Poll: are games becomeing to realistic
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Some games try to add realism... and thats where they fail. A game meant to be realistic should be as realistic as it can be... but, where realism istn needed, I say it isnt welcome.
It does depend on the genre, i like slightly to very realistic shooters (Rainbow six, GRAW, operation flashpoint, ArmA), Racing games and RTS games, but some games just need to be tits-and-blood everywhere type of games, cause we need a little fun too!
Games will be too realistic when we have FPSs that require you to witness your conception, spend a few levels developing in your mother, get born, grow up through childhood, go to college, get a job, buy a house, pay mortgage, get fired, go into debt and depression, drink yourself unconscious, go to rehab, come back a new man/woman, start a new "chapter" in your life, get a new job, find a girl/boyfriend, have a meaningful relationship, get married, have children, raise said children, pay for said children, wish you had never had said children, rejoice when said children move out, grow old, become senile, have your children (Whom you now refer to as "those kind strangers" in your old age and warped mind) put you in a home, grow older, have nurses fret over your frail body, and eventually die.
Oh, forgot to mention Gran Turismo 4, which was actually tested by real racecar drivers on real tracks (the lap times were the same, if not close). The only unrealistic part of the game was the AI that pretended you weren't there or hitting a wall at 130mph and having your car come to a complete stop with no more than a "oompf!"
For all the realism concerning that game, go ahead and Google it. But then again, it said on the cover that its a Driving Simulator, which would kinda put it up there with Military simulators, which do just that, simulate realistic events.
For all the realism concerning that game, go ahead and Google it. But then again, it said on the cover that its a Driving Simulator, which would kinda put it up there with Military simulators, which do just that, simulate realistic events.
No. It's. Not - http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.108729?page=1ace_of_something said:
I don't think games should stop becoming more realistic. And I don't think a game that only uses every color in the dirt spectrum is "realistic".
Case in point: I walked into the downstairs common room of my dorm this afternoon and saw someone sitting in front of the TV watching a basketball game. Except he wasn't watching a game on TV; he was playing a video game. It took me about three glances at the screen to realize it was a video game. In my opinion, that is freaking awesome.
Case in point: I walked into the downstairs common room of my dorm this afternoon and saw someone sitting in front of the TV watching a basketball game. Except he wasn't watching a game on TV; he was playing a video game. It took me about three glances at the screen to realize it was a video game. In my opinion, that is freaking awesome.
By realistic i talk about graphics. eg Fallout 3's "Every color of the Dirt Spectrum" - Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw and the guy who posted before me. anyway they need to be reminded that they need a little bit of an arcade feel for fun.
Oh, 1 thing that pisses me off. why do game developers think that a shotgun has a range of 3 1/2 feet? I shoot in real life and it is better at closer range but its not like at three feet the shots decide to say, "Oh, we're just gonna stop moving and fall to the ground now."
That is the only thing i think needs to be more real
Oh, 1 thing that pisses me off. why do game developers think that a shotgun has a range of 3 1/2 feet? I shoot in real life and it is better at closer range but its not like at three feet the shots decide to say, "Oh, we're just gonna stop moving and fall to the ground now."
That is the only thing i think needs to be more real
He didn't say that in reference to the realistic graphics, he said it in reference to the game's horrible sidequests (don't call them anything else, that's all they are) of taking your friends bowling and such.ninonybox360 said:
There's no more colors in games anymore? Go play Mirror's Edge and Psychonauts.
Sure it's the "odd game out" but eventually it won't be (see peggle and world of goo, stuff like that). People are finally getting tired of brown...
Well if a game are realistic or not... I don't really care. The most important thing for me is the gameplay, the graphics and the scenarios!
I'd say CoD4 is about as realistic as a game can get before it starts infringing on the gameplay.
stalker is pretty good for realism too. If of course you focus on the gunfighting and not the setting/plot.
Saint's row 2 though, not realistic at all and fantastic lol
stalker is pretty good for realism too. If of course you focus on the gunfighting and not the setting/plot.
Saint's row 2 though, not realistic at all and fantastic lol
ok im not complaining about the graphics those are fine except when everything is brown, black or blurry, but those mostly don't distract from the gameplay, take GOW 1 and 2 or gta4 for example they are all great games. Its only to realistic when it distracts from the gameplay, mostly cause from that fat bastard roman and pals wanting to go bowling with me every 5 seconds.
Actually in real life there are a lot of colors. Case in point, the sky is a rich color of blue. In some recent "realistic" games, its not. Adding realism to games would involve adding a few more color shades to their pallet. Also, yeah too much realism makes games as boring as real life. Realism doesn't matter to me, I play for the fun. Being a space-suit wearing, powergun wielding giant space badie killing bounty hunter is just as good as being a low level criminal struggling to make a place in life as long as there both fun.