wow like because it was the first 3D era. But then on the PS2 era and Wii/360 etc era I can think of wow experiences there too.

This gen..... well I haven't played as much from other systems. Is there anything on there that has wowed anyone?

Fast Racing Neo.  The impression of speed in that game is unparallelled.  And that's coming from a man who, to coin a popular phrase, 'platinumed' *shudder* F-zero GX.

I can't remember, is Rocket League a new ip?  

I feel wowed right now...