Yeah, obviously. The interesting thing is that the Witcher 3 and Bloodborne hold up so well though and are still actively talked about. The Witcher 3 still looks beautiful even without the recent upgrades and Bloodborne could look fantastic if it wasn’t limited by the PS4 specs.
It’s kind of a testament to the fact that we’ve mostly plateaud in terms of real graphical advances imo
bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think it’s more the fact that games like Witcher 3 and Bloodborne are still discussed so much despite being a decade old now. Just kind of crazy 10 years have passed already.
caut_R@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It‘s also crazy how they‘ve aged. Do top games nowadays look better? Yes. Do they look a decade better, though?
Venator@lemmy.nz 5 hours ago
It’s the diminishing returns on additional processing power enabling them to look better, e.g. instead of unlocking entirely new effects that were obviously missing from games before, they’re just getting slightly more accurate. Also gpu prices inflated by crypto and AI mean top of the line gpus are less available in both PC and consoles.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Agreed for the most part, but that’s not really the gaming industry’s fault. I will say environmental graphics (e.g. ambient details, texture depth, lighting, amount of miscellaneous background and ground clutter density) have gotten much better. If you play The original W3 (before the official “remake” and/or mods), it definitely looks very aged versus something like Black Myth Wukong or Cyberpunk 2077. Bloodborne even more so (although, I’d argue that game’s graphics were never its strong point to begin with, but it did have excellent art direction, as From’s games always tend to have).
Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 days ago
It’s significant because in those 10 short years, a significant portion of the talent left the industry for greener pastures. When you mix genius level IQ people, definitely in the spectrum, with corporate types pushing line go up mentality and career drones using thought police tactics to progress theulir careers, while having 0 creativity, you get the current brand of AAA games from Western developers, aka, trash. They are more worried with the game’s response on xitter than if the game is fun…
Renacles@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You do realize we got Baldurs Gate 3 in the last few years, right?
Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 days ago
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a AA game from Larian, a Belgian developer which is private and not a public company traded in the stock market.