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A lot of older games look better because they weren't just relying on the lighting engine to do all the work. They actually with art direction with lots of baked in and painted lighting so everything saw was intentional. And since models were still too low poly they couldn't half ass on texture work. Halo infinite, new Gears of War looks worse because they don't understand the stylistic choices that were made, so now their super soldiers look like they're wearing plastic armor. The fact that 343 thinks that switching to unreal engine 5 with its fancy new lighting will somehow fix their problems is hilarious