Thank you for replying back to my post, and sorry for the long wait.
rsvp42 said:
The need for faster rendering of more complex simulations and lighting is always there and that need will be constantly filled. We can depend on computer power to keep increasing.
Not really. We are near the end of Moore's Law as it is. look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkMaQJSyP8
When 2015 comes, Moore's Law will stop, or something big is going to happen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_nanometer
Do you know how much it is going to cost to make a new, smaller computer chip? In the billions! And the cost just keeps getting higher:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_fabrication_plant
My point is: 99% of movies already looks Photorealistic, and there will be no need for movies-makers to have more. Well, that's not true -- they will always want more, but they can't keep the semiconductor industry alive just by themselves. We *all need to upgrade and bye new PCs, at least, once every 3 years, or so.
And let me ask you something: is there an ugly FPS game you can think of, on the playstation 1 (not Doom) that you would like to play over a PS3/360 FPS game?
One more thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUSo6ehRCHI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg
If there was a PS5 game with that kind of Physics, would you want to go back to Doom 1?
rsvp42 said:
The problem arises when we rely on graphics as a stand-in for innovation. Along comes another console generation and instead of actually exploring more complex ideas and creating new gaming experiences, we're creating the same experiences again and again, but with higher resolution and more bad guys in one room at a time.
(Like if you would play anything else.)
The problem isn't that we aren't trying new ideas. The problem is we already tried most of them in the 90s(Dungeon Keeper, Populous, Sim(something), X-COM, Star Control, Master of Orion, Syndicate, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Moonbase Commander, Grim Fandango, Sid Meier's Pirates!, Homeworld etc.), But most gamers didn't like them. And Old man Croshaw is ***NOT*** helping to change that! Mr. Croshaw knows about Civilization 5, but he doesn't want to even try it!So what can we do? If you want to try new ideas, then you can't ask the Big Guys to do it, no, you need the smaller makers to do it first.
And look at the Wii: the whole idea behind that was "no graphics, all gameplay". How did that work out?
damn that "spam checking"
PS, Croshaw sucks for being evil and rude!