It is not surprising due to the fact that things in real life look just like they look. So if games have real graphics it means that they all look like real life, so they look the same. It isn't a bad thing. Art direction and artistic vision is what make the games unique

@@vladislavmatiusenco1089yeah

I've been saying this for years. I like games that go with an artstyle way more than "realistic looking" games. Games don't need to look realistic to look good. In all honesty, realistic looks kinda boring compared to the vibrant and colorful world of Genshin Impact or the very distinctive artstyle of Okami!

The market is dominated by a few engines, an equalization with both good and bad elements. It democratizes the use of technological advancements, but minimizes the diversity of the games.

If every game looks realistic then no game is realistic.

Trueeeee, though there are exceptions this is generally all i need from a store page

People care about physics though

Who needs graphics or gameplay? They should make a game where you just stare at empty cubicle drywall for 8 hours with RTX ON and no pee breaks until you're 65 years old, where half the players remain single. FUN! (But look at the amazing pixel shaders bro!)

On world of warcraft, you have a lot of trailers and cinematics and it is doing really well. Even after 20 years

@@TroX30540 That's because of sunk cost fallacy. Most virgins that play WoW already invested years of their lives. Quitting is too hard for them. WoW has undoubtedly gotten worse and worse with every expansion after ROTLK. They even released WoW "classic" because modern WoW was so bad.

😂😂😂

Too bad my brain can only manage 30fps

Sounds terrifying

Star Citizen at 4k ( 3840 x 2160), Is absolutely awesome, No other game has ever came close.

the problem with rdr2 is it's exagerated realism, some can like it, but i get bored quickly, everything takes so much time to do, even the cinematics, ill ratter play TLOU2, great graphics and super enjoyable fast paced gameplay.

@@felipeazcoaga91🤡

@@ossiedunstan4419that’s games garbage

​@@ossiedunstan4419you only care about graphics what's the story

I mean Zelda ToTK got universally acclaim and sold millions of copy, probably the best seller this year. But yeah devs are too focus and eobsessed is making the graphics is too realistic than making a great game.

we still appreciate art pieces for hundreds and sometimes even thousands of years, art LIVES on

JSRF is a good example. It aged way better than the advanced realistic games of its era.

That is the reason why legend of Zelda tears of the kingdom on switch looks so good even without the graphics

@@jarifazmain5170 Or Wind Waker on Gamecube

facts

Nice to see someone who gets it. Photography is also not about just capturing a random shot with a gigapixel sensor and telling yourself you've just created art - just like photorealistically copying a scene using a pencil is not art either. Art is a whole another thing that is more about invoking certain sensations, experiences and excitement than it is about properly conveying to you that "this is a table and this is a flower." The outcome depends on many constituents, including the scene, the composition, the art style, the LIGHTING, the camera angle and many others.

Pretty much. Art Direction trumps realism, both are graphics. To say Graphics don't matter when games are a visual and auditory medium is ignorant. A good game plays on gameplay, visuals and sound to create a memorable and engaging experience.

Like fortnite. Like it or hate it. The graphics are better than most games out there and it's not realistic. Just extremely high fidelity

Facts

investors like them have names. Sweet Baby Inc isn’t the only one but they’re the most prominent

I'd love 70% of budget allocated to make realistic graphics was redirected straight into developing complex and interesting game mechanics. Nothing irritates me more than last 20 years of gaming being mostly a dumbed down shit that nobody would even looked at if it had fidelity of Minecraft, because core gameplay is just trash...

Give me planetside 3, mech assuault 3 , crimson skies 2

@@kahlernygard809 oh planetside 3 would be so much fun! i played Planetside 1 for a super long time! the super huge batttle and siege was so epic!

​@@crimson-foxtwitch2581SweetBabyInc is not an investor. They are an consultant firm, but yea the fact that they exist shows how corrupt the industry is

thank you for the amazing movie!!

would you care to share what part of the movie you worked on and what it was like working on it?

@@Miniom56785 I worked on compositing. Mainly in the mumbatan sequence but some stuff in the beginning in miles world. It was very interesting. Normally in animation comp is basically bringing the image to the finish line and putting everything together. But in spiderverse the renders were very simple and all the textures and looks were done in comp. It was a lot more complex than anything I’d worked on before. It was like a giant moving coloring book. Really hope I get to work on the next one.

@@RichardServello thanks for sharing and thanks for bringing that movie to life!

Would you ever take on an "apprentice" I'm really interested in learning and I want to start my own production for my KZfaq channel. I understand we have a lot going on in life currently but if there's a small inclination of a chance I'll take it so here's me doing that! I'm 19 but very eager 😊

Story is as important as game play if not more, specially if you've been gaming since late 90s then story+gameplay is what can glue you to a pc

Yet i personally wouldn t play something that looks like the first half life in 2023 no matter how good the story and gamplay is.... and this guy with "hurr durr no one cares about graphics" dumb statement fr.... we can have good graphics and good gameplay they are not mutually exclusive

​@@disgracetwt5513only you so no problem. Majority choose to plat that half life grapic if it has a good story, fun gameplay, replay value and less technical problem.

