Hopefully one of the benefits of this shift away from console gaming and towards PC developers doing slightly more interesting, imaginative stuff is that people will stop getting such a hard on over graphics. The last handful of consoles have been sold off the back of their graphical prowess more than anything else, a definitive stance of style over substance. It's an attitude that's still present in all the breathless reporting and fawning over how good Nathan Drake looks in the next-gen Uncharted games, and it's all the more boring for it. The last few years have seen AAA titles becoming a homogenised, dull visual mess, with every title looking the same as they attempt to look realistic by colouring everything in muddy browns and greys. 2015 could be the year we finally get away from all that. There will still be your Rainbow Sixes and Call Of Duties dedicated to replicating reality, but when one of your most anticipated titles of the year is the retina-burning fluorescent shooter No Man's Sky? That's a good sign.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
