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Games already looked good enough 5 years ago (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Half Life 2 certainly extended, if it didn't start, the trend of "high fidelity urban and rural ruins." So much graphical potential wasted on mostly ugly boring environments.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It really nailed the intended atmosphere though. HL2 also had facial animation that was way ahead of most games and especially PC FPS games at the time

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It really nailed the intended atmosphere though.

I suppose it did, and that intention wasn't to my liking so I suppose that's why I never really got into it much.