This, but unironically. Games don't even need such realistic graphics, anyway - I'd much rather play a stylized or even 2d game where the devs focused on mechanics and fun, rather than pretty lights.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

fuck graphics all games should be text-based from now on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

$ crawl

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 9 months ago

Zork was the shit.

[–] uis 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Text-based minecraft

[–] Soleos 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Right, but then someone will rebuild Minecraft in text-based Minecraft with a 3D rendering engine displayed through ASCII

[–] uis 1 points 9 months ago

Sounds doable. Something like 192x108 characters should work great on software rasterizer. For heavy loads you can use paletted mode of GPU.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Minecraft, ULTRAKILL, Undertale, Celeste

all of them some of the best games in my opinion, how many use ray tracing? ZERO.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hollow Knight, Crosscode, Hades, Dead Cells, Signalis, Dusk, Outer Wilds, Underrail, and more are all great examples of relatively modern games that kill it in the graphical department without using anything fancy.

Edit, because this is fun: Boltgun, Sea of Stars, the Bloodborne PS1 demake, Tunic, and more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Minecraft shaders look great though, especially the rtx one for bedrock. If it was more open source, I'm sure ray tracing would be great to implement into shaders.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

i was talking about unmodded java edition

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Celeste still has really nice lighting in places, imo, but you are right, it all just comes from good colour choice and artistic skill, not some premade graphics option that they flipped on.

[–] Zekas 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Garbage take. Few things are truly needed outside of the game being enjoyable and "good" graphics can absolutely be something contributing to that. For some good is pixel graphics, for others it's near realism. You don't get to decide for anyone but you.

[–] Moneo 3 points 9 months ago

Yup. Currently I'm on the indie hype train, but games like The Witcher and Red Dead are also very fun and benefit from good graphics.

[–] Gabu -3 points 9 months ago

Spoken like a true garbage eating normie

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Half of the shit that is praised today are basically subpar rendered movies with little gameplay elements.

Might aswell play a visual novel and atleast get a good story instead.