The Xbox One and PS4 are now both on sale in the UK. But
most of the gamers in our team haven’t yet found enough reasons to lay down
£400-500 for one of the next-generation consoles.
Why not? Aside from bank balances cowering in the shadow of
the Christmas presents we’re about to have to buy, it’s the games. None of the
titles we’re dreaming of are out yet.
Here are the games that’d make us fork out for a console
tomorrow.
Uncharted 4
Xbox One gamesThere has been plenty said about the
underwhelming exclusives at launch for both next-gen consoles, and if Sony had
Uncharted 4 ready alongside the PS4 it would have been pretty difficult not to
hand my money over.
Naughty Dog as a games developer has continually pushed the
PS3 to its limits and The Last of Us was a great way to sign off the previous
generation.
Yes, the dialogue can be
corny, the gun mechanics fiddly and
the storyline feels like it has been nabbed from a Hollywood film, but
Uncharted has always been about creating a memorable journey from start to end.
Whether it’s the beautiful environments or the great set-pieces, each game
including Golden Abyss on the PS Vita has been an amazing ride.
Uncharted 4 is already being teased for launch next year so
maybe Naughty Dog had its hands full with The Last of Us. When Drake does make his
return, I’ll be ready to write off another week to play it right to the end.
MX vs. ATV 2014
Xbox One games 1Bring back MX vs ATV I say. Until then, you
can count me out of the next-gen battle.
Yes, the PS4 and Xbox One make dramatic steps forward in the
gaming industry, but for those of us who like our games with a little less
shooty-shooty and a bit more broom-broom, there is little benefit over the
current generation.
Motocross titles used to be a standard of the gaming scene.
Admittedly few were very good. Fewer still probably made any money. But the MX
vs ATV franchise had the potential. Relatively good graphics, reasonably strong
physics and gameplay based more in realism than cartoony farce, it had its
happy niche.
With the MX vs ATV franchise having been axed by THQ back in
2011 I’m not holding out much hope for a next-gen release. So, for the time
being at least, I’m going to stick with my eight-year-old Xbox 360 and
near-four-year-old copy of MX vs ATV Reflex – because everyone knows that was
the best of the series.
Shenmue 3
Xbox One games 2As the new consoles were revealed, I became
convinced the PS4 was the console for me. I even entertained buying one at
launch, but then the games…. oh the games! I could play Killzone 4, or I could
finish The Last of Us and GTA 5 on my PS3, or pick the DLC for the fantastic
Bioshock: Infinite on my Xbox 360. I love great graphics and all, but a man
can’t live by graphics alone.
Anyway, what would make me buy a next-gen console right now?
Well, I’m ever the optimist. For example, despite England getting thrashed in
the opening Ashes test match, I still believe we’ll win the series. Crazy,
right? For that reason there is one game that would have truly sold the
next-gen consoles to me: Shenmue 3.
Yes, yes, yes, I know: what are the chances? I never said my
opinion made much sense. But in any case the Shenmue series is long overdue
being revisited. Arguably its style and ambition is ideally suited to the
next-gen consoles, which could handle the large areas without endless loading
times and add great realism to the characters to really bring the fantastic
story to life. I guess they’d have to start at the beginning these days, but
reinventing the first two games in single story arc and committing to
completing the story would make me a happy man.
Also, does anyone know where sailors hang out?
Skyrim II
Xbox One games 3One thing that’s missing from both the
launch line-ups is a game that’ll make me sit in a darkened room, from the time
I get home from work to the small hours of the morning. Emerging bleary-eyed,
hungry and depressed following such a sessions doesn’t sound good – and it is
what would happen. But it’s what I want, for some reason.
I want another Skyrim. I don’t want Elder Scrolls Online. I
want Elder Scrolls: Hammerfell, Valenwood, High Rock, whatever (references only
an Elder Scrolls nerd would get) - a big old single-player RPG that won’t ask
to talk who another real person. Sometimes wooden computer characters with naff
voice acting are better than the real thing.
I want those moments of ambling around aimlessly for hours
then looking at a sunset and thinking ‘cor isn’t that pretty – just like I did
with all the previous Elder Scrolls games. A sad and desperate soul pining
nostalgically for times gone past? Sure, but it wouldn’t half look nice being piped
through a PS4 or Xbox One.
And as the next ‘proper’ Elder Scrolls game is likely to
take another five years or more to arrive, I’ll make do with Fallout 4 for the
time being.
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