Why Photo Realistic Graphics is Doomed to Fail

[DanneSandin]

crissindahouse said:

DanneSandin said:

BenVTrigger said:
Ive got to be honest. The only people I really see saying photo realistic graphics are bad are mostly Nintendo fans.

Eventually we will have photo realism I assure you. That doesn't mean every game will try and do it though

did you check out the entire OP? Would you like to have a game where the characters look like those robots? and read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

It explains why games can't get too photo realism. I'm all for great looking games, but this got me thinking that photo realistic hraphics might back fire...

but games won't look like this robot, you clearly see this is a "human robot" and we will never get a game which will have humans look like this robot as long as it isn't a a game about those robots in households or whatever.

humans in computer games will always look like a computer model as long as they won't look 100% real and they will never look as a real life robot which is made to look like a human. so comparing robots with possible computer models of humans is the wrong way in my opinion. if you really want to show how bad this can be in games you would have to show a computer model of a human and not a robot of the real world.

maybe there are examples of some cgi movies which flopped because of that uncanny valley feeling for people? wasn't there this movie with angelina jolie and other computer models? don't remember the name anymore but i believe i remember that some didn't like it because of this "computer movie which tries to look like reality"

Just take a look on Barozis post below yours... There you have them cgi humans I'm talking about, and they don't look pretty!