Phil Wright, head of Content Business Development EMEA for Nvidia has stated his opinion that better graphics in games results for better gameplay as well.
"As someone who works for a graphics company, my opinions for this matter tends to meet with certain amount of cynicism, but I'm not alone in arguing that DX10 is going to be as much about better gameplay as pretty pictures."
From Horse Armor to Mass Layoffs: The Price of Greed in Gaming. Inside the decades-long war on game workers and the players who defend them.
maybe a real enemy is people who use terms like "the real enemy"
there can be more than 1 bad thing, t's not like a kids show with 1 big bad
Executives seem to often have an obsession with perpetual revenue growth. There is always a finite amount of consumers for a product regardless of growth. Additionally, over investment is another serious issue in gaming.
honestly, the "real" enemy of gaming, is ourselves
if nobody bought horse armor, shitty dlc would have died almost overnight
if we stood firm and nobody bought games from companies that were bad with layoffs, it would be solved
we're the idiots supporting awful business practices, we are the ones enouraging it
Greed and greedy people have and always will be the main issue for everything wrong in the world. Everything is a product to be exploited for monetary gain. Even when there are things that could help progress us along for the sake of making our lives easier that thing must be exploited for monetary gains. Anything that tells you otherwise is propaganda to make you complicit.
I've never thought "DEI" (although the way most people use it doesn't match it's real definition) is the problem with games. Good games have continued to be good when they have a diverse cast, and likewise, bad games have continued to be bad. There isn't a credible example I've seen where a diverse cast has been the direct cause of a game being bad.
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I subscribed to this not knowing about how some of the proceeds go to St. Judes.
Really cool that some of the money goes there.
Even if people don't subscribe to the mag, it might bring people to the charity.
Though Unearthed Arcana's content primarily consists of subclasses and spells, WOTC's latest UA drop is set to shake up Dungeons and Dragons' future.
I don't completely agree with him but there are a few occasions that better and more advanced graphics brings better gameplay like destructable envirements or in atmospheric games like Bioshock and FEAR, helps the horror elements and the mood.
graphics can "enhance" gameplay. But a game can have the poorest graphics ever and excel in gameplay.
A good example of this is tetris. It is totally addicting just from a gameplay standpoint.
All the while employing very primitive graphics.
Great gameplay will stand the test of time. Great graphics are subjective to the timeframe in which the game is released.
A game can have photorealistic graphics and still suck. I will take gameplay over graphics anyday.
were talking about? Of course they are in the Business of selling "GRAPHIC CARDS" what else would he say? They want you to go out and but a DX10 card right now, knowing their drivers are not up to snuff with Vista.
Better Graphics have never guaranteed "Great Gameplay". So many games have fallen in that grey area of, "well the graphics were alright but the game totally kicked-arse." Lot's of Sleepers over the years.
Example I liked FFVII over FFX, but which one had way better graphics? I'm playing FFVII right now and it really hasn't given me that same feeling when I played VII. Not that I'm saying it's not a good game.
Another Example Castlevania: Symphony of the Night(Fn Great Game), I have played some of the new ones after that one, but I still haven't played one as good as SOTN.
Better graphics enhances the gamers experience but does not make the game. Western developers are catching up to telling a great story. Japanese developers have them beat in that department, but with the addition of Movie producers(jackson/speilberg) getting into gaming, the stories we see will be very similar to movie scripts.
Graphics will always get better with new Hardware, thats a given. You can work with a great gaming Engine and have the game look the best but what about everything else?
That's why I never go goo-ga ga over graphics anymore, unless i know more about the game which ties everything together,
Wow this is complete BS a game can have the best looking graphics but if it doesn't have great gameplay whats the point of getting the game to look at pretty pictures?
man i wish the ps3 had the dx10