Cliff Bleszinski, Gears of War creator and lover of blue aliens, isn't fully satisfied with game graphics today. They're good, but they're not Avatar good, right?
"I'm sorry, do you think graphics are good enough?" Bleszinski asked OXM in an interview. "No they're not! The Xbox 360 is great, we've pushed it further than we ever have with Gears of War 3, but I want 'Avatar' in real-time and beyond."
Woah. It sounds like Cliffy B has his Na'vi plugs in a tangle. But I get it. He wants our jaws to drop with games, much like they did when we first saw Avatar.
"Do graphics make gameplay? No. But when I fire up my projector back at my house, put Avatar on - it still makes your jaw drop, it's like a giant portal to another planet. I think we still have a long way to go before we get there, and I want us to get there."
Cliff wants fully realistic CG for games. Do you want that in your games, though? Do you want perfect realism? Are you banking on a Na'vi plug interface for the Xbox 720?
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1:00 PM on 10.19.2011
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Damn it Dtoid, an edit button would be wonderful.
lol
I rofl'd
No but really Turok 2 had amazing graphics on the N64, shit's was so cash.
yeah, that was good. :)
Either that, or we will all just sit in bed all day, wearing a visor that simulates real life so we don't actually have to go outside and do any of it. The visor will come with exciting software like 'Depositing Your Paycheck' and 'Shopping: Sale on Isle 5.' Because what's more real than that?
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I was very, very young at the time but Turok 2 looked like real life to my overly imaginative little self, it was terrifying!
I think we should be pushing tech at a reasonable rate and as far as I'm concerned the 360 has had its run. Move over for something new, please!
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Yeah, Gears 3 looks fantastic on the 360. But it could have looked so much better on the PC. Bulletstorm on the PC makes Gears 3 look pretty mediocre. Consoles badly need an upgrade.
The best thing Cliffy can do if he wants to put out better graphics is start developing more stuff for the PC and helping push some of that tech Epic was showing off last year. I'm ready for a game that looks like that damn Samaritan demo. That was pretty amazing.
That isn't the real issue though, the real issue is will Cliffy B's next game muscular blue people? That would be pretty hot and innovative.
I think we still have a ways to go before games look like the Samaritan video, even in the PC world. I believe that was running on an extremely high end quad SLI setup.
Actually no, Fallout could use some serious touching up, but still, developers might want the next gen consoles to come around already but gamers aren’t ready to drop all that cash again while we have one-two years of mediocre games while they try to figure the system out.
And art style will always trump graphical power anyway.
It was. And I agree. I just think that the sooner we drop the old tech, the sooner we'll be able to start working towards making games that look like Samaritan and play on modest machines. A man can dream.
I swear if I have to make one more gaming account and re-add all my friends people will be annoyed by all the letters I will be sending, lol.
PCs are far more capable of better graphics. Not Avatar-quality, but unless you have a farm of 100 servers with quad-core, top-end server-grade CPUs you're not going to get Avatar-quality graphics nowadays or in the next 10 or so years. Maybe something similar in 5 years but with plenty of compromises.
In any case, he sticks by his outdated console while yearning for something another platform supports now, but instead he chooses to disregard that platform and even curse it. Right now he's basically just publicly askIng Microsoft to make a better console. Rather than doing the sane thing as a game designer and looking for the best medium to realise your designs, he's just sitting there and waiting for one outdated platform to refresh.
Batman:Arkham Asylum is proof. The art style and production value made it look better than a lot of powerhouse games. It's a brains over brawn situation.