When will video games get "real" sound?

[the_dengle]

JoeTheBro said:

the_dengle said:
It would also be the death of live orchestrated OSTs.

I hope it never happens.

Why would it be the death of OSTs? Even though we have Avatar CGI we still have traditional actors a majority of the time.

We hardly ever get live instruments as it is. I hope that games like Journey encourage more publishers to push for live music, but if developers want their games to render sound in real-time, this is the end of any recorded soundtrack at all. All of the music will be rendered in-game -- as the OP points out, it's the end of voice acting as well.

Game over, synthesized music wins. No, I can't accept that.