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I don't think this is a great argument because everybody is looking for some level of realism in games, but you may want less than many others. Without any, you
by digging 3y ago
I don't think this is a great argument because everybody is looking for some level of realism in games, but you may want less than many others. Without any, you'd have no intuitive behaviors and the controls would make no sense.
I'm not saying this just to be pedantic - my point is that some people do want some games to have very high levels of realism.
- someletters 3y agoSome of the best games I've played in my life were the text based and pixel art games in MS DOS. Your imagination then had to render or enhance the visuals, and it was pretty cool to come up with the pictures in your head.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoI mean yes, but, ultimately we want to be able to simulate ourselves to the truest to be able to understand our origins, which are likely simulated as well, right.
- digging 3y agoI realize the thread started about graphics, but I didn't only mean realistic graphics when I referred to realism, because the comment I was replying to just said "realism in games". I do expect there's some degree of realism in your favorite text-based or pixel-art games as well. As you say, it's clear that a game doesn't need photorealistic graphics to be good, because most games do not.