Photorealism in Games Only 10 Years Away
Posted by Joe Richardson on 05.26.2009
According to Epic founder.
Tim Sweeney, Epic Game's founder, spoke to Gamasutra recently and stated that photorealism in games is only 10 years away.
"We're only about a factor of a thousand off from achieving all that in real-time without sacrifices. So we'll certainly see that happen in our lifetimes.
Sweeney goes on to say that photorealism comes with a number of problems which developers will have to tackle.
"A state-of-the-art game like the latest Half-Life expansion from Valve, Gears of War, or Bungie's stuff is extraordinarily unrealistic compared to a human actor in a human movie, just because of the really fine nuances of human behavior... We simulate character facial animation using tens of bones and facial controls, but in the body, you have thousands. It turns out we've evolved to recognize those things with extraordinary detail, so we're far short of being able to simulate that."
Posted By: Charlie Pace (Guest) on May 26, 2009 at 09:30 PM
I want my games to remain as unrealistic as possible.
Posted By: Commander Hill (Guest) on May 26, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Remember 8 bits? christ you youngins are gonna be spoiled. Back in my day we had two buttons and D-pad, and we had to blow into our cartridges for 30minutes before we could even think about playing!
And then even if it did work, chances are it'd glitch out and you'd say FUCK THIS and go play outside.
Posted By: xLx (Guest) on May 27, 2009 at 01:13 AM
There's not a doubt in my mind they'll accomplish this in 10 years. I mean, just look at how far they've came in the last 10 years. However, I'd still take Super Mario Bro's or Sonic the Hedgehog over todays games anytime.
Posted By: Ryan Higgins (Guest) on May 27, 2009 at 01:56 AM
Totally agree with you xLx. I remember having to load games off cassette for the Spectrum, 20-30 mins. load time, get to 90% and get a damn syntax error so you gotta start all over again, 16 colors on screen and these kids 2day who bitch about graphics and load times make me f'n laugh, keep your photorealism just give me a game with great gameplay and good characters/storys
Posted By: Guest#6326 (Guest) on May 27, 2009 at 04:39 AM
"Remember 8 bits? christ you youngins are gonna be spoiled. Back in my day we had two buttons and D-pad, and we had to blow into our cartridges for 30minutes before we could even think about playing!
And then even if it did work, chances are it'd glitch out and you'd say FUCK THIS and go play outside."
You're the baby in the woods, xLx. I remember playing pong with the paddles part of the console. How happy we were when Atari introduced joysticks with the one red button that were on a cord rather than the console. Then the rubber "condom" would come off the joystick and you'd be stuck with a white plastic dick to play with.
Posted By: David (Guest) on May 27, 2009 at 10:15 AM
well if u wont be able to differentiate between real life and videogame...who knows what that technology can do in the hands of the wrong people.
Posted By: Guest#7136 (Guest) on May 27, 2009 at 10:56 AM
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