something that seems to have happened in the AAA games industry, from my limited armchair op-ed viewpoint, is that the industry doesn’t seem to have ever grown out of masturbating over ever-increasing realism and high-fidelity graphics for the sake of it, even though we probably hit the threshold at which the average player would actually care about realism long ago, and the industry is actively dragging itself down over it. we need to expend absurd hardware resources just to show we Can and that we’re Capable in the current industry and that we aren’t graphically—technologically—behind the competition. fuck development costs, fuck the user’s storage space, fuck our developers, fuck sustainability
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i mean a good part of it is that the console manufacturers need to sell new consoles and that means selling games that are Only Playable on the newest console, rather than it being "Masturbatory" its that they get straight up incentives from the console companies in order for keeping the social contract going
Yes. exactly. couls not have said it bette rmyslef
absolutely yeah. consoles have always been a huge factor in this kind of thing and it’s definitely still one of the main driving forces of it
Way back in 2015 I sat in a talk by art director(?) of The Witcher 3 and one thing he said in that talk was that their goal was for the visuals to look "like a 9/10 game".
It always struck me as a weird phrase, but in a way having wasteful, photorealistic graphics is also a bit about showing how opulent your game is in terms of the resources it was able to spend, while still functioning.
Kind of like putting gold leaf on a piece of food. It doesn't really do anything, it doesn't add anything, but it suggests luxury and wastefulness.
my god yes exactly. that’s a perfect metaphor, the gold leaf thing