So you know what I just
realized? All the games that are going
to pop in for the ShootStravaganza are PS4 games. Fancy that.
The way things are
looking now, I’m not exactly what you’d call excited about the next (technically current) generation of games. I’m on record here on Cross-Up of being
genuinely worried about what the PS4 and Xbox One would bring, and now that
they’re getting dangerously close to the one-year mark, I can say that they’re
not the doombringers that most would have expected. Now, mediocrity-bringers,
on the other hand? THAT’S something they
can do. For someone who’s getting into
games for the first time with something like Infamous: Second Son, they’ll be fine. But for someone like me, who’s played the
other, better Infamous games? It’s a step down. And the less said about Watch Dogs, the better.
It doesn’t say good
things about the state of a console or a game industry when the most compelling
argument to even turn the blasted new box are games that not only DON’T take
full advantage of the technology, but could conceivably appear on the earlier consoles…not
to mention they were likely made for a fraction of the price, yet ended up
better regardless. In all fairness to
the PS4 (and the Xbone, to a lesser extent), I’m going to say what I’ve been
saying for a while: someday, they’re both going to get the games that justify
their existence. Someday, they’re going
to be consoles worth owning. Someday, they’re
going to make big contributions to the gaming canon.
Today is not that day. And Killzone:
Shadow Fall is not that game.