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We all think of a next generation console as a new console, a 128bit console or a 32bit handheld!
Well what comes after the 128bit console will we be able to cope with anything better anything more powerful...
...will developers find it harder to create GOOD games for them! How good will the PS3 or Nintendo's next console be!
If things carry on the way they have which has been-
16-32-64-128bit then it should go 256bit which would be really impressive.
Just think though would we really need anything MUCH MORE powerful than 128bit or would it be spoilt and not as much fun i mean.. at 128 bit we can make things cartoony styly but really smooth and textured which is what most of us gamers go for in a game, and is usually the style used in fantasy RPG type games like Zelda and Final Fantasy and Phantasy star! Or we can make them look really life like but still with the slightest difference telling you that it isn't real which is good and I think is the only thing keeping them fairly popular! With 256bit then they would look like something of a film and completely life which okay in some respects but can really sap the fun out of it!
But it COULD make Fantasy games like I said above Much, much better tol ook at, in ideas, in the way they move and the speacial effects!
I would say they COULD be made a bit better but only for things like SSX, 1080, Zelda, RPG's and fatasy games, and games that are only meant to be as realistic as possible because then they would be getting exactly what they want.
But if that happened to say Driver 2, it would look perfect on 128bit or just over but just too realistic on 256bit!
But if it was used like I said to enhance a sort of style and keep it that way like in Zelda and Final Fantasy, the way the characters are made make you think that it could be possible that they could be real but they still look like videogame characters if you see what I mean, like skin textures on the face but keeping that slightly cartoony style and clothes textures making denim actually look like real denim. But that would only take up a fraction of the power if you think about it, and then that would leave space for an increase in the framerate and being able to keep it that rate no matter how many people were on the screen, or props like characters you meet might actually start to look like they are doing something other than just standing there!
Giving you more choice in your games, increasing AI but not by much! Making the areas in games like the field of Hyrule there is some kind of invisible wall that only lets you go so far, those could be widened and they could look more like the actual game instead of being so motionless and 2D!
So in some respects it could be better but in a few respects it could ruin games!
What do you think that was my opinion, yours dosent have to be as long but do you think consoles and games should get that powerful and good or should they only get a bit better enough to bring framerate to a steadier pace and improve textures!
ZP
Well what comes after the 128bit console will we be able to cope with anything better anything more powerful...
...will developers find it harder to create GOOD games for them! How good will the PS3 or Nintendo's next console be!
If things carry on the way they have which has been-
16-32-64-128bit then it should go 256bit which would be really impressive.
Just think though would we really need anything MUCH MORE powerful than 128bit or would it be spoilt and not as much fun i mean.. at 128 bit we can make things cartoony styly but really smooth and textured which is what most of us gamers go for in a game, and is usually the style used in fantasy RPG type games like Zelda and Final Fantasy and Phantasy star! Or we can make them look really life like but still with the slightest difference telling you that it isn't real which is good and I think is the only thing keeping them fairly popular! With 256bit then they would look like something of a film and completely life which okay in some respects but can really sap the fun out of it!
But it COULD make Fantasy games like I said above Much, much better tol ook at, in ideas, in the way they move and the speacial effects!
I would say they COULD be made a bit better but only for things like SSX, 1080, Zelda, RPG's and fatasy games, and games that are only meant to be as realistic as possible because then they would be getting exactly what they want.
But if that happened to say Driver 2, it would look perfect on 128bit or just over but just too realistic on 256bit!
But if it was used like I said to enhance a sort of style and keep it that way like in Zelda and Final Fantasy, the way the characters are made make you think that it could be possible that they could be real but they still look like videogame characters if you see what I mean, like skin textures on the face but keeping that slightly cartoony style and clothes textures making denim actually look like real denim. But that would only take up a fraction of the power if you think about it, and then that would leave space for an increase in the framerate and being able to keep it that rate no matter how many people were on the screen, or props like characters you meet might actually start to look like they are doing something other than just standing there!
Giving you more choice in your games, increasing AI but not by much! Making the areas in games like the field of Hyrule there is some kind of invisible wall that only lets you go so far, those could be widened and they could look more like the actual game instead of being so motionless and 2D!
So in some respects it could be better but in a few respects it could ruin games!
What do you think that was my opinion, yours dosent have to be as long but do you think consoles and games should get that powerful and good or should they only get a bit better enough to bring framerate to a steadier pace and improve textures!
ZP
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Yeah I see your point but look at Rally racing games and F1 types of stuff even at 64bit and 128bit they look very real like photos and at 256bit I think that they would actually look exactly like someone took a video camera along to an event and turned it into a game.
But youre right I think if they kept the same cartoonyish style of Rayman, Zelda, and Final Fantasy and only icrease framerate and backgrounds and textures yeah games will be great as long as every game doesn't get turned into real life!
