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I want it all. Good graphics, good audio design, good music, good story, good gameplay. There aren’t many games that do everything right, but as a dude in his 40’s I don’t have that much time to play games either. There are enough games that tick all boxes to fill the limited time I do have.
Good graphics are relative to the era and hardware available. With my lack of interest in following GPU trends, especially their price trends, the retro revival shooters have been very kind to me. Dusk, Ion Fury and Amid Evil are all art in their design even if they don't overheat your card.
Just get the latest console every generation, you get the good graphics for a fraction of the price.
More then I feel like spending on games I'm not interested in.
Kind of depends on what genres you're interested in. For my taste (single player, story driven) most good games are PlayStation exclusive, at least on release. Sony absolutely has that market cornered.
The indie scene has plenty of single player, story driven shooters. Hell, it's what they excel. Plus, when they do cringe dialog, it's on purpose.
I've honestly reached a point where I would gladly take PS2 graphics over the terrible performance and constant stuttering of most modern games.
Shit one of the best games I've seen promoted is the Bloodbornekart made by a fan using the ps1 demake graphics. Looks Hella fun
I share that most of my games are locked at 45fps, 78fps if it’s a competitive shooter. You brain notices inconsistent frame rates, just turn off your fps counter and get used to it.
I'd like to add that game graphics are not as important as file size.
Games that are 100+gb file size are just on my shit list, I don't care how good they are.
I wonder if it's just an optimization problem, assets like movies and textures are not being compressed properly. Fighting games like Tekken have no business being 80gb...
It could also happen because all localised audio is bundled together instead of being available as an optional download.
Wholeheartedly disagree. HDD prices keep going down, you just have this idea stuck in your head that "100GB is huge" when really that is 1.50€ assuming you store the game indefinetly
Yeah but an HDD happens to be rather slow to load these games. Specially with the bigger ones, obviously. So then you need SSD, which aren't that cheap nor big.
You can get 1tb ssd for around 50€
I just took a look, and I can get a 30TB external SSD in multiple colors for $84.90 with free shipping....
Gonna have to squeeze one into next year's budget.....
While your point is correct, that is likely fake storage.
No, really. File sizes are always gonna go up. You're missing out on some great games if you keep doing that. Just an advice.
Over 1000 hrs in Factorio can attest to that
Current factorio graphics are actually pretty nice
Point and click adventures
On the one hand, they were fun back in the day. On the other, who the fuck is supposed to intuitively figure out that I need a plate of spaghetti to give the bouncer? He didn't say he was hungry, there was no indication that he wanted food to let me pass, it was totally random in far too many cases.
new video games have slowly become an interest that i can just flat out not afford anymore
back in the day you could play a good chunk of stuff with the kind of shoddy office pc anyone had in the home, but its gotten to the point where there is an entry fee of nearly if not over a fucking grand to actually play the latest pc games, with the required upgrades to stay up to date not exactly being cheap either
i dont think im all that far from the average pc gamer, and triple A titles effectively are not made for me anymore
Their are still plenty of great games that aren't triple A titles or require lots of gpahic upgrades. Just to name a few, hotline Miami, ultrakill, cruelty squad, and more, all made either by stand alone dev teams or sponcerned by good companies like devolver digital.
Their son plays fortnight on min settings, he knows.
When playing a game, graphics are put on the back burner for me because I care more about things like mechanics, gameplay, and music.
I could be playing the absolute most beautiful looking game in existence, but if your music sounds like it came from a 1st grade music class or your mechanics and gameplay play like an edutainment game aimed at babies, I'm dropping your game quicker than my brothers friend losing his hair in highschool.
Brother's friend in shambles
Yep, you want gameplay so good your brain can turn 8 bit into reality.
I swear NES and SNES were near photorealistic in my head in the 90s.
YOU ARE INSIDE A BUILDING, A WELL HOUSE FOR A LARGE SPRING.
Look left
That’s why games like OSRS flourish
I totally agree. I much prefer Stardew Valley and SkyCraft over Subnautica, because gameplay > graphics
Uh, subnautica was fun?
Well, I suppose it's a personal preference.
Idk man, I've avoided Civ6 because of its mobile game-ass graphics.
I mean, your loss?
Because I'm not willing to put up with off-putting artstyle? I'm ok with that.
Even the UI in Civ5 had nice art deco theme going on. Civ6 just looks bland.
Yeah they are. I don't care how good the gameplay is, if you want me to play that shit at 10fps you can go fly a kite.
Yet nerds screetch over titles like Jedi survivor which have minor slow downs.
But that's an example of developers choosing graphics over gameplay. The gameplay experience is worse if the game stutters.
Slow downs aren't nearly as much of an issue as microstutters. Jedi Survivor has stutters that exist regardless of the graphical options or power of your build.