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[hououinkyouma00]

Graphics and hardware matter more than "magical artistic geniuses who perform miracles."

Otherwise, we'd still be stuck in the 32-bit era, dealing with pixels and basic 3D, and devs would be forbidden from aiming for "impossible" experiences.

Hardware power comes first, art comes second.

Super disagree on this one. Power matters, but art can make weak hardware hit way above its weight. Power gives devs more options, but there are plenty of examples where art style matters much more then the console or PC that it's on.

Halo is mediocre and has always been. Quake 3 and UT tournament were better multiplayer games at the time of halo1 (but many didn't have pcs to play)

1080p is enough. 4k was too soon, takes too much power. Should of been 1440p on this gens consoles. Performance mode 1080p, and a higher red 1440p, upscaled to 4k optional.
-lower resolution means more effects and higher graphical quality and less memory and storage needed to achieve.

$2k 4090 is a rip off and way too expensive. High end Gpus for gaming should top out at $800 for ultra/xx90 cards. XX80 cards should max 500 to 600 (taking inflation into account) as 8800 gtx and 1080gtx were both in that range. No one would of accepted the high prices in late 90s 3dfx era or the earlt 00s.

I disagree on the Halo part but agree on the 2nd point, and very much agree on the last point.

Halo was game changing back in the day, and I was also playing stuff like Quake and UT back in the day. It was a console FPS that took what games like Goldeneye did and made it actually work. That combined with great lore, interesting worlds, fun enemies with variety, and later on addicting multiplayer all make an amazing series. Halo isn't perfect by any means (CE is good but not great, Halo 2 was gutted story wise with an entire 3rd act being cut for example) and really anything not made by Bungie is pretty shit but it's a great series overall.

While I understand why we went from 1080 to 2160 with it being a clean 4x increase I think the focus on 4K has been detrimental as even with the current consoles and GPUs 4K still isn't 100% doable and especially wasn't when Sony/Microsoft released the One X and PS4 Pro. Unfortunately it's a two sided thing where consoles help TV technology develop, and TV development changes console development for better or worse. 1440p is a great sweet spot and still looks great on a big TV.

The last point is why I've started to care less and less about PC gaming and PC hardware the last few years. I fully understand the economic decisions, and how inflation works but anybody that thinks Nvidia isn't taking advantage of people is in denial.

Kojima is a phenomenal director with some of the most interesting visuals, storytelling, and characters in the industry... but the gameplay is usually subpar, unintuitive, and lacking when compared to other games.

I partially disagree. I think MGS 1-5 are all great in the gameplay department as well as visuals, storytelling, and characters. I've never finished Policenauts or Snatcher (played both roughly half way through and fell off), but I found Death Stranding so boring to play and the rest of the game not nearly good enough to push through it.

MGS1's gameplay was great back in 98, MGS3 felt amazing to play (especially Subsistence), and 5 is possibly the best stealth sandbox game of all time.

 

[darth.shrimp]

Kojima is a phenomenal director with some of the most interesting visuals, storytelling, and characters in the industry... but the gameplay is usually subpar, unintuitive, and lacking when compared to other games.

Kojima should've made movies, not video games.

 

[DirtInUrEye]

Physically Based Rendering was more transformative for game graphics than Ray Tracing.

 

[Rush2112]

JRPGs are inferior to western rpgs and only exist because of console plebs.

 

[Blank Space Invader]

Stop worrying and obsessing over DLSS and PSS and RT and whatever other nonsense initials stand for shadows and smoke and reflections and other meaningless graphical excess. Video games already look great and while there is nothing wrong with liking great graphics, the point of video games has been long since lost to corporate greed and social agenda pandering. Games should perform smoothly and make you smile while you play them. The rest is noise aimed at technophiles and videophiles in order to get you to spend $2000 on a graphics card that you don't need.

 

[tr1p1ex]

people don't like gaming that much.

think of how many games are bought that aren't played and think of how much isn't played of the games that are played.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Fallout and Elder Scrolls games each from 3 and upwards are the best games of all times on PC when modded.

 

[b0bbyJ03]

Ray tracing fucked the whole industry. I never use it. its a fucking FPS destroyer and doesn't do shit for our current games.. just makes for good marketing and we're chasing the wrong trends. It's the hardware version of live service games.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

As a person who has played on PC for 20 years, and continues to play on it pc gaming overall is home to some of the worst real life aesthetics of all time. Most of the PC gaming setups I see look like they belong to a 8 year old or one of those 16 year olds with Gucci bedsheets that think it makes me look cool simply because it's expensive.

Your RGB looks fucking stupid, your 49" 31:9 monitors look retarded, your chairs are a travesty, and your try hard peripherals are hilarious in a bad way as the vast majority of you aren't good enough at games to make playing with a $5 keyboard or a $400 keyboard with lubed switches any different.

I would be embarrassed to bring people over to my place if it looked like 90% of the setups here.

Fight me.

 

[Bernardougf]

Sony needs to move its Playstation HQ back to japan ... fire all the woke work force amd directors ..stop DEI hiring practices and start everything from scratch with what they have left ....

 

[Kumomeme]

devs need to stop obsess with TAA