Why texture in older games looks so good

>>715416779 (OP)
>why it looks so good
>posts ugly looking garbage
lol

actual working anisotropic filtering. this has actually broken with a lot of modern games and modern gpus.

>>715416831
Post what you consider a good looking game then

>>715416779 (OP)
Because they don't look like one of two things
1-unity garbage
2-hyperrealistic slop

>>715416779 (OP)
sovl

>>715416779 (OP)
Less polygons means the surfaces are flatter and the textures are more clear.

no PBR, no shitty postprocessing making the entire image muddy and low contrast

>>715416779 (OP)
lighting baked into textures, so it's free detail that takes up no rendering time at all.

>>715417524
>no pbr
i don't have them anymore, but i redid a couple of old game textures with pbr, and it looked fantastic. just gotta do it right.

This game is from 2017

>>715416779 (OP)
Modern games are regressing visually so it looks good by comparison.