Realistic Graphics Are Ruining Your Video Games!
>I swear, you'll see, this game has SICK graphics!
You've most likely heard this phrase not so long ago. In fact, there's a good chance you've been hearing it constantly ever since... ever since someone first put a controller in your hands... or a keyboard for the hardiest among us! It's something deeply ingrained in people's minds. Even before music, story, gameplay, game design, or anything else that could make a game great. Graphics have always held a very special place in people's eyes. It's one of the beating hearts of video games, a heart that has fueled many dreams and many advances that, in turn, would help propel an industry from niche status... to something that now weighs more than music and cinema combined... It must be said that with 80-dollar games and 300-dollar collector's editions, things can go very quickly! — But I digress!
The one to imply that the video game industry is broken. But broken because it would have gotten lost in the pursuit of ever-more powerful graphics! Seriously, there are dozens and dozens of articles on the subject, almost as many videos, and hundreds of pages worth of people who, literally, have been debating the whys and wherefores, for the past 6 or 7 years, this quest has finally turned into a poison that now poses more problems than anything else! Bugs, ever-increasing development costs, ever-increasing game prices, incomplete gameplay loops, or simply sloppy games, all the evils of the world are there and seem to be associated with it in one way or another—a bit as if it were THE thing that suddenly made publishers and developers lose all common sense, even to the point of neglecting everything else!
But then, is it true? Has the industry really been at a standstill for the past few years? And above all, is it precisely because of this unquenchable thirst for ever-more advanced graphics that we've reached this point? Well, I asked myself the question question...?
You've most likely heard this phrase not so long ago. In fact, there's a good chance you've been hearing it constantly ever since... ever since someone first put a controller in your hands... or a keyboard for the hardiest among us! It's something deeply ingrained in people's minds. Even before music, story, gameplay, game design, or anything else that could make a game great. Graphics have always held a very special place in people's eyes. It's one of the beating hearts of video games, a heart that has fueled many dreams and many advances that, in turn, would help propel an industry from niche status... to something that now weighs more than music and cinema combined... It must be said that with 80-dollar games and 300-dollar collector's editions, things can go very quickly! — But I digress!
The one to imply that the video game industry is broken. But broken because it would have gotten lost in the pursuit of ever-more powerful graphics! Seriously, there are dozens and dozens of articles on the subject, almost as many videos, and hundreds of pages worth of people who, literally, have been debating the whys and wherefores, for the past 6 or 7 years, this quest has finally turned into a poison that now poses more problems than anything else! Bugs, ever-increasing development costs, ever-increasing game prices, incomplete gameplay loops, or simply sloppy games, all the evils of the world are there and seem to be associated with it in one way or another—a bit as if it were THE thing that suddenly made publishers and developers lose all common sense, even to the point of neglecting everything else!
But then, is it true? Has the industry really been at a standstill for the past few years? And above all, is it precisely because of this unquenchable thirst for ever-more advanced graphics that we've reached this point? Well, I asked myself the question question...?
