I hate AAA gaming and the constant aimless pursue for MORE. More resolution, more polygons, more raytracings, more framegen I don't want it to be MORE, I want it to be good. - ThreadSky

michel0dy.bsky.social • 13 days ago

I hate AAA gaming and the constant aimless pursue for MORE. More resolution, more polygons, more raytracings, more framegen
I don't want it to be MORE, I want it to be good.

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ocelotqueen.bsky.social•13 days ago

this is why I moved to indie games and stick with Nintendo for console

scionofnight.bsky.social•13 days ago

We passed the point of diminishing returns with polygon counts about 3 orders of magnitude ago

michel0dy.bsky.social•13 days ago

A friend of mine says the reasonable peak of game graphics detail was in the ps3/xbox360 era and I fully agree.

scionofnight.bsky.social•13 days ago

Agreed as well

infinitepineapple.bsky.social•13 days ago

All my most enjoyable games recently have been AA or Indie. AAA is more focused on profit margins than making good games sadly. 🫠

apuffypuffball.bsky.social•13 days ago

I don’t get the obsession with more hyper realistic graphics. When they did that realistic 3D animation in The Polar Express movie, people called it “uncanny” and “creepy” and stuff, but when major video game companies do even more detailed 3D animation, we’re supposed to love it?

michel0dy.bsky.social•13 days ago

Games with super high detailed graphics are gonna be impressive once. Once the novelty of the new is gone they have nothing left.

Games with good art direction and visual design become timeless.

z-ray.bsky.social•13 days ago

And don't forget good story! I'd take a game with amazing story and writing over whatever yearly AAA mass-produced game is coming out.

michel0dy.bsky.social•13 days ago

Definitely

sneptaur.com•12 days ago

Control (2019) good example of this. The graphics are nice and all but I’m way more impressed by the art direction.

lynnshark.bsky.social•13 days ago

This

aabsurdity.bsky.social•13 days ago

While I think they could've dropped about 75% of the polygons, I think the first two parts of the FF7 remake are actually really good.
But... That's about the only big name release that is good enough to comment on.

michel0dy.bsky.social•13 days ago

I'm not even saying that detailed games can't be good, but we're way past the point of the addition of details actually doing something to make the game good.
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michel0dy.bsky.social•13 days ago

New fancy graphic effects are barely making any visual difference compared to a couple years ago, but they make the games much more demanding hardware-wise.

aabsurdity.bsky.social•13 days ago

It's much worse than that. For decades graphics got better by clever, efficient tricks. Ray tracing stops doing those tricks and does everything slowly and in the most difficult way possible.

michel0dy.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yes.
It's the MORE problem. It's not about "how can we make it look good within a scope", is "shove more things in because if it has all the new things then it's good"

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