But youre right I think if they kept the same cartoonyish style of Rayman, Zelda, and Final Fantasy and only icrease framerate and backgrounds and textures yeah games will be great as long as every game doesn't get turned into real life!
I would have to agree, the next will be 256bit, which will mean smoother graphics, and more detailed textures.
I suppose you can get too realistic-but do we really know?? We've never really had anything that is really close to 'realistic', if you know what I mean.
I suppose you can get too realistic-but do we really know?? We've never really had anything that is really close to 'realistic', if you know what I mean.
What do you think
We all think of a next generation console as a new console, a 128bit console or a 32bit handheld!
Well what comes after the 128bit console will we be able to cope with anything better anything more powerful...
...will developers find it harder to create GOOD games for them! How good will the PS3 or Nintendo's next console be!
If things carry on the way they have which has been-
16-32-64-128bit then it should go 256bit which would be really impressive.
Just think though would we really need anything MUCH MORE powerful than 128bit or would it be spoilt and not as much fun i mean.. at 128 bit we can make things cartoony styly but really smooth and textured which is what most of us gamers go for in a game, and is usually the style used in fantasy RPG type games like Zelda and Final Fantasy and Phantasy star! Or we can make them look really life like but still with the slightest difference telling you that it isn't real which is good and I think is the only thing keeping them fairly popular! With 256bit then they would look like something of a film and completely life which okay in some respects but can really sap the fun out of it!
But it COULD make Fantasy games like I said above Much, much better tol ook at, in ideas, in the way they move and the speacial effects!
I would say they COULD be made a bit better but only for things like SSX, 1080, Zelda, RPG's and fatasy games, and games that are only meant to be as realistic as possible because then they would be getting exactly what they want.
But if that happened to say Driver 2, it would look perfect on 128bit or just over but just too realistic on 256bit!
But if it was used like I said to enhance a sort of style and keep it that way like in Zelda and Final Fantasy, the way the characters are made make you think that it could be possible that they could be real but they still look like videogame characters if you see what I mean, like skin textures on the face but keeping that slightly cartoony style and clothes textures making denim actually look like real denim. But that would only take up a fraction of the power if you think about it, and then that would leave space for an increase in the framerate and being able to keep it that rate no matter how many people were on the screen, or props like characters you meet might actually start to look like they are doing something other than just standing there!
Giving you more choice in your games, increasing AI but not by much! Making the areas in games like the field of Hyrule there is some kind of invisible wall that only lets you go so far, those could be widened and they could look more like the actual game instead of being so motionless and 2D!
So in some respects it could be better but in a few respects it could ruin games!
What do you think that was my opinion, yours dosent have to be as long but do you think consoles and games should get that powerful and good or should they only get a bit better enough to bring framerate to a steadier pace and improve textures!
ZP
Well what comes after the 128bit console will we be able to cope with anything better anything more powerful...
...will developers find it harder to create GOOD games for them! How good will the PS3 or Nintendo's next console be!
If things carry on the way they have which has been-
16-32-64-128bit then it should go 256bit which would be really impressive.
Just think though would we really need anything MUCH MORE powerful than 128bit or would it be spoilt and not as much fun i mean.. at 128 bit we can make things cartoony styly but really smooth and textured which is what most of us gamers go for in a game, and is usually the style used in fantasy RPG type games like Zelda and Final Fantasy and Phantasy star! Or we can make them look really life like but still with the slightest difference telling you that it isn't real which is good and I think is the only thing keeping them fairly popular! With 256bit then they would look like something of a film and completely life which okay in some respects but can really sap the fun out of it!
But it COULD make Fantasy games like I said above Much, much better tol ook at, in ideas, in the way they move and the speacial effects!
I would say they COULD be made a bit better but only for things like SSX, 1080, Zelda, RPG's and fatasy games, and games that are only meant to be as realistic as possible because then they would be getting exactly what they want.
But if that happened to say Driver 2, it would look perfect on 128bit or just over but just too realistic on 256bit!
But if it was used like I said to enhance a sort of style and keep it that way like in Zelda and Final Fantasy, the way the characters are made make you think that it could be possible that they could be real but they still look like videogame characters if you see what I mean, like skin textures on the face but keeping that slightly cartoony style and clothes textures making denim actually look like real denim. But that would only take up a fraction of the power if you think about it, and then that would leave space for an increase in the framerate and being able to keep it that rate no matter how many people were on the screen, or props like characters you meet might actually start to look like they are doing something other than just standing there!
Giving you more choice in your games, increasing AI but not by much! Making the areas in games like the field of Hyrule there is some kind of invisible wall that only lets you go so far, those could be widened and they could look more like the actual game instead of being so motionless and 2D!
So in some respects it could be better but in a few respects it could ruin games!
What do you think that was my opinion, yours dosent have to be as long but do you think consoles and games should get that powerful and good or should they only get a bit better enough to bring framerate to a steadier pace and improve textures!
ZP
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