14 Oct
2012
14 Oct
'12
12:05 p.m.
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Jules Richardson <
jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
To me a modern 3D game still looks no more realistic than the 2D platforms
that were around in the 80s - in that it's still so obviously not "real"
that the bells and whistles are pointless - and the level of entertainment
extracted from pushing pixels around a screen is no different, so I can't
see the logic in spending spending the kind of cash required to run a
modern game when all it will ever be is "just a game"
My wife went over to her cousin's house a couple of years ago - she thought
her cousin's family was sitting around watching football. She couldn't tell
from one room over that they were playing Madden on a
Playstation 3.
It's the sports games that are really pushing the hardware. I remember the
old golf games (Links?) that were so slow that you could watch the course
being painted - and that was on fast hardware at the time, mainly first gen
Pentium and PowerPC hardware.