Thread 717307686

Nine years ago I saw something beautiful, something that would change my life forever, and I wanted everyone to see it too.

We lost actual graphics, now all we have is fake frames and fake lights and fake resolution and fake textures...

>>717307686 (OP)
actually ridiculous how this is still the peak of muh realism/muh details, this game had the creases on outfits modeled and it ran silky smooth on a fuckass 970
any game that lags today is because of poor optimization

>>717307686 (OP)
what gaem
>>717307817
companies stopped hiring people who knew what they were doing

>>717307817
creases aren't very impressive, they're just a normal map
and this game is by the same company behind the great demon, unreal engine 5

>>717307891
I'm not sure but it was called paragon or something, it was an abandoned moba project by epicgames, way before fortnite and whatever the fuck else they do currently.

>>717307965
>and this game is by the same company behind the great demon, unreal engine 5
Which is fucking weird because the game in the image ran so smooth, epic's fall from grace is actually mythical.

>>717307686 (OP)
when is epic going to drop a paragon 2

>>717307780
AI framegen, AI upscaling, gimmicky lighting… nothing is actual anymore.

I tried to prevent this.

>>717307686 (OP)
Actual Graphics really does things to a man.

>>717307965
It's not just the creases, it's the lighting, the textures, everything coming together all at once
It's a great achievement, which makes unreal engine 5 as baffling at it is evil
My pet theory about paragon is that timmy is so booty blasted that Gaben has mogged him for so long that he threw the whole thing in the bin and is now purposefully poisoning gaming's well out of spite

>>717309206
If I remember correctly the textures were fucking insane too, you could zoom in real far and the scratches on the suit would still look high definition.

if only we knew how actual things were ...

>>717307686 (OP)
arent there TWO separate games that are just re-releases of paragon?

>>717311001
detail mapping, also not cutting edge for the time, though a lot of games stopped bothering with it since they outsource all the assets to india or aim for fortnite stylization

>>717311197
that's fucking cool
if only companies still focues on making games look good and functional instead of hoping people will just buy new hardware while their games look the same (sometimes worse) but get more and more unoptimized

Why did it fail? I played a bit and found it decent but I'm just not into MOBAs and also the weird customization system pushed me away but I don't think it deserved to die for being a bad game.

>>717312659
Characters looked like they were from Anthem which also underperformed, none of them reallly grabbed me and there's a reason you only ever see closeups of the asses when these Actual Graphics threads pop up.
But the reason it shut down was that Epic got a taste of the battle royale fad money and put all their eggs into the Fortnite basket.

>>717313182
>Characters looked like they were from Anthem
nigger paragon was a thing before anthem was even a concept