Gameland

I'm a graphic artist. Among other things. Computer graphics was the first artistic expression I ever did. I did it a long time ago. I like graphics. I plan my movies as if they were graphics. I've watched computer graphics closely. Games are the best place to look. It used to be demos... well, they still make em. But games have gone bland, when Max Payne came out the fps genre was already stale and stagnant, it was a breath of fresh air. Since then, well, NOLF 1 and 2 was awsome -but now those people made FEAR. FEAR has state of the art graphics, awesome shootouts, no plot whatsoever and is bland. It is boring. Seen it all before, except I haven't. The graphics of FEAR ought to make me happy but it doesn't.

Realism is the bane of graphics. Striving for realism graphicians have forgotten cool. Reality is uncool. It is not beautiful. And realistic games look uncool and ugly. I can't wait till an even more realistic game hits the market... not.

Which is another good thing about the Wii. It is to underpowered to deliver graphics that have anything at all to do with reality. Nintendo have always had great graphic design.

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