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[quote name='Dr Mario Kart']Feel free to add to the list of current-gen games whose gameplay cannot be recreated with PS2 processing power. I'm willing to consider them.[/QUOTE]
This is quite a silly argument are hear all the time, and not just from those deeply connected to the Nintendo fanboy culture. I get, we could technically have 1st person shooters on ps2 hardware, so whats the point of playing a fps on a newer kind of hard ware. It kind of misses the point of a lot of things. Maybe this is because I am a pc gamer (more fuel to the fire I know) as well as a console gamer, but immersion through graphics does make a difference and allow for new play styles to flower (I'm refusing the use of the word gameplay). I don't think that games like gears of war or Killzone 2 would have been as nearly as good as they are (I happen to enjoy both) without increased power of consoles. Of course there are games like crysis, which even if it is a pc game, you cannot possible render as much space at one time to allow for the quick traversal of the character and environment manipulation.
If you think that graphics or environmental manipulation in games is not important, that effectively modern 3d games are just a polygonal skeleton with little to now neccesity for any skin or wrapping, thats fine its your opinion. But I highly suggest you take into account more than just boiling down each game to its most basic genre motif and throwing it out the window. Its that idea that discourages creativity in the industry in the first place.
But hey, its just an opinion.
This is quite a silly argument are hear all the time, and not just from those deeply connected to the Nintendo fanboy culture. I get, we could technically have 1st person shooters on ps2 hardware, so whats the point of playing a fps on a newer kind of hard ware. It kind of misses the point of a lot of things. Maybe this is because I am a pc gamer (more fuel to the fire I know) as well as a console gamer, but immersion through graphics does make a difference and allow for new play styles to flower (I'm refusing the use of the word gameplay). I don't think that games like gears of war or Killzone 2 would have been as nearly as good as they are (I happen to enjoy both) without increased power of consoles. Of course there are games like crysis, which even if it is a pc game, you cannot possible render as much space at one time to allow for the quick traversal of the character and environment manipulation.
If you think that graphics or environmental manipulation in games is not important, that effectively modern 3d games are just a polygonal skeleton with little to now neccesity for any skin or wrapping, thats fine its your opinion. But I highly suggest you take into account more than just boiling down each game to its most basic genre motif and throwing it out the window. Its that idea that discourages creativity in the industry in the first place.
But hey, its just an opinion.