I own an rtx 4060 which is not the most powerful, but by all means not a weak gpu.
I've seen games like spiderman 2 struggle, but games like stalker anomaly run pretty well.
Of course, spiderman has better graphics, but at what cost? Stalker anomaly doesn't look bad! Just not as polished and a bit more square.

So, should graphics stop evolving? Should we go back a few years and have a bit simpler graphics to increase performance? Because to be honest, I don't really look at the graphics after a few hours.

>>105688252 (OP)
>So, should graphics stop evolving?
lolno. Either upgrade or stay behind.

Why is there so much baby hairs wtf?
It's in his ear and on his cheek, not the earlobe, like inside the ear. And anyone over 16 should even have those on their face.
>Should we go back a few years and have a bit simpler graphics to increase performance?
The problems of graphics and optimization are separate issues.
The problem with optimization is that game engines became too bloated and no one wants to invest in making their own engine anymore.
The problem with graphics is about aesthetics. If you're going for realism reflections and good lighting are all you need. Cool new effects are often abused to show off the new technology. But after Raytracing anything else wouldn't add much overhead.

>>105688328
>his

its funny that the more powerful graphics cards get, the more the reality of how ugly women actually are is accurately portraid.

low poly pointy tit Lara is far prettier than that ginger dude from Horizon

>>105688328
No. Optimization is often not the problem, we're just babies who complain. Games look waaay too good, and most of the time you can't mathematically simplify the operations.

>hey our gameplay is lacking but at least we give women raytraced physically simulated beards

horizon girl has a bad case of uncanny valley with her eyes, plus her face lacks any character.

the girl from stellar blade also lacks any character, but i bet virgin chuds are ok with it in that case.

as for graphics
> I don't really look at the graphics after a few hours.
i thought that long ago, but now i realize i can still be amazed at visuals with the games of today, like Greece in AC Odyssey or London in Watch Dogs Legion, even with my RTX 3050, as long as i can get a smooth 60 fps with Lossless scaling. I think frame rate is the most important thing to appreciate visuals. Funny that it was the norm for 3d arcade games in the early 90s. Makes Daytona USA still a blast to play today.

>>105688388
I know what I'm talking about, saying this as someone who's worked on game engines before.
You can optimize the rendering pipeline without sacrificing visual quality. Just look how Valve's source engine held up for a decade after it was made. Doom 2016 is another good example.
I don't browse /v/, I'm saying this from a technical standpoint because the same is happening with all software to an extent. Vidya just has the worse of it cause they always expect you to have top of the line hardware.

>>105688461
>valve source engine
Do you compare left 4 dead's graphics with spiderman 2?
>Doom eternal
Do you compare those graphics to spiderman 2?

Fucking csgo and similar games only play in small levels! Spiderman 2 is a huge open world game with dynamic lighting!

>>105688447
It's simple:
female character is hot + good enough gameplay = pass, you need to check both boxes for me, anything else is mental masturbation.

>>105688489
And?

>>105688252 (OP)
developers need to relearn the art of the shader, shaders are incredibly powerful , and can produce amazing visual results, back in the day video cards had very limited resources so efficient and creative use of shaders went a long way, you can look at a game like hl2 and the water shader is gorgeous , yet it runs fast on archaic hardware , games have stagnated visually for the last 10-15 years, in part due to knowledge and expertise loss as pioneer in graphics either retired or moved to high positions, shaders in todays games are bloated and inefficient, and devs are increasingly making use of ray tracing to fix their lighting instead of investing in shaders which modern cards are extra ordinarily powerful for.

All I play are 2D games with cartoonish graphics so I don't care about any of this "realistic" bullshit anymore. All the modern games I see look like fucking ass and normalfags get HYPE over them anyway.
>bro the graphics are so good!
Nigger it's the same Unreal engine shit you bought 10 years ago.

GTX980 going to tide me over until the heat death of the universe. They stopped making decent fighting games around the time I first purchased it and I have unlimited supply of them from before 2016 that I haven't gotten around to yet. Well those and platformers. Actual platformers.

