unironically the constant push for higher-fidelity graphics in games is so frustrating. there’s no breathing room for PC or console hardware. any and all gains in hardware performance are immediately mulched by developers deciding their game needs to be 210gb and run at 8k resolutions with completely unoptimized high-resolution textures for every fucking thing on screen and also every light needs to have 4k dynamic shadow maps and volumetric effects and there’s egregious particle effects all over the place
and then the actual gameplay itself sucks too but nobody notices because shiny jingling keys
