Why have graphics completely stopped progressing since the mid 2010s?
Just compare Yen in Witcher 3 to Maryjane in Spiderman 2 or Crysis 3 to any recent 1st person shooter.
Why have graphics completely stopped progressing since the mid 2010s?
Why have graphics completely stopped progressing since the mid 2010s?
Just compare Yen in Witcher 3 to Maryjane in Spiderman 2 or Crysis 3 to any recent 1st person shooter.
Diminishing returns. The models are already about as good as performance can tolerate, it's all bottlenecked on rendering engines now.
But graphics have gotten WORSE.
Look at Arkham Knight vs Gotham Knights.
This is a simplified view. There's more to a game's presentation than the models themselves.
The lighting in TW3 was borderline cartoony.
Compare that to CP77 with full path tracing on, and you can't even compare the two.
The next big step games can take, beyond lighting, is much more advanced physics and AI.
But neither of those are really being worked on, since you can't outsource either of those to pajeets.
>The lighting in TW3 was borderline cartoony.
In wide open outdoor areas it was downright gorgeous
Upgrade your TV/PC/Console if you think graphics have stagnated.
>Upgrade your TV/PC/Console if you think graphics have stagnated.
>Posts super blurry grainy low res image to impress them
How did you fuck up so badly? lol
Upgrade your phone doofus
Because 99% of new games that released so far this gen are cross gen, so they don't take advantage of the new hardware
starting next year i think we'll actually see more games use truly next gen graphical features like ray-tracing and nanite, and the gap between ps5/series and ps4/boner will actually become noticeable
>next gen graphical features like ray-tracing
Ray tracing is a dev tool, it doesn't actually make lighting better, it will likely make it worse because devs no longer have to pay attention to good lighting
>Ray tracing is a dev tool, it doesn't actually make lighting better
It can make lighting more realistic. Whether that is "better" is up to personal interpretation. Rasterized lighting often creates stronger contrasts than realistic lighting does (in order to make colors pop out more), so I think most people who've grown up on rasterized lighting will never really like raytraced lighting because they'll think it desaturates games.
realistic rasterized lighting in the seventh gen already did this, look at any of the new crash or spyro games and you'll see washed out lighting.
ray-traced lighting looks better than baked or traditional lighting when the game is specifically designed for it.
right now we're just seeing it mostly slapped onto shit that wasn't designed with it in mind that thats why it looks worse in comparison (for example how it messes up the cyperpunk cutscenes). Pic related is a game made with ray-tracing from start to finish
That doesn't even look good.
Even a fucking fallout 4 have a better lighting and reflection implementation than every AAA slop with ray path tracing
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With his ahs I think he's a italiano ah? Its a me, mario!
>Even a fucking fallout 4 have a better lighting and reflection implementation than every AAA slop with ray path tracing
You are monumentally retarded if you actually believe this.
t. someone who spent an eternity modding Fallout 4
alan wake 2, cyberpunk, and i think metro exodus enhanced are the only noteworthy games with full path tracing rn and their lighting hard mogs every other game in existence's lighting right now
Metro Last Light looks better than Exodus.
>devs no longer have to pay attention to good lighting
do cinematagrophers turn their brains off just because they don't have to fake light rays with technical voodoo?
>cinematographers don't use fake lighting
Bruh.
yes they fake lights but not the technical properties of a light ray, there's nothing stopping devs from inserting impossible sources of light in their games to make it look more striking.
In 90% of high budget slop, yes, they do.
>Alan Woke
>Why have graphics completely stopped progressing since the mid 2010s?
Graphics stopped progressing once developers/publishers realized that the vast majority of their customers are console gamers so the graphics are crafted around system's capability, and PC gamers who don't actually buy new hardware but they're 2-3 generations behind on average. So why make games that advance graphics?
Pajeets, diversity hires and consoles. Also diminishing returns
>Why have graphics completely stopped progressing since the mid 2010s?
They have progressed though. Lighting has gotten much better in games. Textures haven't though because that's an area of heavily diminishing returns and it's not worth it to go further when most people still play on consoles or 1080p.
Load of people left the industry in 2015 and got replaced by shit people.
I like this new meme.
>why do new games not look good anymore? here's an average game from 10 years ago! [posts the top 0.01% game that does not represent its generation at all]
It's fun.
Bro, imagine if Half Life 2 looked better than everything in 2014.
Crysis 3 is 10 years old, and would be seen as top 0.01% if released today.
>Crysis 3 is 10 years old, and would be seen as top 0.01% if released today.
Top 2% maybe. The game is graphically impressive but the artstyle of the game is uglier than 1 and 2.
God of War and TLOU2 models are way more detailed than those in The Witcher 3.
Because graphics are already very good, but we see it through shitty 2d monitors so it will never look good enough. VR is the future, and in VR our hardware is too shit to handle good graphics and high frames.
>VR is the future
Real VR will be the future. Current VR is gluing two screens onto your eyes and pretending it's VR.
Witcher 3 is a masterpiece.
One of the greatest games ever made!!
Yennefer is hottest women in gaming
CDPR writes some of best characters in RPGs and arguably gaming
CDPR has the best presentation among any RPG developer
Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk have top tier quest writing
Cyberpunk is a great game, its combat is awesome.
CDPR have incredibly talented artist team who make gorgeous enviroments and understand the use of color well, they also make attractive character design.
CDPR has good composers
CDPR makes the best expansions
Witcher 3 has an immersive world, great soundtrack, engaging dialogue, great quests, great writing and beautiful art direction.
You can't refute any of this.
> Paid shill or retard tranny with anime profile picture.
Can't forget about Episode Duscae
Yen fucks tall dark stranger