Can games...really get any better than they are now?
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As a medium dependant on evolving technology, yes they can get better, with a little flair and imagination.
I look forward to the day we can go to specially designed buildings with VR headsets on for our corridoor shooters...
I look forward to the day we can go to specially designed buildings with VR headsets on for our corridoor shooters...
Yes, console textures are fucking awful and open world games usually don't look that great. There's two things.
Games can always improve visually
What about the pop in of vegetation from like six feet? What about the extremely stiff animation? What about the fugly character models? What about the flat fire and lightning effects?Daveman said:
Games can always improve visually
Graphics - I demand a holodeck!
But the overall quality of a game isn not very much about graphics at all, a lot of modern games lack a compelling and immersive story, or fail to provoke feelings like some of the older games did.
All to many new games are sequels, poor remakes or just a boring game without story to make mony for the publishers. Most are very lacking in innovation too.
I think it's time developers stopped focusing so much on graphics and turned their attention back to story and gameplay.
I finished a new playthrough of Freelancer a couple of days ago, and while the graphics are kind of poor and it only have 4:3 screen aspectratio when I use a widescreen everything was streched out, and that would normally bother me, but the atmosphere of the game made me forget about that, and 20 minutes in I didn't even notice.
And then there is the soundtrack.
I really miss the soundtrack of C&C Red Alert 1 and very few games today come even close of such a compelling soundtrack. Mass Effect gets an honorable mention for having one of the best soundtracks of modern games IMO.
And last;
I have yet to play a game that triggers such an emotinal response in me as the ending of Unreal 2. That is the first and only game I've ever played that made me genuinly sad, not only after I've finished it, but each time I think of it.
I think developers need to stop doing pretty but shallow and uninteresting games and start making deeper, more intelectual games.
But the overall quality of a game isn not very much about graphics at all, a lot of modern games lack a compelling and immersive story, or fail to provoke feelings like some of the older games did.
All to many new games are sequels, poor remakes or just a boring game without story to make mony for the publishers. Most are very lacking in innovation too.
I think it's time developers stopped focusing so much on graphics and turned their attention back to story and gameplay.
I finished a new playthrough of Freelancer a couple of days ago, and while the graphics are kind of poor and it only have 4:3 screen aspectratio when I use a widescreen everything was streched out, and that would normally bother me, but the atmosphere of the game made me forget about that, and 20 minutes in I didn't even notice.
And then there is the soundtrack.
I really miss the soundtrack of C&C Red Alert 1 and very few games today come even close of such a compelling soundtrack. Mass Effect gets an honorable mention for having one of the best soundtracks of modern games IMO.
And last;
I have yet to play a game that triggers such an emotinal response in me as the ending of Unreal 2. That is the first and only game I've ever played that made me genuinly sad, not only after I've finished it, but each time I think of it.
I think developers need to stop doing pretty but shallow and uninteresting games and start making deeper, more intelectual games.
Games could improve since they've actually been getting worse lately. Worse in the sense of pressing games into publishing before they're finished. Seriously, there's only a handful of the large, well-known companies that actually finish products instead of publishing half the game via patches...
[sub]Yes, I exaggerate a bit, but you get my point[/sub]
[sub]Yes, I exaggerate a bit, but you get my point[/sub]
A majority of people in this thread are confusing graphics with quality of games. Graphics are very good now, and probably won't get much better, but games aren't ALL about graphics. Games can get better as long as there are ideas from game developers. It isn't graphics which make the games, it's the gameplay.
Geeze, think of fallout 3 with a larger quest base (every town....and unique quests/story to boot), a world full of possible choices (being dragon age grey, instead of black and white), having muliple endings, and having npc's that sound/look/act differently.
They can make so much better...but its on the right track.
They can make so much better...but its on the right track.
frankly as fun as they are, they can improve...some companies are still stuck in the gutter thinking graphics is the most important thing.SUPA FRANKY said: