Bodycount Creative Director: "F*ck Realism"
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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Saw an interview with someone from this team, may even have been him, about this game in a Game Informer. It looks amazing. Sounds like it could top Black, especially since they're focusing on destruction quite a bit.
If a developer truly wants to fuck realism, they'll fuck their obsession with realistic graphics. In the games as art debate, a lot of lauded art isn't a realistic representation of something, it's an interpretation. The best artworks aren't all hyper realistic looking.
This is solely regarding visuals mind you.
This is solely regarding visuals mind you.
I read a preview on this game the other day, it sounded so damn good.
Destruction of All buildings, rediculous over the top weapoonry, bright coloufull levels, its all so much awesome sounding-ness for one game to handle.
Destruction of All buildings, rediculous over the top weapoonry, bright coloufull levels, its all so much awesome sounding-ness for one game to handle.
Really, the most shocking thing about this article is that Codemasters is still around. I'm surprised... I really haven't seen their brand stuck on many games, and I never see them in the context of the big names, but they still live on, which is pretty sweet.
Although, I don't know why I should be surprised since they definitely developed the best game ever [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Dizzy].
Although, I don't know why I should be surprised since they definitely developed the best game ever [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Dizzy].
Sounds like this may be a game developer who finally gets it. I don't pay $50-60 dollars to have some game developer fail at recreating reality. If I want reality, I get it for free when I wake up in the morning. I pay a game developer $50-60 to create a fun, entertaining and immersive experience. Mimicking reality is not necessary to that objective. The only thing that I would say is necessary is to establish the rules and nature of the game-reality(sorry, I'm lacking a better word to explain the concept I wish to convey) and not violate them; i.e. maintain self-consistency of the game-world. When you try to make a game realistic(mimicking real-life's reality), so often, it seems, you run into situations where the rules have to be violated for the sake of the game. This, in turn, destroys immersion and the fun-factor.