@@arik2216 you didn t get to the end of what i said? Literarly said that you can have good graphics and good gameplay bud and i like having both, can t do one without the other

some of my favorite games have mid/crappy graphics that's why i don't care about having crazy high performance, even a 6900xt is overkill for me, im alright with a 6800xt or 3080 at the most

That is exactly why I refuse to work for one of these crappy companies and exactly why people should hate them and force them to listen to the people that actually know what they are doing. The people working for them...

This would make sense, especially with how indie developers put out some of the most fun games, and they actually play games.

Except I bet you guys still pre order games and give them your money b4 playing

@@austindavis2406 its only part of it, mostly they just dont care and have other agendas even beyond profits. Cinematic immersion helps make propaganda work more effectively

@@timothymoore2966 XD this reminds me of cod youtbers complaining about cod and then buying the next release again and again

It's just AAA games issues.

games just lacks depth into it and as what you just said it is becoming more movie-like rather than a game itself.

This is a lack of love from developers in creating games, or a lack of creativity or even laziness in creating a non-linear game. What differentiates games from films is that in games the player should have control over all their decisions. Obviously our technology is limited in creating a 100% non-linear game, but we are moving towards that. A good example is Baldur's Gate 3@@gutsglory3625

I don't think that's an issue. I like linear and cinematic games and I've played those since the PS1 era. A good blend of a gameplay loop and a captivating story is all I need, the graphics are a big bonus though.

Linear games in the PS1 era were linear because the technology at the time was limited, today there are no excuses for delivering a linear game. Furthermore, the same pleasure that linear games give you can be achieved through movies, you don't need a game for that.@@reisshep

Even moreso, graphics facilitate gameplay. No graphics, no gameplay. Back in the day characters were made of 3 polygons and you had to guess what you were looking at. We've hit drastically diminishing returns 10-15 years ago. AFAIR the last time I was genuinely excited for graphics was Half-Life 2 back in 2004. Graphics have obviously improved massively since then, but I can still enjoy HL2 despite how dated it looks. Lately the most fun I've had is playing old/simple games on the Steam Deck.

@@jfolz Nah, you have to be a console gamer. I played prince of Persia in 1990 on PC and the graphics where better than your today's roblox, minecraft or even PUBG :)).

That's the thing. Back in the 80s and 90s, the improvement in graphics came with a huge improvement in gameplay. Which was mostly the case becsaue of bigger data storages. But at one point it didn't go hand in hand anymore and the only thing that seemed to improve are the graphics.

@@knuckles7410 how you managed to convince two people to upvote such a monumentally stupid comment is beyond me.

Forza Horizon

Not everyone hates realistic graphics. Just a video to make ppl meatride lmfao

@@Hydrax_Real The video didn't say people hate realistic graphics. The video's thesis is that no one _cares_ abut graphics, which is a hyperbolic way of saying that graphics are only a supplement to the real value of games, which is the game-play. What ntrg3248 is saying is that a decade ago graphics looked good enough to convey almost everything a game would reasonably need to convey in order to tell its story, display its objects and world, and to have fun game-play. Most graphical increases are non-game-relevant things like better light reflections or skin pores on human flesh, that kind of thing. I personally do want graphics to continue improving, but at the same time, some of my favorites game are Splinter Cell: Conviction and Bulletstorm, both games that I think have 85 to 95% of all the graphical fidelity they'd ever need. Some better lip synchronization could have been nice, I guess.

@@Hydrax_Realit’s not about hating realistic graphics, it’s about design

yeah. but some ppl hate the realistic graphics. i just wanted to point that out@@Jeyblox

Arkham Knight (while not as good of a game as Arkham City) is one of the most beautiful games ever made and beautifully executes the visual style established in City and Asylum.

😂😂💯💯

Plants vs zombies is a good example, can run on a potato but you're still gonna like the silly gameplay

Elden Ring.

Resident Evil 5 for me.

​@@thefallenvalley4340you mean Bloodborne, miles ahead of anything in ER

THIS. Red Dead Redemption 2 is the best example. it came out 5 years ago yet few games in 2023 can match its graphics.

Yep that game world is really great. gameplay wise it is generations old.

thats what happens when you take that power of graphics and blend it with an realistic-like artstyle it doesnt just look like real but has a strong art direction (albeit limited by the realistic effect)

but you can just make mess graphics for dystopian messed up world. Check Cruelty Squad

​@@hamzaahmad1345That is if you're playing like you play last generation games. It gives you the option to choose your playstyle though.

Cyberpunk isnt a releastic game.

This is the exact reason why I reduce texture quality while maintaining other features max even though my GPU can run, I can't tell the differences.

and now you see why people invented techniques to better utilize texture space during the PS2 era back when VRAM was at an all-time premium: ***FOUR MEGABYTES.***

A texture can be all big you want it to be, but it will be unused most times.... If you use a 4K texture for a brick, you will only use the 100% of that texture the moment you play on a 4K screen and the brick takes your whole screen area... If the brick only uses a 50% of your screen then there wont be any difference between using a 2k and a 4k one... if the brick use a 10% of the screen it matters even less, thats why games are radically different designed around textures for a FPS and a TPS, also TPS tends to look better because is way harder to notice it since the camera will 99% of times always be zoomed out from other elements... There is also a reason why mipmapping is still used as optimization method

Are we talking about file size or in game performance? 4k textures are manageable by using mipmaps and strong enough hardware. (A singular building would run on most hardware. Given topology is done well and etc. ) Sadly file sizes are still enormous. I love games that make you download 4k textures separately. Easier for lower end devices with limited spaces.

