Comment on Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Popularity of games like Minecraft would suggest players don’t really care about ultra graphics that much if you just make a fun game. The art style should be good, but it doesn’t have to be graphically demanding.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Valheim is another example where less is more. The textures are pixalated but the lighting, colors, basic designs are all evocative and convey enough to recognize everything in the game. I find it more immersion than a highly detailed design where the imperfections catch my eye.

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  • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, but: then you have RTX and shader mods even for that and you don't know what to think anymore😄

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Vast majority of people don’t use those

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      • jaycifer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If it was a button you pushed once instead of something you need to download and set up do you think they still wouldn’t use it?

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  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    the first*, eight and tenth most purchased games of all time are 2d games with pixel art graphics

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You won’t hear arguments from me on that, but it’s still a problem that happens along a spectrum as you scale graphics up, too.

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• altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If we assume the faith of most games gets decided by a board of directors based on a short 10-slides pitch, it’s easy to see that videos and screenshots, made up numbers and popular hashtags (openworld, moba, ai) are what lets them be greenlit. Pertnering up with AMD/NVIDIA so they patch drivers for your project alone, so your game at least launches, is pro and not a con.

  EA doesn’t have fly wrinkles and we do, with the help of AI, in Betamax 9k MetaHD.

  The only way to get under surface for a tripple A game publishers is test groups, but I don’t think this can touch the question of gfx/performance/effort because everything is presented on capable hardware, scenes handcrafted to impress, and it’s hard to point out anything about visuals unless they are hella ugly.

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