> uncanny valley I think this is it. When the games are less realistic overall, the mind can still suspend disbelief. And in fact it often does; so low-fi ev

> uncanny valley I think this is it. When the games are less realistic overall, the mind can still suspend disbelief. And in fact it often does; so low-fi everywhere is all accepted and forgotten. Who hasn't read a book (or in the HN crowd, also played a text MUD) and become completely lost in the fictional world? But once we hit that near-perfect, we stop suspending our disbelief (or the bar is raised near the top); so the imperfections which are detectable become jarring.