aspro said:

Small team games (what others call indy) to the rescue. It's the coronation of the AAA elite, there will be about 6 AAA games a year and they will sell like hot cakes.  They will all be good, safe, highly produced games, enjoyable and very mediocre games.  Then for everything else we'll have Nintendo, small team games released on every platform and PC.

Amen to that.

aspro said:

Dvader said:

I need reviews of splatoon before I dive in and I need a contract from you guys that you will play online

That's where I am at. I am happy to pay $80, but it's got to be a community buy-in.

I'm playing online now after upgrading my internet to 8Mbit.  Playing MK8.  It's awesome to be playing without lag for the first time.  Let's do cmmunity splatoon I'm ready!!

edgecrusher said:

If you don't game on PC or just very little and are mostly a console gamer, your view of the systems will be much more positive.

If you are judging each system only on exclusively, your view will be totally different than someone else.

Very true. If I did not have PC, I'd be very happy with all the small team games that Sony is publishing (like Atrium Verge or whatever it is called). And you have Bloodborne as well, if you are into that sort of game.

In terms of actual hardware, I am sure that the PS4 and XBO are the best of their manufacturers work to date. I'm talking about the old way we buy games, and how that is kinda winding up.

Bugsie is talking about and playing games again!

phantom_leo said:

Micro Machines and RC Pro-Am were amazing!

**In my best Hipster voice** I was a fan of RARE before anyone else knew who they were!  

RC Prom-Am was one of my favourite games on my Gameboy.  I played it to death and until recently I still had the cartridge lying around somewhere.  See! ...  I was a fan of RARE before I knew who they were!  

phantom_leo said:

Bugsie is talking about and playing games again!

I pulled a muscle/nerve in my shoulderblade on Wednesday which meant that even standing up caused me severe pain.  Which meant I had to force myself to have a sedentary long weekend watching TV/surfing online/playing games.  Sadly I'm not much better.  The shoulder is still painful - albeit less so - but now I have a numbness in my entire left arm and I also picked up an eye infection.  Life is great!

bugsonglass said:

Sadly I do think this console generation will be the worst one yet overall.  Every major game this generation will most probably be very mainstream and play it very safe.  And there will be far fewer of them because it's harder to take risks.

I was thinking just yesterday how boring this gen seemed so far. There just seems to be far less to talk about, far fewer games taking longer and longer to make. Lots of safe stuff, lots of sequels, new IPs that play like old IPs. I just can't muster that much enthusiasm for much.

Watching this Yooka Laylee vid at IGN, two things struck me.

1. The characters are actually cooler in motion...maybe they ain't so bad after all.
2. For anyone who doesn't think Microsoft ruined Rare, listen to what they say around the 2 minute 30 second mark.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/05/03/1273293

edgecrusher said:

I don't know if this is funny or sad, but after watching the Yooka Laylee footage it dawned on me that this is much more exciting to me than any new console IP Nintendo has done in a long time. I mean to me it looks so much cooler than Splatoon its crazy.

The fuck???

Both will be fun, but probably not as appealing to me as Batman or Metal Gear.

The Download size is relatively small too. Something like 2.75 gigs, if I remember correctly!