Epic expects photo-realism in a decade Comments by Games Industry.biz
Boss Tim Sweeney says it's "inevitable".
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I just want someone to say "that's it, we can go no further" so that people can just stop caring about the technology and get back to making ART.
It's a constant technological development, always been like that. And photo-realism and artistic design isn't mututally exclusive. One of the most visually impressive things I've seen in gaming in the last years is the citadel in Half-Life 2 - and it doesn'tlook great because of any stylisation, but because of the architecture. I want to see more of that, not just a slightly different approach to cel-shading. |
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Bit harsh on Steve Vai methinks! If you'd said Chris Impellitteri then I'd have agreed with you. Passion and Warfare still holds up as a classic guitar album, whereas the shredfests of his contemporaries sound very dated and shallow now (bringing the context of the debate back into focus!)
Whilst I have no doubt that the techonology will be ready in 10-15 years, I don't think we'll be seeing that level for a while after, purely down to the amount of graphic data that will be required to produce such games. I'd be more interested in seeing things like real-time reflections and proper shadows which would actually enhance the gameplay in FPS's (having to watch out that you are not being reflected in a window / mirror / car) or using a mirror to peer over objects. |
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