@@BioClone I don't think that is 100 % correct. By my knowledge increased texture resolution remains noticable depending on the PPI of your monitor. The lower the PPI the earlier you won't notice texture improvements... There just fits more detail into a higher res texture, and that will show on lower resolutions as well.

KZfaqrs and Streamers: Are we a joke to you?

He's more of a movie director stuck in the game-designer's chair.

​@@user-od7hh8qg9dHe isn't even a film director nor has he ever worked in one

I did really like his death stranding game. The gameplay didnt appeal to me, but i loved the spectacle of every scene.

​@@cleverman383difference is that watching on youtube is free as opposed to buying yourself.

Bubble going to burst

@@altantulga8138 a lot of bubbles are going to burst to be honest.

I don't think the uploader has a good enough PC to judge video games. Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.0 completely revamped combat and is possibly the best first person open world shooter in the current market while looking next-gen. Baldur's Gate 3 has a ton of conversations but it makes the character I made feel like they're in a movie. Meanwhile he's praising Valorant, a game that copied CSGO with cartoonish graphics and all you do there is throw a grenade in the air and hope it hits someone, switch weapon to knife repeatedly for absolutely no reason and peeking doors.

@@FutaCatto2you’ve simplified cs and valorant to the point where you could be describing any first person shooter.

​@@FutaCatto2If a guy who reviews GPUs doesn't have a good enough PC to enjoy modern AAA titles, what the hell kinda PC do you need to enjoy them? Also, note how your two examples are Baldur's Gate 3, a AA CRPG (which tend to be very gameplay-focused) that can be played on a moderately fresh potato, and CP2077, which needed three years worth of updates to get good gameplay going.

wth was that tiktok hate for???

@@Santikle Tik Tok = no great for brain

@@astjuly8239 ive never used tiktok before, so is that why i have a fully functional brain?

So Playstation exclusives

That has nothing to do with 'Graphics'

@@silenthilll_ he has a point with this. Alot of good graphic games are just walking sims

​@@spitlikesfire9368what are you talking about modt playstation exclusives have fantastic gameplay

@@spitlikesfire9368 Id rather play a boring amazing looking game than a terrible looking "good" game

that's why they keep making more ray tracing crap that are more demanding than the current ray tracing crap. watch how the price of rtx 50xx will skyrocket.

Totally agree. They create the need for you to update the system. I even start thinking the "not optimization fashion" is pushed by the hardware manufacturers.

Facts

@@SapiaNt0mata just as native-res raytracing was starting to slowly get viable they introduce full path tracing and frame gen lol, get a $2000 card and still have to rely on AI upscaling and interpolated frames I wonder how the videogame industry would be if they just continued to GTX 1100-series, focusing on efficiency gains to give better performance at the same price as they previously did, instead of blasting 400w+ with their new top end cards

​@@Suilujzit becomes more and more difficult to shrink the process nodes and you can't just make the chips bigger. Since the release RT you can't keep up with the hardware requirements to run it with pure compute power like in the past. This makes AI upscaling mandatory, if you want to progress with graphic fidelity. Prices skyrocket for sure but tbh, didn't prices increase in your daily life too or do you have no rising inflation?

But the gameplay is terrible with only 2 guns, more limited powers and rail roaded level design compared to the previous games, by his definition used in this video it's also not good.

Yeah....I get the feeling, that you may have not been around during the release of Bioshock Infinite. It was made by a lunatic game director, who wanted everything to be just his way, and would not listen at all to feedback from the team. While I don't want to specifically stifle creative direction - he was clearly wrong about so much of how this game was designed. Who was incredibly butthurt when Burial at Sea Episode 1 came out and was not received well. He literally quit the studio and left game development altogether. He's coming back with his first game since Infinite in the near future. When Bioshock came out it was a technical marvel that moved the genre forward. We don't really talk about Bioshock 2, because it was developed by a different team. But by the time Infinite came out, the gameplay was quite dated. Then, the puzzling choice to include racism as a main plot point, did not age well. It's always very uncomfortable on replays; especially the more you explore and dig into those themes. Edit: Adding links en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_(video_game) www.polygon.com/2021/5/10/22424321/a-look-inside-bioshock-infinites-troubled-development www.theverge.com/2022/1/3/22865129/ken-levine-ghost-story-games-development-direction-problems Ken Levine is just not the guy you want running a game studio. Infinite was never meant to be the last title in the series. It ended up that way because of Ken.

​@@rapidrabbit11485Artstyle was great though

@@lucasLSDInfinite has better gunplay than most fps games today and the vigors were fun af and you can combine them and set traps and use the environment more than in the original. The level design is more linear and is better in 1, but cmon bruh, terrible?

