I've been saying this for ages! My main big reason is that as games get more and more "realistic", they become less and less accessible, requiring more and more expensive machines to run on. I'd MUCH rather have a new AAA Game Release with a fantastic artstyle that can still run on old-gen consoles and less high end PCs than have a photorealistic experience that only people with $700 to spare.

Very well said, art direction is FAR more important to a game than photorealistic graphics

I recently played the original Half-Life for the first time and felt completely immersed. It's almost like your imagination fills in the gaps where the technology falls flat.

So many games from 2013 - 2015 look better than games today. The Witcher 3, Arkham Knight, Wolfenstein the New Order. I just started replaying Alien Isolation and I am blown away by how incredible it looks. The lighting, the atmosphere, the unique, hand-crafted assets, the sound design. It makes you feel like you are trapped in Ridley Scot's classic horror film. Studios can't be bothered to put in that level of effort any more.

The point about spotting enemies etc is very important. Overly detailed graphics will often make gameplay actively worse, and although art direction can alleviate this somewhat there's no real way around the fact that clutter is clutter and noise is noise.

Art direction over graphics has always been my go to. Like Sifu which isn't the most graphically pleasing game but its art style and art direction make the game something you'll never forget. In The Museum level, my favorite level in the game, you see all kinds of pieces of art that tell you something about the boss you will fight. And then before you finally get to her, you're surrounded in a red room with statues fighting each other to show her state of mind.

There is a massive difference between graphics and art style. I will take a excellent art style everytime. Love hand drawn games such as Hades, Skull girls, Cuphead, hollow Knight. I feel like more effort goes into the game. It means more to me. I am usually more into the game play rather than the graphics anyway! Have we reached the cap then gone back to better times?

Batman: Arkham Knight looks like a game that came out in 2025.

Visibility is such an important key point. There are so many games that feel incredibly overloaded with details and effects that it is often hard to focus and if everything "pops" than there are no real highlights anymore.

What makes this even more frustrating is that game characters will never look "real" no matter how advanced graphics get. Our eyes/brains are literally programmed to recognize faces and instantly pick up on even the slightest unnatural movement or feature which results in that disturbing uncanny valley feeling, so this whole quest for realism is a wild goose chase. Props for mentioning the demon's souls remake, that's an excellent example of art direction absolutely eclipsing graphics fidelity. What's funny about that game is that even though they had the opportunity to have like 100 times the detail they ironically didn't seem to pay much attention to said details, Latria prisoners having perfect pearly white teeth and looking like they're in perfect health, the blacksmiths lacking the scales of the original etc.

Some games which held up exceptionally well are A Link to the Past, Super Mario World, Zelda Wind Waker, Metroid Prime trilogy and Super Mario Galaxy. I'm glad Nintendo has always put gameplay and art over graphics, as it makes their games so much easier to go back to and enjoy than ones from other systems.

This explains a lot about why older titles are just easier to get immersed in, thought it was just a personal preference. Can't believe borderlands was left out of this essay though. When speaking about distinctive art style those games I've always felt stood out.

Damn, I was really hoping he'd bring up Hi-Fi Rush. It's a perfect example of Art Syle taking precedence.

exactly what i thought about game developement these days. Pursuing realism is going to limit your ability to get creative in a way. Games like Elden ring stands out because of the incredible art styles and the perfect portrayal of the fantasy element, plus the attention to details in building the environment. Games nowadays are more like art pieces to me. The more elements of exploration and uncertainties there are, the better the games

I think its very interesting how at the same time, the animated movie industry is also in a shift from prioritizing photorealisitc animation to more sylized animation

I'm only a hobbyist, but what always gets to me is that the game engine is actually separate from the graphics. The engines tells the model to "follow these instructions when event happens", but what it doesn't quite do is actually create the assets. That's what something like Blender, Maya, or ZBrush does. So, you can actually produce great graphics in Unity and trash graphics in Unreal. It really depends on the skills of the artists and coders.

