I can prove it:
1. RDR 2 - release date 2018
2. Death stranding - release date 2019 and looks better than RDR 2
3. Cyberpunk 2077 released in 2020 and looks better than death stranding.
3. Horizon forbidden west release date 2022 and looks better than cyberpunk 2077 ( Original release ).
4. Death Stranding 2 release date - 2025 looks better than Horizon forbidden west.
Comparing these games because they are all open world games.
So we are seeing a noticeable improvement in the quality of games at most every 3 years if we go by open world games.
You can see the same for Resident evil games when you compare them in 3 year gaps.
Video games are improving noticeably every 3 years.
The biggest gains are being made in open world games as they have the most open (heh) space to improve upon their formula and add variety which gives them the most space to innovate and try out new ideas.
I did a study of upcoming games graphics and right now human hair and skin textures are still off. Even metahuman skin is off.
Expect skin to be fixed in another half a decade and hair to be fixed in a decade.
Beyond this we need upgrades to the physics engine so that hair does not travel through clothes or equipment.
Beyond this I am not aware of any other negative feature of video game graphics that currently stands out and ruins the realism.
I just checked the GTA VI trailer again. They have upgraded hair physics and skin in that. Still a little off but the hair don't have a physical weight to them and don't glitch through items.
The hair quality only appears to apply to ponytails however and the main head of hair they have limited how much detail it can have so it still looks fake.
Skin is off depending on the lighting condition. It might be more due to the GTA style rather than inability though.
The crowd density is also very good. I counted up to 40 NPCs on screen in the more dense scenes.
I have no idea how GTA is pulling it off but they are doing the impossible if we compare it to the output other studios generate on the ps5.
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Who cares? Does realistic hair physics make the game more fun? Does having skin with simulated pores add literally anything to the experience?
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I imagine it adds to porn games, not that I've played any!
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Iwwusion was shut dwown it's owor
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They genocided ur poor innocent
petite anime 
foids. 
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Found
the goober rocking 
a 27" 720p TV as a monitor 
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U dont game at 720p with DSR x100? Jokes aside i have 100 720p CRTs running
windows 
2k for my EVE online 
farming.
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I can't tell if you reply is counterbait to op's bait
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gaming should have stopped at 8 bit
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It actually got worse with the introduction of pixel art
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!friendsofbussy-boy
Another banger...
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Thanks friendo!
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If you ever call me "friendo" i will give you 50 grass
awards.
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Not a good look sweaty, I am your personal friend
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Whew
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Omg he hates indie slop just like me.
need a hugging 
@Bussy-boy marsey. 
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Don't want no hug marsey. You can hug me with the hug box though and I'll hug you back.
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You can tell op is baiting, right?
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Kill. All. Indieslop. Pixelbait. Shitgame. Enjoyees. There
are exactly TWO decent indie pixel 
slop games: terraria and another I forget.
No. Gaming
should 
have stopped either before 
WoW or Minecraft. All MMOs after UO/EQ are babby's learn 
to click slop. WoW ==> Gacha 
pipeline is real.
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I never
played horizon slop bc i hate poor pory foids 
more than they hate their own skin
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Who cares, does shitty CGI take away from your interest in a movie? Does it take away from allowing the movie to pull you in?
Your mindset is why marvel CGI gets worse every year.
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Gachas became 3d with genshin and the long persecuted anime posters are being taken seriously finally
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I have never played Genshin. Is it any good?
I am surprised that physics engines still let leaves just go through player characters without giving them their own physics.
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It's pretty fun, it's ultimately pretty basic gameplay wise for mobilepoors but lots of story
Puzzled and RPG type stuff, not that the combat is completely bad or unfun but don't expect a dark souls challenge level
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So its the best game ever in terms of quality for people who were addicted to games that were just pin ball machines with pictures of their favorite characters previously?
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It's by far the best "gacha" game to the point it's really unfair to lump it in with them.
It's more a breath of the wilds like 3d game
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Oh. neat. Thanks for letting me know and taking the time for this conversation.
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No. All gacha games are 6.0/10 or worse.
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Personally I've grown fond of popping bubble wrap. Much cheaper than launch day video games. Much higher production values. No dlc or microtransactions. No tech support issues. No Chinese spyware.
Just good old fashioned plastic fun
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Where do you think the bubblewrap was made, did you check each bubble for the microscopic spyware?
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It does though. RDR2 looks better from the perspective of stylization which often hides how much would be missing if they went for photorealism instead.
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We might need an objective breakdown. I don't remember Death Stranding having better lighting than RDR2 either.
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I think Death Stranding environments look more real than RDR2
Same for character models.
RDR2 is more immersive in terms of characters living their own lives and amount of details on characters in terms of the number of them rather than the realism of them.
RDR2 lighting might be better though.
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Well another thing is that RDR2 isn't boring as shit, so it's got that going for it too
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Cool. I recommend the East of West comic btw.
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Onwy RDR2 and cyberpunk 2 have gwood gwaphics fwom ywour list.
Death stwanding is an empty game where almwost nyothing muvs.
Ff7 is was released in 1997 and ff8 on 1999, that's a gwaphicwl jump.
Alswo fwirst gta5 twailer wooks better than gta5 on ps5
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Really? I had no idea. That's sad.
I didn't know rockstar did post trailer downgrades.
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Also generally gta4 was a lot more complex game than gta5
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Final looks better than the beta?
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Beta has stronger photo realism and was downgraded because ps3 and Xbox 360 ram is only 256mb
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Yes but it is also very blurry. The tech of the time clearly couldn't handle it.
What do you think it would take for the industry standard to go back to one game release every 3 years?
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You see back in the days it was a lot harder to program so a lot of devs were really good at their job. So it only took 3 years to go from elder scrolls 3 to 4 then 3 years to fallout and 3 years to Skyrim.
But since business got bigger and more people joined the dev skill tanked hard and releasing half assed games became the norm and sociological aspect of games became more important.
Only thing that could make development more smooth is AI like AI can eliminate a lot of problems but AI usage will be forbidden for moral reasons + business would always find way to break stuff.
So no hope for good gayming future.
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I think you are wrong and its more like work culture improved so you couldn't force workers to work 24/7 to create le product, but that meant you had to scale up from the more realistic level of output which set capabilities back by a decade and they have been feeding that decade loss back in bit by bit as tech makes up for it over time.
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Get taste cute twink
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I didn't say I enjoyed these games. I used them as an easy to track metric.
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Cuck mentality
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Lol. Lmao even with a 3080ti
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Death stranding skin is more plastic like in texture.
Cyberpunk has larger city scapes.
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Never played any of those games because they look like crap. Nice shitpost.
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It's good that games are finally for normal people.
I mean, remember when they were only 2d? Ugh.
That was shit for fricking babies. 
The DS had some great games like FIFA and GTA
but they had to lump it with crap like Kingdom Hearts and Animal Crossing for little girls. I'm glad we're out of that era. 
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