Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:59 pm
I agree that it's subjective. Certainly someone wouldn't expect to get less FPS on a cartoon-art game than a photo-realistic one (assuming action and complexity are similar). In that regard, I think it does put things into perspective when we occasionally get games that seem to look "ahead of their time" AND run pretty well on most hardware. Comparing that to a game that may produce 2/3 the FPS on the same hardware because they were pushing ray-tracing (for example) to get a marginally more realistic feel can make people feel like the game devs failed to "optimize" their game.
Few/None of my top-rated games got that acclaim solely because they looked pretty. Sure, visuals can go a long way to influence your immersion in a game, but there is definitely a point of diminishing return.
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