Totally agree with you. Sometimes i feel the urge for graphics and performance is never ending and it always ends up costing more and more money to spend on new hardware. Rather than hyper realistic graphics, i prefer as mentioned - the artstyle, story, good gameplay and a passionate developer.

They always get brought up in discussions like this (for good reason) but Deep Rock Galactic and Valheim don't have the "best photo-realistic graphics" we've ever seen, but I'd still say that Valhiem is an absolutely beautiful game to look at and Deep Rock has an incredibly charming art style. A game with "the most photo-realistic graphics" will eventually become dated as technology improves, while games like Valheim, Deep Rock, even Minecraft and TF2 will stand the test of time because of their unique art style.

Good point about not being able to see long distance enemies. I thought I was going crazy in recent years for having this thought myself but couldn’t figure out why it was the case. Great video man

My thoughts exactly. As a bit older person, playing Final Fantasy 7 when it was new, those very simple graphics the game provided were all your brain needed to create the 'movie' inside your head. Characters on screen didn't even had mouths or noses, only eyes. But the emotions they went through were felt is they were my own... Then in newer games, more detail and realism kicked in. But the more realistic the game tries to be, the more irritated it feels when still something isn't. Like they spend tons of time to make the characters' hair react to gravity when the person bows down, but you see the necklace he's wearing still glued to it's chest. It's been said by your grandparents, but remains true: Books are better then movies. Nothing can beat your own imagination and put it in words. Ofc, this is only 1 part in games. Gameplay is a whole diferent story and can easily make or break a game as well.

The problem I have with realistic graphics is that at a certain point they all look more or less the same, making the visuals interchangeable in many ways! With a more cartoonish artstyle you have a bit more freedom in terms of colorvariety and contrast while also not aging as much depending on the artstyle that was chosen for Project XY! It baffles me that there are not many games that tried to emulate the comic style in a 3D environment while also having interesting mechanics! (Hi-Fi Rush, Borderlands & Persona 5 are the only ones that come to mind from the top of my head)

Dishonored is such a badass game and it's art style is timeless. You can tell a lot of passion went into the design of that world

One example I think you missed out on is Ghost of Tsushima. It showed that you can do both great art design while also having really good, readable graphics.

Also an important aspect for immersion is the music. I've recently watched a play through of return to castle wolfenstein just to see why I still find that old game better than many new ones. Games like far cry 3, bioshock are very memorable for me.

Devi May Cry 5 is a great example of a game that went for real graphics while still keeping the unique look its suppose to have, the game is set in environments that are Gothic which pop in combat because of the super colorful abilities the characters have.

The Source Engine always feels special to me. Games created in it have a timeless look. The facial animations in particular have actually aged better than a lot of recent games.

problem is that people just use "graphics" to describe resolution of textures. 8:27 is a good example. sharp textures is one thing, but colors and details of a texture are also part of graphics.

Great video! I think cohesiveness (and ofcourse great gameplay) make a game really immersive, regardless of graphics, if everything feels like it belongs to that world I can get lost in a game for hours.

I use UE5 for my games, and yeah, it doesn't limit you to any style really. The main reason you see a lot of games looking the same these days, is because of Quixel Megascans. If you use UE4/5 you can use those assets completely free, and a lot of a big companies have deals with Quixel(Epic actually owns them now) because they're bigger.

