Game Industry Report Card

[DMKA]

Nothing can ever replace a real actor`s performance and it is absolutely laughable when developers try to render photo-realistic looking `actors` to say their lines.

Verses what? Should all progress in graphics just stagnate? Should we have stopped at 16-bit sprites? I don't understand this logic so many "old school" gamers have adopted.

Gaming will always be (and should always be) considered a low form of entertainment as long developers fail to realize that they can`t squeeze humanity out of a bunch of ones and zeroes (no matter how `photo-realistic`).

Why? Why is gaming any less a legit form of entertainment than, say, films, or tv shows? Or animated film to use a perfect example? Or do those fall short of your "high forms of entertainment" list as well? I do agree that there's a long way to go, but I find your denial of endless technological posibilities through human ingenuity depressing.

That being said, I used to always say that gaming has been at it worst in recent years, but recently I've come to realize that in the last two years I've played more games than I probably ever have. And you know what? I've found quite a few of them damn good.

I'm too lazy to write out everything I find wrong and right with modern gaming (I could write a book, honestly), but I don't really like the way it's going...I'm looking at you motion controls replacing new console development.