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Tbh, graphics is not what games lack today. Personally I was fine with what we had 7-10 years ago graphics-wise, and most modern cards hit FPS limits for these games, apart from few pathological cases. But if you're into graphics, I agree it sucks, and probably forever now. Otoh those who were into graphics brought us here, didn't they, so maybe it's karma ;). Imagine that the great filter is not supernovae nor nuclear, but the fact that species may happen to have good enough eyesight to glimpse into the box of pandora computing.

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I really do like fancy graphics in games. Once you have seen the good ones, I now find it pretty off-putting when something looks like it was made 10 years ago (Recent example: Starfield).

I think some games like the modern iterations of CP2077 are just mind blowing - all gameplay aside. But it's a shame that it costs basically north of $1000 to play it the way its developers hope you will.

Ugh. Cyberpunk I don’t like specifically for its neon darkness and these RTX-enabled monochrome colors and ambients. Same for modern young streamers who like “pink from one side, blue from the other side” lighting. Also speech is all f on f on f. Recently I watched SF/CP comparison video that ought to show superiority of the latter. But it left very mixed aftertaste. Yes, CP is much more “technological” and “produced”, but SF is at least not a bunch of teens who can’t change a lightbulb and learned about the word “fuck” yesterday.

That's always been the problem.. it's hard to justify the expense of making a game few people have the hardware to run.

So instead most games just target whatever modern consoles are which aside from right after a new release is usually relatively old for a PC.. which then makes it hard for PC gamers to justify spending that $1000+ when few games utilize it.

Personally I spend a ton on gaming hardware so I can (ab)use mods that are horribly unoptimized, buggy, and require about as much effort to install and use as would be required to become competent in another programming language.

Minecraft and Skyrim have been my two constant companions for years now.

Ah yes, Minecraft. Nothing else comes close to waiting 20 minutes for it to load your modpack and the game using 10GB of your RAM.

I personally prefer larger maps in game over graphics.

It depends. If it feels empty or walled off with loading screens then it doesn’t feel large just because it is big in extent. The experienced “size” of a world feels more related to density than how long it takes to traverse. Starfield vs CP2077 feels like an example here again.

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