People are retarded. Great example is the mid-90s console wars over graphics. We spend 20 years building 2D games and finally get a home console that could have provided us decades of amazing 2D graphics and the real arcade experience at home. What does the industry do? It shits out horrible looking 3D shit for the next 20 years. They didn't even bother to give you a proper controller to play them. So you had to suffer through tank controls on your d-pad or buying a controller aftermarket with analog sticks. All the work in progress projects that would have provided us with cartoon/anime level graphics got canceled to shit out horrible looking polygon abominations where every character was comprised of 5 triangles total and the backgrounds were shitty overly compressed jpegs. Wow so immersive.

Modern shit is just the same thing with another gimmick slapped on it. "Realistic graphics" has always been ass. Just watch a fucking movie at that point. I only care about cute anime girls and looney toons-like slapstick animation. Perfection must be sought through 2D. Since 3D is ugly. Who the fuck wants to replicate the 3DPD walking around in our society? If I wanted to be horrified I'd just go outside.

>>105688627
You have shit taste. I like 3d graphics

>>105688328
>Why is there so much baby hairs wtf?

chuuuuud

>>105688725
lol wtf

>>105688252 (OP)
> should graphics stop evolving
Graphics are devolving

>>105688368
Western leftist communist communism worships degeneracy. Thats why you see all the ugly women in the west.

Graphics should be about imitating real life, buildings, society, nature, and not just about how many triangles or gigabytes of texture on a person face.

Anons will shit on this one but deep down they know it's true:
> We don't need better graphics that the ones we have in GTA V.
it's an almost 10 year game and still holds on. Also the color palette and art direction is way more important than the actual graphics. Hell, bloodborne still looks good.

>>105688252 (OP)
MGSV looks and runs better than all modern slop.

Realism is for normies.

hello fellow 4060 bro

Stutter and temporal smearing will be more noticeable during the gameplay loop than polygon count anyway, if you can't make your game look good without suffering those issues then you need to walk back fidelity and improve your render cycle so people aren't interrupted by your incompetence

>>105688252 (OP)
I'm happy that gaming sucks now so I don't get FOMO anymore. All I need is a GPU that came play older games on max. Or what I like to do: mod the games to unlock the graphics settings and do crazy shit like max viewdistance (which would've murdered my 2000s computer)

>>105690127

>>105688252 (OP)
>muh graphics
>gameplay looks like from 20 years ago
gayming is so gay

>>105690127
Is this Gothic?
>mod the games to unlock the graphics settings and do crazy shit like max viewdistance
same with morrowind and openmw, the higher view distance makes it look really nice, but the world also feels smaller because you can see so far

>>105688368
that's a choice. they could make them look insanely hot but that is politically incorrect now.

>>105688725
They messed around with her face so much, the character ends up falling in the uncomfortable part of the uncanny valley. To this day i have no idea how they managed to turn this cutie (picrel) into that horrendous beast.

>>105690226
yes it's gothic 2: notr (the expansion)
>DrawDistanceMultiplier=20
I remember that on my shitty PC I couldn't even turn it beyond 20-100% but with this setting it's basically 6000% (300% in game, 20x mod), which lets me see the entire map
feelsgoodman.jpg

you can really appreciate their design and take it all in, it's really quite beautiful what they did in these older games
but I agree that it feels quite small and cramped
it does ruin the atmosphere in some parts because you can see the enemies and parts of the map from afar, which they didn't intend to be possible
and in fact it ruins chapter 2 which is the most memorable part of the game because of how easily you can see your destination and navigate a very dangerous area, so I wouldn't recommend it for a first playthrough (stick to the default range of 20-300%)

>>105690396
>ruins chapter 2
spoilers I guess but if you haven't played the game you'll probably forget about this post by the time you do
you aren't really meant to see the castle, the snowy region, that volcano structure, etc. but it's cool nonetheless to see how it all fits together

>>105688252 (OP)
Did they really need to make Laura's tits so fucking triangular? That seems like it was done on purpose for laffs, surely they could spare an extra polygon or two to round them out a little.

>>105689864
Careful there, speaking the truth may trigger some people.

