Poll: Are games becoming too real?

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lately I've been thinking a lot about how developers are making more realistic games and about how gamers want more realistic games. Not just graphically, but gameplay wise as well. A prime example of this would be Call of Duty's infamous Hardcore mode (which I do play frequently.) At first I liked hardcore... until I realized two things: 1. people camp in hardcore... a lot 2. this is supposed to be a GAME, why do I want it to be "realistic"? Don't we play video games to escape the realism of every day life? Isn't "real" boring? Just a thought, what does the Escapist community think?

 

[GodsOneMistake]

As long as I can't feel getting shot 50 times were good

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I don't like games trying to be realistic. I play games to avoid reality.

 

[hypothetical fact]

There are realistic games and there are fun games, they exist in their own worlds to their own markets. Sim games are much more realistic than COD and they came out years ago. Seriously you ever played a flight sim? Boring as fuck, but someone is buying it.

 

[Reg0]

Yeah you are right real is boring, and most gamedeveolpers are jumping on the realism bandwagon

As long as I can't feel getting shot 50 times were good

Keep your fingers crossed we don't =|

 

[okacat]

I don't like games trying to be realistic. I play games to avoid reality.

That is true...but how many of you are professional race drivers or soldiers? How many times a week can you afford to get into your car and drive reclessly hitting people on the streets? How many of you have unlimited lives? But yes I agree too realistic is not fun anymore.

 

[mikecoulter]

I quite like realistic games....

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Some realistic changes are bordering the worrying, but I think we're fine until they realise Office Worker 3: The Filing System of Tedium.

 

[Garzo]

If it's a simulation or an attempt to try and recreate an experience I say fair play, but there are a lot of games that try to be 'gritty' and shove realism in your face and then you realise that it isn't fun. It works for some games, but it's a good thing for a game to be unrealistic. Escapism is what it's all about, isn't it?

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Nope, but i'll let ya know when we get there.

 

[McMarbles]

I agree. Games used to be comopletely insane. Why can't you be a bubble-blowing dinosaur or a guy throwing pies at homicidal Franch chefs anymore?

 

[Booze Zombie]

No.

 

[flare09]

I love realistic games. I hate how you can be shot 30 times, go into a corner and wait for 5 seconds, go back into the field and do it all over again.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

I'm fine with realistic games, as long as it doesn't make me think its my life's documentary.

 

[goatzilla8463]

I try to play realistic games because my life is anything but realistic.

Seriously though, I like realistic games. It is ridiculous how some games i.e. in Halo where you can take three million shots to the head ans still survive. It takes two sniper bullets to kill someone, maybe even more if you're terrible enough to only hit their toe.

 

[Nazulu]

As long as they don't make the violence too realistic like how they were planning to have organs flow out of cut up bodies in GoW 3 then it doesn't bother me.

 

[Kiutu]

In NWN on the server I played, the ones building and scripting the server wanted it to be 'realistic' (as far as in a DnD universe obviously) but sometimes it ruined things. Thus I became a preacher of Fun vs Realism. I still am in other games too. If it being more realistic increases fun, then fine, but if not then it should be dropped.
Really, the games striving for realism need to be able to tell when something real is not fun, though sometimes it can be reverse too. (Chainsaw in Gears I would actually PREFER to be more realistic, mostly because it would make it less effective in the hands of n00bs who spam it)

 

[Krakyn]

I would like some forms of realism to be in games, and others not to be. Like, say, I'd like to have a character with real emotions, expressions, looks, and motives. I'd also want there to be a realistic effect of damage to your surroundings, enemies, and possibly even self (depending on the genre and the game). Another big one would be a realistic controller mechanism, that can act as a weapon, so that when I jump up with the controller over my head and swing it downwards, my guy does the same thing; sadly, the closest thing we've come to that is the Wii waggler (and upcoming NATAL/wand junk).

The realistic things I don't want to see are pretty easy. I don't want to have to eat, or following that, go to the bathroom. I don't want to have to wash my bloodstained clothes in the river so that my character feels less uncomfortable. I don't want stupid factors like fatigue or some other undesirable effect to ruin the fun I could be having by making me set up camp and sleep for some amount of time. Mundane things like this are why we play empowered characters in video games. We're not there to relive what we do every day...that's just depressing.

 

[Nyeb]

I enjoy realism in games, but hey, Saints row 2 was pretty fun. No matter how high the realism gets in games, there's always gonna be that one developer who focuses more on fun. GTA IV to SR 2. Burnout to Grand Turismo. Call of Duty to Halo (kinda...).

Realism is great, as long as it's fun. Call me what you may, but I enjoy watching the realistic death sequences of people in GTA IV. Try watching the Paramedics try to revive someone while looking into the dead person's eyes. You see the exact moment they die. Sick, I know. Admittedly, all games shouldn't be this realistic. But it sure is great when some developers put so much work in that the game becomes its own form of art.

 

[Macgyvercas]

As long as they don't make the violence too realistic like how they were planning to have organs flow out of cut up bodies in GoW 3 then it doesn't bother me.

That looked AWESOME!