| Netyaroze said:
The point were we don't need consoles is still very far away imo. There are things nobody ever tried because the performance just isn't there. The rendering techniques Avatar used like Raytracing is still along way off PS6 eventually.. We could have a 1000 Teraflop console with 4 Terabyte Ram and we would still run into limitations. Videogames can theoretically be as complex as life itself. And every jump opens new and never before seen possibilities. Gamedesign very slowly evolves unlike graphics and with new possibilities, new game concepts come and motivate people to spend money. At the same time creating content gets easier with new technologies. This gen will be very interesting. Games are a slowly evolving medium and aslong as technology keeps on going we will always get to see stuff we haven't before.
I am already fed up with the state of games today and I am looking forward to changes in the next 6 years. |
I guess it all depends on how real is real enough for this or that user, how much is enough. The excitement I get from avatar is as good as the excitement I get from watching Disney's Tarzan. Both are made with very different techs with very different requirements.
David Cage is a proponent of emotion. Does emotion truly require 1 to 1 simulation for absolutely everything to convey the meaning and world of the game?
That's where I believe there may be some exaggerated emphasis on the technological side of the medium versus the communicative side of the medium (what it tries to convey).