I forget who said it, but a good adage to follow is "If you want to be creative, limit yourself". A big reason older games often had a timeless look is because the technology couldn't do everything like it can now. Photorealistic lighting and effects can be as easy as a few clicks in UE4/5, but 10+ years ago it was either ultra difficult to fake, or downright impossible for the hardware of the era. So, in order to deliver a visually pleasing experience, they had to work around their limitations, and many games focused on art direction and plenty of faked realism effects. One of the best examples is Vagrant Story on PS1. It's one of the best looking games in the entire console's life cycle, and clocks in at less than 100MB install size (which includes a pre-rendered CG intro cutscene). The art team also had limited experience with a 3D workflow, working mostly with 2D sprites, but they were able to utilize their 2D knowledge to make the most out of the 3D space. There isn't a single dynamic light effect in the entire game, with all the "lighting" being handles through vertex colors, allowing them to curate more natural-looking soft light and shadows in every area. They even faked rim lighting by simply duplicating a character model, brightening it up, and offsetting it slightly to take advantage of the PS1's odd z/depth-buffer quirks (that signature wobble effect present in any 3D PS1 game). In fact, playing the game in a modern emulator like SwanStation with RetroArch, you can "fix" the wobble effect, but it messes with how the game renders models in close proximity, and the rim light duplicate model looks weird.

It's easy to understand your comparisons and I agree with you on almost all points. good video, I hope we get games that put more emphasis on quality again.

An audio treat is you using Cod4 menu music. Wow, that instantly took me back to happier days,. Great stuff, subbed

Man you literally told my thoughts. For some time now, I'm talking completely separatly about - as I called it - 'artistic graphics' and 'technical graphics'. This first one is becoming more and more important IMO, as the second one almost stopped progressing, and even if - it won't do the job only itself. I have extremely similar conclusions to you. And I love artistically beautiful games. Maybe some odd example: flooded cave from FC Primal is THE most memorable scene that remains in my memory from all the modern parts (3 and newer). The whole FC Primal I remember as pretty good artistically, and I still have in mind despite being medicore technically AFAIR.

Well done man this was all so well said that I immediately subbed. I find myself play older games not because of nostalgia but the visual style used just felt more distinct and memorable than recent releases. They tried to pull you into the world rather than try to be "real". Even GTA 5 didn't go completely realistic and instead op for a more stylistic look.

Man I have to say, seeing your views going crazy in the past videos is truly amazing! Really happy for you!

I appreciate this video! It hits on whats good and bad about modern graphics. Dishonored lives and breathes in a way that some other modern high fidelity graphics don't. keep up the good work!

Ultrakill is also a very good example of this, it literally has old gen ps2 graphics but it fits so well with its gameplay and its one of the best modern games ever made

I totally agree that a lot of games from the 2010s look much better than current ones. The one that comes to mind for me is Arkham Knight which released in 2015 and looks better than most games now

Just stumbled onto your channel, thought you had like 500k subs, you deserve more recognition, love ur voice and content big man keep it up

Great video :) One small request/suggestion, when showing us video from the various games you are talking about, could you please have the name of the game displayed on screen? Off in a corner or someplace where it isn't intrusive would be great. There were games in here that captured my attention, and knowing exactly which one was showing on screen at any point in time would make it simple for us to check out purchasing that game for ourselves :)

Been playing Sonic Unleashed lately, and it blows me away how good it looks for a 2008 game. It doesn't just look better than any Sonic game since, but it looks better and more realistic/believable than a lot of recent games, because it has REALLY strong art direction. Its lighting and how effectively it's used especially- they put a lot of effort into convincing the player that Sonic is running literally around the planet, jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Most modern games fail to convincingly make me feel like I'm so much as walking around outside.

I agree with everything. I really love color and how the usage of it can create a lot of emotions. I dislike how modern media in general just uses filters ane everything looks blue, yellow or red

This was a great video, happy to see the views tickin in.

This is why I love games like the Shelter series by Might and Delight, Firewatch, or Deep Rock Galactic: the art style is unique and interesting. I’m a huge fan of the low-poly art styles. Games like Ark: Survival Evolved Ver. 2 (aka Survival Ascended) focus too heavily on impressive graphics rather than a art style and abandon being unique for realism

I'm currently working on a VR hardcore survival game passion project within UE5. From the beginning I had this idea that gameplay needed to prevail over appearance, so I chose a low poly retro game design to form the Montana wilderness. It makes me happy hearing and seeing people uphold a similar viewpoint that this approach to graphic design isn't wrong or ugly, but different. I very much hope to release the game one day, and it be a testament to this idealogy!