The first time I played Bioshock Infinite I thought it kind of sucked... Now looking back I think my standards were higher because I thought it was okay nowadays.

u nailed it bro

it's because nature is just beautiful to look at on it's own

@@rexosaurus3610 true.

GTA VI seems to have the same "art style" if we could call it that way

GTA IV

In the past games were more primitive so nerds didn't need much premise.

Lies of P runs on Unreal Engine, and it is very fun, and runs extremely well. The graphics are good, but not great. I honestly didn’t know that unreal engine could run at 120 FPS locked 4K on a 3080. Proving that shitty optimization is indeed the developers fault.

I loved Firewatch, its tiny fprest world, and the handful of characters. The ending sucked tho. Still haunts me lol

witcher 3 the best rpg? its one of the worse i have played lol too much linear little freedom bad open world bad combat..... baldurs gate 3 divinity original sin 1/2, skyrim, dragon age much better.

Pushing realism yet they forgot how to do physics. Not realistic enough, just the graphic part.

Realism sucks. Video game art design is way better. I prefer cartoony graphics with fun visuals and great gameplay to realism in games.

You see the same thing in these live action movies. The realism without a theme really fails to make itself stand out. Although avatar (both the new game and the movie) is a great example on how to do “realism” correctly. The worse parts of the movies was was literally any time they show the inside of the human base/ship.

Realism doesn't have to look boring though. Photography as an art form proves that. Red Dead Redemption 2 looks both realistic and stunning. Assassin's Creed Odyssey exaggerates realism to provide a stunning vista around every corner. It's not so much the chosen style, but how it's used. Composition, color use, that sort of thing.

​@@Wolfos530RDR2 brings in the golden era look of the Wild West which means that back in the days, the Wild West looked colorful, but it also brings in more of a specific painting style than 'REaLisTiC' graphics/visual style

does OP not realise that there's beauty to be found in nature as well as ugly and bleak things to be found in real life... ok then

@@Wolfos530 that's true as well, but it just needs to executed well. I've done photography, and know how life is, and there's plenty of beautiful views.

Sorry bud that’s not what PlayStation offers

Welcome to Playstation we give you movies not games

​@@Mr.GenesisYou should stop playing games in story mode difficulty then, you are clearly missing all the gameplay.

@@unversedhero6028 yes enemies do more damage and you do less damage is "Difficulty" Excuse me what? Padded damage isn't difficulty LMAO

@@unversedhero6028 Sony makes movie games doesn't matter if you play on its hardest difficulty. it's still a cutscene game :)

im never willing to play at 15 fps i moved to pc for performance and it being better than 30 fps on consol,,............... just stupid to play a game that will simply play better on xbox wont crank up graphics at the cost of frames going lower than 30 typically i just wanna run thru the story or chill with my friends stray, was a visual masterpiece fully enjoyed it and ran smooth af for example even on lowest settings still was visually amazing and wasnt killing my laptop on higher graphics settings

Yeah, immortals of Aveum is a great example. When it came out, most of the reviews basically said that unless you had basically just bought a high end computer, you wouldn't be able to play the game at a stable or high FPS, and who the fluff wants to play a new game if you can barely reach 20fps?

@@tweda4 but that's why companies over rely on DLSS and FSR so much nowadays - to save money and time on optimization.

A lot of it is because technology caught up and surpassed what games designers have been trying for and they are now trying to keep up. There is also the fact that as the tools get more advanced, it takes time to learn the new tricks and such to get the best appearance while optimizing resource use, and the advancements are coming fast. There is also the fact that storage space is not as limited as it used to be, and fixes can be done quickly, which has actually put pressure on companies to finish now, patch and release the patch later. This has been an issue for the last two decades, and it has gotten worse, not better since. Probably due to the fact that releases are now predominantly digital, rather than using a physical media to carry the game, where the end product damn well better be finished and as good as you can reasonably get it. Also not helped by the fact that PC releases have to be able to interface and work with a wider selection of configurations than consoles. There is a reason why console releases tend to be less buggy and also smoother to run. They have to work with only one hardware configuraiton (for that console) and that configuration is unlikely to change significantly over the console's life. The other side of it is due to the fact that graphics are something the Board of Executives can see and, while not technically inclined in most cases, can understand and link to buzzwords. Things like art direction and story are harder to explain and justify to a group that is more concerned that the investment they will put into the game will yield a return quickly enough due to the fact that even they have to answer to people who are very much concerned with getting a return on their investments into the company. And the graphics being mistaken for being what makes a good game is something I have seen before. I have been playing computer games for thirty years, on PCs I purchased with my own money for over twenty of them since I became an adult. This is something that happens in phases, but even during a phase where you see more quality games come out, they are actually fairly few in number. Most are forgettable to begin with. Entertaining, but forgettable. Some of the most memorable games I played had good graphics for their time, but the best tended to be fairly lackluster in terms of graphics.

Crying about low frame rates = Fail. You guys clearly weren't alive 40 years ago when we were playing Spectrum and Commodore 64 games at even slower frame rates.

