Posted January 20, 2013
Posted January 20, 2013
- sound: there's too much stock sounds and not enough ambient noise in games. Sound and music is what really drags you into a game - our ears play a vital part in the experience. A gorgeous game with poor sounds and noises is not going to feel right. At least 95% of all games made screw up massively in this area and the reason why, is because marketing folks should get slapped in the face - they're the reason. They can't market sound so they pump all the money into better graphics.
- physics: we have great graphics but it all falls to pieces the moment physics become involved. Rag dolls still look ridiculous, nothing in game worlds reacts correctly, When you consider how important physics are to create a believable world ... . Even such things as wind and flowers, plants, trees require decent physics.
- animation: as far as animation has come, it's still not perfect - especially when you consider the animation of non-human elements like animals, equipment, etc.
- AI. Seriously, AI hasn't improved one iota in 10 years. In fact, it has gotten worse for most AAA games. Even in big budget games like GTA IV, you see tons of very poor AI - and in racing games, AI is worse than what it was in the 90's!
Seriously, graphics have progressed far but they cost a lot to make and there's other elements that can be improved that would contribute to a much richer experience.
Posted January 20, 2013
Posted January 20, 2013
Take a game like STALKER: that game had brilliant ambient noises and all very original and different. Heck, even there there was tons of room for improvement but they picked very good sounds for what was there. Bioshock did it well as well (even though I didn't like the game itself) but these are scarce examples. Actually, TW2 did it really well, too.
Seriously, when you have 100 items in the world that should have a distinct sound but don't, something is wrong. A blinking light usually makes a buzzing sound for example.
- sound: there's too much stock sounds and not enough ambient noise in games. Sound and music is what really drags you into a game - our ears play a vital part in the experience. A gorgeous game with poor sounds and noises is not going to feel right. At least 95% of all games made screw up massively in this area and the reason why, is because marketing folks should get slapped in the face - they're the reason. They can't market sound so they pump all the money into better graphics.
- physics: we have great graphics but it all falls to pieces the moment physics become involved. Rag dolls still look ridiculous, nothing in game worlds reacts correctly, When you consider how important physics are to create a believable world ... . Even such things as wind and flowers, plants, trees require decent physics.
- animation: as far as animation has come, it's still not perfect - especially when you consider the animation of non-human elements like animals, equipment, etc.
- AI. Seriously, AI hasn't improved one iota in 10 years. In fact, it has gotten worse for most AAA games. Even in big budget games like GTA IV, you see tons of very poor AI - and in racing games, AI is worse than what it was in the 90's!
Seriously, graphics have progressed far but they cost a lot to make and there's other elements that can be improved that would contribute to a much richer experience.
Post edited January 20, 2013 by Red_Avatar
Posted January 20, 2013
I still can't believe Mafia 2 made me drive around the city and collect some fuel checks or something in timed mode when the game was in midway. Then at one point if I remember right it made me hand out smoke packs to random ppl and I had to make sure they were blue or red depending on buyers needs, exciting stuff.
And Mafia 2 ended abruptly - compare that to the last level of Mafia 1 and its ending..
Posted January 20, 2013
Posted January 20, 2013
I don't want games that take more than 10 years to make.
Hell, i'm ok with a graphic level that's almost 10 years old now, what's the point, they're called video games not interactive movies.
Post edited January 20, 2013 by scampywiak
Posted January 21, 2013
Why would you stop?
@scampywiak: by TW2, you mean the witcher 2 ? I hated the witcher games, they both have poor design to me. Gameplay is clunky at best and it doesn't compare at all to skyrim or even oblivion in terms of world depth and immersion. Dragon Age was also vastly superior to me.
And Skyrim looks much much better and feels much more real than it.
Post edited January 21, 2013 by Faenrir
Posted January 21, 2013
Those errands in Mafia 2 felt small time for a mafia mob. If it was at the beginning of the game like in Mafia 1 then it'd have been different. Anyway I read an article about 2 that was written by one of the developers and it was like a report to publishers where he explained how difficult and long the development process was (change of staff, change of engine etc) and after reading it I almost felt forgiving lol
Posted January 21, 2013
Graphics does a lot for immersion. I can imagine that they will soon introduce 3D graphics (with shutter or polarized glasses) to even increase it. And maybe "more than lifelike" effects like hollowness or crazy cuts or augmented information. I still feel that out of cutscenes the animation of people and animals doesn't look right. So the images are already good but the movements are not yet there.
Posted January 21, 2013
Posted January 21, 2013
Why would you stop?
@scampywiak: by TW2, you mean the witcher 2 ? I hated the witcher games, they both have poor design to me. Gameplay is clunky at best and it doesn't compare at all to skyrim or even oblivion in terms of world depth and immersion. Dragon Age was also vastly superior to me.
And Skyrim looks much much better and feels much more real than it.
Maybe we will move away from it some time but right now publishers want to sell to as many people as possible and they happily buy the over advertised product. You cant blame the publisher for this. Blame the consumers for being mindless sheep.