'Star Citizen,' a Game That Raised $300M–But May Never Be Ready to Play

Many <2015 titles still look modern or even better than popular recent games.

GPU technology has come a long way over the last 5 years, but most AAA game studios want to cross-sell their titles to both the PC and console markets, so practically speaking they’re constrained to only providing as much graphical pizzazz as the current generation of consoles can support. So game graphics tend to take big leaps forward when a new generation of consoles comes out, and then stagnate for years while those consoles live out their life cycle.

They aren't using 2014 technologies, and they've invented quite a few of their own technologies along the way. The game looks amazing.

But it can be played now, so it is at least partially successful.

And new purchasers aren't required for me to get what I paid for, so it isn't a pyramid scheme.

If you don't like it, that's fine, of course. Just be honest with us (and yourself) about why, if you're going to all the trouble of telling us you don't like it.