Recent content by Combustible Monkey

Yeah, see, and that's an example, I think, of mis-allocation of resources. You spend all this time and computing resources building these high-poly models leaving you a)less GPU power to keep the framerates up and b)less development time to put towards good, believable animation. Why make...

I don't think gaming has jumped the shark, as such. This industry has always been cyclical in nature. There's only really one constant: whatever machine you're playing on will be obsolete sometime soon. Other than that, anything and everything can change. That said, we've currently got...

Personally, I'm inclined to say that art design is way more important than graphical technowhoozits. You can go ahead and have a game-world with all sorts of shiny, normal-mapped realism, but is it interesting to look at? For example, while Metroid Prime 3 is basically running on two...