Gaming

Adult me is making teenage me happy, because I play games which looks super realistic and state of the art in my teenage times :D

I still stand by the whole "Glorious PC gaming master race!!!!" Circlejerk had a profoundly negative impact on video games, as for about 10 years the mainstream gaming community seemed to only give a shit about frame rates and resolutions and Devs where happy to just focus on that instead of making their games fun to play or have interesting stories.

In most games I find no matter how good the static assets look, the animations immediately break the illusion of 'realism'.

One recent exception to this were some of the cutscenes in Expedition 33, the facial mocap was very on-point and, even though the game isn't anywhere close to photorealistic, it felt close to watching real actors perform a scene.

Somehow, I never had that first feeling. The first console that there ever was at my house was a PS2 (my dad's), and the only game he purchased was a SNES Station. So I kinda grew up playing only pixelated games. Turns out I got too used to it and play almost no realistic games.

Me; neither.

I'm incredibly sick and tired of videogames usually picking just two lanes:

• Super photoreal graphics, optimisation be damned, that'll look dated in just a few years.
• Pixelated nostalgia tripping for people still stuck in the past.

Ghost of Yotei did a great job in gameplay and graphics.

Really I just want one thing. The same thing every gamer wants. To escape to the one place uncorrupted by capitalism.

Funny cuz it's true

My expectations were far lower, without me realising it, as a child.
I remember getting Mortal Kombat 4, on the N64, and thinking "holy shit, the graphics are so good!!! SO 3D!"

My gosh the graphics did not age well.

It's like a rewiring through new experience. Back in the day games were improving in looks and gameplay rapidly. Then the latter started deteriorating for many big studio titles.

You tell me some new AAAA Ubisoft game is coming out and my gag reflex starts to tingle.

A new pixel graphic indie title with great reviews? Sign me up.

The fruit that was once sweet has become poison.

As a teenager, I warned people that at a certain point, we will reach the diminishing returns of investment on graphics. I was called a "Mario playing child" by my peers.

I started to feel validated since 2016. And the "DEI-jaw" chud gamers like to whine about is also likely created by the too much faith in how much current graphics can recreate realism accurately.

I think i have to re-watch that series. Best TV in the last decade.

I remember detesting ps2-era 3d graphics, commonly thinking I'd just prefer it if was more pixelated (think like on the ds)

I've come to really like that look tho