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With the next generation of consoles I'm hoping for a reset to simple graphics (for the kids)

bender

What time is it?
Poor Ray.

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Azelover

Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean OP. But I will say this. I miss being impressed by the evolution of graphics. In the old days we used to have big jumps within a single generation. Now that happens really slowly by comparison. Sure we still have improvement, but it's not as bold as it used to be..
 

REDRZA MWS

Member
I'm not sure I understand what you mean OP. But I will say this. I miss being impressed by the evolution of graphics. In the old days we used to have big jumps within a single generation. Now that happens really slowly by comparison. Sure we still have improvement, but it's not as bold as it used to be..
Yes, it was most certainly graphical leaps, but there used to be bigger leaps in things like AOLI, ad physics like totally destructible environments. I miss BF3 and 4.
 

onQ123

Member
I understand what you're saying OnQ but they won't go through those growing pains. There isn't going to be bad 3D raytraced looking games vs good 3D looking games like there was bad looking 3D games compared to good 2D.
Not about having bad looking games

I'm saying bring down the complexity while pushing Ray-Tracing at a really high level
 
You sound totally nuts and I agree with you. Fuck them graphics, let's bring everything down to 5fps and make games look like surrealist art again. You know, like Nintendo did back in the day.
 

Larxia

Member
Let the kids suffer the growing pains
I know this post is most likely a joke, but I've seen some people having similar arguments for real, about how younger generations won't appreciate something because they didn't experience worse etc...
The thing is, you didn't suffer either on these games when you were a kid, they looked fine to you because you didn't know any better, and older generations were most likely thinking the exact same thing about you, being like "you would enjoy mortal kombat more if you grew up with pong", it's a never ending cycle lol.

The thing that I do think is a shame, however, something that hurts younger generation tastes, is not visuals but the genre of games. So many young gamers nowaday grow up with online games and will only be interested in only one game, completely ignoring the rest and never being interested in various genres or single player games at all. I think that's the biggest issue. You see it with kids who instead of getting different games, they use all their birthday money on micro transactions for the same game, it really makes me sad.
 

64bitmodels

Reverse groomer.
What the kids right now are playing more than anything:

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this topic is also dumb because many kids have to know at least about the more graphically intensive games out there, it gets shoved in their faces a lot.... they just do not care.
if they alerady don't care about the more graphically intensive games, they probably are not going to care about the jumps in visuals from then to now
 

BlackTron

Gold Member
Those fighting game screenshots are presented as if they represent the idea so it comes off as really dumb even though it's just weak.
 

BbMajor7th

Member
I don't want to go back that far, but I'd gladly take a graphics and scale reduction if it meant we'd no longer have to wait seven years for 100-hour busy-work simulators that look stunning but play just like everything else on the market.
 

64bitmodels

Reverse groomer.
I know we always reference this 2 as the "kids" game, but they are so old by now that those kids are probably on their 20s?, what is the actual kids game in today's age
these games. Roblox and Minecraft.

They are old sure but they are evergreen. Kids have been playing both games a lot since 2016. Same for Fortnite. There are not many new video games coming out that catch the attention of children quite like those 3 have
 

Kikorin

Member
It's what we are already having on most popular games out there. Look at ftp, multiplayer games, they all are ugly looking because they have to works on every PCs, console and smartphone. And that's the kind of games younger people play.
 
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Parazels

Member
Right now I'm playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4k@60 on Xbox Series X. The game is clean and beautiful as hell!

I don't understand, why the modern developers launch those ugly UE5 games. They don't look better at all, but suffer from low resolution and unstable frame rate.
 
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violence

Member
Right now I'm playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4k@60 on Xbox Series X. The game is clean and beautiful as hell!

I don't understand, why the modern developers launch those ugly UE5 games. They don't look better at all, but suffer from low resolution and unstable frame rate.
I think the gray beards have finally retired and the people making the engine don’t really know what they’re doing.
 
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