Hollow Knight, Crosscode, Hades, Dead Cells, Signalis, Dusk, Outer Wilds, Underrail, and more are all great examples of relatively modern games that kill it in the graphical department without using anything fancy.
Edit, because this is fun: Boltgun, Sea of Stars, the Bloodborne PS1 demake, Tunic, and more.
Garbage take. Few things are truly needed outside of the game being enjoyable and “good” graphics can absolutely be something contributing to that. For some good is pixel graphics, for others it’s near realism. You don’t get to decide for anyone but you.
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Minecraft, ULTRAKILL, Undertale, Celeste
all of them some of the best games in my opinion, how many use ray tracing? ZERO.
Hollow Knight, Crosscode, Hades, Dead Cells, Signalis, Dusk, Outer Wilds, Underrail, and more are all great examples of relatively modern games that kill it in the graphical department without using anything fancy.
Edit, because this is fun: Boltgun, Sea of Stars, the Bloodborne PS1 demake, Tunic, and more.
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i was talking about unmodded java edition.
fuck graphics all games should be text-based from now on
$ crawlZork was the shit.
Text-based minecraft
Right, but then someone will rebuild Minecraft in text-based Minecraft with a 3D rendering engine displayed through ASCII
Sounds doable. Something like 192x108 characters should work great on software rasterizer. For heavy loads you can use paletted mode of GPU.
Garbage take. Few things are truly needed outside of the game being enjoyable and “good” graphics can absolutely be something contributing to that. For some good is pixel graphics, for others it’s near realism. You don’t get to decide for anyone but you.
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Yup. Currently I’m on the indie hype train, but games like The Witcher and Red Dead are also very fun and benefit from good graphics.
Half of the shit that is praised today are basically subpar rendered movies with little gameplay elements.
Might aswell play a visual novel and atleast get a good story instead.