How "real" do you want games to be?

[Fing3rButt3r3]

As real as it can be, but also knowing its not real. I was watching a trailer for a new TV series called 3 Body Problem, and there was a scene that showed a very advance vr thing, you wear it and it seems to instantly transport you to a new world. Im very excited for the future but I doubt I will see it in my lifetime. Check out the show!!

Edited February 25 by Fing3rButt3r3

[LDN-Legend]

I would prefer if developers took a step back from realistic graphics and focused more resources into mechanics and trying to make a game fun and unique. 

[SlippiThePippi]

I’ll play a game that can run on an iPod touch if it’s fun. At the end of the day graphics are just a bonus for me, and they don’t have to be realistic, some stylised games can look beautiful

[olliebear66t]

I feel like the getaway games were onto something with their graphics. Like at the time you could be tricked into thinking it was real life. I don't know what technique the developers used but I am impressed. I think only The Order: 1886 and the matrix demo have given me a similar feeling since. I'm not sure what it is but there's like a visual trick

[JALAL-G007]

To be just a game 

[PHIL_DADDY1]

As long as the game plays well & the main character is decipherable, I'm happy...

[alexandra-jane09]

Games are supposed to be escape from reality, entertainment so I don't want reality in there.

[sepheroithisgod]

I think the focus on making games as realistic as possible has negatively impacted those games. I think Starfield devs said they made the universe empty because it was realistic. And there are lots of other examples, where I think games suffer because of a fixation on realism.

 

On the other hand, there are amazing games that are amazing because of their realism. RDR2 is one of the best games I have ever played, their world is grounded in realism, and it just works well.  So I guess it really does come down to the game.