Poll: Man, Fuck Realism
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I admit theres a fine line. However saying "all realistic games are boring" is a very narrow minded view as is the opposite statement "all unrealistic games are boring". Some unrealistic games are VERY fun. I would like nothing more than to raid a nazi mecha doom fortress and fight mecha hitler in power armor for the sake of fun.. That sounds like an awsome idea... lemme write this down. Anyway at the same time undertaking a realistic stealth mission is also something i find fun. I think different genres need different levels of realism. If a game is going to be unrealistic then in my opinion it should go the whole hog and bring out the nazi mecha doom fortress on crab legs. Abandoning realism entirely is just plain FUN.
I was just going on what the OP said, he was getting one-shotted by extreme accuracy and head-shots. Which is ridiculous, no NPC should be that accurate that when I move out from a wall, they have good enough reflexes to hit me in the face.MaxTheReaper said:
I'm tired of companies making videogames of things anyone could, quite reasonably, go out and ACTUALLY DO! If you've got a media that can make anything happen, then make it happen! AAAUUGHHH!
I went for the top option, for my enemies of course. If I wanted to play an fps where I died in one shot, I would join the army...
Realism isn't particulary important to me, as long as a games sticks to the rules it has established for the universe you're playing in i'm happy.
It is an interesting conundrum we have presented to us with the notion of 'video games' and their level of realism. For while since the dawn of game development, games themselves have oftentimes been made to mimic reality (pong, anyone?) they have never been firmly grounded in reality. Only now with the advent of advanced video processing, physics engines, high dynamic range rendering, etc, do game developers seem almost obligated to re-create reality as closely as possible.
Similar patterns can be seen in the evolution of artwork throughout the European Renaissance. For the first time in centuries, artists found themselves needed, if only by way of commission from local nobility. Yet this enabled them to advance their art form to such an extent as to now be known as the Realism form in Western art.
Of course, as my old Western History professor stated, once you've re-created reality, what next? Well, after Realism came Impressionism, Surrealism, Abstract, and a plethora of different artistic experiments still being carried out to this day, even alongside those who choose to still work with traditional realism.
So what does this mean for video games? Will they reach the pinnacle of reality and then look down from the top of the mountain wondering where to go next? Or will they look up and find something more real than reality...
Similar patterns can be seen in the evolution of artwork throughout the European Renaissance. For the first time in centuries, artists found themselves needed, if only by way of commission from local nobility. Yet this enabled them to advance their art form to such an extent as to now be known as the Realism form in Western art.
Of course, as my old Western History professor stated, once you've re-created reality, what next? Well, after Realism came Impressionism, Surrealism, Abstract, and a plethora of different artistic experiments still being carried out to this day, even alongside those who choose to still work with traditional realism.
So what does this mean for video games? Will they reach the pinnacle of reality and then look down from the top of the mountain wondering where to go next? Or will they look up and find something more real than reality...
i like games that are fun. sometimes they are realistic and sometimes they arent, what matters is fun.
i don't care about really care about realism as long as is fun, a game can be really realistic or crazy stupid with physics from bizzaro land but aslong as it's fun i like it, games are great to put you in the shoes of something and it being nearly real but the can also make impossible things happen too, things that you can't have in real life so whatever. love it either way.
I hate realism in my games. That's why I play video games, to escape reality. Gimme a medieval battleground, or some futuristic technology, or some parallel universe where I can take a million bullets so long as I find a fridge to hide behind while my health regenerates.
I enjoy both, but I really hate a lot of the pretention towards "realism," partially caused by Yahtzee, mostly caused by dickheads.
GUESS WHAT, "RANDOM" HEALTH PACKS SCATTERED EVERY 10 FEET ISN'T MORE REALISTIC THAN REGENERATING HEALTH, THANK YOU, HAVE A NICE DAY, COME BACK WHEN YOU'RE LESS OF A JERK.
Anyway, now that that's out of the way, I have been "craving" a somewhat ultra realisitc title based around Close Quarters Pistol Combat with low enemy numbers based heavily around strategy and a somewhat realistic injury and recovery system. I think it would be an interesting title, but I really don't want all games to resemble this.
However I also loves me some silly as hell Saints Row and physics crazy games, and I hate the "Conspiracy of Dull" that seems to want all games to be muted and crappy looking, you know, like all those people complaining about the suddenly INTERESTING graphics of Borderlands and Red Steel 2, you know when Red Steel 1 was boring looking and Borderlands looked like any other game.
As an afterthought, your poll is kind of bad, your options are confusing and don't indicate a middle ground.
GUESS WHAT, "RANDOM" HEALTH PACKS SCATTERED EVERY 10 FEET ISN'T MORE REALISTIC THAN REGENERATING HEALTH, THANK YOU, HAVE A NICE DAY, COME BACK WHEN YOU'RE LESS OF A JERK.
Anyway, now that that's out of the way, I have been "craving" a somewhat ultra realisitc title based around Close Quarters Pistol Combat with low enemy numbers based heavily around strategy and a somewhat realistic injury and recovery system. I think it would be an interesting title, but I really don't want all games to resemble this.
However I also loves me some silly as hell Saints Row and physics crazy games, and I hate the "Conspiracy of Dull" that seems to want all games to be muted and crappy looking, you know, like all those people complaining about the suddenly INTERESTING graphics of Borderlands and Red Steel 2, you know when Red Steel 1 was boring looking and Borderlands looked like any other game.
As an afterthought, your poll is kind of bad, your options are confusing and don't indicate a middle ground.
Realism... I blame realism for the loss of JET GRIND RADIO.
And that can never be forgiven.
POINT: I hate realism, but also certain fantastical elements. Regen health just kinda pisses me off, mainly due to them using the, "BLURRY GRAYSCALE" to signify imminent death while I'm still trying to fight.
And that can never be forgiven.
POINT: I hate realism, but also certain fantastical elements. Regen health just kinda pisses me off, mainly due to them using the, "BLURRY GRAYSCALE" to signify imminent death while I'm still trying to fight.