Control and Resident Evil 2 Remake still look incredible and run well on fairly inexpensive hardware today. We don’t need globally illuminated Unreal Engine 5 games with individually modeled nostril hairs on each character that require graphics cards with prices in the three digit range

Graphics should just be kept at late PS4 level for the foreseeable future to keep games as accessible as possible

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    I’ve always felt that photorealism takes second place to good art direction. You look at Half Life 2 and it’s dated, but Team Fortress 2 hasn’t aged a day despite being old enough to vote.

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    I think photo-realism is nice and all, but I think devs shouldn’t focus too much on it. I’m not saying they should avoid it. Just don’t obsessive over it, or see it was the main selling point of a game.

    I really do appreciate the impressive work that devs have put into games, whether the graphics are on the higher end or lo-fi 8bit or 16bit style.

    Personally, I really like cel shaded games, and that’s been around a long time already. When I see something that “looks” like a cartoon, my mind naturally thinks of fun. 😃

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      I wonder how much of the push for absurd fidelity photorealism is by the game devs, as opposed to the publishers/upper management?

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        Imo a lot of the effort is coming out of film animation and doctorate mathematicians, but I don’t doubt Unreal is funding a lot of that research

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    We got two chokepoints. I feel like graphics have not improved significantly for a little bit that is true. However one problem is way to much stuff can’t be re used. So, games will be made with thousands of hours of work done on assets. Then next game will use all new assets for thousands of hours more work. They really need to make some system by which we can keep adding to asset library’s instead of just having to make new stuff all the time.

    The second is we need way more processors cause when you see good ray tracing it really is a wild step up in quality but it is super resource intensive. So maybe when we get reasonable level biocumputing I dunno. However that will be for first time in a while I feel like graphics really jumped up in quality.

  • the atmospherics in RDR2 really are bonkers. after a long time away (a year, easy), i was dicking around in the rdr online with a friend a week ago. kind of re-learning how to do basic shit, exploring/remembering places, bow hunting, hand to hand fighting, roping/dragging npcs, etc in a few different areas. neither of us have upgraded our systems since before it came out and neither of us can even run it at max/ultra video settings either.

    it still looks absolutely crazy in 4k at like medium/high settings.

    they kinda eff’d us, imo, by not including the gta5 director mode thing for recording sequences in game for later render. i didn’t really get into playing with that until a few years ago. the amount of high effort stupid videos i would make with rdr online would be mind boggling.

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      Silent Hill 3, 4 and Haunting Ground had some incredible looking character models on the PS2. The PS2 had a ton of really great looking games on it and I wish there were indie developers out there trying to replicate that aesthetic instead of the PS1

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      These were cool to look at but then you get in the game and your cute female Hume actually looks like a turtle. The In-game graphics did not match at all. Still a big fan though.

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        Yeah Square did those scenes obviously for promotional material and like you said it didn’t match the actual in-game models sadly.

        Shenmue’s Passport disc did kind of the same thing, having high poly character models for scenes of just talking and no in-game play.

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    UE5 games like Wukong look amazing tbh. It’s like touching grass without touching grass. Do older games also look great? yes of course, but new games also look great. also.

    as well.

    therefore.

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    They looked good enough a decade ago, PS4 and XBO were dogshit hardware but holding graphics back was actually beneficial, funny enough