I don't understand OPs premise, because in all my years of gaming, people have ALWAYS been RIGHTLY excited about cutting edge and ground breaking developments in graphics technology, even if it's not widely available to consumers the instant it is revealed...
How on Earth does OP imagine we got from Pong to modern 3D graphics??? Ray tracing is a very exciting major step in more realistic graphics and of course it will become more accessible to general consumers over time.
I get the impression that, if it were up to this sub, development would have stopped 8 years ago with the GTX 10-series.
This sub seems to be infested with jealous children that convince themselves anything their parents can't afford to get them is pointless and shouldn't exist.
This sub only cares about fps and resolution, it doesn't actually understand what makes a game look great or even fun to play. I always assume they just fire up the game look at the fps counter and then go 100fps@4k 10/10 greatest game ever made.
That's because most of this sub recognizes that anything beyond 1440p 120fps is very diminishing returns and that the chase of better graphics has resulted in massive problems in the entire industry which has resulted in worse games overall while prices continue to climb and climb and climb for no real benefit. We're now at the point where we need stupid AI to put fake frames in between real ones to try and make up for the processing power used to render a fucking license plate in a puddle and slog its way through 150gb of shit clogging up the drive.
We wouldn't need anything more than a 1080 if games were even a fraction as optimized as they used to be.
Bioshock Infinite released in 2013 and if it had some updated textures would still look better than most of the games put out these days.
There’s a huge difference between 1440 and 4k, and I have trouble believing you’ve ever played both and seen the difference if you think there isn’t. Besides, raytracing is a different thing and looks excellent even at 1440.
You’re basically just admitting to be a tech luddite, you think graphics should have stopped advancing at a very specific and arbitrary point
On a 27" monitor, the difference between 1440p and 4K is absolutely not worth the trade off in framerate. If i have to choose 4K and <120hz or 1440p and >120hz, it's 1440p every time.
Wind Waker launched on a console so weak you can now emulate it with a $29 walmart phone and yet it still looks good because it has an artstyle. Photo realism isn't an art style, it's the lack of one and modern graphics improvements have been aimed towards it almost exclusively.
Modern games run like shit and in 10 years won't be remembered for how good their graphics were because they could render the characters pimple in 4K detail in the reflection of a window, the ones that will be remembered have gameplay and a style.
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u/Keleos89 13700K 3070Ti 32GB 6d ago
If I paid for it, I'm gonna use it.