Dirt 5 looks like it was made for a mobile device. Even PGR3 on the Xbox 360 looks better and has much better physics than this pile of dirt, no pun intended. Heck, Dirt 3 even looks better. PGR3, for those who aren't old enough, was a Xbox 360 launch title that actually did 30fps right. It had a good motion blur system which made the game always feel smooth, also thanks to a steady 30+fps and good vsync implementation.
My point is, these days it's more about a spec sheet than actual development talent or innovation. 4K 120fps means NOTHING if the game lacks any form of art style, graphical fidelity, physics system or innovative gameplay mechanics. Dirt 5 has no collision physics, bland environments and the feeling of the cars look like a ps2 game. Forza Horizon 4 looks miles ahead and runs better on a GTX 1080, god bless Playground Games (many of them came from Bizarre, PGR3 developer). What causes most developers to have become this lazy or untalented? Oh I know, it's the fact that most of the industry revolves around micro-transactions, skins, loot boxes and a f*cking spec sheet. Talent and innovation aren't rewarded like before, that's why Rockstar milks the shit out of GTA 5 for around 7 years now (though it enabled them to make RDR2, god bless that game), that's why EA thrives and that's why gaming has mostly stood still since 2007.
There are some innovative games and studios out there such as Respawn entertainment which spawned (no pun intended) Titanfall 2 or Apex Legends (god bless those games), but even they use a custom version of an age old graphical engine called Source. Crysis Remake is another laughing stock example of prioritising 4k resolution and textures, lighting changes and kool-aid color saturation over physics of even a 2007 year old game. THEY DOWNGRADED A 2007 GAME AND THEN RESELL IT CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? No wonder as they have to code all their gameplay ideas for the potato Jaguar CPU, which made it's way to consoles because the last generation was all about 4k textures, higher resolution and better graphics. And pc gamers, nobody cares if you can flick shot someone better with 240fps in a competitive energy drink fueled gaming competition, that shit has no home on consoles. 30fps with excelent v-sync and motion blur is more than enough for single player games, and a stable 60fps is more than enough for multiplayer console games.
The need for 4k 120fps has set back a whole generation of innovation for another 5 years. This is because for graphics and gameplay to feel like a generational leap you want a single player game to push BOTH THE CPU AND GPU to the limits while still maintaining a steady framerate. Not that when you suddenly scale back some graphics the game suddenly runs at 240fps. Scaling might work for GPU loads, but that does not go for CPU's. If you design gameplay for a 1440p 30fps single player experience on a Ryzen 8 core 16 thread monster cpu, 5gb/s monster SSD and 10+ tflop 16gb Vram GPU, then expect dynamic environments and AI to take on new heights (provided with a god blessed talented development team that is). But disappointingly, the coming 2 years of cross gen are a waste of time as games on XsX will essentially be 120fps 4k versions of what a jaguar cpu can run. That is a sign of CPU's not being coded for and used to the fullest.
Lastly, thanks casuals and agenda pushing hermits, your need for 480fps at 8K will set back gaming innovations for the coming 10 years, and thanks red bull sipping cheeto laced controller freaks your need to buy into all these shady business practices makes producers pull the plug on innovative developers, and forces the industry to create addictions rather than interesting games. I rest my case/ end rant.
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