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>Remember the 90s, when we had Mortal Kombat and the various games like
>Night Trap on the Sega CD? Those were good times. I was happy to see
>that videogaming was moving in the direction of live action and photo
>realism, but unfortunately ever since the late 90's gaming has taken a
>step backwith the decision to render everything in cgi.
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>In my opinion, if gaming is to ever truly advance the companies must
>stop this rendering, cgi, fake looking crap and go back to digitized
>actors. The videogame companies have lost their way, but they can still
>find the path back and get on the right track. With today's technology
>they can probably digitize live actors much better than they did in the
>90s, and it would definitely look better than the xbox and ps2 games we
>have today where everything looks like plastic. Digitized actors are an
>integral step in the hologram videogames that we'll hopefully have
>decades from now, and they offer something rendering never could: we
>get to see a REAL LIFE liu kang beat up a REAL LIFE kung lao.