I thought so as well until I played stalker 2 and got the frustration of getting launched in random directions when trying to jump on walls and such (you know a part of the game, stalking)

They needed to use two whole ass 5090s to fuck up a game character that already looked great (and even sexualised to a degree). This anti gamer crap is funny since they are a consumer group that gets called out if they want less and also called out if they want more, they get called every silly thing when ever someone (normally by the very people working in the industry that relies on those very consumers) has nothing of value to say.

This move has been almost universally panned by the very people they are trying to sell to. The idea that what any market wants changes is also not at all new or odd. We are in interesting times where most have issues buying food and shelter and yet here we are being pissy about gamers not wanting to spend literal 1000s of dollars on hardware to run things that are seen more and more as greed fueled slop. And this flopping of “new” tech is also not new or odd at all, do we all forget the many many examples of tech that the market just does not embrace?

Oh shit you are right! This is just modern day greebling.

All of a sudden Tung Tung Tung Sahur is looking pretty dang good.

Two 5090s can hardly be considered a consumer gpu set up. (They are over $5000 each here at the moment).

Hey remember when rtx was going to great and not turned off by almost every gamer? Remember when 3d TVs would replace regular ones? Remember when Crossfire/SLI was not just a waste of time?

I am sure this time for sure they will eventually get it working in a non ass way.

Well to be fair most people have not seen borderlands 4 as it was not exactly as sucsessful as the earlyer titles (partly due to stupid shit like frame gen)

Oh what you don’t like the inconsistent physics? But everything in UE5 is so slippery and shiny…

Most PS1 era games are like 500 MB and last I checked things like COD take 300 ish GB. So really we are talking about a 600X change in size.

I think most people would like that, hell most games that seem to do well almost go counter to the massive size and style

looking at the current top 15 games on steam (by player counts) seems to show not a ton of super high fidelity games on the list, and games like helldivers 2 and ark raiders seem almost nice looking as a side effect.

More like the people paying the artists have the final say. There is no reason to think that the art direction that is already stifled somehow becomes less so with a tool that seems hell bent on encroaching on their work.

The giving every person a light source directly in their faces was a choice. Its like everyone is streaming with a “halo” light.

Can’t wait to see it “improve” mass effect andromeda.

Just imagine this but with 16x the detail and 100x the needed processing, and with sexy makeup!

It looks like what wrinkles do if someone is covered in soot and then wipes their face. The definition of the wrinkles is insane.

Oh yeah, this is going to create some really weird effects if done on everything. These are the “best” examples as well, so lighting no longer being directional is a best case scenario. I just don’t get why though, who wants this?

I thought the super glossy look of the unreal 5 demo was off putting and things could not look worse, but here we are. Just hyper stupid everything. Older —> Hag of the ages, Woman ----> Whore makeup, and then what else? Will the men look like the chad meme? will younger characters all be wearing shadow and mascara? Will everything get massive tits? (OK that one might sell).

Its like everything is now passed through a Instagram filter, but somehow even more vapid.

Edit:

Oh dear you where not kidding:

Hmmm I also just thought of how this is it looking the “best” for the demo and that most of the time it will just be the makeup gun set to “whore”

Thanks! I hate it!

Well yeah, someone has to think of the children (and their apparent love of tentacles that is only matched by the intensity of their homophobia).

Wait, solar panels are hard to use? When did they fuck that up?

“Let them eat ram”