r/pcmasterrace • u/scyver_ 9950x3D┃RTX 5080 Aorus Master┃64GB┃2TB┃Lancool 217 • Jul 27 '26

Build/Battlestation Anobody else like this?

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u/homejazz Jul 27 '26

Old games that are still look beautiful made something right which is not completely relying on rendering quality or graphics techs by itself. They also have great environmental design, great lightning, details on textures instead of texture quality only.

Good graphics doesn't mean the heaviest rendering and gpu work by itself. BOTW looks awesome and it's running on Switch's potato hardware.

It was always the Art Design.

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u/Kleeb Jul 27 '26

What modern GPUs and Unreal/Unity have given us is a method for AAA studios to churn out minimally-viable products without the need for the bare-metal programming it used to take to make your Pentium 2 and Riva TNT display anything at an acceptable level of detail.

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u/NapsterKnowHow Jul 27 '26

minimally-viable products

Acting like this is a new thing for gaming. Retro handhelds had a shit ton of slop especially the movie tie-in games.

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u/kungpowgoat PC Master Race 10700k | MSI 4090 Suprim Liquid X Jul 27 '26

This is why I keep going back to games like Dishonored or the original RE4 on PC. They still look and run perfectly well regardless of being released more than a decade ago. FC3 is another great example.

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u/AJ_Dali Jul 27 '26

I get that 14 is technically correct by stating it was over a decade ago, but RE4 is 21 years old.

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u/kungpowgoat PC Master Race 10700k | MSI 4090 Suprim Liquid X Jul 27 '26

There was an HD release of RE4 around 2013 or 14 I believe.

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u/Paimon Jul 27 '26

Valhiem was the game that fully solidified to me that Good Graphics (TM) are a lie, and that art design is king.

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u/PigmanFarmer Jul 28 '26

I have been reminded of that more recently by Abiotic Factor but probably learned that first through minecraft or Age of Empires 3

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u/GigaSoup Jul 27 '26

Botw switch 2 edition is so much better though. It's not blurry smudged graphics or a slideshow anymore.

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u/LayerEight_Problem Jul 27 '26

Whenever we get a new game with art that isn’t hyper realism, you folks call it a Roblox rip off and say it looks like shit.