printHow Today’s Videogames Miss Their Potential
by phmongeau
If movie-like aesthetics is your goal the current approach makes sense but let’s not forget that photo realism isn’t required to create immersion. Our mind is capable of forming a mental concept of things not actually present. Media is engaging the recipient on a creative and emotional level by guiding his imagination. On the surface books offer only language encoded in little symbols but the story that unfolds is not constrained by that.