• @stardust@lemmy.ca
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    361 day ago

    Indies I think helped younger gamers and old gamers become less impressed by graphics compared to the past. Gamers expect more and there’s many indies and old games people haven’t played.

    • @slaacaa@lemmy.world
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      2123 hours ago

      There is also just tiny graphic improvements now, so for most people, 5 years old games look similar to what we have now

      • @Cossty@lemmy.world
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        410 hours ago

        I would even go lower than that. If you showed me Prey 2017 or even Alien Isolation 2014, and told me they came out today. I would probably believe you.

      • @T156@lemmy.world
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        714 hours ago

        And that the requirements for those minimal improvements are vast. If you need to pull down 200GB for a minor graphical upgrade, that’s just not really worth it compared to an older game that is a bit graphically worse, but is both smaller, and runs better on newer hardware.

        • @ignism@lemmy.world
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          39 hours ago

          The remasters coming out now is such bullshit, I mean Horizon Zero Down… are you kidding me?

          • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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            9 hours ago

            I was playing the original not too long ago, and they freaking “updated” it with ai upscaling. It looks like absolute trash. I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of it.
            Why would you do that and also remaster it?

      • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
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        216 hours ago

        You can sort of tell by the whole 4k (or even 8k), 144Hz stuff that opportunities for real improvements have been running out for a while.