>>105688252 (OP)
>graphics on the left look based and like a video game and you want to play it, runs on a $100 dollar console
>graphics on the right are disgusting in all respects and pushed by people who hate video games and wish they were movie directors, costs $5000 dollars of hardware to run at a playable rate, and requires a small nuclear reactor to power

>>105688252 (OP)
Use case for realism?

>>105688252 (OP)
>I own an rtx 4060
LOL

Graphics hit a point of diminishing returns around the gamecube/ps2 era.
before that 3d graphics looked like polygonal junk that was clearly a machine struggling to form some simulacrum of the real world. but from that point on artists have been able to create their vision.
Sure, when you compare them side by side with more modern graphics there’s a difference, but only minor in fidelity, not really in artistry.

>>105688328
>>105688725
chuddies never seen a real woman before.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qLDQJcpxKW4

>>105688328
I dont know. These women are hairier than me.

>>105691660
What game is this?

>>105688252 (OP)
I think you can tackle the low performance problem in two non-exclusive points:
1. Engines are not made "ad hoc" anymore, but they rely on an engine that is not optimized for a specific game;
2. Developers try to achieve a useless level of realism (e.g., in what scenario does seeing baby hair on a character improve the user experience?) instead of studying art direction.
In my opinion, both are derived from developer and directors incompetence.

>>105691732
chrono odyssey

>>105691660
lol I opened the image only seeing this and thought "wow what game is this" then I scrolled down lmao

>>105691733
Good post. I would just add that while UE5 gets a lot of hate, actually as an off the shelf engine it is really good. For games outside the scope of what the engine is good at though (as you point out), you will need to modify or extend the engine to support that instead of trying to shoehorn the features you want into their existing systems. There are plenty of examples of this being used to great effect both from AAA and even AA devs. Building an entirely new engine is unfeasible for most developers.
>useless level of realism instead of studying art direction
This 100%. I would even shorten it to "game devs need to study art direction" because even non realistic games often look bad due to lack of art direction.
>both are derived from developer and directors incompetence
Another great point. Redditors and journos like to pretend that "workers" are magical creatures that can do no wrong and any bad element of a game is 100% a function of managers' greed/incompetence (while at the same time and good element in a game is 100% a function of the worker's genius). This is a ridiculous idea and can be immediately proven wrong when you consider that some countries are better than others at making games and in general have better art direction and/or code quality. And the expected variability between managers between countries is not as great as that of developers. So there is clearly a developer factor here too beyond the directors/managers. It should be obvious that both developers and directors need to be good but somehow it became controversial among some retards.
>in what scenario does seeing baby hair on a character improve the user experience
In cut scene closeups potentially. Although the example in the OP pic is ugly and can never contribute positively to the user experience.

>>105691569
>the 'hair identifier spray' actually adds more thread like particles that resemble hair, making it look like you have more peach fuzz than you actually do
LMAO what is wrong with women

>>105688252 (OP)
>games like stalker anomaly run pretty well.
STALKER Analmeme is a MOD of another mod of the STALKER CoP, a game from 2009.
A literal Windows XP era wormbox can run X-Ray engine games, because it's not using any modern Goytracing shit.

>So, should graphics stop evolving?
They did, after 2007. Sans a few rare exceptions, the later game graphics have gotten WORSE AND WORSE, all while in-world physics and interaction have all but disappear completely.

It's gotten to a point where a literal 10 yo games (from 2015, mind you) tend to look BETTER, because the image clarity and stability are far superior, on top of the games running at least 60fps on mid-end hardware from the early 2010s.

Heck, just a couple years ago I finally got around playing the Yakuza 0 for the first time. It's essentially a PS3 game at heart, uses an older, proprietary Forward Rendering engine, and it looks GORGEOUS. I was thrilled to have a super sharp image quality in 2023, all while running the game with 2x Super Sampling, all highest settings, and still rocking 60fps nonstop on a GTX 1060 + 2nd gen Intel i7.

>>105692129
Okay, don't talk bad to me though

>>105692129
>game designed to run on hardware from 2006 runs well on hardware from 2016
shocker

>>105688252 (OP)
Days Gone.
Running at native 3440x1440p max settings at 60fps+ while using less than 8GB of vram on a 3070.

