Real War. Real War?

[Skybird]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-16745015

I can hear the voices saying something like "I love how realistic the battlefield is looking in <enter game title here>".

If going by the article, should one conclude from that statement above that the person saying that also would love to see real war?

[antikristuseke]

No.

[MH]

GFX wise it may be true...as far as game play goes putting some explosives under your gaming seat might make it more realistic.:haha:

I don't play FPS so i cant really tell.

[MH]

I got to play this game and i think its good
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Spectrum_Warrior

[Herr-Berbunch]

Great advert for Arma II :D

[Platapus]

No, of course not.

Video games are fiction and war is real.

Remember the vast majority of video game players have never seen an actual battlefield. So when a video game player remarks about how realistic it looks, they are, in fact, saying that the video game looks very close to what the player would imagine a battlefield to look like.

Movie special effects people have been working this issue for decades. How do you make an effect "realistic" to an audience who probably have never seen the real thing? A "realistic" effect is what the movie viewer would expect something to look like.

As a former EOD troop, I have blown up a lot of stuff. Real explosions do not look like the "realistic" explosions in movies or in video games. :nope:

Anyone who shoots guns realizes that a gun shot in real life does not sound like gun shots in movies.

I remember watching a documentary on movie special effects. One of the problems being discussed was how to simulate the realistic sound of a suppressed handgun? They have to simulate it because when they tested it with real recordings of suppressed handguns, the test audiences did not think it was "realistic enough". The solution is to simulate something that the audience will "think" is realistic.

The same, I am sure, applies to video games.

[Betonov]

Applying what I learned and saw what a fragile peace of meat a human body is at my medic training and what masacer a car crash can cause I can safely say, even while never witnessing a battlefield, that 90% of gamers don't have the stomach for a real thing, filled with explosions, fragmenting bullets and schrapnels hacking and slicing limbs, heads and gooey parts