Adding onto this… I think we’re hitting a real wall. Not in what’s technically possible, but what’s technically feasible.
Because I get it. I get it. We started in a place where video games looked like this:
And the desire was: How can we make this more like real life? The landscape, the models, the dialogue, the ability to simply interact in the world.
And you know what? We’ve made it pretty damn far. More than once I’ve seen a clip from a video game and literally not been able to tell at first that it wasn’t live footage.
How viable is that really? To have giant, sprawling open-world games where every character, no matter how minor, is fully voice acted? Where you can see every pore on peoples’ skin and the subtle shift of the hairs on their heads?
Cyperpunk 77 was in production for seven years. It was delayed what- twice, three times? CDProjectRed forced its employees into grueling 100+ hour work weeks to get it all together. And by most accounts, it still came out a buggy mess with entire missing systems.
To me, that’s evidence that this style triple AAA hyper-realistic game is getting so out of control that this scale is simply not tenable.
And do we even.. need all this? Really? Because I have had plenty of fun with smaller, less-realistic video game titles like Hyperlight Drifter, Slime Rancher, and Abzu. Near-perfect emulation of reality isn’t the be all and end all of gaming. Maybe it’s time the industry stopped chasing it so desperately.
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