So whats the verdict? Feature games should have or a meme?
Raytracing
Julian Morris
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Jeremiah Brooks
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Connor Bailey
They should, it is the future of graphics and it will take us one step closer to photorealism.
Its only a meme right now for poor fags that can't afford anything better than a mid range card.
Hunter Butler
Regardless of whether Nvidia's RTX is valuable to the average consumer, the technique of raytracing in principle is an inevitable development as real time graphics processing power increases. It is as inevitable as 4k.
Imo, global illumination is the most valuable tool in RTX's package given how much better it can make interiors look with so much less effort on part of environment artists. It has extremely noticable before and after comparisons such that even somebody unfamiliar with the concept could easy spot and identify the difference/more attractive lighting. I dont think the average gamer cares about or notices accurate reflections, however.
Joseph Gray
Raytracing has such a huge fucking pay barrier on PC I don't think I'll ever experience it. Closest I'll get is "raytracing" on the XBX but I expect it to be like "4k" was on the PS4 Pro.
Brayden Russell
I think around 2022 mid range cards will easily be able to implement raytracing at 4k 60+
Cameron Butler
Depending on how much the RTX 3060 costs you will probably be able to have real time raytracing at alright framerates in 1440p and 1080p this generation already. On midrange PCs that is.
Atleast with games that have good DLSS 2.0 implementation, native 1440p at ultra cuts my framerate in half back to 60-70ish fps. Even the slight artifacting you'd get with DLSS is worth the ridiculous framerate improvement.
Samuel Brooks
Do you know how retardedly expensive photorealism will make games? You hate entry level handholding and micro transactions, but that’s what you get when your game costs $50M to make. Hyper-expensive games have to be watered down so non gamers can play them, and they have to be stuffed with monetization because nobody will pay $100 for a game without being tricked
Jaxon Bailey
yes but purely for reflections, not worth it for everything else
Noah White
maybe today but in 2030 it will be dirt cheap to make games look better than the best looking games today.
Noah Cook
For lighting yes, that can't be faked without an extremely talented dev team but reflections can be faked easily.
Landon Russell
its the opposite way user
Zachary Ortiz
Show me games with fake lighting as good as TLoU2 or RDR2 then we'll talk.
Matthew Hill
you realize tlou2 just runs a raytracing GI solution on workstations and bakes in the result right?
Luke Phillips
oh cool looks like Control had some nice reflection fx behind all the horrible colour filters and ugly bloom lighting
Michael Watson
Yes, fake lighting as I said.
Noah Nelson
i couldn't care less about the characters reflection on a coffee machine
>spend budget on good graphics
>none left for the gameplay
boy i sure do love not playing games and just standing there playing with photo mode
Jackson Lopez
Retards like you never realize those old shitty looking games you nostalgia-swoon over were trying to be the most advanced graphical displays for their time, and were expensive as balls for their era, right?
Austin Davis
graphics is such a fucking MEME i swear to god.
if we could stick with ps2-era level graphics and focus on interesting shit like AI, dynamic environments, physics, etc, gameplay would be like 20 years more advanced than it is right now.
Gavin Thompson
Kek, reminds me of this
Brandon Barnes
Honestly, this is impressive if it is true
Jose Collins
if the games were good then i'd forgive them for pushing for better graphics, but for years games have been a copy of a copy with companies only going for better graphics while leaving gameplay second
Brandon Wilson
how is RDR's lighting fake? like what's fake about it
Jaxson Garcia
sadly we gave that up for interactive cinematic experiences. AAA gaming is completely fucked nowadays and there is no going back. time to move on user.
Ryan Howard
I still don’t know what to look for when RTX is on
Liam Russell
The new console gen has pretty powerful CPUs and GPUs, raytracing doesn't hog CPU power which is more important for what you mentioned
Levi Gonzalez
Your empty wallet
Jace James
>in 2030 it will be dirt cheap to make games look better than the best looking games today.
Owen Perry
The autism of the Japanese otaku knows no bounds, putting the western incel to shame
Owen Ross
Costs too much power and money. Guesses too much, not enough rays. Ruins atmosphere, realism is shit.
See you in 15 years.
Logan Reed
>realism is shit
word
Logan Thomas
Disagree. GI is good but way too expensive for how subtle it is, and it can be relatively easily faked in rasterization mode. Reflections are the main aspect to rendering that have no true solution without raytracing. It's a MASSIVE leap in fidelity and realism, and it isn't even that performance intensive compared to other RT techniques. I'm sick of cubemaps and ugly SSR, it's time for that shit to die.
Justin Brooks
Joke's on you, memetracing is just about automation and cheapening AAA shovelware production.
Juan Ward
Reflections cost more than any other RT feature.
Jose Mitchell
>audio
Nicholas Peterson