Raft?

Exactly, younger I was, more I was excited about Graphics, now all what's important in visuals for me is - Aesthetics, and even more, I can not enjoy Realistic games anymore, cos such games begin to look the same and all important details in visuals are lost and blurred in graphical mass...

Thats because society is trying to make you think graphics arent important your entire life. It's not true. When you were a child and loved seeing that eye candy graphics, that was a true feeling. Don't supress it watching vods like these.

@@1NightInParisOfficial 🤣🤣🤣 Oh, that society.... always make you do something you won't. 😂

@@1NightInParisOfficial Graphics is just an instrument, how important is a screwdriver when you are sitting on a chair that was made by using that screwdriver ? It's partially important, but not as much as the chair itself. Also graphics is all about technology and Art, Art itself is only in personal preferences area and no matter what "society" will tell you, if you don't like specific art, you will not like it, even if you will try to please that "society" and say that you like it, but technology is the only thing in video games that can be objectively scored because it is a mathematics, it is graphical technology or not, and optimization of mathematical processes is also part of scoring of technology, everything beyond technological processes in video games is in personal preferences only. And until graphics works properly and is optimized (optimization of processes is not only about FPS btw...) then it's not important at all, important is - Art, Design, Style, Aesthetics, cos for each person separately liking or disliking Art, Design, Style and Aesthetics will be critical to even try a video game, therefore in personal preferences graphics also is not important till it works properly, but important is the outcome, the end product that was made by using instrument named - Graphics... So graphics is subjectively or objectively important only when it is ruining the game experience, when it's not, then it have no importance for a player at all and the weight of importance goes on personal preferences like - Aesthetics, Narration, Game design or Gameplay. But for developers of course it's important, cos it is an instrument they will use to create that - Aesthetics, Narration, Game design or even Gameplay, cos as cheaper is the instrument and as less effort developer needs to put to create a product to sell and have income, then more games he can create for the market and then more income his company can have and that's why today we see this paradox, when technologies that were made to make games more optimized, became an instrument for developers to put lesser effort into optimization of their products - "there are upscaling technologies, so players will be ok to run it anyway....', and when hardware became more efficient and more powerful, then less effort developers put into optimization of their games and all we see are excuses like - "oh, that game uses different engine" < so you are using worse instruments then why I, a Players, should even care what instruments you used to make the product you ask money to pay from me, it should not be my problem, when I go to a store and purchase a latest CPU f.e. R7 7800x, I should not get i3 320 for that price with excuse like - "oh, but we have no R7 7800x to sell for you....".... When I go to a store and purchase a Lamborghini Revuelto for full price I should not get Nissan Versa, without doors, wheels and sits..... When I go to store and purchase 1kg Tomato for full price I should not get 1 piece of rotten apple instead. So why the fk I should even care what instrument you use to make the game, use better engine then, hair knowledgeable people then to code your game properly, use instruments that show better quality performance then... But reality is, that not the engine or any other thing is a problem, but that companies do not have any reason to put any effort, technologies and hardware anyway will handle it, and if not, then player should purchase more expensive and more powerful ones........ and players do that, and players support such behavior from companies, so why the fk they should even care about doing it better or putting any effort to create their game. So is Graphics important ? Yes for developers, cos it's easy way to promote product, decrease effort they need to put to create that product and is easy way to find excuses if the technical quality of that product is below any reasonable level....

but video games are mostly marketed to kids/teenagers who don't really know any better

As a person who owns quite a good PC, can tell, that after playing a lot of modern Graphicall games, I still enjoy artistic one much more.

being graphically limited on my first laptop ironically led to me discovering incredible games

I bought a $700 gpu (at the time) that has been going strong since 2018. I learned that good looking games almost always trash lamo can never get through em. My gpu ended up just playing indie games and mining crypto to make my money back.

@@Xelluse Shadow Of The Colossus is one of my favs

"and I can only be grateful" don't lie you know you would prefer having a good pc rather than a shitty one

I agree. Anymore it just feels like everything is either rushed or the stories are not written well or are just rehashed stories that have been done before over and over, same tropes. Similar to how movies are now days. I know there are some exceptions but it just feels like they know games sell well, they make lots of money with little effort, so quality is lacking. It's all about lining the pockets of shareholders and studio execs and not about artistic passion and story telling.

Bioshock 1 has the best opening in any videogame ever, and it cannot do that without its graphic design.

Corporate greed.

Oh, how naive you are to think that's how the industry works 😂

@@Forty8-Forty5-Fifty8 never said i knew it, there's a reason, why i said "i think"

@@KenjiBiH when did I accuse you of saying that? I literally used the same terminology as you

Its just that most game devs are not competent. This is because they are severely underpaid, and competent people will just find a better paid, better working condition job creating something else. So gaming is done by passionate but incompetent people working minimum wage. Studios like CDPR or Naughty dog are known in the industry of "dont get hired, they will chain you to the desk and treat you like a slave".

