Graphical Thresholds Fast Approaching, Games Industry Panics At Having To Make Good Gameplay

There's an interesting article at Joystiq that comes with the release of the next UT screenshots. Engines and hardware have gotten so powerful that they're starting to bump up against what artists can do and we may be approaching the point where game characters are "too real," like cyborgs or something. The question at the end is a laff riot, though, since most people I know seem to play video games to show off their graphics cards and to torture themselves, at least if you listen to the way they complain about any game they play ever.