>>105691904
Humans are hairier than they look.

>>105692410
You misunderstood. Women are adding fake hair to their face so they can remove it.

>>105692424
Turns out that you do in fact have a bunch of hair all over your face.

Lips are one place where you don't actually have hair and you can see that it just turns a bit white there.

>>105688252 (OP)
IMAGINE SPENDING RESOURCES TO CREATE THAT SHIT ON THE RIGHT, I WANT A VIDEO GAME NOT A FUCKING MOVIE YOU DUMB FUCKS

>>105692347
It indeed looks great, and it's very well optimised, but the game is crap.

>>105688252 (OP)

>>105692347
Gays gone haha

This game is 18 years old. Let that sink in.

>>105693616
>720p
>maxresdefault
At least use your own screenshots

>>105693616
>>105693690
Doesn't this game run horribly bad?

Who cares about graphics if the physics engine is crap?

>>105693720
He is using wine with nvidia. Lol

>>105688252 (OP)
>So, should graphics stop evolving? Should we go back a few years and have a bit simpler graphics to increase performance?

No, you are just poor and coping. Hope your situation improves.

>>105694006
What game is this? vindictus defying fate?

>>105688627
> We spend 20 years building 2D games and finally get a home console that could have provided us decades of amazing 2D graphics and the real arcade experience at home. What does the industry do? It shits out horrible looking 3D shit for the next 20 years.
I completely agree on this take. Even back in the day I hated the 3D graphics that 5th gen consoles (and similar PCs) were shitting out, for me the 3D graphics in the 3DO, PSX and Saturn felt like we had regressed back to the Atari 2600 and early NES days. The industry should've taken better advantage of their 2D graphics potential, that for the first time came close to the NeoGeo in affordable platforms without coinop-style arcade games-only autism. Unfortunately we are in the minority and most kids creamed themselves over those shitty 3D graphics, even if they were just NPCs following the trend.
6th gen 3D graphics had finally become good enough for me to enjoy, though. I was amazed by the 3D graphics on the Dreamcast.

>>105694215
vindictus yes

You didn't see Lara from the front usually.

>>105688252 (OP)
2008-2012 were peak. Enough polygons with none of the woke trash, so we could have this as official in-game model.

>>105695817
>>105691660
>>105688252 (OP)
>>105688328
Why did games stop getting better around 2012?

>>105693720
its cpu bound , game was design for intel 10 niggerhertz cpus that never came, so it doesnt use that many cores.

>>105695852
loss of expertise, but probably Free to play business model + micro transaction mostly, tf2 started it, and fortnite cemented it

>>105695852
Game engines became like browsers, a bloated mess you're expected to dumb sphagetti code on. If it can't run on your system too bad get a Turbo RTX 5090 Xtreme.
Jeet mindset; Hardware advancements mean I don't need to optimize. Overcomplicated code ensures job security. SARLS

>>105691660
>>105691763
>retards who don't know every human is covered almost completely in Vellus hairs
>every single person
This was a little factoid they tossed into 8th grade biology precursor back when I was a kid a long time ago.

Graphics should have stopped about ten years ago and let performance catch up

>>105694006
>>105694215
I mean ehh...kinda looks like a ps4 game got a full dev quality asset pack to run in 4k. Sure the polys are high but aside from asset -Counts- the hair is basic, the detail shadows a bit crunchy, the foliage laughable.

If you want to tell someone they're coping you need to show high fidelity -realistic- non stylized RT/real light art direction and, whatever the hell this means, some kind of actual "next gen" plants and hair not the same type of plants and hair we've been seeing since like 2005.

I'm sure vindictus looks fine in game and as a game, its all subjective so I won't judge that. But as a graphical example, especially to tell someone to cope, leaves a bit to be desired.

