Imagine this scenario, you finally saved up enough money for the newest game. Your excited and full of glee. You get in your car or parents car and head to the nearest video game retailer. You get there and buy the game you want and patiently wait until you get home to tear that plastic off like they were clothes of a women(or man whatever suits you). You finally got the plastic off and your about to open the game box knowing your about to go on a journey. This my friends, is the excitement of getting a new physical copy of a video game. I cant remember how many times i was excited to open a game case up and looking at the pamphlet, box art, and anything else secret the developers tried to hide. With the rise of digital downloaded games, the reality that going to get a physical copy of a game is slowly thinning. Why do we even like getting physical copy's of video games anyway? For me it has always been more of a reward when you look a your game collection with your own eyes, seeing how you built of a collection of games good and bad. Its also a visually sign of passion for games. The fact that you took the time and patience to drive all the way to a retailer, waited in line, payed to cashier, and driving all the way back home. While ordering games online still always you to obtain a hard copy of your game there is still a joy to see other people who share the same passion of getting the physical case for video games. Digital download's are seen as the future because its easier for the consumer to just buy with a credit card and have their game download to their system. While this seems great(and it is) there are a few things to remember. 1. Its nearly impossible to let a friend borrow a game because its installed to your system. 2. A lot of gamers don't have the bandwidth to download games to their system. Steam was built on this format of digital downloads. I personally just love buying my games physical because of the experience to get them and the fact I can kind of show of my collection of games. I will fear the day when you can no longer buy physical disk, but accept the day when digital downloads become the norm.
Video Game graphics constantly get more and more advanced as the generations go by, allowing for a more sense of realism and interaction into big major AAA games. From the start video game graphics weren't so much judged on how real they looked, but on the creativity of the character, items, and environment. Video Games like the early mario game were praised in their design of the levels and enemy's That mindset should still be relevant today when it comes to video game graphics. One of the great debate's in the video game community is whether graphics matter for a game to be good. On the one side you have people who will not even play a game or they'll believe the game will fail because it doesn't look super duper high-definition. The other side believes that graphics aren't what make a game great. Both sides are actually are true in a sense. For a video game to be successful basically ever single aspect of the game has to be as close to perfect as possible. The graphics are the visual component of a video game that express the style and emotion of the game. If a game has a realistic setting with realistic graphics then the game play should compliment the graphics. The same idea goes for games with less unrealistic graphics. Games like Mario, Zelda, and basically every single Nintendo game go for their own unique look and end up becoming fantastic games. Now Nintendo's games might not always look super real and fantastic like lets say Crysis, but, when a game immediately looks different, art style wise, gamers will flock to it wondering whether or not the game will be good. Many gamers today are tired of the same variation of light brown and dark brown that many popular games today seem to have. A interesting example that shows how a games graphics effects the consumers view on the product is the game, Over Strike( which is now called Fuse) by Insomniac Games. Over-strike started as a semi-cartonish 3rd person shooter with a hilarious vibe. Then Insomniac decided to go for a more realistic approach to the game and changed the game name to FUSE. The response was negative and many gamers were disappointed when they changed the art style because it become bland and plain in their eyes. Even though unique and impressive graphics can either pull the gamer in or out of the world the developers have made having a game that looks unique is an important aspect in making a game stand out and successful.
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