[citation][nom]Dark Comet[/nom]I really technology to progress to a point were say a game like dead island looked almost real. An amazingly pretty colourful island in the day with realistic textures and breeze moving the palm trees. Then at night it becomes terrifying nightmare as you can hear the screams of the zombies it would go almost pitch black. As they are chasing you through the island the leaves on the trees are bending as your running through them, small rays of light pierce through the forest from the glow of moonlight so you can just about see. I don't know if you understand what I mean (I'm bad at explaining) but if that game was made in 10 years from now just using the advanced power of PC's it would have been such a better experience.[/citation]
i know what you mean, and i can imagine it... to an extent. but what we really need more than better graphics in that case would be a behavioral ai simulator. something so we dont see canned movements, or reactions, everything is realtime... if we had something like that controlling the zombies, you wouldn't really need to have amazing graphics.
but lets look at this in a more realistic scenario.
graphics get better and better, and this drives the cost of games up, makeing publishers even more worried about publishing something new or different, so a game like dead island never gets made...
and lets be honest, makeing a war torn area in a game is easy, so most likely we will get more military shooters, and they will be dull looking, granted, they will look great, with a flier flowing in the wind, that you can grab out of mid air if you want, open it, and read the name of a local band that was set to play before crap hit the fan in the area.
its really sad to me that with better graphics we lean more toward dull ascetics, instead of vibrant environment.
im honestly trying to think of one AAA game that stands out as not a washed out game... and i just cant... farcry 3, we havent seen enough to say that its all vibrant. borderlands 2, while it has its moments from what i seen, its still a dull pallet, again, holding judgement sense i have heard somethings the developer said, which gives me hope.
but beyond that, i cant think of one game that pushes what graphics can do without going with a washed out look... ok... one game, uncharted, and only if you play the game great, as one hit makes the whole game washed out.
its gotten to the point where im just board with graphics in games, yea they could look better, i know they could, but i just dont care because the people who make games i like the look of, they dont push the graphics at all, but make a great looking game, but the people who do push the graphics hard, are all grey and brown shooters, with crysis being the only one recently that stopped that, but even than... it has its washed out collor areas, i cant speak for 2, or for 3 in the pallet, but it really looks like its washed out, just withe the color green now, instead of grey or brown.
really what it would take for me to be facinated by graphics a pc can push again would be a AAA game with a fantacy vibe and color palet kicking CoD's butt in sales, that way people decide to coppy that color pallet instead of a military shooter for damn near every game.
sorry i got a bit ranty.