That's a big reason why Blizzard kept pumping out success after success for so long. Their character artists were masters of using distinct art styles that made things look great within technically primitive models. Simple styles and vivid colors on top of low poly models with enough pop out features to make them visually distinguished from each other. It let them produce some amazing looking games that still ran great on lower end hardware.

Back in the day of LAN gaming and my first tournaments, I reduced the graphics of Quake 3 Arena way below low settings using custom configs to see the enemy perfectly (high res model in front of a wall that was almost 1 color) It definitely gave me an advantage!

I can agree with that. 6:40 First the music in the background reminds me of the song Lute from the great game Knights and Merchants but that's the wrong track. It's the song Tazer from Age of Empires II. Also a great game at that time.

Games like fallout, dishonored, bioshock, outer wilds, were not just graphically impressive, but performance wise ran smooth like butter on older hardware and had had great mechanics too.

Props for mentioning Kingdoms of Amalur! It's such a fantastic game and I love the atmosphere of it. I think I've played it at least 3 times. Lorestones telling the story in the background while you're fighting enemies is just a great idea.

Congratulations November Hotel been subscribed since day one when you shared my opinion on how destiny 1 graphics are much more visually appealing than destiny 2 and knew that with your effort and voice you would end up with crazy exposure to the internet like now keep going thank you for the content we need what a great video conversations like these need to be out there to provoke change from AAA developers regardless of whether or not people agree with your opinion it gets the wheel turning

Love that you used the music from Age of empires. Great video and I agree.

I love watching videos that articulate feelings I have that I couldn't do myself. You have done this masterfully thank you. The fact that I can't see anything in new "realistic" games drives me NUTS.

In my mind Halo 1 proves just how much a good art style can carry a game even 22 years later. Sure, graphically it’s dated, models even a few years later had more than tripled in poly counts but it’s art style holds up so well that a few months ago when I showed some gameplay to someone that had never seen Halo CE before they still went “hey this looks cool for how old it is”

This is a really great take and well written I thoroughly enjoyed this. I began to think the same thing over the years and you just articulated that thought really well!

The music at 9:12 gives me such nostalgia for Kingdoms of Amalur, a game I don't see much loved - so kudos!

I just finished playing Metro 2033 Redux a few weeks ago, and even though the graphics may not be the best today, I felt greatly immersed in the world due to the atmosphere and storytelling which is much more important to me than graphical improvements!

I like to think of hollow knight, a game that leans heavy on its art style and is a blast to play. Also with a great art style you can do sooo much more with less when it comes to “great graphics”

Great points. I was just looking at some videos of old games, and there are quite a few cases where old games look better than new ones, due to the focus on art style. You can even go back 20 years and find examples of this - Elder Scrolls III Morrowind and Warcraft 3 are examples of decades old games that still look good (once you don't look too closely) due to their style.

Fire Watch and Bioshock:Infinite might be the games I would think of if it came to "most coherent art style". They both just created a living, shining world that perfectly set the foundation for an awesome adventure to come.

Fromsoft and indie games have taught me this. Art direction is sooo important to make a game not only look charming, but stand the test of time!

Agreed! I'm tired of developers sacrificing actual good gameplay for microtransactions and skins. AI has come to a point where I don't even believe devs are even making the skins they are selling in microtransactions, most of it can be and probably is done with AI

What's that background music in 9:12? It loops in my mind from time to time, but I just can't remember. Glad I found it here. Thanks.

Outstanding work mate, you say the absolute! true, keep doing that.

That is why I love so much Dishonored 2. The art direction of the franchise peaked with the second game, and will age well whatever the time passing or the tech evolution, because it's a remarkably believable world with a very strong visual and atmosphere identity.

