What's the point of photorealism?

[fatslob-:O]

Wright said:

fatslob-:O said:
Because we think it can immerse ourselves in a game.

Live-action games gives you a sense of inmersion?

You keep forgetting that there is more to a game than just it's textures. For a very long time I've always wanted better physics that interacts with graphics. Do you realize how hard it is to get a realisitc water and fire behaviour ? We just had destructible geometry recently given to us! (Games like battlefield 4 is defining what it means to be a destrutible environment.) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVZDH15TRro

If we could go past above rasterisation, optics in the game would be very useful to us because their realistic reflection and refractions could give us a clue about the enemies location. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCp8CdAB8fc

Don't even get me started on the dynamic shaders in the snow drop engine. The way the objects react to the whether gives us alot of atmosphere.