What a cry baby! Graphics were always important in game and hardware development. I'm going to bet you were not around when Nintendo 64 came out and blew people's mind with it's "realistic" graphics. Yeah, that was what people felt at the time, that graphics couldn't possible be more realistic than that. You know who belittled Nintendo 64's graphics? People that couldn't afford it! 2023: History repeats itself

@@johnny_rook Those N64 games did not lack good gameplay too. For example Wave Race 64 is still better aesthetically and gameplay wise than any other jet ski game which came after it.

@@kordelas2514 So true... But, many people think we can't have both state-of-the-art graphics and good gameplay at the same time; it seems for them is one or the other, when the reality of gaming development proves them wrong at every hardware generation past. What amazes me the most is people that see themselves as being "PC gamers" going that route, when the meme was for the longest time: "can it run Crysis?", a game with such amazing graphics it took 4 years for a GPU to play it @1080p/60fps, Max settings, while wielding awesome gameplay mechanics as well.

@@johnny_rook We have a complex issue here. The devs based on hardware have to choose specific art style and how advanced graphics they want to use for their game. Many games used to rely on being first ones on usage of novel graphical features only. And they aged badly because new games could easily replace them. If we talk about gameplay, we should address how we as humans perceive visual effects. Are we good at perceiving so many details in motion, chaotic patterns, etc.? Do modern games consider these issues? Perhaps more is less functional and less is more functional. Are gameplay mechanics properly combined with audiovisuals?

@@johnny_rook nope crysis was really boring . but is just in my opinion. cyberpunk is amazing graphic and story and gameplay

​@@itachisaskuwho asked?

if you stop byuing from the 1st days or preorder every single game they will fix the games !!!! when everyone running like crazy to bought the game the companies have every right to kick your ass with his bullshit

For me Cyberpunk was a disappointment due to the gameplay. Felt like there was zero improvement from Witcher 3. It just feels futuristic environment attracted different audience that didn't like witcher 3 due to history/fantasy vibe.

@@GumShuro who asked u

@@xsomili5501 ur mum

that's you, and then there's them.

​@@brokemono This is probably the least substantial comment I have ever seen on the internet. Thank you, Captain Obvious.

AA is the new AAA nowadays

You should compare games from the same genre. Not games like open world ones to corridor/hub like FPS.

Here i am grinding the crap out of Doom eternal on my Nintendo Switch 😂

Good point. Everything is superhero or woke garbage in Hollywood nowadays.

This is exactly right. Of course graphics don't 'not matter'.

Right, look at TLoU part 1 and 2, the graphics massively enhance the immersion and story telling. The kind of people who think graphics don't matter are just ignorant chuds too stupid to have a real opinion tbh.

⁠@@dangerousmindgamesThe point is that graphics should not be prioritized over gameplay and art direction

@@notsocooldude7720 exactly, good graphics is a plus but not prio one, most people want good gameplay before graphics

people put graphics fault the game is bad, the problem on some games today isnt the graphics, is the rest of the game, thats why remakes being made are generaly praised by players. If read dead realased today with graphics of ps3 game no one would play it, ppl just keep forgeting how was graphics before

Some would@@andrerocha3998

I agree. Graphics aren't everything. My game of the year was probably Zelda TOTK which had awesome art design but obviously lower resolution and framerate because of the Switch. Having said that, amazing graphics like in Demon Souls Remake really do elevate the experience of the game.

True, but even then (well, maybe not the 80s, but certainly going into the 90s) a good art style (Flashback for instance) created games you can absolutely just go and play now. Then try playing Fade To Black, when they tried to make it 3D despite the technology just not being there yet. Horrible.

@@KindredBrujah True. The 3dfx era was certainly an eyesore - I much preferred the original System Shock over its second iteration. But I'll be honest with you, the recent remake of it is much more lovely (in HDR)

ppl like that need to remember Batman Arkham Knight which Rocksteady used a modified Unreal Engine 3 for the Next-Gen experience

It's not generic to have a game use fancy realistic graphics, realistic graphics can only look real. Some can look more real than others but the idea is it looks real and reality looks the same no matter where you are.

" I think the push for "true" realism is to push new hardware sales" Nvidia is not the one making the games though. It's the developers choice (or the investors choice) to continue pushing the graphics. Look at the new consoles. Better hardware to push higher graphics is pretty much the only thing they innovate on. You can try to leverage the new SSD for gameplay mechanics like in Rift Apart, but other than that there is nothing. Fancy graphics sells games, like it or not. More obscure artstyles don't sell as well, and there are few exceptions. For example, Ori and the will of the wisps is a phenomenal game. Unfortunately, any run-of-the-mill COD game is going to probably DOUBLE the sales of Ori, if not more. I'm not defending NVIDIA by the way, but they would not hold the same leverage if the investors cared about quality products. From the perspective of an investor, why would you fund 1,5 years of bugfixing and performance optimization when you can slap on DLSS as a bandaid and release the game unfinished? Unfortunately, fancy graphics and heavy marketing will sell the game anyway. Those investors don't care about NVIDIAS sales, they care about their own sales.

Nvidia doesn't even care if you upgrade. They're making so much money in AI, they'd rather use their manufacturing capacity to build ai cards team gaming cards anyway.