Great video! Definitely looking forward to the one addressing the animations. For me, good use of animation, lighting and sound design (in importance ascending order) is what sells the games to me. I love old Thief games and Dark Messiah of MM for how immersive they are despite being that old.

wow fable,dradgon age, kingdoms of amalru is my all time fav and have the smae opinion and someone saying those exact things man this is something you made my day bro must recommended to give a try they still holds upto this days

Great video. I agree with what's said here. It really is the ability of developers that counts. Subscribed 👍

A very informative video, I now understand the importance of Art Direction in a video game. It is pretty much like the video game graphic looks like a beautiful digital painting poster. As opposed to being generic when the scenes are simply rendered by the game engine. I guess that's the importance of having concept Artist for a video game, and a art Director. Very insightful video indeed.

The cool part about that is that you can pick up any game made from say around 2010 to today and will have mostly great visuals and a known control sheme. No need to do any wierd ports, figure out an emulator or anything. Thats a DECADE of games that you can play. And the graphics are no issue at all heck yes it even runs good on your pc

Being born in 1985 and having witnessed a lot of the graphical evolution over the years, I'd say the graphics and technical capabilities only need to be good enough to match the game's ambitions. Art style can do a lot indeed. For Grand Theft Auto, I feel like only with GTA IV did they finally have the technology to match what they wanted to do, finally able to put a decent amount of cars in the streets and make the city come alive. Earlier attempts where good for the time, but the earlier 3D games just don't hold up that well. A lot of early 3D games don't hold up well, but some do, mainly due to an appealing art style and solid gameplay. Dungeon Keeper 1 is one of the oldest games (1997) that I could still play for an entire evening, also a great example of how important art style is. It has this gorgeous classic dark fairytale art style that does have room for plenty of colour without becoming super bright. Every creature and hero is very easy to tell apart from each other. The sequel was an alright game, but to me aged a lot less good due to the art direction and early 3D graphics. The 2D sprites of DK1 look better and more varied, the whole tone became more goofy in the sequel and sadly all spiritual successors (Dungeons! and War for the overworld) pushed that goofy cartoony style even more. So none of those have ever been able to replace the original for me, DK2 is still fun to play though but I prefer the first. And I feel the spiritual successors are too bloated with options making it less intuitive, and the monsters aren't that interesting either. Even the animations of the first game where pretty great and memorable. Like the muscular barbarians strutting around with their hammer over their shoulder, vampires floating around with their arms folded in front of them, and spellcasters really giving it their all in a flurry of spells the moment combat starts. By the time a DK2 warlock casts one spell, a DK1 warlock has already cast his entire arsenal. And they had more spells too.

I really like Arkane's stylistic approach to graphics, quite cartoony but very stylised.

I think that some of the most immersive games I've played are those that aren't necessarily going for realism. I've gotten lost in No Man's Sky and in Dying Light just because the environments and other systems in the game worked so well together.

About FromSoft art direction: Art direction is not just mapscaping and architectural design (in those fields, they are the best in the videogame industry no doubt), but also, critically, photography (meaning the presentation of the image before your eyes through processes like color grading, etc...) and in that regard, you could leave your 8 year old cousin, that never have seen a program like Reshade before, alone with it for five minutes, messing around, and you'll get a 10 times better looking image that any out of the box FromSoft game. That, paired with the bizarre limitations that their games have technically for a studio so successful, made it clear to me that, yeah, gameplay is king and a lot of people really don't care that much about graphics or presentation in general.

I have been waiting for this, the fabled graphical plateau and the doom it spells for the major publishers.

i rarely play PvP games but have got into the playtests for The Finals and quite enjoyed it - however, the first thing i noticed was how overboard they went with the graphics for basically no reason. Everything defaulted to the highest settings and it was affecting my performance (but it was also a beta so i excused it due to that). Turned them down to medium (but with max render distance) and the game played a lot better. i don't get why a PvP game would try to be super realistic - especially since it's meant to be a VR gameshow in-universe. It just makes everything way less playable.

This was one of the best essays I've seen in the past year or so! The gameplay and comparisons showed fitted the script real good as well. You just earned one new exited subscriber

I saw a documentary about Godzilla movies once. They raised the point that Godzilla allways looks so unrealistic. Someone in that documentary said: "If you order a painting of your grandmother you will not complain, that it looks unrealistic. Things don't have to look realistic to look good."

