Shadow of Mordor looks really good, so I'll pick that up. The new Madden looks good, so I'll get that as well. It's been a while since I got a Madden game; the last one was in 2009. :lol: I'll probably get Destiny this year, as well.
The big one, though, Dragon Age: Inquisition. I just can't wait for the game. I got the collectors edition coming, and I'm getting a PS4 around the middle of October because of it. It's going to be great, I can't wait.
Mordor looks pretty neat. Amazing graphics, which will go great with the upgrade I just did to my PC. (2 GTX 970s in SLI. I need a monitor upgrade now because this is overkill!)
Alien: Isolation looks to be great also. I was skeptical, it seemed like one of those things that would be way overhyped. They talked up this amazing AI of the alien hunting you, and I had flashbacks to all the promises of the Fable series that never got delivered. But looking at some early gameplay videos now that it's released, and holy
crap they seem to have nailed the atmosphere of
Alien in this one. You're not some jacked-up space marine mowing down xenomorphs like they're zerglings, you're some chick looking into a now-derelict space station and finding out that everyone seems to be dead. You're not the hero, you're the prey. I'm a bit jaded by AAA-game pricing though, I haven't been satisfied paying $60+ for a game in a while so I've just stopped doing it. I'll probably pick up both of these next year when they come down in price.
The new Assassin's Creed is actually one of the things that steered me away from the new console generation. The developers have said that they've already run into bottlenecks on the XBox One, which is why that game is capped at 30 FPS and less-than-1080p. The trouble isn't with the graphics power of the machine, that's pretty solid by any modern standard. It's the CPU. That ****ty, ****ty, 8-core AMD piece of crap they stuffed in it. PS4? They claim they "could" have gone with the full 1080p resolution, but didn't to "avoid all the debates and such." Horse****. If the bottleneck is CPU, the PS4 isn't doing any better. Microsoft actually edged them out a little in the CPU department.
Both consoles massively sacrificed single-thread performance in favor of more processor cores. While this saves money, this is a terrible decision for a gaming platform. Very few games use more than two or three threads, meaning some of your processors will sit idle. For anything but a few niche uses like scientific applications or video encoding, additional processor cores scale
very poorly.
I used to be both a PC and console gamer. Sitting this generation out :|
The bad news: PC gaming might suffer in the short run because developers aim so much at consoles, and console ports still suck ass on the PC most of the time.
The good news: This awful, awful CPU limitation might actually force game developers to figure out how to utilize 6 or 8 processors in games, so 5 years from now we might see some interesting things in the gaming world like greatly-improved physics calculations utilizing the extra, otherwise-useless processor cores. And/or better GPU/CPU load balancing, so these relatively powerful GPUs on the consoles can take some of the extra workload off the weaksauce CPU.
TL;DR: PC Gaming Master Race, also Buy Intel, AMD has floundered
