| happydolphin said: 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). |
I dont mean just graphics. Its not just the presentation that benefits from power. Rendering techniques like SVOGI and after that ray tracing could make the job of gamedesigners alot easier and faster. Alot of work would just fall away they then instead could do more stuff..
Also I want to do unreal things in life like graphics. Stuff that can't happen in the real world but looks like reality. We are far from reality what graphics are concerned. So for me its never enough.
But not just that. Imagine new games taking place in a persistent complex world that goes on without you even if you are not there. At one point a game could be able to tell infinite stories because unexpected game changing stuff happens without your influence.
Or freedom at another scale imagine what consequences for games it would have if everything follows our physics every time.
Or take a GTA like title for example populate it with 100000 Characters add Battlefield physics and let other people build the City in realtime in a Sim City like game while you play as a criminal with a tank destroying the city in a 1st/3rd person perspective.
Thats just one random thought but I think that performance helps to make unexplored gaming concepts. Power is not just there for cosmetics or else Bethesda could have made Fallout 3 and bring it out in PS2 level graphics in 2001
This is not a judgement over Wii U because I am pretty sure it will turn out fun, but without someone in the console space pushing for technological advancement videogames would get boring after a while.