You didnt have to name the video clips from the good games to know what they were but the bad games you listed I needed you to say the names to be sure what they were. I have a personal passion and interest in high end graphics. So to me they are important. But also so is the art style. Some games I play for the art and story alone.

I feel like there are two (at least) distinct eras to this - like the start of computer based games to about mid PS3/360 is the first era, wherein everything was just trying to look more "real". During this time, it was much easier to compare and rank things since they all had essentially the same goal. Thenn between roughly 2002 to 2006, it started shifting to more interpretive and "artstic" themes being the focus, and as this progressed, it became MUCH less of a straight ranking and more of a "personal taste within a group that are all at a level of basic fidelity such that considerations of 'good' graphics mean practically nothing".... but we never updated our assessment or conclusive language. By the time the PS4/X-ONE and latter GTX/early RTX were happening, it was completely in the realm of artistc expression, and we still didnt update our assessment or conclusive laguage. So now we talk about "good" or "bad" like they mean something, when in reality that hasnt been a workable metric for at least a decade.

An idea I've had for these military shooters to help with visibility without compromising the realism of camouflage is to make enemies start to "glow" in the sense that it's like someone turned the brightness setting up on their sprite but only for the player spotting them, and it would slowly increase the longer you look at them but the moment you stop looking directly at them, the glow dissipates a bit faster than it ramped up. This way, it simulates camo while helping players keep track of a player once seen, while giving the exposed player the ability to find cover and lose the other player over time. The intensity of the glow could also be limited to different intensities based on distance between you and your target, allowing snipers more cover from the less perceptive and giving players in more urban zones incentive to use cover and corners more often to lose tracking.

Yeah I've noticed this for a long time. It's kind of hard to explain sometimes. More cartoony graphics usually look a lot better. So it's better to mix cartoony with realism which all comes down to art style because it can look like total shit too. That's why it's hard to pinpoint why it doesn't really work sometimes.

Player visibility is a huge factor to me when playing an online FPS. As someone with bad eye sight, I appreciate you mentioning it.

style > "photorealistic" graphics is what i say every time. Great video, very interesting. you have gained a new follower ;)

In my theory of digital entertainment (im a videogame programing mayor) my teacher talk about this trend of top graffics beeing the gold standard. In the past old games and consoles due to the technical limitations every time they developed a more powerfull hardware it was their selling point, like discs in the ps1 or the 64 of mario 64 (64 bits of "processing power") became the thing that sold more games, when the time passes tho gamers as a community and game dev as an artform has developed and more and more the mentality of hyperrealistic grafics to good artstyle is changing for the best. Its just an old trend that will eventually die just like hyperrealistic paintings are not very welcome in the art comunity due to be boring and non expressive, also it has to do with the fact that tech nerds (usually so blindly delutional about "better hardware better everything") are so like obligated to talk about not peak performance that miss by a long shot. So dont worry hyperrealistic elitness will die eventually.

This is a case where being an older gamer allows you to see this clearly. Younger gamers grew up in an era of ultra graphic, ray tracing, wide monitors, uncapped frame rates, etc. its something they EXPECT. GO play SKYRIM, BORDERLANDS 2, DISHONORED...they have an 'art style', which gives them a timeless quality. And you can not discount the immense fun factor. I honestly cant think of a single game where having amazing graphics was the reason why I loved it so much. I literally remember 20 year old games in my head in 4K 240 fps when they weren't even close. I loved the game so much that my brain reinterprets them that way in memory.

Man, I couldn't agree more. I'm replaying F.E.A.R. from 2007 (Playstation port) and I'm like, "I don't actually need games to have 'better' graphics than this." Oblivion, Dishonored, all 3 Bioshocks, Infamous: Second Son (all the Infamous games, really), so many games from 10, 12, 15 years ago remain totally replayable and enjoyable despite "better graphics" being the standard of today.

