You know, I don't particularly care about having the need to see every freaking pore on someone's model. I hate graphic purists.
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I’ve always been a firm believer that the better a game looks, the worse the game will actually be overall. While not always true, but I’d much prefer the focus on fun rather than how close to real life it can look.. if I wanted to see shit that looks that good I’d go interact with the outside.
oh no way
all I have to do is tank my gpu performance, and I get a non-deterministic result, plus it looks substantially worse?
dang yo, where do I sign up
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i miss when GPUs just rendered the game, and that was all.
None of this upscaling, AI graphics altering bullshit that is there ultimately to distract from the impotent promises of 4k gaming, which is unnecessarily ridiculous to begin with.
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I don’t care about or want this technology
For fucks sakes, I don't want "realistic" graphics, I want high and smooth FPS, they have been calling their games "realistic" for the past 20 years. Just make the game with a unique art style and optimise it.
Every single "realistic graphics" game looks shit after 5 years while Mario is over here still looking great decades after release.
No the games have to look like real life don't you get it? Nevermind that fortnite and Minecraft, the two biggest games out there have cartoonish graphics and literal pixelated cubes no! We need to be able to see the reflection in a drop of sweat! And more AI!
Games should have "style" and "performance"? Bah. What poppycock I say, another billion to the AAAA games! For the investors! /s
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When will they realize that good graphics does not equal a good game?
Yeah, life has infinite graphics and it's a 3/10 at best.
Not anytime soon since gamers are still overwhelmingly indicating they will pay out the nose for the latest graphics.
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Stop supporting Nvidia. If you don't see the writing on the wall, you're part of the problem.
Inb4 the flak from fanboys who think that a $5 trillion corporation is in their best interest: they certainly aren't in your interests as a gamer, and they're making money (in part) off of those who have forgotten what gaming is about.
Also inb4: yes, losing some frames to not have to deal with Nvidia's bullshit is worth it.
Inb4^2: AMD is not a saint. But whataboutism has never fixed anything.
Exactly for those reasons the last gaming notebook I bought (used) was all AMD. Comes with some caveats but it's better than supporting Nvidia.
They've not been for the gamers for a long time
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Wait, what is even the point of using an upscaling technology if it makes your game run slower than without it? Why wouldn't I just run native res at that point? Is their only point that "it looks better" in their minds?
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