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Insiders say cutting-edge graphics are too costly for AAA games
(www.tomshardware.com)
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If appearances are so important for their game, they can make it an interactive movie with everything pre-rendered. Works well for crap without actual player influence on the events.
Or - a hint - there are such esteemed genres as classical quest and visual novella, very much alive in the indie world.