I just watched the Call of Duty Ghosts trailer for the "Next, Next Gen" consoles.
It's closer to what I consider "photo-real" but it's still not at the point where I have to do a double take to make sure it's not a photograph.
Way back when Crysis came out on the PC, there were moments when I really thought I was looking at a real screen-grab from a camera or photograph.
I know COD isn't the king of what to expect for photo-realism, but there are some things that to me still look fake. The water for example looks way too CGI, rocks and stuff like that still don't compare to Crysis on PC.
I know, I know, it's a shooter, why should I care?
Well, I don't for a shooter, but first releases on a new system are supposed to "WOW"
the user as to what the system can do, and so far I don't see any real "wow: moments with this COD.
Maybe I need to look at other games because I'm sure not a COD/MW fan boy.
As far as the XB1 vs PS4 debate, I have owned both the 360 and PS3 during this gen, and looking back I would have stuck with the PS3 from the get go, knowing what I know now.
I'm not a fan of motion and voice controls.
I'm a 40 year old Husband and Father, so there are many times when I can't use voice or motion controls when I want to game. Say 3 am on a Saturday night when every one else is sleeping. Let me always have the choice of using 100% controller control. Xbox 360 took that option away with a lot of the "Kinetic required" games that I would have loved to try.
I'm not your typical 360 on the big-screen in the living room gamer. My PC and consoles are all connected to a gaming monitor in my bedroom so I don't have the need or room for 5 feet back distances needed for motion controls and if I wake my wife up at 3 am because I HAVE to use a voice control to use my system, well that system won't be for me because I don't feel like having to sleep on the couch for pissing of my wife.
At this point I haven't seen anything to make me stop using my gaming PC versus plunking down $500 US for a new console that my PC can still do better. And before you say it, yes I understand my PC costs much more than a console, but my PC can do 3D rendering, Internet, Photo editing, databases, etc, I can get games much cheaper and it will last me longer than a console will. I haven't decided yet. Maybe E3 will show me something to convince me.
Come on Sony and Microsoft, you need to show me more to convinve me. That's YOUR job.
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