Great video! Hey question, what's the game on the thumbnail/at 2:53? Thanks! :D

A game with realistic graphics (might) look good for a few years at most. A game with stylized graphics and a distinct aesthetic looks good forever. I was playing Viewtiful Joe on the GameCube not too long ago and even though it's 20 years old the graphics still look fantastic.

This man just don't miss, great takes, keep up the good work ❤

bro the reckoning soundtrack in the video hit me with so much nostalgia

About graphics, I grew up playing playformers like Crash/Sonic and mosty racing games. I then moved to the Arkham games and it was a way different experience. I started to care about graphics a lot. Over the last 3 years though, I find myself choosing artstyle and architectural design more and more, though uni has to do with that mostly. Some of my fav games are the Persona games, artstyle-wise. Though my 2 favs are Bloodborne and Scarlet Nexus. Immersive gameplay,beautifully executed architecture imo and an artstyle that elevates the world. I even started playing fighting games apart from the Netherrealm ones. The cartoony ones are so much better, in particular I'm having fun with Melty Blood Type Lumina and Guilty Gear Strive, I recommend them wholeheartedly. Scarlet Nexus, Bloodborne, Melty Blood, Guilty Gear Strive, all changed my perception on gaming. And those music tracks hit diff on runs and the gym too

Was just playing Borderlands 2 the other day and was shocked how well the graphics in that game held up. As far as AC goes, I found AC Odyssey to be stunning. It was fun to just get on a horse and ride through the world. As far as more modern games I think the Horizon games are freaking stellar.

I completely agree with everything you said in this video and it is how I have been feeling this entire new “next generation!!” It is why I have yet to get a PS five or a series X and instead went back to playing older games that immersed me much better, with the lower quality graphics but much higher quality for the capability of the consoles they were built on- And even when it’s not about graphics, games on handheld like the 3DS and the PlayStation vita still satisfy a part of me that modern day gaming can’t even come close to touching! The last most recent games I actually got a good immersive feeling from word games like the Witcher three wild hunt, the Witcher2, fallout Vegas, fallout three, fallout four, Skyrim LA noir, and red dead redemption two?

HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE MORE SUBSCRIBERS?! I get more from these videos than most of the 6 digit channels. It ticks me off seriously that this channel isn't more popular. You hit it on the nose with every video I watch. I think every gamer should watch this channel especially the younger generation.

It's funny how in game development, you can make anything, literally anything at all. Your imagination is the limit. Yet they choose to shackle themselves with the obsession over real life that they see everyday.

The ability to play older games upscaled has made me replay those classics again. Modern consoles like the PS5 and the Xbox Series X are awesome for (re)playing games like Skyrim SE. The same can be done with modern gaming PCs with technologies such as DSR or the newer DLDSR for those having an Nvidia GPU.

Couldn't have said it better. I've been feeling the same for a long long time, no wonder I find myself installing older games with compatibility fixes instead of trying out more of newer ones. I can't remember how many times i've revisited GTA San Andreas for the same reason. Even though it isn't realistic per say, it has a slightly caricature-ish touch to it's character art which really blends well and makes it a fun time, always.

I approve of this message 100%. Why I still like playing games like Fallout 4, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Valkyria Chronicles 1 & 2. I mean there are moments in Fallout 3 which I'm stunned how good it looks despite being so gosh darn old. Valkyria Chronicles are absolute gem of games visually. Genshin Impact is also a game I play which chose style over graphics and you can see how low resolution textures are in the game when you look at NPCs up close. Final Fantasy 14 I also started playing just this year and I think the game is pretty, despite obviously being a decade old.

My favorite graphics of all time are from an old MMO called TERA as well as a really old PC clicker I forgot the name of, but it looked like a fairy tale version of Myst and had extremely unique architecture lighting and shadows that were just ❤️__❤️ hard to explain like Besaid Island or Hundred Acre Wood times x100. Man I love truly "good" graphics!