We remember when video games were little more than pixelated characters bouncing about the screen. That was a simpler time: no one really talked about the power of a particular physics engine, or whether or not a game was ‘realistic’ enough, because it didn’t really occur to most of us to ask. It wasn’t something we considered a vital element of our gaming experience. Games were fun distractions, simple escapes from reality. They weren’t, in most cases, all that realistic, though some were quite complex and in-depth.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
The Epic Games Store continues to dish out free games and you can add two more to your library this week.
Some Helldivers 2 players are frustrated with some content still being broken, so read this article to see what that is all about.
Some?? Try all. Mechs are bugged, many weapons are useless including the newly renewed ones, stratagems are bugged or weak, we still get stuck in the terrain with no way out, and the list goes on. Good game but they need to fix the issues before doing anything else.
I agree that developing hyper-realism is a waste of time and money. Especially so considering the tech is a LONG way from tricking the human eye. I am talking about digital human characters, not landscapes, objects, or animals.
Still images and movies are able to be convincing by virtue of having much more control over the perception of the viewer. But even movies are limited in what they could show before the audience knows its a digital character.
Basically its currently impossible to create a 100% digital human character that fool the audience the second it starts talking. Human instinct will always know when something is not quite right.
So, wasting resources on trying to be more convincing is not a great idea IMO. (for games) Better to have less "visually" human characters and more "behaviorally" convincing human characters.