Can video game graphics be considered movie quality graphics?

like in the final fantasy movie?

or do video games have a long way to go before they can be thought as a movie and a video game put together?

What do you mean, like Pixar? Still a bit to go I guess, though some tech demos on PC look almost Pixar quality.SaltyMeatballs

No. But the next gen of consolesmight do pixar quality. (If Next gen runs 2560x1600 8x AA that is)

[QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"]What do you mean, like Pixar? Still a bit to go I guess, though some tech demos on PC look almost Pixar quality.PSNIDCiocio313

[QUOTE="PSNIDCiocio313"][QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"]What do you mean, like Pixar? Still a bit to go I guess, though some tech demos on PC look almost Pixar quality.SaltyMeatballs

Not really. However it must be stressed that much of the illusion is movement and working out the curvature of the geometry through shaders or having a higher vertex through-put. The other problem is that movie graphics have become alot better too. CGI from the early to mid-nineties looks pretty piss-poor versus what we have today accept in the best instances like Jurassic Park, Independence day or the Special Editions of the original Star Wars trilogy. They had to deal with even higher rendering times to get their quality.

Not really. However it must be stressed that much of the illusion is movement and working out the curvature of the geometry through shaders or having a higher vertex through-put. The other problem is that movie graphics have become alot better too. CGI from the early to mid-nineties looks pretty piss-poor versus what we have today accept in the best instances like Jurassic Park, Independence day or the Special Editions of the original Star Wars trilogy. They had to deal with even higher rendering times to get their quality.

mouthforbathory

If your talking about the latest CGI they will never match the latest CGI when it is new. The reason is CGI is always getting better with new technology.

But if you talk about CGI from the 90s I would say PC games are close maybe next generation. Console I think two gens from now.

i think video games are or becoming the new stop motion clay movies of the early 1900's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xz10ruKl5w

or king kong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ33cDg-sj8

If your talking about the latest CGI they will never match the latest CGI when it is new. The reason is CGI is always getting better with new technology.

But if you talk about CGI from the 90s I would say PC games are close maybe next generation. Console I think two gens from now.

Nintendo_Ownes7

We'll see something close at the end of next generation. The generation after that, I strongly believe we'll see something with roughly the graphics capability to handle all that.

Well, IMO Crysis looks better than a lot of movies' CG effects, to say nothing of pure CG movies like Toy Story.

Its never going to match. Because when people figure out how to do certain things in real time, pre-rendered will go up in quality in parallel. And most of the time new techniques are derived from what people have been doing in pre-rendered anyways. So yea probably(notice probably) one day we'll have video games on the visual bar of avatar, but by then CGIs will have gone a ton of notches too.

We're getting there, but there's no way in hell a game can look like Avatar yet.Guppy507

A gen or 2 from now.

i don't think so...but i think its getting much closer.

yea crysis is very immersive and cinematic looking...

Pre-rendered CGI will always beat real time CGI. But maybe we'll get to a point where they look similar.mystervj

[QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"]What do you mean, like Pixar? Still a bit to go I guess, though some tech demos on PC look almost Pixar quality.PSNIDCiocio313

[QUOTE="mystervj"]Pre-rendered CGI will always beat real time CGI. But maybe we'll get to a point where they look similar.sam_nintendo

This.

It's ridiculous for people to think that they will be the same without compromises like, future crappy CGI movies, comparisons to old CGI, or any other kind of "detour" a smartass could think of.

We're not there yet but some games are godly close imo.abuabed

[QUOTE="abuabed"]We're not there yet but some games are godly close imo.PSNIDCiocio313

Im thinking PS6 in-game graphics will equal Final Fantasy 13s CGI graphics.