PS4 And Xbox One: 9 Ways To Improve Every Future Game

A fool-proof guide to eradicating gamer rage.

The newest generation of consoles has been making grand promises since early 2013, and - to the relief of early adopters everywhere - has largely kept to its word. Does PlayStation 4 have its heavily vaunted stop-resume feature? No, but as DualShockers reports, Sony Worldwide boss Shuhei Yoshida says it will come to the system soon enough. Has Microsoft fully fleshed out the Xbox One€™s relationship with Twitch? No, but streaming and sharing content is constantly becoming easier thanks to frequent firmware updates. They don€™t have every last bell and whistle nor will they make you breakfast in the morning, but PS4 and XOne are shaping up to be the biggest and best consoles have ever offered. From a platform perspective, things have never been better. From a game perspective? Well, that€™s more debatable. New titles like Infamous: Second Son and Wolfenstein: The New Order have done justice to their respective franchises, to be sure, but the new generation has yet to deliver the fistfuls of earth-shattering innovation players pinned their hopes and money on. At the very least, E3 2014 showed signs that innovation will come. Demon€™s Souls successor Bloodborne undoubtedly landed more than a few PS4 pre-orders, and everyone and their dog is talking Bungie€™s Destiny into Half-Life 3 levels of hype. This is to say nothing of unlikely standouts like No Man's Sky, which has stolen countless hearts since its debut. However, all that goodness is due out much later this year, or in many cases, well into the next. Those hefty lineups in mind, now seems like an excellent time to iron out what we don€™t want to see from the next generation, and exactly what it can learn from the previous.
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A freelance games writer, you say? Typically battling his current RPG addiction and ceaseless perfectionism? A fan of horror but too big a sissy to play for more than a couple of hours? Spends far too much time on JRPGs and gets way too angry with card games? Well that doesn't sound anything like me.