Our first look at L.A. Noire in action included some pretty amazing graphics. Strike that, it included some pretty amazing facial animation.
Everything changed in 2001, the year Nintendo decided that the future of gaming didn’t lie in faster processors and photorealistic images, but in interaction.
newVideoPlayer("uncanny_valley_fleshbot.flv", 463, 387,""); The uncanny valley is that strange place in digital graphics where a human looks so almost real that the figure is actually more upsetting to the viewer than if they were playing, say, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 with two white sticks and a ball. For anyone who may have missed 30 Rock last week, here’s the uncanny valley better articulated with the kind of references we can all understand (porn and Star Wars).
As for those who would like to continue the episode’s debate as to whether or not porn and videogames could one day fuse into a quite literal nerdgasm, hit the comments and wear gloves.
“The Uncanny Valley”: Why Porn Video Games Suck [NSFW Fleshbot NSFW]
