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[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This, but unironically. Games don't even need such realistic graphics, anyway - I'd much rather play a stylized or even 2d game where the devs focused on mechanics and fun, rather than pretty lights.

[–] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Minecraft, ULTRAKILL, Undertale, Celeste

all of them some of the best games in my opinion, how many use ray tracing? ZERO.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hollow Knight, Crosscode, Hades, Dead Cells, Signalis, Dusk, Outer Wilds, Underrail, and more are all great examples of relatively modern games that kill it in the graphical department without using anything fancy.

Edit, because this is fun: Boltgun, Sea of Stars, the Bloodborne PS1 demake, Tunic, and more.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Minecraft shaders look great though, especially the rtx one for bedrock. If it was more open source, I'm sure ray tracing would be great to implement into shaders.

[–] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

i was talking about unmodded java edition

[–] Jack3G@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Celeste still has really nice lighting in places, imo, but you are right, it all just comes from good colour choice and artistic skill, not some premade graphics option that they flipped on.

[–] bbpolterGAYst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

fuck graphics all games should be text-based from now on

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Zork was the shit.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, but then someone will rebuild Minecraft in text-based Minecraft with a 3D rendering engine displayed through ASCII

[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds doable. Something like 192x108 characters should work great on software rasterizer. For heavy loads you can use paletted mode of GPU.

[–] Zekas@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Garbage take. Few things are truly needed outside of the game being enjoyable and "good" graphics can absolutely be something contributing to that. For some good is pixel graphics, for others it's near realism. You don't get to decide for anyone but you.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Spoken like a true garbage eating normie

[–] Moneo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yup. Currently I'm on the indie hype train, but games like The Witcher and Red Dead are also very fun and benefit from good graphics.

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Half of the shit that is praised today are basically subpar rendered movies with little gameplay elements.

Might aswell play a visual novel and atleast get a good story instead.