I was so excited when I finally had a machine that could run Crysis at full graphics settings.

Many of us here aren't buying them. A core audience of people who don't know anything about hardware capabilities and aren't a part of niche gaming communities will keep buying them because they don't know better. Most people look at a game and say, "that looks fun" and they buy it without another thought. Your advice will never reach those people.

90% of players don't even know which graphic option does what. source: pulled it out of my ass

It's quite crazy how much performance you gain from using pre-calculated lighting instead of raytracing. I know it looks worse, but there's gotta be a way to find a happy middle ground, maybe a "raytracing lite" lol.

Does raytracing even make the game look noticeably cooler, anyway?

Or dare I say make a good game instead of just a shiny one

im trying to get smoother clip art looking anime cock textures into rimworld

Because I don't like that game.

I kept dying from the same mistakes over and over and couldn't figure out what the hell I'm supposed to do or where to go. Supposely the ship log will update when you've made progress, but mine never did.

Got bored of playing what is basically a Game Over simulator after a day of frustration and never touched it again. I guess I'm just too stupid/ADHD for a game like this.

I got these confused for the longest time and finally played Outer Wilds earlier this year. It's a masterpiece

It's great but I threw in the towel after a few hours if play. I've never played a game that so readily gave me car sickness.

It is…if you render the lighting at like 64x64 pixels and then “deep learning super scale” it to 4k and then AI generate 3 fakesuper-sampled frames for every real frame.

It’s more about companies getting people killed, less about companies doing a bad job at making video games.

It's very milquetoast critique in a safe corporate sort of way. Ironic.

It's a dumbed-down critic of corporatism. «Creative freedom» of Microsoft-owned developers is a joke.

Imagine if modern games were designed with gaming in mind.

It's amazingly beautiful when done right. (See cyberpunk 2077, portal rtx, half-life 2 rtx, alan wake 2, control, metro exodus, SEUS PTGI, etc.)

Yea, didn't care about ray tracing until I played Control, and that game is gorgeous with it, made me appreciate it when it's well Implemented into a game

I mean, it's not necessary, but neither are HD resolutions or high framerates.

It has seemed every beautiful in some things.

It's not necessary, but like, lots of things aren't. The tech in itself isn't horrible, it's just horrible usecases which make it bad. Even if most usecases are horrible. Some aren't.

Edit for instance we have much the same power computers with my brother, aside from me having an outdated GPU. Last year when we played HP Legacy for a bit, I would say that his was far prettier when utilising Ray tracing, and the whole game is a sort of feast of aesthetics, so. Although his rig wasn't potent enough to have great framerates, so playing was still better for him as well without Ray tracing. But the scenery without much action still had good framerares so we saw rhe difference. Idk perhaps it will never be good but

The title specifies "with raytracing" so even if it only performs this badly with ray tracing enabled, then its technically correct.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle requires a card with ray-tracing capability. No option to turn it off.