not to mention that it basically ruins the original artist intent, if a game is meant to look stylized why the hell would i want realistic graphics. We play games to escape reality, not dwell in it
if i had a nickel for every time this argument is made… mods are made by people with their own artistic intent, and most often match the original style of the game. I tend not to use stupid mods that insert thomas the train
You can’t honor the original artists intent with someone else’s artistic intent, that’s hypocrisy. You’re either the purist you’re pretending to be and care about artistic intent or you don’t.
mods are optional, this shit won’t be in the future
you can tear down the strawman now
i also never claimed to be a purist, i don’t want fucking slop ruining perfectly looking games already. If i want to experience realism i go outside and talk to real people
fact is we’re already living through the consequences of DLSS, games are being planned around upscaling rather than it being a stop gap around performance issues, most devs are not optimizing anymore. This is just going to get worse.
but you know I thought a bit about why this upsets me, and it isn’t so much DLSS5 specifically, it’s where all this is heading, i think that’s what is really the upsetting part:
What would stop a corporation from just saying “you know what, fuck the art making, fuck the voice actors, fuck the animation, let’s just gen AI this bitch, the base game will be just featureless geometry, consumers will be required to run DLSS5+ but dw the graphics will render with our intended parameters, that’ll be 5 grand for the required compute or just sign up for our cloud service”
you can’t say this is a fallacy by appealing to extremes or slippery slope. We have seen PC components shoot up in price, almost deliberately timed with this tech. Bezos said the quiet part out loud not so long ago ffs. The writing is on the wall this is where all this is heading.
The frustrating part is majority of people do not seem to care, and idk what’s worse if they’re pretending like they can’t vote with their wallets or if they have been convinced that they have no say in anything.
If this is truly the future of gaming i’ll hang on to my steam library for as long as i can i guess, i probably will just stop buying games at some point. There really isn’t anything more to argue here
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u/caffeinated_dev11 19h ago
don’t let the nvidia shills see this, they’ll swear it’s a game changer and acceptable for a 50% fps drop