GTA: San Andreas and Cyberpunk 2077 for anyone wondering (like me)
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Almonds@mander.xyz 6 days ago
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 days ago
And for any unaware CP is sometimes used as an acronym for Child Rape Media but I don’t think its very fitting, personally.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I thought “CP” was “Child Pornography”
tpyo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Thank you, that gave me a pause and I couldn’t get past that to figure out what games those were
qwertyasdf@feddit.uk 6 days ago
CP is great, I can’t get enough of CP!
ceenote@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Don’t undersell SA. I wouldn’t be the person I am today without SA in my childhood.
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 6 days ago
cries in German
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 6 days ago
This user right here, officer.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 days ago
D_C@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Donvict Drumpf, is that you?
ddplf@szmer.info 6 days ago
Acronym puns aside. I just don’t get it, to me it feels like there was no groundbreaking or even major breakthroughs in gaming ever since, like what, 2011? Alright, 2015.
85-95? Revolutionizing 95-05? Revolutionizing 05-15? Revolutionizing 15-now? ??? ??? Eh???
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 days ago
I’d say the last big “revolutionizing” thing in gaming was the release of the Nintendo Switch in 2017. All of the current handhelds owe their success to the Switch.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You… you do realize we were handheld gaming long before the Switch, right? Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Nomad, GBA, NDS, 3DS, plus emulation handhelds have been around since the early 2010s, and I’ve personally been gaming with 7" and 8" tablets with telescopic controllers since 2013.
How exactly do all current handhelds owe their success to the Switch?
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Depends where you’re looking and how you define “Revolution”; even in those earlier eras, they were just advancements of techniques that had previously been invented but were impractical til that point.
So I’d say VR hardware has had a revolution during the that time.
Environmental destruction (real and virtual lol)
Real time ray tracingIt’s hard to really discuss without knowing the kinds of things you found revolutionising in those eras.
BenevolentOne@infosec.pub 5 days ago
We truly are in the Dreamcast vs. N64 years of VR gaming.
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
These years are revolutionary in the boom of indie game development in my opinion
BenevolentOne@infosec.pub 5 days ago
It takes a little over 10 years to recognize that a game (or anything really) was revolutionary. You have to wait until all of the chaff has been forgotten, leaving only the revolutionary games behind.
Here are some of my top picks for what folks will look back on when they right the 2025-2035 had no good games version of your post.
Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Vampire survivors. Hades. Elden Ring. Disco Elysium.
And one which will probably be a cult classic/sleeper hit: Return of the Obra Dinn.
Just for a start.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Im skeptical about elden ring. Isn’t it just a polished version of souls?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Major things for me are the rise of kernel anti cheat (revolutions don’t have to be good), and the rise of linux gaming–both the steam deck and linux gaming in general (the solution to both MS and a passive prevention of kernel level bs). Around 2015, barely any games ran on linux, but today most do unless they have that kernel level anti-cheat or the makers specifically wanted to exclude linux users.
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
dont forget the advent of horse armor
BenevolentOne@infosec.pub 5 days ago
That was in 2011, 15 years ago.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
One could argue that ray tracing is the current item, but unfortunately no one has been able to truly maximize the quality or performance…
Cp2077 with the godlike ray tracing does look really good, but requires a ridiculous setup to see it.
I would also suggest frame gen or scaling as another new improvement. Being able to basically realtime render a lower resolution and scale it (non-ML based) is an incredible engineering feat.
Frame gen does have a (small) place as well. There are legitimate reasons to use it to improve performance. With dedicated hardware it becomes an easy way to improve FPS (some) on lower end hardware.
2015-present may not have had such tectonic shifts, but in a lot of ways, we can now do more with less and fine tune an experience we enjoy.
ddplf@szmer.info 5 days ago
I had all of these in mind when I was writingthis my previous comment and that’s why I posted it.
To me, they are all very underwhelming and redundant.
Mechaguana@programming.dev 5 days ago
Its pretty good, just that it’s not affordable to the peasants like us who cant run stuff in 8k. And even if we could, we can’t expect devs to optimize for 8k hardware pathtracing ai assisted npc interactions with a splash of god’s very own jizz.
I am impatient however for vr to catch up it doesnt make sense to make such immersive worlds to just project it on a flat screen with the tech we have now.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Moore’s law ended. Stuff done in 15 couldn’t be done in 5. But there’s not much we can do now that we couldn’t do 15.
Blubber28@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think it’s more so because it took a long time to figure out the basics, and now we have them to build further upon. Take cars, for example. Can you think of any revolutionary cars from recent years? The first ever cars were revolutionary. The Ford model T was revolutionary because of its assembly and availability to the masses. The first few hybrids and EVs could also be seen as such. But other than that? Nah.
Perhaps a car enthusiast would like to correct me, that’s fine. I admit I know very little when it comes to cars. But this is my perception at least.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
the “revolutionary” breakthroughs, which i experienced (so it’s subjective) we’re hl1 for graphics and hl2 for it’s physics engine. everything else felt like gradual improvements of those.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
ok, i should add that I’m not playing any so-called AAA games for a decade or two. they somehow always turned out to be a waste ;)
gegil@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Truly the two of the greatest games in gaming history.
Its funny how now the giant companies with infinte money just make 20 years old games but with unreal graphics. I wonder, how the advances in gamedev technlogy will turn out for indie devs in same 20 years.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 days ago
Godot and Unreal are both improving in different directions but honestly I don’t think small crews will be any less limited by their time needed to create than they are now.
gegil@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
People were always limited by time. Its just that now developers can reuse solutions created by people who already spent time on inventing them.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I would like to think a lot. Just because some are going this route doesn’t mean all of them are. I have played a lot of games with some new game mechanics that werent around and it will continue to happen.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Im glad they appreciate the differences.
I can clearly see that one is superior to the other, but it doesnt feel like 16 years worth of upgrades. They dont look different enough to me.
jackintosh@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Going from Mario Bros. to Unreal within a childhood was a bigger jump!
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yeah seriously. Playing Mario and duck hunt, then jumping up to mario 64 and goldeneye, and then half life 2 a few years later was absolutely wild.
Redfox8@mander.xyz 5 days ago
Go back another 20 years and you’ll find Manic Miner & Horace goes skiing…wait that’s a little early… Donkey Kong Jr & Chopper Command were released in 1982. 80s to 90s probably had the biggest step up, no doubt due to the introduction of consoles.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah theyre a bit before my time but I played a lot on my dad’s hoard. I still remember how excited he was showing off how many colours you could have on screen on donkey Kong country.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
This is a 16 year gap, not 20. 20 years before San Andreas, Super Mario Bros. wasn’t even out yet.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Experiencing the original Donkey Kong lcd handheld as a child and TLOU as an adult is pretty amazing
LouNeko@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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Aneb@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Lmao I just finished the series. Need to watch El Camino, and Better Call Saul now
onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Better Call Saul is one of the best TV shows ever made, so under appreciated.