Why do boomer games that are over a decade old look ten times better with Ray Tracing than current gen games that are shilled as the best looking shit ever, like Cyber Punk, Alan Wake 2, and the RE remakes?
>>729218742>shilled as the best looking shit everjournalists are bribed to convince you that 2 + 2 = 5
>>729218742Games back then weren't made by a gorillion Indians.
hand crafted textures do all the heavy lifting in those old games and the lighting is just a cherry on top. in modern games most textures are procedural mush that rely on lighting to look good
>>729218742Because ray tracing is great
>>729219413>Procedural mush Partially incorrect, partially correct. Textures in, say, cyberpunk are generally extremely realistic even without lighting. The issue is YOU DONT WANT REALISTIC TEXTURES if you want the game to look good. You dont look things from 10cm away when playing, so all the realistic details wont get noticed. Hence the textures look "flat" and need lighting to highlight things. Old games exaggerate things they want to highlight because resolution/lighting limitations, so things pop out more. As a result you subconsciously pick up more of those details. Its funny that traditional artists have largely abandoned photorealism for this very reason, but gaming industry still pushes for photorealism (plus of course the overtly reflective surfaces to have at least some shiny highlights pop up).
>>729219473>Because ray tracing is greatThen why to modern games look worse than OP's image?
>>729218742Shills will unironically say dogshit like pic related looks better.
>>729219947RT can't fix dogshit artstyle.
>>729219947because only shitslop gets it like indiana jones, doom ages and cyberjunk, all of which have garbage artstylesthe only decent one is alan wake 2 unironically but even that pales in comparison to games they did before WITHOUT gaytracing due to lower budgets
>>729219743>Partially incorrect, partially correct
>>729218742NVE is such a good mod. Peak as fuck.
>>729222189I'm kind worried that Rockstar will go the same route as UE5 and GTA6 will look and run worse than modded GTA5. If they don't make the same mistakes as other modern engines I will pay $100 for that game on that principle alone, I'm kind of starved for a AAA game that actually looks like what they should be looking like by now.So far I'm only seeing red flags.
>>729221943>Anon unable to comprehend nuances, has to think in black and whiteLiteral autism
