Comments on: Technology is no substitute

By: N.N.

N.N. — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:16:14 +0000

Nice read. Not only do I whole-heartedly agree with your point, but, coming from Denmark, I also appreciate your mention of H.C. Andersen

By: Faelar

Faelar — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:11:28 +0000

I don’t go often to the cinema, but I had the same kind of reflexion about video-games. We must understand that everything is mainly linked to the hardware. They want you to buy the latest GPU. I believe they also want you to buy a FullHD Flat TV 3m heigh !

Visuals effects are also easiest to advertise, you can say “look how this game is amazing !” but how can I show you how great is a story ?

Don’t forget about what I call “references”, I played a lot of fantastic games like Baldur’s gate, if you only played average or low quality games, how can you say “this one is not really good” ? But you can see how better it looks like.

By: johnraff

johnraff — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:38:42 +0000

The frightening thing is that this processed imitation that’s served up by TV and other media is presented as reality and accepted as such by a lot of consumers. So real human beings are made to feel inadequate because they don’t look like TV presenters or supermodels.
(Is the same happening at the Olympics? I heard some of the fireworks at the opening ceremony were computer graphics.)

Worse still is the tendency to judge events in the world filtered through the view enforced by our local media, which may be controlled by those in power…

By: susan

susan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:08:11 +0000

It’s no fun without the titles.