When I was but a youngster, I loved reading about what games were coming out. Now I'm older and wiser, and couldn't give two shits. If it's not something I can play today, I simply don't care. It'll come out when it comes out, and once it's out I'll watch actual reviews by real people. I have no need for corporate hype machines to sell me on what they'll be releasing in a year or two, only to be let down because they had to cut budgets and meet deadlines. Whether it's E3 or Microsoft or Sony or whatever event, it's all meaningless until I can exchange money for it.
Back then there were much fewer games and we could be looking for major improvements. Magazines were fun to read because of that.
Computers have been able to run high quality graphics and relatively demanding games for so long, there are several great games, and a truckload of good or average ones in every genre and they don't look like ass.
The technological wiggle-room is so big now even small studios can make gems. ( And the 2 games I bothered buying in the past years were made by small studios and look great. )
Plus many classics of the SNES era aged so well their graphic style is still appreciated today.
So my excitement for new games that make a selling point of pushing for more RAM/GPU/CPU-demanding microscopically-acurate graphics is near zero.
Great visuals have been around for very long and somehow studios manage to make stuff look like ass. Very detailed, fluid, shaded, ray-traced crap.
Sometimes deliberately uglifying the characters.
Rest in the woke death pit, E3.
We have enough classics to let the big woke names die without regrets.
When I was but a youngster, I loved reading about what games were coming out. Now I'm older and wiser, and couldn't give two shits. If it's not something I can play today, I simply don't care. It'll come out when it comes out, and once it's out I'll watch actual reviews by real people. I have no need for corporate hype machines to sell me on what they'll be releasing in a year or two, only to be let down because they had to cut budgets and meet deadlines. Whether it's E3 or Microsoft or Sony or whatever event, it's all meaningless until I can exchange money for it.
Me too.. i enjoyed reading gaming mags and game manuals.
Back then there were much fewer games and we could be looking for major improvements. Magazines were fun to read because of that.
Computers have been able to run high quality graphics and relatively demanding games for so long, there are several great games, and a truckload of good or average ones in every genre and they don't look like ass.
The technological wiggle-room is so big now even small studios can make gems. ( And the 2 games I bothered buying in the past years were made by small studios and look great. )
Plus many classics of the SNES era aged so well their graphic style is still appreciated today.
So my excitement for new games that make a selling point of pushing for more RAM/GPU/CPU-demanding microscopically-acurate graphics is near zero.
Great visuals have been around for very long and somehow studios manage to make stuff look like ass. Very detailed, fluid, shaded, ray-traced crap.
Sometimes deliberately uglifying the characters.
Rest in the woke death pit, E3.
We have enough classics to let the big woke names die without regrets.