Poll: Do you care about realism??

[Something Amyss]

If a game's good, it can be as realistic or unrealistic as it wants to be.

 

[MrGalactus]

Games are fun. Whatever makes them fun, I like. Realism is not required. Ever played Ratchet and Clank?

 

[Mechsoap]

i rather want to play a game without realism (dead rising 2, serious Sam, team fortress 2, just cause 2) unless its of course a rpg game, then realism would be nice though i want other elements (magic stones, drows, elves, orcs, dwarfs, demon spawns, gigantic gloving robes of 50+ luck)

 

[Bobzer77]

It depends.

Games that are Realistic can be fun.

Games that aren't are also fun.

Both can unfortunately be crap.

 

[Another]

Depends. If a game says "Hey guy! I'm a realistic first person shooter! Look plastic shields that stop infinite bullets! Reloading is faster than light! You unlocked infinite run!"

Yeah, I'm looking at you MW2...

Other than a claim of realism, give me that bunny gun cause I'm ready to kick some ass.

This is kind of what I am talking about. The game never goes for realism, it goes for a cinematic approach. But people got the notion that the game made claims to a realistic war Sim.

It is the Micheal Bay movie of videogames.

For that point you are correct. It never made the claim, but the first's combat was believable enough to make me rage at the sheer stupidity of duel wielding Desert Eagles and Vectors...

 

[LostFable]

i play games to ESCAPE from reality, not to experience it

 

[Custard_Angel]

There's no such thing as an "unrealistic" game

You make me smile.

 

[Blue Musician]

I don't really care, as long as it's logical inside the game.

 

[WolfEdge]

Depends. I mean, you know, is it fun?

Cause that would really effect my decision.

 

[feeback06]

Doesn't really matter to me as long as I have fun playing it.

 

[Painful illusion]

Games were first created to escape the realness of reality, but yes realism in games are fun but to much of anything can be a bad thing. So a good balance is great but also depends on the game. You can't really ask for realism in a Ratchet and Clank game.

Huh? Games were first created as a way to simulate a real sport, how were they "created' to escape from anything?
It's just for fun. If you need to escape from reality, you need some help because your outlook on life is pretty depressing. There are better ways to live than just "getting through" life just so you can get to your video games and "escape" reality.

First off I'm going to ignore your ignorant comments about needing help on my outlook on life when you didn't clearly the message in my post and like to look down on people from your pseudo-pedestal. The first guy who created a video game wasn't thinking."Hey I like football so let me make it less fun and make a video game out of it were people sit down and just use there hands as a way to play". No the first games didnt have anything to do with any sports maybe besides pong if you consider that a sport. The first games had characters to play with not athletes to catch balls when you could simply go outside and do it.

 

[Nouw]

Depends on the game.

No Realism in Halo makes it fantastic.

Realism in Bad Company makes it fantastic.

In RTSs, realism should be welcomed with two open arms, cheesecake and a song.

 

[thedoclc]

My $0.02? Realism can kiss off. I just want willing suspension of disbelief, good plot, and good gameplay.

I'd go so far as to say there is an uncanny valley for realism. Now, before I begin, I'd like to say in all things this is a case where Your Mileage May Vary. What a person finds unappealing do to its "realism" or lack thereof is entirely idiosyncratic. My opinions about what is in the "realism uncanny valley" are valid only for me. The idea I'm stressing is that I think there -is- a "realism uncanny valley."

If a game tries too hard to be realistic, then it can wind up falling on its ass if someone who is actually familiar with the topic plays it. For example, both Mass Effect and Metal Gear Solid are full of nonsense, but I can buy it from Mass Effect. The MGS series tries to bill itself as a serious work and explain everything away, so suddenly my rational brain starts working. The bio-and-military BS grate my nerves seeing how I'm an ex-combat medic with tours in combat and a currently a med student. Mass Effect focuses on characters and plots, handwaves its silliness, and so I wind up not caring. Yes, the whole mass effect thing is utter rubbish, but I can forgive it more easily. MGS winds up in the realism uncanny valley for me. For me. Let me say it again: your mileage may vary.

Or for a less fan-boy baiting example, consider the old NBA Street games, so over-the-top and cartoony, and then the NBA Live games. The Street games were so successful because they were such wild caricatures, while the Live games shot for ultimate realism. Both succeeded. I think a game in the middle would have failed, as neither casual basketball fans nor hardcore fans would be happy with the compromise.

Again, your mileage may vary.

 

[Custard_Angel]

There's no such thing as an "unrealistic" game

You make me smile.

It's true, think about it. Name one game you think is unrealistic in every sense and I can point out one real world element.
The whole concept of games is to take reality and twist it. We are not able to make something "unrealistic" because we can't think of something completely unlike reality. We can think of unreal monsters, but they are always grounded in our reality somehow. Even a game about a running headchog still involves real world elements and it's own meta realism.

Lylat Wars.

Space travel does not work that way.
Lasers do not work that way.
Foxes do not fly spacecraft.
Meteors do not work that way.
Lava planets do not exist.
A giant cyber face named Andross with disembodied hands is a farce.

To say that the game incorporates things like gravity is not realism because gravity is universal.

Besides... Who calls something realistic because it has one element in it that can be traced to real life?

It's like calling a room clean because one corner of the room is spotless when the rest of the room is filled with junk.

Or calling Austria an evil nation because Hitler came from there.

 

[Stuntkid]

It depends on how it's portrayed. Or on some occasions, How it's not.

 

[TerranReaper]

One thing that bugs me is why people consider Bad Company 2 or Call of Duty to be realistic games. When I think realistic games, I think of the Operation Flashpoint or the ArmA games. Those games are the real realistic games and I think the average CoD or Battlefield player will be extrememly turned off when they play those.

 

[Vault101]

it really depends on the game your playing, like it;s pretty retarded to complain that fallout3 is not realistic however if a game is promoted as such then you would expect a certain level of realism

 

[Daniel Laeben-Rosen]

No.
No I don't.

Realism like any style is always welcome as far as I'm concerned, but that's all it should be; a style.
Also the more realistic you make the game, the more the Uncanny Valley becomes obvious, sometimes leaving me frustrated and, quite often: pissed off.

I honestly don't think "realistic" should be the measurment for how good something looks.
Take a game like Super Mario Galaxy. Not realistic for a second, but looks fantastic.
Yeah, more cartoony style, but it still looks great.

I don't know.
Might be because I'm an artist specializing in more cartoony characters, might be because my taste just doesn't run to where I equate "Brown" as "Real".

 

[Cazza]

A game can't feel real. You shouldn't try.

 

[Sir Prize]

The genre of the game, as well as it's type really do matter.
Example, a sci-fi fps should have a certain amount of realism, unless it is a parady. However, I am sick and tired of the brown and grey gritty games.

To me, that's the illusion of realism. Life isn't brown. It's colorful, vibrant and pretty fun looking. Of course I haven't actually seen these "brown shooters" people talk about. I played MW2 and thought it was pretty colorful, maybe people are referring to the first one.

I would like to see a bit more realism in sci fi games, it would be pretty cool to have a MC suit that actually reacts to the world as if it was 2 tons (I believe that's what it was supposed to be) so you could actually flatten those little goomba guys by jumping on them or see an aliens face crack open when you give them a melee bash in the head.

Point taken, though maybe makes things less serious.