When graphics stop getting better
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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.
When graphics are as good as they can realistically be, movies will all use the same technology, and the designers will focus more on new ideas, and story instead of on making a game "look good"
yeah and wait another 50 years to perfect thoseSleekgiant said:
And then.....well...someone invents the Matrix and we have the ultimate game xD
Imagine the development costs. As it stands, AAA games these days are multi-million dollar ventures. Nothing is cheap. Graphics are definitely no exception. Now I don't know the actual specifics of these costs, but let's assume that graphics cost the most. As they advance, the resources become more expensive.
Think about how much you typically pay for a recently released home console game. It's about 50-60 USD. I can remember when a new game only cost 30 (about 10 years ago). Game prices scale with dev costs so 10 years in the future, we'll be paying even more as graphics improve.
My $.02.
Getting past the Uncanny Valley is probably what we should be focusing on though. Not making things more realistic, just making things look less freakish.
Think about how much you typically pay for a recently released home console game. It's about 50-60 USD. I can remember when a new game only cost 30 (about 10 years ago). Game prices scale with dev costs so 10 years in the future, we'll be paying even more as graphics improve.
My $.02.
Getting past the Uncanny Valley is probably what we should be focusing on though. Not making things more realistic, just making things look less freakish.