>>105693616
>>105693690
So ahead of its time that even the anti-soul gas is present, albeit not as pronounced as in current modern slop

>>105694388
What happened to the Saturn was a crime against nature and I can't believe Sega allowed themselves to be pulled along with it. They designed the perfect console for making amazing 2D games to play in the home and they just let it die for no reason. Think about what it had.
>Cartridge slot to allow for instant load times and storage of sprites/backgrounds
>CD-ROM to allow for CD quality sound and mass storage of sprites/backgrounds that could have been stream loaded over to the cartridge to avoid load times
>Amazing controller for 2D games perfected from the Genesis/Mega Drive one
>Had ability to access internet through modem and could have allowed for online features like leaderboards and downloading games years before Dreamcast/Seganet
>CPU+GPU combo designed from the ground up to run 2D games

But 3 months before launch they get spooked by Sony's terrible 3D demos. Slap in dual CPUs without any forethought then launch at an inflated price. Then they cancel all their on-going 2D in-house projects to focus on 3D and trying to port over shit like Daytona USA to a console they knew couldn't handle it. Then they rug pull everyone and end support in America just a couple of years later ruining their reputation forever. All while Japan got an amazing library of 2D games that actually took advantage of what the system could do.

I don't understand how they fucked it up so badly. They knew 3D wasn't ready for the home market yet. They knew people wanted stuff like arcade perfect ports of the vastly popular fighting games that were tearing up the arcades at the time. They knew people wanted more 2D sonic games. They'd already had plenty of beta testing with the Sega CD and knew shit like FMV games weren't what people wanted. But they went full retard anyway.

Then they turn around and manage to make the Dreamcast which people loved and which had better 3D graphics than the PS2. But they manage to fuck that up too because they didn't include a DVD-ROM.

>>105691569
>>105688725
> real woman
If I wanted to see a real woman I wouldn't need to play a game in the first place. I want to enjoy surreal beauty not get bored by ugly realism.

>>105688252 (OP)
I own a rtx 4090 which is not the most powerful, but by all means not a weak gpu.

>>105696785
The 4080/Super is still in the top 5 and really all the GPUs from 9070 on up can be called the same top end capable class of cards. And the 5090 is essentially just a 4090 that keeps the same perf/power ratio up to 600 watts.

Nvidia truly only makes two types of consumer GPUs. The 80 and 90 class for gaming and the 16GB Ti cards for cheaper at-home AI.

>>105694006
That literally looks like a PS3 game.

>>105695852
>Why did games stop getting better around 2012?
Anita Sarkeesia happened, sparking #GG.
Skyrim and Minecraft were released a year prior.
Konami and many other old AAA studios wanted to stop making AAA games and switch to casual mobile shit for quicker, easier buck.
iPhone + Facebook were pushing that shit at accelerating speeds to literal normalfags.
Microtransanction and Early Access era were already starting.

>>105696759
the saturn actually has some very interesting 3d hardware, its totally viable for 3d , the problem is its practically alien compared to anything contemporary at the time, works in quads instead of triangles, has a chip called the dsp which can do matrix calculations very fast for 3d rendering and is notoriously difficult to program, this meant that porting stuff from something like an sgi workstation extremely difficult , basically meant rewriting everything from scratch, and the dual cpu setup only made matters worse since multithreaded code would have been completely foreign to any game developer at the time. ultimately It wasnt lacking 3d grunt, as there are many competent 3d games on saturn, but rather the issue is that like much custom japanese hardware at the time , the design was far too complicated for programers to use effectively, in a timely manner.
best example of this was probably the ill fated sonic Xtreme, which nearly killed the developer working on porting the engine.

>>105696211
I don't think there was a single class in school that taught us about vellus hairs.

That being said, you should probably know that as a person considering that you can literally feel those hairs if you touch your face

>>105697010
>pic
First 2 panel are partially incorrect, up until the 2000s game journous were gamers, with positive and negative takes as well, but above all, they had fucking fun with the media. Go to the internet archives and see for yourself "the game's machine" magazine for example. Post 2000's and journos became "professionals", projecting their "superior" knowledge on how games "should be" (aka game magazine were dying out and they became mouthpieces for game studios paying their bills for "correct" advertisement of their products), after 2012 circa was already apparent journos didn't even fucking play the games they reviewed, that's when the ideologues inserted themselves (because having even the bare minimum knowledge of the subject was not a requirement for the job anymore, the journos simply reported what the game studios told them to say).

