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Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good
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I have a computer from 2017. It's also a Mac. I can't play recent games and I think I've just gotten more and more turned off by the whole emphasis on better graphics and the need to spend ridiculous amounts of money on either a console or a really good graphics card for a PC has just turned me off of mainstream gaming completely.
Mostly I just go play games I played when I was a kid these days. 1980s graphics and yet I have yet to get tired of many of them...
I can think of many older games in dire need of facelifts, but the thing is they don't need a facelift into photo-realistic territory. Just enough to bring the vision out from developers reaching just a little further than their old tech could support. I'm thinking of a lot of early 3D games. Many of the older sprite based games still hold up great.
The AAA gaming industry has gone off the rails trying to wow us with graphics and the novelty has long worn off.
I would argue they don't even need to be updated. They were fun already in their time. I wish people would just come up with totally new ideas. I don't need the same characters in every game I play. Same with movies now too Everything is a remake or a sequel.
I love to play indie games though.
I've got an old Mac and use a cloud gaming PC to play games. It's like $50 a month and works great when you're near the data center.
Plus my laptop doesn't get really hot while playing games and the battery lasts a lot longer. All while getting 4k 60fps gaming with ray tracing.
I could not justify spending $50 a month on something like that and then buy games on top of it, but I am glad there are solutions.