Heavy reliance on upscaling

I think when I have been out here making scene, gaming community has attracted some attention not all in a positive way, that's what I think is.

It seems video cards are paying less attention to performance and more to resource hog gimmickry. I wonder if in the case of Nvidia the focus has shifted from video cards to AI.

While graphical fidelity is a factor with many modern games I'm more impressed with the artistic style. For instance the Dragon Quest remakes look and play incredibly well but focus on that HD-2D style rather than being as realistic as possible.

Try not to look through rose tinted glasses however - there's certainly games from 2016-2018 that look like crap.

Hell there's games from 2000s that hold up really well like Final Fantasy 13.

Art style > Graphics

引用自 EASY PETE：

Heavy reliance on upscaling

The Sony PlayStation 4 was released in the USA on November 15, 2013. It was using mid-range hardware of the era, presumably the AMD equivalent of 3rd Gen Intel Core series CPUs. The PlayStation 4 had a dual CPU configuration, iirc. 2x4 cores. Most of the mainstream CPUs would have been Quad Cores.

Development for games would have taken place originally using 3rd Gen Intel Core series, or weaker CPUs. Likewise the GeForce GT 600 series.

Basically, video games 2016-2018 look and run better because they were held back by, or rather optimized for a "Steam Deck".

my precious bloodborne still looks immaculate

Everyone with talent NOPE'd out of the industry for some reason back in 2018-2019. The good looking games (great art direction) are now in the indie scene. For some reason.

I remember Battlefield 1 there are animations getting inside your vehicle and even switching seats.

Mostly due to lazy devs and unoptomised ♥♥♥♥ likr Ray-Tracing

I kinda feel like games aren’t graphically getting better after 2020. Sure, there are some exceptions to the rule but generally games aren’t looking anymore better than 5 years ago.

some better games from then to now, but go further back and you find even better games, that look and run better.

that said, now a days, devs are lazy, they sell you spaghetti code and poorly done at that, boat loads of "commented" and unused code, as well as poor optimization, cause why bother testing when you can just sell the product and not care about the customers.

tod howard: "the game is optimized, go upgrade your pc's".

have a nice day

Imagine a cube with 6000 polygons

引用自 Tazor：

Red Dead Redemption 2, Battlefield 1, Hitman 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance 1.

Compare these to any blurry UE 5 slop these days that needs a 5080 to run at 60 FPS.

I'd say games from 2010-2016.

Don't forget Crysis, Ryse: Son of Rome, and Assassin's Creed Unity.

one thing's for sure, they run better because they had to be able to run on software from a decade ago