It took less than half that time for Morrowind and Oblivion to look dated and ugly.Ī lot of modern video games look way too freaking busy. On the other hand, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim received a bit of a graphical overhaul with its Special Edition and that game is still a treat for my eyes, even though my brain knows that it's seven years old now. Metro Last Light still looks fantastic, too, and it is five years old now.

As far as my own eyes are concerned, Cyberpunk 2077 looks marginally better than the Witcher 3, a game that will be at least four years old by the time Cyberpunk 2077 comes out. Rendering those assets ain't easy, and it ain't cheap either.īut on a personal level, I kind of don't care anymore how much better-looking games get.

So video game graphics these days are very impressive, especially when you consider the raw amount of manpower and computing power they require. You also have Red Dead Redemption 2 coming out pretty soon that appears equally handsome.Īnyways, are my standards low? What do you think about the graphics from the current batch of consoles? Are you impressed as I am? And though I haven't played them, third party games like Resident Evil 7, Batman Arkham Knight, and especially Battlefront 1 look unbelievable as far as I can tell. Sony's kinda crushing it in this department with titles like Uncharted 4, Horizon, God of War, and Spider-Man.

On the other hand, looking at the current gen 'next-gen' demos shown before the launch of PS4/XBO like Epic's Samaritan, Capcom's Deep Down, Quantic Dream's wizard guy, and Square-Enix's Agni's Philosophy, not only were we not lied to but in fact, what we have today surpasses the promises made. It seemed like many ppl were understandably disappointed by the downgrades of games like Watch_Dogs and The Witcher 3. I don't know if my expectations were set low because of those reasons or because of the ridiculous ways console manufactures, developers, and publishers hyped next-gen graphics when the 360/PS3 were coming out but I almost can't believe how good games look these days. There were complaints even before the releases of PS4/XBO about the weakness of the CPU and some ppl theorized that because of the familiarity of the x86 architecture, developers wouldn't be able to squeeze out much more than what we'd see early in the life-cycle. I've been immensely impressed the past two or so years.

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