Graphics has nothing to do with experience

@@DeathStriker88 I disagree, RDR2 would still be a great game if it had minecraft graphics, but it would be nowhere near as successful and enjoyable

false, nothing like a great story, fun game play and great artistic directions and good graphics to support said artistic direction. With most things it needs to be a balance. Graphics is one piece of the pie, maybe for you it doesn't matter at all but for most people it does matter. It's just not the only thing that does and AAA companies needs to realize this.@@DeathStriker88

@@DeathStriker88yes it does. Graphics are everything that encompases the visual experience, not just about realistic vs stylized. Stylized games can have good graphics as well as bad.

Yes and no, depend on the game. And graphics are only part of the puzzle.

Serious......? Alright, I bought it one week ago but have not gotten to it yet while I am engaged by A Creed Odyssey and Origins. Sounds good though so I'll move it to the front of the que. Thanks. I didn't get Frostpunk but I will.....next year when I have more time. haha

Spot on. Gaming means escapism.

Unfortunately the majority is only interested in a game when it's visuals are as photo realistic as possible.

Dafuq? When we say we're trying to escape reality, we don't literally mean how real life looks the fuck are you talking about?

@@kahnfatman Only for the cowards that use it as an excuse to pretend their real life problems go away by pretending they don't exist. You don't ever escape. It's a lie. Dark Souls reminds people of harsh reality. And it teaches to try to face your problems. Even helps people overcome depression. After breaking them of course. Games that know life isn't fair are honest if nothing else.

​@@Veldazandteano, ds is escapism, you don't respawn after dropping off a bridge, or have infinite opportunities to correct your mistakes irl

Unless it’s a simulation, if the game is like lego lego Star Wars the complete saga or lego Batman 1 im still gonna enjoy it

it is a bad thing

Nah,... I would rather play a game running over 60fps looking like stardew valley(1080P or lower) than one looking like real life running at 2fps(4k ultra with ray tracing)

Graphics and gameplay are more important than story for me I'm.playing a god damned game not watching a movie or reading a book.

Nah story is the same nonsense. There is an influx of games with hard focus on story when I just don't care. Give me good gameplay.

For me graphics has to suit the game in order to avoid breaking the immersion. But not gonna lie, the first time I've seen the panorama of Kaer Morhen I felt like I'm sinking into the world of the game, which for me is the most fun-inducing feeling in gaming. Of course graphics/gameplay/story balance can shift, but as long as one element doesn't drag down the remaining two it's fine.

mechanics > story > graphics

The same indie developer who made The Upturned “turned” the tides.😂

yea but that game is shit and for tiktok kids we're talking about good games getting affected here

@@anti_s0ra_v1 I played LC and it's not shit, even considering it's in early access

To you, its just not fun objectively. Same worlds same monsters, nothing new, boring. A bunch of other games that are early access like "ultrakill" which trumps that game by a landslide. So if were talking about a game talk about a good one not a tiktok one. @@malserc

@@anti_s0ra_v1 a lot of nonsense from you. If you apply your logic to the other games, then suddenly almost every game is not fun if it dont have to be played 2+ hours. Tetris, chess, doodle jump, fnaf, counter strike, fortnite, etc etc. Same maps, same people, same mechanics. Are they too boring? In LC after some progress you can unlock unique moons with new unique faciloties and new monsters. Being in the early stage Lethal Company has enough to spend few hours with your friends and have a good time playing. I know at some point LC lacks of greater goal, but it still has enough to offer. I dont know what you seen in tiktok, but from my experince the game was geniualy fun. Espesially when you dont spoil anything by watching gameplays on yt. Also, this game is meant to be played with friends. With friends almost everything is fun. Maybe you should go outside and find some. If you judge games by tiktoks, and not by playing them, then you are a fool

should i remind you of the day before

I'd say 95% of Indie games are actual garbage and shouldn't be played by anyone.

@@kiillabytezOk but generally 95% or the majority of anything would be bad, so that doesn’t really mean much.

almost 80 to 90% of indie games are just platforming, 2D/3D, trying to do the cute colorful arstyle, emotional story bla bla bla. Fucking boring oversaturated genre. Only few indie actually stood up because they are made to be fun.

Tbh majority of indie games are just boring visual novels

Will add that - "Having good fidelity" < GOOD or NOT GOOD are personal preferences only. "Cyberpunk. It's about using all available tools effectively." < yea, sure, very "effectively" 🤣🤣🤣 You can not poorly execute technologies like RTX, it's just a mimic of how lights work in real world (only in technical aspect we can talk about poor execution in mimicking technologies like RTX, when they eat more resources of hardware, than they should etc..., but this is another story in this particular topic....), they looked poorly cos to make technologies like RTX work nicely, you need to build entire scene for it and not wise versa, cos such technologies just mimicking and not creating, so in game like CP77, that was made to be just a PR material for NVidia technologies, scenes there were made under RTX, that's why it looks so standard and not inspiring and have no Artistic value at all, but even then you can see, that in the beginning it should not, cos even with RTX game can only render just 2 sources of light, character do not have proper shadows and proper reflection etc... But also you can look at Witcher 3 RTX, where this RTX ruined a lot of scenes, that were made by hand and where lights, shadows, reflections were made by hand of an artist and were placed not realistically, but to create a Aesthetical scene and that's the reason why Cyberpunk lacks Aesthetics and is just mimicking things, not creating them, you may like it, you may don't, but this is the reality, technologies like RTX are instruments that need the environment to be made in specific and limited way only to make them look good.

