When the opportunity to make games look like movies presented itself, it was all over for the good ol' gaming. Photorealism made games look ugly, cheap and creatively bankrupt, with the ability to just scan someone’s mug and then turn it into the stuff of nightmares with bad shading and bamp maps and whatnot. The level design degraded to “let’s just make a forest”. It also opened the floodgates for all the wannabe movie directors/writers, who now started using gaming as an outlet to compensate for their failed hollywood careers; which, in turn, attracted the unwanted attention of the MSM and NPCs.

Even now they will tell you that photorealistic graphics are better. Fuck photorealism. Fuck it up tnsndphe ass.

Disingenuous cherry pick + didn't read

Agreed. Also, camera effects. Artists try to emulate cameras instead of our eyes because it looks more "cinematic." But here is the thing - "cinematic" is a word used to trick people into watching movies at 24fps, it never meant a fucking thing. And putting film grain and depth of field in games literally makes them worse.

Don't even get me started on Rat Tracing.

Left is photorealistic though. I look like that IRL.

yeah

The human eye can only see at 30FPS.

>>715535682 (OP)
I love how every game now looks like a low budget netflix drama, real premium quality shit.

>>715535779
>dumb zoomer cope + tears
kek

>>715535881
>Left is photorealistic though. I look like that IRL.

>>715535909
He's wrong though, and he was talking about fucking black and white vs color films.

>>715535909
He's 100% right.

>>715535682 (OP)
Yeah bro it's not like photo realism was always used as a benchmark for pc games. Forests didn't exist back then either, every game was about fighting Martian tentacle creatures.

>>715536601
What? Dumb zoomer. Never post again.

You can have a photorealistic game and remains beautiful at the same time.
The problem isn't the oversaturation of realism, it's the lack of art direction

>>715536445
He is 100% right. Basically any PS1 game has more soul in any one level than a modern game has in all 200GB of it's data. Because constraint breeds creativity in humans. We need obstacles to achieve greatness.

>>715535682 (OP)
yeah

>>715536791
We still have constraints.

>>715536751
Art Direction and Realism are diametrically opposed. The moment the artist makes a choice, that's not real.

>>715535682 (OP)
I agree. I hate RE Engine.

>>715536445
>he thinks /v/ cares about context

>>715536751
modern developers can't into art or software engineering so they rely on modern hardware's technical prowess as a crutch to pump out ugly unoptimized messes

>>715536817
Sure, constraints on how much data you can put on a hard drive. Devs lost all skill that they once had. Any game from 10 years ago looks better than today. So much more clear and crisp in 4k. Every modern game is blurry.

>>715536445
How does that change anything

>>715536791
>>715535909
Jean Renoir would have an interesting point if he weren't completely and provably wrong. It's a well known fact that all of the most enduring stories were inspired aesthetically and mechanically from real events in nature and human culture. Take your shit opinion and toss it into the dumpster it belongs.

>>715536751
This is the real truth. RDR2 look notes from 1800s landscape painters and it looks pretty great.

>>715535682 (OP)
>Leon, listen, you should F my photorealistic sister, you god damned fucking plastic gook
>No way fag

>>715537114
you sound like some autistic filmfaggot seething about a guy's opinion on movies and stories instead of talking about, y'know, video games

>>715537114
>all of the most enduring stories were inspired aesthetically and mechanically from real events in nature
But they are an IMPRESSION. Not a recording. And the only reason it's worth watching is because they adapted it to an art form by an artist.

>>715536736
>tranime

>>715535682 (OP)
Yes.

>>715537114
You said this before. It sounded idiotic then, too. Maybe someone will actually engage it this time. Won't be me though.

>>715536987
>girls who wear those cotton tank tops

>>715536445
>he wasn't talking about the latest unreal engine specifically so his point is moot

>>715535682 (OP)
>He thinks these shitty ps3 graphics are photorealistic
Nigger I've seen skyrim shaders that make the game more photorealistic than that decade old heap of jagged trash.

>>715539357
>dumb retard doesn't understand that it's the intent that matters

>>715535682 (OP)
TRVKE

>>715535682 (OP)
BIG

>>715535682 (OP)
Sure photorealistic graphics make for shit logistics, but ultimately the problem is just bad management being unable to coordinate a project properly.

Games looked better when graphics were worse and I'm tired of pretending they didn't.

>>715536936
Are you retarded? Are you saying films have no art direction because they are filming real actors?

even if it wasn't photorealism graphics
resident evil have been shit for 20 years

>>715535682 (OP)
was op picture suppose to compare something again?

>>715542419
was your post supposed to be retarded?

