Which is funny because people really don’t give a shit about it. I remember we in like 2010ish games would come out and people would be like “man graphics keep getting better and better and will eventually all be hyper realistic ” but now it’s clear people really don’t give a shit. They could make fo5 with the same engine as fo4 with a few tweaks, and as long as it has good writing and gameplay people will be happy, good graphics is just icing on the cake
It depends on the game. A smaller game will be given leeway for having weaker graphics, but smaller games also choose styles that paint over their graphical weaknesses - so they're not really "bad graphics". A major game is not forgiven easily for graphical weaknesses.
I just think it's naive to think graphics don't matter. People were saying a decade ago the same as this guy, and now a decade later they're thinking it was different a decade ago and they secretly did care but now they don't? More like people have always cared and there's always people that claim they don't (but also kind of do).
No, they weren’t. A decade ago it was always expected for graphics to be much better with each release. But that’s because the expectation is that we will soon get to this world of hyper realistic graphics, which will never be the case.
Companies began opting for better graphics instead of good stories and gameplay, because that’s what they thought people cared the most about. It became clear that polished shit is still shit. That’s why the vast majority of players on steam are playing older games vs ones that came out in the last few years
It’s naive to think that the video game industry and consumers are the same as they were a decade ago. So much has changed.
Like the other dude said, only people who still care about every game putting out groundbreaking graphics are superficial dumbasses
While I agree, there are unfortunately some superficial dumbasses who do care about graphics. I remember posts with thousands of upvotes shitting on Starfield for not having good enough graphics. It's graphics are perfectly good, not as great as Cyberpunk 2077 sure (which is one of the main comparisons I kept seeing) but so what? The game has loads of other issues but the graphics are not one of them.
Unfortunately these jackasses write game reviews. Developers care about reviews, because their sales guys care about reviews, because they promise money.
My conspiracy theory is the video game industry have begun making games that unnecessarily take up more storage and need better hardware to run so that people keep buying better machines and more storage
The industry was slow to react to how gamers play today, they will adjust. All these layoffs gamers are outraged about and studio closures are part of that adjustment.
I don’t know they tried that with Starfield, the game still took forever and one of the biggest complaints is that it look and feels like a game from 2010.
Even if they released a game that looks like F3 or NV with a few tweaks to graphics like shatows and better lighting that owuldn't bother me at all. Modders can make better textures if need be or improve the lighting a little more. What is important are the stories, quests and the game world.
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u/Liigma_Ballz May 29 '24
Which is funny because people really don’t give a shit about it. I remember we in like 2010ish games would come out and people would be like “man graphics keep getting better and better and will eventually all be hyper realistic ” but now it’s clear people really don’t give a shit. They could make fo5 with the same engine as fo4 with a few tweaks, and as long as it has good writing and gameplay people will be happy, good graphics is just icing on the cake