Comments on: 360: More Pixels, more Uncanny

By: mortenjohs

mortenjohs — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:38:46 +0000

True true.

People keep saying that games need more “photo realistic” graphics to finally be able to really invoke emotions in their audience. The uncanny valley, of course gives this a new meaning; to be able to experience true horror in a game you might need to find the bottom of this.

Well; the saddest movie I’ve ever seen is the anim? “The grave of the Fireflies” – not really “photo realistic” stuff…

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:02:31 +0000

Yes. The drive for photorealism in games is not only misguided, but a dead end. Even 3d animated film can’t create realistic human characters,and they rely vast renderfarms spending hours over each frame; games, inherently animated on-the-fly can’t even come close to digital film in terms of resolution.

Yet another example of the game industry’s colonial cringe toward film: they want to make it look like film because film is “better.” Screw that.

By: traciS

traciS — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:37:53 +0000

Isn’t that what Nintendo has always been good at? When did the trend change, and we started needing polygons more than Marios? I think it would be interesting to check out the history of game journalism and critics to see when and why graphics became the first concern.
(my guess, as culturally biased: when Japan lost the dominance in international markets).