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Article: "The rise of costs, the fall of gaming"

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  • CrimsonCrimson
    edited 2012-10-15 18:52:34
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    ^^I think Extra Credits explained that the whole push towards movie-like experiences is due to CGI artists being trained to do their thing as if they were making a film, and indeed, wanting to make stuff for films in the first place.

  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean

    Personally I blame the fact that games aren't tv-punchingly hard anymore.


    Then they wouldn't be popular at all!


    ...wait. 

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    I don't dislike videogames trying to be like movies, but that's because I don't see what's inherently wrong with that, provided that what they take from movies is the sense of spectacle rather than forgetting the differences between the mediums.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    I don't see how sense of spectacle is a movie thing specifically. Really, the primary differences between games and movies are that movies are shorter and not interactive. Which isn't a problem, but if you want to make a movie, make a movie.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    A sense of spectacle as we have it today both in movies and videogames (As in the Hollywood-esque "explosions everywhere" type) is not something you really outside of those, except for maybe TV shows.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Yeah, but relative to other visual media, that's mostly just a budget thing.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    While that's true, the point stands that the scale and scope that hollywood movies use are something that videogames are borrowing heavily from and which I don't consider creatively bankrupt per se (Or at least, no more than Hollywood's over-reliance on the same, anyway)

  • BeeBee

    I think Extra Credits explained that the whole push towards movie-like experiences is due to CGI artists being trained to do their thing as if they were making a film, and indeed, wanting to make stuff for films in the first place.



    I'll admit I didn't take a whole lot of graphics and 3D art classes, but they were all pretty careful to explain and demonstrate how doing it for render-farmed stills and runtime performance were completely different animals, and exactly which corners were the best to cut for the latter.

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