I never said I want everyone else's graphics to suck, but I want them to earn it, not get it through some cheap new system.
So having your parents buy you a fancy computer with a nice graphics card
entitles you to something?
There's an immense amount of harmless fun through having a powerful gaming system. It also fuels the whole gaming industry. If all the graphics are the same, nobody is going to GIVE A SHIT after 6 months.
As opposed to how things are now, where they just move on to the next game six months later because the new one is prettier?
Why? Because then you might as well read a book. And why pay $100 for the 500th game to use the same exact graphics, when you can get a book that has simply the story which will become the only innovative part, for about $10.
OH NO, PEOPLE MIGHT START READING AGAIN!
Sorry, but that was hilarious.
Besides, games have so many more tools at their disposal for telling a story. They can branch out and have many possibilities, things can turn out differently every time you play them, and you get to interact with the characters and environment in a way that you can't through a book.
I personally hope they price this new stuff real high so it doesn't completely shut down the gaming industry. This will be horrible for AMD and Nvidia.
Because poor people don't deserve nice things, but spoiled kids do?
You clearly haven't played very many high-detail games. Crysis has a great story! Far better than most movies.
And that has nothing to do with their graphics. Look at Halo for example. It's fun, but it's mindless fun. The characters are completely forgettable, and the plot... wait, what plot? If you want to play a game where you get to work out your aggression and look at pretty explosions, the Halo series is a good choice, but you're not going to get any intellectual stimulation from it. I'll take a game with a decent story but outdated graphics over something that's pure graphics porn.
No more innovation, just throw everything you've got at it.
Wait what? No more innovation? This
is innovation,
real innovation (i.e. coming up with something new that nobody's seen before), as opposed to a very slight tweak by adding more and more polygons every year because now the hardware can handle it. And you see who's opposing this actual innovation? Don't complain about a lack of innovation when you're the one opposing it.
My final comment: Crysis is amazing why? Not because it has good graphics, but because it can do mass quality physics and amazing particles in real-time, efficiently. And at the same time, boast immense lighting/shading that doesn't bog you're computer much.
... and if developers don't have to worry so much about graphics, then they can freely focus on making things like that better, instead of releasing the
same damn football game every year with a very slight graphics makeover. They can explore new gameplay mechanics and ideas that haven't been done before.
I honestly don't see why you're opposing this, unless it's just because you won't get to brag and be smug about the gaming rig your parents bought you.
