Why Photo Realistic Graphics is Doomed to Fail

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Kasz216 said:

My guess is the problem would be less with the uncanny valley and more "Most people don't really want to shoot other people."

So once it starts looking real, it won't be that the people creep you out. It will be, the things that you usually do to people in games will creep you out. (That and what's done to your player avatar.)


Whenver we get there, i bet Sci-Fi, non violent games and such suddenly start ruling the roost.

Really hope you're right - I'm great fan of FPP adventures, and I see lot of potential for their comeback one day - everytime I play something like Crysis and I'm on the beach, and my wife walks in and sees the scenery, she's all "What is that, it's so beautiful?!?!". Of course, once she finds out it's FPS, she looses all interest, but if there was some sort of non-violent exploration/adventure game with graphics like that I believe there would be lot of people out there willing to play it (which Myst pretty much confirmed at one point).