In short game journalism was already dead 20 years ago, what you experienced thereafter was game corpo ads wearing the dead game journalism skin, GG made simply drop their mask for good.

>>105697010
>2020's
>that game you like is Chinese propaganda

Quick! Somebody post the images from that one 1995 UK Amiga game mag that is ripping apart the games "journalism" industry before these faggots think there was some pure before-times!

For as long as there's been money to spend on advertising a product there have been behind the scenes deals and payoffs and career cocksucking by the "journalists." Quinn/Sarkesian/GG was nothing and meaningless and it never stopped. Nothing chamged. All those steam review bombs or praises are 90% as fake as all the games "journalism" since gaming became a mainstream attraction during the 4th gen.
You're a fool and a tool. Grow up.

>>105696211
Nigger vellus hair are almost invisible and are very short, you need to be super close and with the right light angle to actually see them, the horizon monstrousity has vellus right on the verge of being a proper early teenager male beard. It's unrealistic? No but it's clearly a case limit. Adding this unnecessary detail serve any purpose? Yes, makes the character even more revulsive, it's done exactly to chastise even more the male audience, arguing that there are more motives than that is literally mental gymnastics.

>>105688252 (OP)
Modern games have mostly enhanced graphical fidelity without really enhancing the gameplay experience. There is no game that currently exists that requires high res graphics to be a game. They are at the very most a veneer to gameplay. Save raytracing, I don't see the point. Mid-2000's like 2010 or so seemed to have peaked.

>>105688252 (OP)
There may be a direct correlation between when mobile phone gaming became wide spread and when the quality of modern video games started to decline. There is an inverse correlation I bet as devs started focusing on micro transactions and bullshit rather than making a fun game.

>>105697613
Nobody that experienced that time negates that but you can deny that if we had at least 10% earnest journalism (with 80% of the commissioned rest being at least nuanced about) now we have 0℅ of it. GG at least made crystal clear how things are and things didn't change after it because journalism doesn't need the viewer money and direct attention to exist, they are there (sustained directly by corpos) to be part of that white noise that make the collective mainstream zeitgeist.

>>105697529
I remember when I gave up on gaming magazines. I used to subscribe to Gamepro for years. When the Utopia boot cd for the Dreamcast came out they ran a full length Q/A session about it. They told the readers;
>If you see a Utopia boot CD laying on the ground pretend it's radioactive goo and walk away. Don't touch it. It will harm your console.

I knew it was over at that point. I can't remember the guys name but he was pretty decent up until that point. But after that he went full shill mode and would never give a bad review or ask hard hitting questions during interviews anymore. I didn't renew my subscription (which I'd had for 8+ years at that point) and never looked at a gaming rag again.

Of course by then I had access to IRC and the internet. So I didn't need them anymore to order imports from Japan or stay up to day with the news. The industry was already getting pretty awful by that time anyway.

>>105688252 (OP)
he should shave

>>105697679
Unlike you I've been close to several woman throughout my life and I know even teenagers have visible hairs on their face. Now, you need to see a girl without makeup and close up, which involves at the very least being approachable (that means clean and no bad breath) and liked enough (having the self awareness to not sound like a pushy robotic asshole). This is a task many of you on 4chan fail.

Yes, some of these games are charicature-izing the hairs. I never commented that they arent. My only point was you'd have to be legitimately stunted in some area of intelligence to not have figured out by a young age that the human body is fucking covered in hairs

>>105697842
>meltdown
What part of my post negates that women have vellus hair? We also literally agree that the horizon one is a purposeful exaggeration. Calm the fuck down.

>>105697873
Ok retard

To be fair, most have already stopped trying with graphics, and even focus a bit on optimization.
AAA and real games are a minority now. The majority (and mavority of revenue) is playing games like genshin. Live service, f2p, p2w, low-quality graphics games with lootbox mechanics.

They are more interested in making it run "okay" on a 4 year old laptop with integrated graphics or a 3 generations old iphone than making nice graphics.

