When graphics stop getting better
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I don't follow...Sleekgiant said:
OT: Um... well it certainly is optimistic of you to think this will happen in 14 years/ever, but anyway I don't think they will ever stop striving for better graphics in some way. So not until everything is built down to the atomic level will we not stop... aka never.
PC motion capture /Shudder.
Or they begin to develop GPU's with AI essentially turning your PC into a community of intelligent objects that will someday rise up against their oppressive users and rise to the top, becoming the dominant beings on earth. Of course this empire will be short lived. A human will develop a virus in the form of a sidebar add claiming to increase the size of ones USB cable. This virus will spread and eventually wipe out the PC's. The human race vows to never make the same mistake again.
One year later Microsoft announce the release of their new operating system... The cycle beings once more.
Or they begin to develop GPU's with AI essentially turning your PC into a community of intelligent objects that will someday rise up against their oppressive users and rise to the top, becoming the dominant beings on earth. Of course this empire will be short lived. A human will develop a virus in the form of a sidebar add claiming to increase the size of ones USB cable. This virus will spread and eventually wipe out the PC's. The human race vows to never make the same mistake again.
One year later Microsoft announce the release of their new operating system... The cycle beings once more.
That's exactly what I was going to say. We start making things better in every other aspect. I just hope sounds improve with it. It's not that sound is bad now, I mean who's gonna tell you that your necromorph sounds nothing like a real necromorph? It's just that when you can make something sound however you want, you don't have to do it thoroughly. It's a subtle art and I'm sure it's not easy, but I think it could be done.Sleekgiant said:
Gaming has a renaissance and returns to the day when the focus is on the important part of a game (the story).
Once graphics can't get any better hopefully they will have time to make the characters have less of an uncanny valley feel.
But there are no dinosaurs with silly hats outside!linkvegeta said:
Well, I guess that we would focus more on story and the actual controls... I hate it when people say *look at the sparkly graphics* because our story is shit and our controls will murder you more then that Taliban.
Maybe they'll start developing other tech, such as realistic voice emulation to cut down on voice actor requirements and to bring back the freedom developers lost with the advent of full voiceover; or perhaps procedural generation techniques that will allow game content to be near limitless while using a fraction of the space that would be necessary today.
Oh god yes! I very much dislike gamers who judge a game by its graphics first or on graphics alone, a real gamer judges a game on its gameplay and graphics are just a bonus.The Stonker said:
Yeah, the technology is only the pallet that is availiable to the field. It can never define the industry.
People argued that painting was dead when the printing press was invented, then again when photography came around. They also thought that books would dissapear with the advent of television. None of which rang true.
If a creative team has the ability to go all out crazy realisitc like we can hardly imagine (say put the scenery from Far Cry 2 vs. Frogger in the 70's), that's just that, an ability. It only provides more creative choice, that will never damage a competently run creative process.
People argued that painting was dead when the printing press was invented, then again when photography came around. They also thought that books would dissapear with the advent of television. None of which rang true.
If a creative team has the ability to go all out crazy realisitc like we can hardly imagine (say put the scenery from Far Cry 2 vs. Frogger in the 70's), that's just that, an ability. It only provides more creative choice, that will never damage a competently run creative process.
They will make games with downgraded graphics for an "old timey" atmosphere.
But we've already hit that mark, haven't we?
But we've already hit that mark, haven't we?
P.S. I'm 33yrs old. I've heard talk half my life about computer capacity and graphic quality reaching some glass celing. It never has. Let the boffins do thier bit. It'll only make the best efforts of the best design teams better.