...and then what?

[youvalss]

So I've been think to myself: game companies work very hard to create a game that looks real. Every now and then there's a new engine that tries to immitate reality. But let's say it's 2018, we have PS5 and every game looks like reality (Just like watching real people on TV). What's next? What else can be achieved graphically?

[Ice Cream Truck]

Re: ...and then what?

Until they make a virtual reality machine where I'm 'IN' NBA 2k, then they still got a long way to go.

[youvalss]

Re: ...and then what?

Until they make a virtual reality machine where I'm 'IN' NBA 2k, then they still got a long way to go.

So u're saying the next step after REAL graphics is virtual reality? That would be sweet, but should take another decade to trully happen.

[Lonestar210]

Re: ...and then what?

So u're saying the next step after REAL graphics is virtual reality? That would be sweet, but should take another decade to trully happen.

ur from israel

[SportsAce]

Re: ...and then what?

ur from israel

Wow.....your point?

[jmood88]

Re: ...and then what?

So u're saying the next step after REAL graphics is virtual reality? That would be sweet, but should take another decade to trully happen.

If you've ever seen Futurama, that's how I want video games to be. But if virtual reality isn't how things are going to go then companies will just have to switch up visual styles.

[youvalss]

Re: ...and then what?

Wow.....your point?

I didn't get that either...maybe we're playing "write the most obvious thing", so I'll say: u're from the US...

[bkfount]

Re: ...and then what?

I'm sure this discussion was had when the ps2 came out. I remember people saying how stores had madden running for the ps2 and people thought it was a real game. Graphics can always get better. They can't even make humans look like real people in full budget hollywood CGI movies yet. There's always improvements with skin tone, lip movement, and the soul less glass eyes to be made. Then there's physics. GTA 4 has nice physics, but even they are over the top rag dollish in some ways.

I'm interested in what companies can do with games, but in the end, they are still games. As technology gets better and better, and games can have people looking more lifelike, how much time and money will be spent making the game actually good? There's only so much they can do with a game given a budget, data space, and hardware. That's why GTA is limited to islands. We'll never be able to pick up and play a GTA America game where you can walk, drive, fly on a plane, or go anywhere in a full country.

[Cebby]

Re: ...and then what?

We'll never be able to pick up and play a GTA America game where you can walk, drive, fly on a plane, or go anywhere in a full country.

Assuming they continue making video games for a long time, it'll happen eventually.

When you factor in programs like Oblivion's environment creator, it would be quite possible if given enough data storage to make the US. The main problem would be populating it, and the secondary problem is who really wants to drive for 15 hours in a videogame? I get bored driving from one side of the game to another now, let alone even the distance of a real city.

[youvalss]

Re: ...and then what?

Never say never...And think about it: who would have thought 15 years ago that games would look like...let's say NBA 2K8? If some1 from 1993 was able to arrive in 2008 he was amazed! U get my point?

[e0820]

Re: ...and then what?

Never say never...And think about it: who would have thought 15 years ago that games would look like...let's say NBA 2K8? If some1 from 1993 was able to arrive in 2008 he was amazed! U get my point?

I agree with this, I said the figure skater in Winter Games on C64 looked real back in 1986. If someone showed me todays graphics back in 1986 and said it was in HD. My first reaction would of been "whats HD?" , but my second reaction would of been, "WOW!"

[youvalss]

Re: ...and then what?

And to think that once NBA Live 97 seemed to me completely real (back then when I played EA games...)!