>>105688328
>he's never had sex with a feral redhead
Not gonna make it

>>105698599
>calling names
Amazing

>>105688489
With a mostly static world!

>>105688252 (OP)
The graphical sweet spot was 2008, PC gaming.
We had hardware.
We had some good game engines.
We had Zoey. Zoey, from Left 4 Dead. She was perfect. The perfect amount of polygons, and perfect performance, the perfect voice acting, perfect lighting, all of it.

A 4090 can run that game at over 1000 FPS today, and instead we get slop titles that don't even run at 60 without frame gen or upscaling.
Return to Zoey.
There are MODS for Zoey.

>>105701196
>There are MODS for Zoey.
Mods to do what exactly?

>>105701405
You can have her with different hair, her tits out, in a bikini, cosplayed as 2B, replacing the other characters (so everyone is Zoey!) or anything you want.
You don't need to upscale, you don't need to dither, you don't need to generate fake fames, animations are smooth.

Zoey was built in 2008 but is still built for 2025.
Return to Zoey.

>>105701430
Right, so just coomerstuff. Boring.

>>105697873
He's employing a known tranny tactic where they agree but say you're wrong for pointing it out because it doesn't matter

>>105701445
>just coomerstuff
No. Are you below 70 IQ?
How is a different hairstyle coomer stuff?

TFW I look exactly like the Horizon chick except have longer hair.


...except i'm a dude. Feels bad man.

>>105688252 (OP)
The challenge of photorealism I think is a worthy pursuit, but it doesn't draw me in (as a dev, or a gamer) and I'm certainly not going to sacrifice any part of the experience, or pay extra for it.

What we need are memorable, remarkable, creative Graphics-with-a-capital G. For that there's some stuff we should bring back the past , but many more horizons to explore - stuff we've never seen or thought to try. Creative innovation keeps happening so I'm not worried in the slightest for the medium.

>>105696211
>using le education in a misleading way to justify some atrocity
Next they are going to make women with cellulite and varicose veins, until we are reaching a level of "realism" there's shit on their asses from not properly wiping

>>105701592
Graphics, as in rendering shit onto the pixel grid for output on a digital display WITHOUT ugly horrible artifacts or blurring... what a concept.

AAA Studios: NO ADD MORE GAY TRACING AND UPSCALING NOBODY CARES ABOUT CRISP VISUALS AND FPS MAKE THE TEXTURE OF THAT DESTRUCTIBLE OBJECT 384,000 X 384,000 PIXELS BECAUSE WE NEED TO FILL THE VRAM 2S AFTER LAUNCH

>>105688328
apparently 4chan doesnt know that women wax their face lol

>>105702501
Women or non-Asian """women"""?

>>105702595
STFU NIGGER KIKE
KYS

>>105690251
based
tired of my games appealing only to 13 years old virgins

>>105688252 (OP)
zoomers have no idea how much we used to goon to the game on the left

>>105688252 (OP)
Stalker is proof that graphics mean shit, I still mainly play the mods and originals on my 16gb card. The problem isn't that we need do stop evolving graphics, its working with the current tech we have instead of immediately moving to the next shiny new object.

Nintendo back in the day hated loading screens so they avoided discs for as long as possible during the n64 days. Some either PS2 or PS3 devs (I cannot remember which) said they could have do some much with these consoles and they really havent hit their true potential (like exploring new techiniques to get the most out of development, similar to Sega devs) however, moving on to the next big release was the thing to do.

>>105691468
Looks cool, whats this?

>>105702961
Games made for teenage virgins are still better than games made for histrionic fat chicks on Twitter who don't even play them.

>>105703747
>Looks cool, whats this?
Hylics 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yo8I1-kZ6U

>>105703784
Holy shit this looks amazing. Its like an acid trip of Felvidek, it even sounds very similar to it. Thank you anon

>>105703765
I might play them, at least something new and original.

>>105688252 (OP)
If you don't need moving light then something like Mirror's Edge (2008) is the perfect sweetspot, just slightly higher poligon count on models and you have a nearly photorealistic game with good physics which runs at 240fps on your embedded graphics card.

