Well everyone time you do something in the real world, like taking a step down the street you are probably killing a hundred thousand microorganisms... so who cares :)
Imagine AI which includes voice recognition so you could talk with a voice head set to a character and it would understand what your saying and follow your commands
Background music that you dont notice... like in a movie you hear some music but your brain doesnt go "oh im listening to music now" because whats happening on the screen is more important. But it adds to the atmosphere...
Damn.. how do u turn off AA and AF? the ATi control pannel only has "Application Preference" and no option to turn them off, other than setting each to 2x which is dodgy