yu-ousama replied to your post “Enjoying open world games, my first thoughts when watching any CGI...”
And that is why I want to get involved in game production. I feel that there is so much potential in sandbox games and making real characters and an immersive universe and ahhh video games!
Oh. Wholeheartedly agree! I wish I had the patience and creativity to jump in that arena. I originally fell in love with ReBoot and always really enjoyed the environments and, at the time, wanted to see myself pulling something like that off if only an open character-less world you could just explore.
Game-wise if I could entertain a more nostalgic part of my brain there was a game I used to play (you could say) religiously called Midtown Madness 2. Open world driving/racing title. When I was still in high school I would spend practically all of my free time playing that multiplayer. But mostly what grabbed my attention was being as open world as it was (in comparison to other more restrictive titles of the day). Was actually closer to an old school version of Burnout Paradise. But needless to say that was a really key point in my young adult life as far as gaming goes and since then I have always had this latent burning desire to recreate something like that but with a world as large as humanly possible and completely open. Wishful thinking at the time was to have a relatively faithful (if scaled down obviously) recreation of the US done little by little.
Sadly I am often in that train of thought of 'If I can't get it perfect or at least likable the first go, I get bored and impatient with it'. My high school had a 'computer graphics and animation' elective that I took after dabbling in 3dsmax in my free time and even dabbled in it afterwards but never got super proficient at it.
It's this kind of stuff that really fascinates me though. As far as movies and TV shows go in the 3D space if I could get access to the models of the environments, make them renderable in a game engine and just go explore every little detail, I could die happy.