It is very very funny to me that the AAA gaming industry has basically made their own projects completely untenable to produce because they need so many engineers and artists producing the highest fidelity content and engines possible and so now they need like at minimum 500 people over a 4-6 year period to produce a game that typically has the exact same gameplay as something produced 15 years ago. And they're like "wow we need to raise the price of games to compensate for all this added cost we added to the production of our games". And the solution is right there, quit wasting time with chasing constantly new art assets and better engines, and just reuse the shit you already have. Fromsoft and RGG (Yakuza devs) ship more games with more interesting things than all the western AAA publishers produce in ten years. And they need like 8 months of patches to make them actually run anyways.

Oh and let's not forget most consumers probably can't even tell the difference between 1080 and 420, let alone 4k versus 1080. I know all my normie family over the age of 50 can't. So they're pursuing ever higher graphical fidelity for literally no reason.

The industry is a joke. Indie games are all I need.

because they need to somehow fool themselves into thinking spending 500 bucks on a console with no games is worthwhile

also ideologically they can't accept a world in which relevant technological progress has basically slowed to a stop

I like pretty things. When my brain sees them it goes oooh.

I am significantly more visually impressed by good animation over anything else these days. ZZZ's gameplay isn't for me but the animators are fucking incredible. While over in Infinity Nikki the clothing animation and attention to detail with respects to cloth stuff absolutely blows me away because they manage to make it feel like characters are actually wearing the clothing items rather than just being physically part of the same model.

Animation is just so much more interesting and impactful.

I'm playing both since they both got repacked

I can't believe Nintendo won't let me name my character Link

Pretty things are enjoyable to look at.

I've been officially bored of "OMG LOOK AT THOSE GRAPHICS" since the age where expensive new hardware was used to show high fidelity rusting fences and decaying rural and urban ruins ever since Half Life 2 made those fashionable.

Now, if a game has impressive art in it, where the medium does something delightful to look at, that pleases me. That has nothing to do with hardware flexing.

I hate graphics. I hate being able to see the game.

Devil's advocate, the techdemo aspects of Spess Mehrine II stuck out to me. Games have been diminishing returns technically since the PS4 at least, so seeing big impressive swarms of Tyrranids or huge columns tumbling put me fondly in mind of F.E.A.R., or Half Life 2, or like The Darkness, Idk.

Gameplay/Graphic

Are you going to pretend the new Zelda game doesn’t have good graphics? The nintendo obsession is just mindboggling

Idk, I guess if your goal in making a game is to have some beautiful scenery that's also realistic, knock yourself out. But I love games that are focused on enjoyment first and foremost. The games I spend the most time on are really simple graphically.

That's why I maintain that the Switch is the GOAT of systems, it's just really fun. Shitty company that's gotten worse over time, sure, but they don't exactly take the crown and at least I get something enjoyable out of it.

The new Astrobot is the only PS5 game lol

It was a struggle for me to finish spesh muhreen 2 because my computer couldn't optimize the game for shit and everything was a janky junky choppy mess for me.

i don't see how that is ironic?

after you've played the first two missions of sm2, you've already seen everything it has to offer.

I also don't think it looks that impressive? Its definitely not bad looking, but nothing has touched Alan Wake 2 in the looks department yet so

Shit I'm still playing FTL

Speaking of graphics, I don't see many new games using cell shading anymore. That's a shame because I like cell shading.

I wish I could finish any game I keep returning to dota like the junkie I am.

Great graphics are shit if you don't have good art direction, but great art direction can sorta stand on its own. Then you have the rare moments where you have great graphics with great art direction like RDR2 or BG3

I got spoilered ending of Space Marine 2 today and i'm actually glad i dropped it after hour or two.

Maybe want something a bit more imersice than shoddy 2D pixel art?

You got this super computer with a dedicated super super computer add on. I want that super duper HDR 4K cinema experience. Not all the time, but I would like to actually use the hardware / justify my treat that I saved up for over a few years. (That and it really cranks out BOINC workloads)

I definitely don't need high fidelity graphics to enjoy a game. Sometimes, I think artists can do a lot more when working within a set of limitations. You can get some truly unique and impressive combinations of things that are lower fidelity (low poly, pixel art).

That said, I do like pretty graphics sometimes. It's just top of the line graphics alone won't get me into a game and lack thereof will not deter me.