You should change the title to “Literally no one:”
Arrathem
1998*
Wittusus
I mean, there are games with beautiful graphics that can run with mid-tier hardware
dontironit
Love how the newest one is dated five years ago
Flussschlauch
I showed my girlfriend the intro cutscene from Final Fantasy VIII last night and how it blew me away when I was 12 years old.
we’ve come a long way baby
Susaph
I don’t remember anyone saying that about GTA back then at 2013. Quite the opposite actually.
vexx
Honestly in 2013 I was in awe of GTA 5. What an insanely impressive game.
Sketch914
This the most based meme I’ve ever seen.
TrashTurtle1
Fucking spaghetti 🍝 code is to blame.
McAkkeezz
The Beta-Barney model has been forsaken by God
BorealKnightAtomic
Maaaan I miss warzone but to the graphics thing I love my good old nintendo ds with pokemon platinum and saphire
Loqh9
To me Battlefield 1 is a perfect example of where we should “”stop”” improving graphics UNLESS it comes at a moderate performance cost. I don’t want games to look better than Battlefield 1. I think it’s very beautiful, cinematic and immersive. Just make things run better. Things shouldn’t look worse and run worse. Things shouldn’t be made with “magic DLSS will fix terrible performance” in mind and having people upgrade PC parts every few years to keep up when graphics aren’t even improving/improving in any meaningful way
Fastenbauer
Tell me that you stole a five years old post without telling me that you stole a five years old post.
Beniu9876
Nobody in 2013 said gta5 looked bad
DisdudeWoW
Gta V was fucking mindblowing in 2013 tho
Kimikazi_18
Half-life 2’s graphics was way ahead of it’s time
JaffaRebellion
What’s funny is that GTA 5 on PC still holds up, and the enhanced edition even runs well on affordable hardware. I’m getting over 100 FPS with RTX and everything cranked up to max on a 3060Ti. It’s remarkably well-optimized.
wigneyr
I don’t think anyone in 2013 said that about gta 5
PotatoFarmer44
I refer everyone to Crysis… I wish games came out today with that sort of leap. The problem is that game come out looking the same as games that were released years ago while running significantly worse. It’s not the same.
NickThePask
Switch 2013 and 2020. GTA looked awesome when it came out but was difficult to run even on high end hardware. Most modern games on the other hand are terrible due to cheap AA methods like TAA FSR and DLSS.
Alarming-Stomach3902
Most companies just stopped optimizing their games, their are still some examples Nintendo (not the Pokemon Company though) and CD Project Red which still optimize their games among others.
Now it’s pixelated and blurry with not able to run. – 2025
Icy_Philosopher541
I just installed and played freelancer (2003) and even with the pixels and stuf I had the moost fun playing a game I have had in years
Modern games look nice but are mostly dead inside
Commander1709
Using a 5 year old meme to rant against “current” graphics is the perfect metaphor for this subreddit.
Good_Nyborg
gameplay > all, but every time there’s a remaster, too many yokels runs out and buy it.
Akuma-1
When I was a kid in 2013 and I played gta v, I thought nothing would beat that, there was no way to improve those graphics, and it was the xbox 360 version, not even at 1080 if I remember correctly
SpaceRac1st
And somehow the 2020 graphics will still looks worse than the 2013 ones…
Roth_Skyfire
I’ve been replaying NGC games with upscaled graphics, and still looks absolutely great. A game looking great shouldn’t require a big computer, just good artists, modellers and devs knowing how to optimise.
blackcomb-pc
2025: “Why do all games look the same?”
Mal_Dun
lol Games like Half-Life (Half Life looked similar to the first one and was 1998) were loved by the players but definitely not because of the graphics. The engine was Quake 2 which was already seen as outdated at that time.
Unreal came out in the same year and was much better graphics and Quake 3 was around the corner (1999)
NoRecommendation8724
Well today it has less to do with how good the graphics are and more to do with game companies can’t optimise their games in general to save their lives.
ElonTastical
Now with even worse fucking graphics thanks to forced blurry TAA or awful looking forced DLSS.
JeFi2
2025: This is blurry and noisy as shit, how can’t my PC run that?!?
TimeBoysenberry8587
Times are always changing . Since I got onto Reddit the time has gone from 11:10 to 11:11 .
I_think_Im_hollow
Nobody said GTAV looked pixelated when it came out for PS3/Xbox 360.
EdzyFPS
The more realistic games are getting, the less I want to play them.
I don’t know why, but they just feel weird to play and I get bored real fast.
b00c
in 1997 you hadn’t had many other things to compare it to.
twofacetoo
Aight I’m gonna drop a bomb on you here because I keep seeing this point being made and it keeps bothering me
It’s not about *looking* real, it’s about ***feeling*** real.
What made ‘Half Life’ feel so authentic wasn’t the graphics, it was the fact that you could walk into a room and turn off a light-switch, and NPCs in the room would say ‘what the hell are you doing?’ It’s the same with ‘Deus Ex’ for actually calling out the male player character if you go snoopinga round in the women’s bathroom.
It’s not about the game’s graphics, it’s about the game’s world recognising the player’s actions and reacting accordingly to them.
Coprolithe
Add a panel with Crysis 2007: Holy FUCK, how can it get better than this??
Fr, there are few games that just damaged our perception of what graphics were going to be, and they still hold up today.
LayeredHalo3851
If we just stopped making better graphics after the PS2 style then things would be downright jolly
Critical-Welder-7603
As one that lived through the 90s, no one ever said “My god it looks so real”.