>>715535682 (OP)
I hate photoreslistic slop so much bros

>>715535682 (OP)
Imagine being a sad sack of shit who wait for the correct microseconds he can use to take a screenshot and make a game look bad for a retarded argument

>>715542632
>seething zoomzoom
kek

>>715535682 (OP)
sex with chris

>>715535682 (OP)
Modern games look so ugly and soulless.

true

No. Bad art direction killed video games. Look at Death Stranding. It's photorealistic but still looks good and unique. Kojima & Shinkawa knows it's a video game, not a movie.

>>715535682 (OP)
Village Chris actually looks really good since they made him more videogame like instead of just lazy facescan like 7

hmm

>>715535682 (OP)
Why is he baseding out?

Nah, let's try to make it look even more real. Fuck you fags.

>>715535682 (OP)
>Photorealism killed video games
We know

>>715545784
wow, looks like dogshit, no thanks zoomzoom

>>715543808
Death Stranding looks very plain and basic, you just have kojimas cock in your mouth

>>715535909
>caveman drawings are more beautiful than movies
get fucked you fat bald boomer

The only solution to this problem is for companies to lose money, without the funding, they won't be able to spend money on stuff that would make their games photorealistic thus allowing for stylized art to return to video games.

ayo hol up

>>715536271
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/CXrU10GHADduRcghtWCILA/

>>715535682 (OP)
We didn't gatekeep vidya from graphics whores enough.

Nice /v/tard buzzword collage but I stopped reading at the second sentence.

>>715535682 (OP)
i hate nuCrapcom

This website is so much worse ever since they got rid of the IP counter.

>>715535779
Fpbp

>>715535682 (OP)
the best part is that around 2015 graphics were reaching a sweetspot of good performance vs quality visuals, and then it just fell off a cliff

>>715550052
Dishonored 2 still runs like shit.

>>715550052

>>715535779

>>715550149

>>715550149
it doesnt even look like the same building anymore lmao, guess whatever artist contractors they used didnt even bother looking at re2make

>>715535909
realism more like schmalism

>>715550052
>>715550149
>>715550258
you will eat ze bugs

>>715550052
It got sanitized

>>715535682 (OP)
>Photorealism
It depends. In Yakuza's case, however, I 100% agree. Real chinks will always look lamer when compared to fictional chinks.

>millennoids sperg about "can it run crysis" for 10 years straight
>muh zoomers just want realism, this is totally unique to them
also, a further reminder: zoomers are almost 30, they're not 13 anymore; that's gen alpha

>>715535909
>people stopped liking paintings because photographs exist
He was retarded for this and so are you

>>715535682 (OP)
>Chris when you mention Wesker

>>715537114
God damn. It's absolutely amazing how you disgusting midwits just manage to run your mouth without a shred of shame or embarrassment.
>the most enduring stories
Nobody is talking about stories you troglodyte motherfucker, we're talking about VISUALS, about the VISUAL MEDIUM, and all those aesthetics "from real events" are borne from a perception of something immaterial, man's flawed attempt to create perfection restricted by the constraints of the physical world.
Chuck fucking Lorre said "go out and see the world to take INSPIRATION from it", not fucking copy the world as is because that is FUCKING BORING.

>>715550052
something happened around 2017-2018 that made every westoid dev turn to shit almost immediately and started producing less games with way less quality than they did before
what the fuck even was it?

>>715551763
the mayans were right about the world ending in 2012. the effects just took a while to fully show

>>715551763
Judaism reached critical mass

>>715535682 (OP)
Personally what I really take issue with is how fucking ugly characters are nowadays because they insist on face-scanning the ugliest motherfuckers they can find. Do what the Chinese do and make everyone attractive, male or female, it's far better on the eyes than nepo baby mutt #894604.

>>715535909
What he gets wrong is going to a real forest involves mosquitoes.

>>715552329
they pick the ugliest niggers on purpose

>>715535909
I like the inclusion of the infamous DS2 forest lmao

>>715552329
chiggas barely photoscan anything it's all the most plain anime style #513213212

>>715535682 (OP)
Yeah but think about all the porn we've gotten due to photorealistic female character models

>>715537087
Video games aren't art, for one thing

>>715555331
you aren't human

Why do you think over time, everyone ditched cereal mascot furry/inhuman game characters? The goal was always realism, anything else was always cope.

>>715555980
no retard. it was so that zoophilia wouldn't become normalized.

oh yea

>>715557431
They were a cope because it was hard to make realistic looking humans before.

In chasing the real you miss the ideal

>>715558210
The best media is grounded in reality, you lack that you go full retard.

>>715551085
>It's zoomers turn to be called old
How are they doing

>>715545784
It's crazy how, for years and years, people have shat their pants over 7th gen games being brown and grey, but love these remasters of colorful games that make them all brown and grey.

>>715535682 (OP)
God OG RE4 Leon is so fucking perfect. I am not gay but I would be for that guy, he is so fucking handsome.

yeah

>>715535909