I had to pause the video half way through to have a rage
I know Jim wa just taking the piss out of the whole "Graphics are emotions" thing, but he really laid it on a tad too thick
I find the whole "We need better Graphics/Photorealism to make try emotions in games" arguement to be bullshit
When I hear people talk about it, I just bring up a little game called "Thomas was Alone", a game where you guide a block from one place to another, and yet has had people ball their eyes out over
I remember 2K brought the arguement up a good while back, around the same time their Bioshock Infinate Trailer came out & had people getting all worked up over it, shooting them in the foot faster than any human being could
For me, I look at Photorealism & go "Why"
Its a unperfected art style, that requires a crap tonne of different elements and variables to be perfect for it to work, limiting the practicle uses of the style
On top of that, the games industry is currently suffering a problem where games are now so expensive to make, that the need to make millions on launch day to be worth the effort put into the development
Why is this?
I don't know, maybe its because a lot of these games pour so much money into their visuals
Photorealism is not cheap...
At all
To the point, I don't even thing its worth it
But thats proberbly just me
