The Play Station 4 and Xbox One generation is quite possibly the best one to date. Across the seven years of its dominance, the way players interact with games and with each other within the bounds of these games has changed rapidly. It was a transformative period, during which new genres have burst onto the scene, while others have all but disappeared from the mainstream.
The games released for the eighth-generation consoles were incredibly big, ambitious titles. Developers focused on giving…

