how real will games get?

geeza · 13 Mar 2006 at 00:28

Since I upgraded just over a week ago ive been playing DOD source and CS source quite a lot. Some parts of these games look very realistic to the point of almost looking real.

Deaths in games are getting really good but im not seeing obvious things like when someone gets hit with a rocket they fly backwards, looking like they have been hit with a rubber bullet.

Is it the BBFC or whoever stopping developers putting things like detatchable limbs, innards, bone etc into games or is it because it would simply be too complex to see a rocket hit and a model burst into a lot of high detailed parts/mess? This, in my opinion would make games so much more realistic and possibly not make you run out all guns blazing.

geeza · 13 Mar 2006 at 00:39

neoboy said:
Because that would warrant the game the 18 and possibly adult rating thus limiting the target audience while you can pretty much make an identical game with no gore with 15-16 certificate.

yes, but i wonder how many 13 year olds played GTA? I dont think it really matters if they put an 18 on it, if anything the 18 makes kids buy it

geeza · 13 Mar 2006 at 10:23

MiGSY said:
F.E.A.R also features decapitation.

I believe games will eventually introduce internal body simulation. Currently it's not really feasible with the hardware we've got.

Could you imagine an entirely simulated human body though, that'd be absolutely incredible. A circulatory system simulated using fluid dynamics, simulated skin which can actually be punctured and cut. Bones which can be broken, or a respiritory system: Say if you shot or stabbed a player/enemy in the chest/lungs, they would struggle to breath and collapse.

i think (as pointed out already) soldier of fortune 2 came the closest to this. It may have been sick but it just added to the realism that you could scalp your dead victims

geeza · 16 Mar 2006 at 15:11

Chaos said:
I reckon that way in the future graphics will become so realistic that some people might find say an fps quite disturbung to play.

play FEAR. paradigm, it was sof2, i have it and can post some shots if you like

geeza · 16 Mar 2006 at 16:39

Chaos said:
Your saying Fear is so realistic its disturbing to play ?

no just quite disturbing. if you could 'go' into fear somehow itd scard the $$$$ out of most people

geeza · 16 Mar 2006 at 19:34

Clearcut said:
I seem to remember in Severance Blade of Darkness, you could hack a limb off your enemy and beat them to death with it.

die by the sword aswell. what a game that was

geeza · 16 Mar 2006 at 19:38

^ yep. something on the lines of 'soft skin' i can see that being a new thing on graphics cards soon. skin that is soft instead of like concrete. i.e cut someone and it opens up