WHEN Will We Play TNG of Video Games????

[apoppin]

Maybe I am getting impatient but video game "quality" and "realism" still seems to be lacking.

I just watched a bit of Final Fantasy, The Spirits Within - The Movie - (we all know, "groundbreaking CG and terrible story"). WHEN will home computers have comparable game graphics (to the FF DVD)? GeForce 6 or 7 ???

I am just now playing Unreal for the first time - it is a 1998 game - and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Now, 6 years later, the latest games (Max Payne, Serious Sam, RtCW, etc., etc.) do not seem THAT much more graphically impressive (. . . X-box is "nice" but still lacks (or is at least not that far ahead of the PC).

 

[apoppin]

I can't believe it . . . I post a thread and have to go . . . um, something came up


(. . . Surf on the North Shore . . . right now . . . heading for my dose of realism that NO videogame can match . . .
Aloha!)

 

[ThisIsMatt]

<< Maybe I am getting impatient but video game "quality" and "realism" still seems to be lacking.

I just watched a bit of Final Fantasy, The Spirits Within - The Movie - (we all know, "groundbreaking CG and terrible story"). WHEN will home computers have comparable game graphics (to the FF DVD)? GeForce 6 or 7 ???

I am just now playing Unreal for the first time - it is a 1998 game - and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Now, 6 years later, the latest games (Max Payne, Serious Sam, RtCW, etc., etc.) do not seem THAT much more graphically impressive (. . . X-box is "nice" but still lacks (or is at least not that far ahead of the PC). >>

Oh $h!t, it's 2004 already?!?!?

 

[pulse8]

I think it was the 2000 SIGGRAPH show, they did a real-time version of the Final Fantasy movie that was supposed to be VERY impressive.

I think it will be a while before things really get going. If you make games that require the latest hardware, you're cutting out a huge chunk of the market. A lot of newer games don't even take advantage of all the features of newer graphics cards because the majority of people don't own them.

I'm sure they could make some pretty impressive games if they were to program strictly for higher end cards.

 

[cliftonite]

<< Oh $h!t, it's 2004 already?!?!? >>



LOL

 

[Koing]

<< I think it was the 2000 SIGGRAPH show, they did a real-time version of the Final Fantasy movie that was supposed to be VERY impressive.

I think it will be a while before things really get going. If you make games that require the latest hardware, you're cutting out a huge chunk of the market. A lot of newer games don't even take advantage of all the features of newer graphics cards because the majority of people don't own them.

I'm sure they could make some pretty impressive games if they were to program strictly for higher end cards. >>



ditto.

I don't see games being like FF the movie for at least 10 years WHEN everyone will have at least a GF3 or something by then.

Well I hope in 10 years time they all have GF3!

 

[glen]

Games haven't gotten much better than Unreal.
Quake 2 probably can do the graphics, but the combination of brown-green, brown-orange, and brown-brown didn't blow people away like Unreal did when it came out.

 

[apoppin]

Ten Years! :Q

That is Waaaaay too long. . . . we're talking GeForce 8 or so . . . and you'd think there is a market for games aimed at hi-end computers today.

BTW, surf was incredible . . . the swell was largely missed by the forecasters ('cept me) and the crowd was not too heavy . . . I even got barreled twice on one wave.