Fuck cutting-edge graphics
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2024
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Anno 1800 looks great, better than all the previous titles and is definitely a plus
Sounds more like a tooling issue. The tech exists, the hardware can run it but the tools don't exist to make it feasible in a reasonable timeframe/with a reasonably sized dev team. Corners are being cut on optimization or relying on hardware brute forcing it.
I guess normies still equate graphic quality with overall game quality, so that's why there's such a big emphasis on photorrealism for many AAA games. An old colleague from university, ~2010, only liked to play the shiniest, "best looking" stuff and scoffed at 2D games, "we're way past super nintendos".
They pushed this on us so they can make us buy new video cards every other year.
Is this article from a decade ago when the Nintendo Wii proved that graphics don't mean shit if the gameplay sucks?