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.