Many said “Why the fckn audio is not working again”, “OpenGL makes it crash”, “let’s play Crossfire, was fun last time”
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Its evolutionizing , just backwards
https://preview.redd.it/6unuqbct56gf1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca1d77ef09260cde227039910834addc31a7e5b4
Peak fidelity
I doubt anyone said that looks real
You should change the title to “Literally no one:”
1998*
I mean, there are games with beautiful graphics that can run with mid-tier hardware
Love how the newest one is dated five years ago
I showed my girlfriend the intro cutscene from Final Fantasy VIII last night and how it blew me away when I was 12 years old.
we’ve come a long way baby
I don’t remember anyone saying that about GTA back then at 2013. Quite the opposite actually.
Honestly in 2013 I was in awe of GTA 5. What an insanely impressive game.
This the most based meme I’ve ever seen.
Fucking spaghetti 🍝 code is to blame.
The Beta-Barney model has been forsaken by God
Maaaan I miss warzone but to the graphics thing I love my good old nintendo ds with pokemon platinum and saphire
To me Battlefield 1 is a perfect example of where we should “”stop”” improving graphics UNLESS it comes at a moderate performance cost. I don’t want games to look better than Battlefield 1. I think it’s very beautiful, cinematic and immersive. Just make things run better. Things shouldn’t look worse and run worse. Things shouldn’t be made with “magic DLSS will fix terrible performance” in mind and having people upgrade PC parts every few years to keep up when graphics aren’t even improving/improving in any meaningful way
Tell me that you stole a five years old post without telling me that you stole a five years old post.
Nobody in 2013 said gta5 looked bad
Gta V was fucking mindblowing in 2013 tho
Half-life 2’s graphics was way ahead of it’s time
What’s funny is that GTA 5 on PC still holds up, and the enhanced edition even runs well on affordable hardware. I’m getting over 100 FPS with RTX and everything cranked up to max on a 3060Ti. It’s remarkably well-optimized.
I don’t think anyone in 2013 said that about gta 5
I refer everyone to Crysis… I wish games came out today with that sort of leap. The problem is that game come out looking the same as games that were released years ago while running significantly worse. It’s not the same.
Switch 2013 and 2020. GTA looked awesome when it came out but was difficult to run even on high end hardware. Most modern games on the other hand are terrible due to cheap AA methods like TAA FSR and DLSS.
Most companies just stopped optimizing their games, their are still some examples Nintendo (not the Pokemon Company though) and CD Project Red which still optimize their games among others.
https://preview.redd.it/v82h0esbj6gf1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6c14536a085d73f9c381e9b8f036a08074692f6
My eternal love
Doom was considered “hyper-realistic” at the time
Now it’s pixelated and blurry with not able to run. – 2025
I just installed and played freelancer (2003) and even with the pixels and stuf I had the moost fun playing a game I have had in years
Modern games look nice but are mostly dead inside
Using a 5 year old meme to rant against “current” graphics is the perfect metaphor for this subreddit.
gameplay > all, but every time there’s a remaster, too many yokels runs out and buy it.
When I was a kid in 2013 and I played gta v, I thought nothing would beat that, there was no way to improve those graphics, and it was the xbox 360 version, not even at 1080 if I remember correctly
And somehow the 2020 graphics will still looks worse than the 2013 ones…
I’ve been replaying NGC games with upscaled graphics, and still looks absolutely great. A game looking great shouldn’t require a big computer, just good artists, modellers and devs knowing how to optimise.
2025: “Why do all games look the same?”
lol Games like Half-Life (Half Life looked similar to the first one and was 1998) were loved by the players but definitely not because of the graphics. The engine was Quake 2 which was already seen as outdated at that time.
Unreal came out in the same year and was much better graphics and Quake 3 was around the corner (1999)
Well today it has less to do with how good the graphics are and more to do with game companies can’t optimise their games in general to save their lives.
Now with even worse fucking graphics thanks to forced blurry TAA or awful looking forced DLSS.
2025: This is blurry and noisy as shit, how can’t my PC run that?!?
Times are always changing . Since I got onto Reddit the time has gone from 11:10 to 11:11 .
Nobody said GTAV looked pixelated when it came out for PS3/Xbox 360.
The more realistic games are getting, the less I want to play them.
I don’t know why, but they just feel weird to play and I get bored real fast.
in 1997 you hadn’t had many other things to compare it to.
Aight I’m gonna drop a bomb on you here because I keep seeing this point being made and it keeps bothering me
It’s not about *looking* real, it’s about ***feeling*** real.
What made ‘Half Life’ feel so authentic wasn’t the graphics, it was the fact that you could walk into a room and turn off a light-switch, and NPCs in the room would say ‘what the hell are you doing?’ It’s the same with ‘Deus Ex’ for actually calling out the male player character if you go snoopinga round in the women’s bathroom.
It’s not about the game’s graphics, it’s about the game’s world recognising the player’s actions and reacting accordingly to them.
Add a panel with Crysis 2007: Holy FUCK, how can it get better than this??
Fr, there are few games that just damaged our perception of what graphics were going to be, and they still hold up today.
If we just stopped making better graphics after the PS2 style then things would be downright jolly
As one that lived through the 90s, no one ever said “My god it looks so real”.
Many said “Why the fckn audio is not working again”, “OpenGL makes it crash”, “let’s play Crossfire, was fun last time”