>>105688252 (OP)
Just stop being poor. That's it. That's all you have to do. literally nothing else. It's so simple. Just. Stop. Being. Poor.

>>105704270
>new and original
Oh yeah, another letter in the alphabet, another gender or a another pronoun.
New, original, stuning and brabe.

>It's in his ear
Its funny how, from half of the face and without context, that creature is assumed to be a dude.

>>105704828
Anon, that looks awful.
>woman in the shadows
>shoulder length hair
>did I mention she's IN THE SHADE?
>collar is giving off specular highlights as bright as the sun
>did I mention this is all happening while SHE (HERSELF) is in the shade? and on top of that, the collar is UNDER HER HAIR?

It's not about poverty. It's about retarded rendering.
You, sir, simp for retarded graphics.
You are the consumer of slop and you insist your shit is gourmet.
You are a moron.

This is actually an EASY FIX for any competent person to do, but the point is it's not done. It's never done these days.

>>105704934
if you are poor just say so...

>>105704828
THOSE BOOBS! :O

What game is that? :c

>>105704828
>>105704934
I like it. Boobs should always have specular highlights. I especially like when they show blue veins on the boobs it makes it look like she might start breast feeding.
>Visible veins are common during breastfeeding, especially when breasts are engorged with milk
I just looked this up and it was actually true. This proves human sexual instincts are real.
I want to suck on a girl's milk engorged breasts while relaxing in the shade. Faggots wouldn't get it.

>>105704828
This looks like abysmal dogshit.
why do new games all have so many render artifacts
>> metal reflecting light from nowhere
>> dirt looking shiny
>> hair looks like a 2d png

>>105688252 (OP)
The graphics sweet spot is DS1 and the original Nier

>>105696211

>>105704989
vindictus defying fate

>>105705042
STOP. BEING. POOR

For me, about 2012-2013 is about as far as I need to go. I would say graphics were still getting significantly better until 2018 or so for a few games a year. After that its debateable. Games are taking too long to make, and have little to no new gameplay features. Roll it back to 2012/late PS3/early PS4. I like to compare BF4 -> BF1 -> BF5 -> BF2042. BF4 looks fine compared to 2042, although each game does look better on the highest settings. I almost want to say 5 is the best looking game in the series.

>>105688252 (OP)
ultimately the best era of graphics was before Nvidia and PlayStation ruined everything in the mid 90s

>>105705331
Bad Company 2 was the sweet spot for gameplay but Bad Company 1 had by far the best vibe. And the graphics were good.

>>105690344
Even in this blurry pic you can see her face is covered in peach fuzz type hair.

>>105705103
Okay, give me your credit card information.

>>105688252 (OP)
what's with the peach fuzz on the horizon character's face?
haven't played it, is it supposed to be a transman

>>105688627
Anime sucks ass and so does your taste. At least watch He Man.

>>105688252 (OP)
If a game doesn't run on Ryzen 7 7840U iGPU, it's automatically shit.
Simple as that.

>>105707969
Sour grapes post.

>>105707985
I own a desktop with a 7800 XT and find Cyberpunk 2077 to be boring as fuck. Now I do everything computer related on my thinkpad.

>>105697842
retard

>>105707999
>I own a desktop with a 7800 XT and find Cyberpunk 2077 to be boring as fuck.
a) It's not like your 7800 XT can even properly run Cyberpunk 2077.
b) Shit taste.

>>105688252 (OP)
The sweet spot is stylized graphics like Overwatch 2. You literally get a stable 600fps with a 7700x and 9070xt.

>>105688725
My gf (female) does not have that

>>105707891
The actress it's based on has a hairy face.

>>105712052
Huh, so she does. Most women don't get that much facial fuzz until they're like 50+.

>>105713388
Women are scary

>>105712052
Nigger that's not nearly as much as the horizon creature, the thing has a teenager pre-beard.

If I play games, it's nothing newer than 2013.

>>105713784
Didn't say it was, the game model differs from the actress in many ways. Nevertheless, this actress has a hairy fucking face, much more so than the average white woman her age.

>>105712052
Women who don't put in the effort to shave are truly ugly