53
Why do modern games look so "fuzzy"
(hexbear.net)
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
3rd International Volunteer Brigade (Hexbear gaming discord)
Rules
Devs push graphics beyond their reasonable limits in some weird arms-race.
Hollow Knight, Celeste, hell even Cruelty Squad all look amazing in their own ways. Graphics need to be smarter, not harder to process.
To me the most prominent example is the start of this generation: when the PS5 and Series X came out all the games were like 4k and 60/120, but once games targeted that hardware it became joever. Jedi Survivor at like 792p FSR and sub 30fps.
Every time, haha. I miss the old days where devs pulled clever tricks, or outright didn't increase fidelity due to the hardware, not trying to push only photorealism for every game.
The push for photorealism has been to the detriment of everything else sadly.
Depressing, really. Art style over gritty realism any day.
Ikr Unique world spaces over everything looking like reality.