/v/ - Video Games

Judging we haven't had a Crysis game since 3, or a graphically impressive one since 1, I don't think so.

Metro Exodus, Doom 5, or whatever DICE is doing seem to be pushing the latest graphics technology. Raytracing is cool in theory but adds almost unnoticeable lighting improvements, for how much money the cards cost.

I'm more impressed by accurate physics than lighting anyways, but that's just not the focus these days.

>Crysis 2 and 3

>not Crysis and Warhead

Shit thread as always OP.

>2019

>still no 1000-meter rendered shadows and thick vegetation with physics

Thanks consoles. I sure do love having to wait until I'm 70 years old until we get graphics that we should have already been the bare-minimum standard 5 years ago.

Crysis is still high up and Crysis 3 is still pretty difficult to run at 4K max settings, but Witcher 3 is probably the best looking game out there overall. It will probably be Cyberpunk 2077 soon that will set the peak for the next 5 years.

Graphics have sort of hit a peak. We could get more pixels and texture improvements but I'd rather devs focus on just making a good game first and foremost. A game being pretty does not add much to the experience.

>>16721844

>I'm more impressed by accurate physics than lighting anyways

This right here. I'm way more impressed by what Aegia was doing back in 2008 than anything Nvidia has done since.

>>16721936

Crackdown 3 was promising a type of destruction physics that was offloaded to microshaft's servers since the xbone couldn't handle it. Then it came out, and has even worse physics than the first game, and only has terrible destruction mechanics in the multiplayer.

>>16721867

See the financially bright side: it also means pretty much every new game (other than incompetent ports) can run on relatively modest hardware, so no need to upgrade often.

What about peak aesthetics? I think, that Mirrors Edge was unparalleled when it came down to how well all the colors were coordinated. Some places, despite being concrete block hells, were extremely pleasant looking.

>anchor of quality

fuck you mark this could be a good thread

what games pushed the limit for graphics on each console?

>NES - Battletoads

>SNES - Starfox

>N64 - Conker's Bad Fur Day

just off the top of my head

>>16722020

Final Fantasy 12 for the PS2?

>>16721913

>>16721936

Graphics in the sense of resolution as most salesman see them are worthless anyway,What's the overall % of PC's,not sportsball tv's but actuall PC's that use 4K monitors,5%,10% of that how many are Art/Architect/other use that isn't gaming? I want the real binaural audio back,before it all got downmixed to shit and memes like 7.1.I want physics,destructible everything.I want the idea of LOD(even tho it saves a lot of performance) to die,be made obsolete by tech that can actually render the entire game so I see bullshit change from square to round when I walk closer and so that view range is actual fucking view range close to unlimited.And I want all "special effect" bullshit like bloom,lens flare and chromatic aberration to die

>>16722020

when I saw mario galaxy/silent hill 3 for the first time, that's when I thought we reached peak graphics