>>714515167
>expensive as fuck but not actual gaytracing.
They really aren't.
If a fucking N64 could do render-2-texture stuff, a modern mid-tier system with 100-200 times higher specs should do them just fine as well. And WOULD.

>>714515753
It's not even that.
We already had 100% dynamic lighting and shadows back in 2007 with games like STALKER.

Fast forward to 2014-2015, and we have node-based Global Illumination running on PS4 hardware, literal low-end 2012 tech.

>>714519629
>screen space reflections
Literally mid-2010s tech, you underaged nigger.
that is just another cancerous modern devolution.