Comments on: “Games must achieve photorealism” says 2K Games boss

By: markavian

markavian — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:49:49 +0000

He obviously hasn’t played anything but action and shooters, a good rpg will pull you in all the time

By: joshsux

joshsux — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:39:05 +0000

MEE TOO ^^^^^

By: llamallamalamp

llamallamalamp — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:26:13 +0000

I cried at the end of the first Mafia.
There, I said it.

By: joshsux

joshsux — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:10:09 +0000

Yeah I laughed at that, LOL!

By: 42alpha

42alpha — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:26:49 +0000

“Brokeback Mountain” The Game!
lol.

By: joshsux

joshsux — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:29:27 +0000

elfalot, I don't think expressions mean to much, I fell more in love in Fahrenheit, (Indigo Prophecy), And Heavy Rain than I did with that pathetic L.A. Noire which supposedly had some of the best expressions ever. I grew up on pixel gaming though. So give me a good story, good characters, good atmosphere and sound, and good game play, And I'll completely forget about how realistic the graphics were. In fact both of these titles are in my top 5 favourite games of all time.. And I'm pretty sure Fahrenheit didn't have the best graphics, good expression etc..

By: diamondd

diamondd — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:40:24 +0000

What a crock, I think books would like to talk to you about the portrayal of emotion and the need for facial expressions.

By: jerichosainte

jerichosainte — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 03:04:21 +0000

Yep he definately has not played Journey.

By: hav0ckspawns

hav0ckspawns — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:55:31 +0000

The only time someone should have been emotional when playing a game is when Jenny died in The Darkness. Bravo 2K for that game!

By: zakynthos

zakynthos — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:38:59 +0000

cristof is way off the mark, it has nothing to do with photo-realism and everything to do with storytelling as has been stated above

By: shinanigans

shinanigans — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:12:50 +0000

neferseki: im pretty sure i’ve cried when some of my favourite main characters have died in some games.

Pussy. :D Can't say i've ever really felt sadness for characters in gaming. Not that comes to mind anyway. I don't think he's targeting the right problem though. It's easy to get an audience to feel anger towards a character, not so easy to get them to feel remorse or sorrow towards a character and i don't think that has anything to do with graphics fidelity.

By: rsoblivion

rsoblivion — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:17:31 +0000

Sounds like Christoph has a bit of a short range of imagination!!!

By: jimmy35

jimmy35 — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:21:45 +0000

Dear 2k head honcho, ever watched a Pixar movie? they aren’t photorealistic, but I definitely developed emotional connections with the characters, even one that was a robot that couldn’t even talk. What you are saying is not true, photorealism is not a story telling element, story telling is. Games simply need to evolve beyond the current hollywood blockbuster to become more than they are, examples like Red Dead Redemption, Heavy Rain and Mass Effect are modern day proof that all you need to tell a good story is, in fact, a good story.

By: Marius

Marius — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:56:46 +0000

I found Mass Effect pretty emotional.

By: tacitus42

tacitus42 — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:39:51 +0000

MGS.

By: redshirt

redshirt — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:35:27 +0000

A strong story and game designers that know what they’re doing do more in this regard than any executive going on about “photo-realism”. Which is pretty much unachievable with this generation of consoles and pc’s, and likely the next generation as well.

By: aphyosis

aphyosis — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:22:50 +0000

Another good step would be hiring some decent writers. Some games that try pull off strong emotions are cringeworthy.

By: bek

bek — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:59:51 +0000

“very hard to create very deep emotions like sadness or love”

Because thinking outside the box is just too hard. Mixed media bitches, use it.

By: elfalot

elfalot — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:51:36 +0000

I think good voice acting would help. Realistic expressions and movements are probably what is needed more, nothing worse than trying to convey an strong emotion, being sucked into the story, only to notice how the characters mouth seems to be jumping between expressions, or their eyes are looking elsewhere, or just talking to no one instead trying to look at you.

By: neferseki

neferseki — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:50:02 +0000

im pretty sure i’ve cried when some of my favourite main characters have died in some games.

By: freeborne

freeborne — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:21:19 +0000

2K Boss seems to have forgotten the hordes of pimply teens that fell in love with Lara Croft, back when “Voodoo” 3D cards were the rage, or more recently the players who had a thing for that female lead in Half Life (Gordon Freeman’s woman… as you can tell I didn’t play Half Life much).

Photo realism will indeed make gaming more mainstream then it already is and open up new genres, but I don’t completely agree with gaming’s inability to convey emotions in games (or evoke emotions from the players).