Realism in Gaming?
This topic was touched in yesterdays lecture as we talked about how graphics are improving in games and everything these days. I'll start off by sharing a link to the video that I mentioned yesterday showing how improved graphics are making things like characters more realistic.
The character creation shown in this video makes it almost look like your looking at a photo of a person rather than a computer player.
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/13855
But like Luke mentioned the fact that the worlds are looking more and more realistic means that the games should feel more realistic. Which leads to a sense of disapointment when you cant. This view is shared by quite a few and I found an article that talks about it in context to Gears of War a game that was released on Xbox 360 earlier in the year. That article is here.
The article brings up the idea that even though these games look real you still need to treat them with a suspended belief. That gamers shouldnt question why you cant do basic things like run up certain hills and should just enjoy the pretty graphics.
The article also links to a blog by David Wong.
He goes on to talk about how games have improved so much visualy since Doom for example yet the AI hasnt changed at all.
This brings up the question what do gamers refer to as realism? Is a world that looks like the real world real? Or is a fake looking world with realistic people in itmore real? And why with all the technolgy and money getting put into games cant we have both?
The character creation shown in this video makes it almost look like your looking at a photo of a person rather than a computer player.
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/13855
But like Luke mentioned the fact that the worlds are looking more and more realistic means that the games should feel more realistic. Which leads to a sense of disapointment when you cant. This view is shared by quite a few and I found an article that talks about it in context to Gears of War a game that was released on Xbox 360 earlier in the year. That article is here.
The article brings up the idea that even though these games look real you still need to treat them with a suspended belief. That gamers shouldnt question why you cant do basic things like run up certain hills and should just enjoy the pretty graphics.
The article also links to a blog by David Wong.
He goes on to talk about how games have improved so much visualy since Doom for example yet the AI hasnt changed at all.
This brings up the question what do gamers refer to as realism? Is a world that looks like the real world real? Or is a fake looking world with realistic people in itmore real? And why with all the technolgy and money getting put into games cant we have both?
posted by Stephen at 2:40 PM
2 Comments:
Interesting links and ideas, Stephen!
I'd argue the point regarding the complexity of AI not evolving since DOOM.
There are the flanking manouvres and teamwork of AIs from Half-Life onwards, improved in Half-Life 2, through to the complexity grounded in having behaviours even when the player is not there to see them or trigger them from Stalker and Bioshock.
I should stop ranting, but I'll talk about that more to do with the gaming lecture in week 9.
- Kevin.
Ive noticed an improvement in AI. I noticed the AI in Half life and HL2. That would be the reason they are two of my favorite games. However even your AI in half life 2 will still stand in one point next to a wall of exploding barrels...
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