@@Xelluse "GOOD or NOT GOOD are personal preferences only." There is no personal preference when it comes to fidelity being good or bad. Fidelity means the degree of exactness with which something is copied or reproduced in this case reality. However you of course can have a preference to liking games that are low or high fidelity. "You can not poorly execute technologies like RTX" Of course you can, it takes one bad denoiser and everything looks bad. However I wasn't talking about the technical side of things I was referring to the map design. Even when you use realistic lighting it's not as easy to design a good looking map. If you aren't careful you're gonna end up with too dark Hallways, too bright rooms. "you need to build entire scene for it and not wise versa, cos such technologies just mimicking and not creating" It's the same way with traditional methods though. Most if not all games that feature a lighting engine if traditional or not try to mimick lighting, ray tracing just does it better. Also no matter what method of lighting you use you're gonna have create the scene with the lighting in mind from the ground up, or it's going to look bad. "cos even with RTX game can only render just 2 sources of light, character do not have proper shadows and proper reflection etc..." Now unless this is meant as a sarcastic way to make fun of ray tracing performance, it's just false. Not sure what else to add to this point. "But also you can look at Witcher 3 RTX, where this RTX ruined a lot of scenes" While I like most of the the new scenes with added ray tracing. I still agree with the overall point. However I don't see it as a valid point against ray tracing since that is a side effect of the transitional period we're in right now. Once games start getting designed with ray tracing in mind from the ground up, problems like that will most likely go away. Take Alan Wake 2 as an example.

@@roamn4979 "EVEN WITH" < no, means nothing ??? Oh, but then your argument will fall apart, so you chose to change the context.... ironic....

​@@Xelluse I'm sorry, but would you care to elaborate? I am having a hard time following what you mean. What context have I changed?

​@@roamn4979 As example you simply ignore "EVEN WITH", that was said exactly not against RTX, but for it, that technology is good, when you use it properly. Also as was said, that it's an instrument and that not instrument is a problem, but who uses it, RTX is very simple algorithm to mimic real life light physics, but as someone who working with ray tracing since from 2003 in animations, mistakes and poor qualification of an Art director makes it look bad, and RTX on same Portal was implemented just for marketing purpose - RTX for RTX and had no Artistic value at all and without building scene the way to make RTX look aesthetic, it will not work properly and will look ugly, unlike hand made scenes, where artist have full control of the scene and can place lights and shadows even in most unrealistic way, it's not that RTX is bad, it's just an instrument and nothing more, also nothing special, in movies and animations it was used since from 1994, it's very simple, but quite resource heavy algorithm to simply mimic lights physics from real life, but it have no artistic value and is limiting the way artist can work with scene, that's why in CP77 it worked so poorly, simple scenes worked properly, but harder scenes, when you should work with multiple sources of light for example, it have shown the worst quality even in compare to ABO 6.0+ and the irony is, that when CP77 with RTX was not able to render over 2 sources of light, with simple ABO 2.0 (technology from 2009 btw) in exact same scene was rendered 4 sources of light. And quite funny, that CP77 used so outdated, poorly optimized and low quality lights-shadows imitational instrument outside RTX to make RTX look good in their game (not that RTX itself is bad or something, it works amazingly when it used in scenes in which it meant to be used and implemented properly in a scene that was made for RTX specifically and that's is one of the headache for an Artist working with RTX, you are forced to create whole scene for RTX specifically and not creating Lights, Shadows, Reflections etc... for the scene you are creating in the first place, but if you do create whole scene to make RTX work properly, then RTX make things easier and helps to make them look stunning). So it's not against RTX, as you tried to change the context, RTX is old and good instrument, but it works in quite limited borders, but it's very simple and easy technology to work with, that's why you can't fk up RTX, you can fk up the scene by creating it without strictly following the limitations of that technology. Also, Realism is the first what painter learns, cos it's the easiest style to begin and master, it's limited, have strict and easy, understandable rules and also helps to learn physiology of things in real life, so you will be able to learn how to break them and create your own style on later courses. With realism you simply learning how to copy and not how to create.

Unfortunately a lot of these remakes try to "fix" the gameplay and end up overdoing it to a point that it completely changes the feel. In many cases it shouldn't go beyond quality of life subtle touches, not adding "modern" mechanincs that drastically alter the original game's identity. I disagree that FF7 Remake's gameplay is better, it is just different. At least there is a remaster version also available if you prefer playing the original with some new quality of life features without completely changing the gameplay. If it ain't broken don't fix it.

Reshade let's you use some important new effects and tune them to your liking, priority #1 old games need is ambient occlusion, it has some very efficient effects for that, or you can go all out with RTGI.

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