Ocean To Games
So I kinda stumbled into this whole debate after upgrading my PC recently, spent a lot of money mainly to run newer games on ultra settings, ray tracing and all that stuff, and at first it felt amazing, like yeah this is what I paid for. But after a couple of weeks I noticed something weird, I wasn’t actually enjoying most of the games that much, even though they looked insane visually.
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Yeah I went through almost the same realization but from the opposite direction, I never had a powerful setup so I got used to playing indie stuff or older titles, and at some point I stopped caring about graphics completely because I just couldn’t run those big flashy games anyway. Then later I upgraded and tried a bunch of visually impressive games, and while they looked great, a lot of them felt kind of empty after a few hours, like they were built to impress you at first glance but didn’t have that staying power. What really clicked for me was reading something like this https://oceantogames.com/graphics-are-dead-long-live-gameplay/ because it basically put into words what I was already feeling but couldn’t explain properly. It’s not even about graphics being bad, it’s more that they’ve reached a point where improvements don’t change the experience as much as they used to.