We certainly need more beautiful designed games. I don’t mean games that look good from a technical point of view. The notion that the graphical quality of a game can be measured in numbers is still common sense amongst a lot of people. From this perspective every new game has to raise the bar towards graphical realism. This is of course plain wrong. Instead, every game needs a distinct personality. Like Ether for instance – an atmospheric, physics-based Half-Life 2 Mod developed by Brown Dyed Hotel, a group of swedish students from Campus Karlshamn of Blekinge Institute of Technology. I only played it for several minutes at the Swedish Game Awards Exhibition, but I was immediately captivated by it’s beauty and I encourage everyone to check it out for yourself.

Diamo Fiasco wrote at Monday 2. June 2008:

I totally agree and I am continually confounded as to why graphics are always pushed towards realism instead of just creating interesting worlds. The potential for games to transport you is huge. Try WeekdayWarrior as another mod the has a really nice world. Going to try this soon :)

Soki wrote at Wednesday 17. December 2008:

I agree 100% with you and the comment. I believe Oblivion does an ok job, but I would like to see awsome artistic details with stuff I haven’t seen before. Not stuff I see on a daily basis or repetition of video games.