To collect your thought on the new generation of game consoles

[andrewducker]

[Poll #726864]

Comments

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

It certainly does the shiny. Everything's covered in vaseline. ;-)

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Keep your weird hobbies out of this, console-greaser! ;-)

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Hey John's the one that's into it. I'm merely point it out. :P

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

I think that, whenever a new generation of console comes out, developers of first gen software tend to go OTT the new effects that the hardware allows with little concern for the overall aesthetic.

I think the plastic-y look of games like Kameo comes from a kitchen sink approach: dynamic lighting! bloom effects! refections! If they're all fairly easy to implement then why not chuck them in? I remember a similar obsession with particle effects on the PS2.

Thinks will settle down over the next few months.