Graphics stagnant until 2012...

[imported_Shaq]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: Insomniator
The graphic quality of Crysis is quite nice obviously. Keeping those graphics but adding a great amount of physics and sort of real life like things would really help immerse the player in the game. Take a look around your room, see how much crap there is? Being able to enter a room in a video game with 100's of seemingly pointless objects could really improve the gaming experience.

Great, and with my OCD I would be compelled to attempt to pick up or analyse every one of those hundreds of objects in each friggen room for fear that I might overlook some vital item that I needed to pickup that was hidden underneath it, or in it, or is the item itself...:laugh:

:laugh:

 

[zebrax2]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: Insomniator
The graphic quality of Crysis is quite nice obviously. Keeping those graphics but adding a great amount of physics and sort of real life like things would really help immerse the player in the game. Take a look around your room, see how much crap there is? Being able to enter a room in a video game with 100's of seemingly pointless objects could really improve the gaming experience.

Great, and with my OCD I would be compelled to attempt to pick up or analyse every one of those hundreds of objects in each friggen room for fear that I might overlook some vital item that I needed to pickup that was hidden underneath it, or in it, or is the item itself...:laugh:

At least you'll play it for a really long time

 

[Modular]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: Insomniator
The graphic quality of Crysis is quite nice obviously. Keeping those graphics but adding a great amount of physics and sort of real life like things would really help immerse the player in the game. Take a look around your room, see how much crap there is? Being able to enter a room in a video game with 100's of seemingly pointless objects could really improve the gaming experience.

Great, and with my OCD I would be compelled to attempt to pick up or analyse every one of those hundreds of objects in each friggen room for fear that I might overlook some vital item that I needed to pickup that was hidden underneath it, or in it, or is the item itself...:laugh:

Ha! That's so true. I'm already a terrible hoarder in games like Fallout 3 and Oblivion; having this much stuff would drive me crazy!

 

[dflynchimp]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Its doubly sad when you consider that the performance and power of the PC passed the power of the 360 and PS3 a few months before their respective releases. Today, the only real differences are in the price and the openness of the platform.

Oh I think it stretches even further back than that. The PS3 runs on a Nvidia 7800GTX derivative, and the original Xbox only had specs equivalent to a Pentium 3/Celeron and a Geforce 2.

What the consoles have going for them is unified platforms, long development cycles and a design dedicated to gaming and multimedia. Where PC's have to splurge on excess power and a bloated OS to be able to do everything, consoles only need to do a few things very well. This simplifies their coding and engine optimization, which is what makes it possible for developers to get crysis-like graphics to run at 1080p at 30fps solid on hardware that ina straight up comparison pales horribly to its PC cousin.

So what I want to know is when will some company come along and revolutionize the entire process by writing a gaming/multimedia dedicated OS for the PC that skimps on everything else in return for hugely accelerated performance in games. It will be a gargantuam undertaking since PC hardware is naturally more diverse than consoles. But in theory it should be attainable.

 

[nitromullet]

makes it possible for developers to get crysis-like graphics to run at 1080p at 30fps solid on hardware that ina straight up comparison pales horribly to its PC cousin

No, they don't. Part of the 'optimization' is lowering the resolution. There are almost no games that run 1080p natively on the Xbox 360 or PS3. Don't get me wrong, it would be nice for my $300 Xbox 360 to rival my i7/X58/GTX 280 rig but it just doesn't.

So what I want to know is when will some company come along and revolutionize the entire process by writing a gaming/multimedia dedicated OS for the PC that skimps on everything else in return for hugely accelerated performance in games. It will be a gargantuam undertaking since PC hardware is naturally more diverse than consoles. But in theory it should be attainable.

Never. The whole point of the console is to lock you in to a product, and in exchange you get an easy, put-the-disk-in-and-play experience.

...it works too... Ask almost anyone who's had an Xbox 360 RRoD on them, and they'll tell you that they'd rather get another 360 than to switch platforms and lose their investment in games.