Re: CRAP Poll: Does The Tech Still Impress?

On 23/06/2024 21:09, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

But it occurred to me that aspect of gaming has largely been missing
from modern gaming. There's very little modern games do these days
that make wow me, at least from a technical front. Sure, developers
--especially the Indies-- still impress me with their artistic chops
or new game-play mechanics, but the underlying tech? It's all so
ordinary. Maybe the graphics are a little bit sharper, the framerate a
little bit smoother; perhaps the gameworlds are slightly larger and
the AI a little bit less brain-dead. But nothing that sets me aback
the way it used to.

That's pretty much my view on it, the days of sitting back and being amazed when I first played Far Cry are long gone. I think the last game that wowed me with it's visuals from a tech point of view was probably La Noir.
Possibly one of the reasons is that the underlying tech has outstripped the budgets of devs to use it which I don't necessarily see as a bad thing. Saying that I still have a lot of nostalgia for the early days of the Specky 48k where devs really pushed the capabilities of it to the limits.