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As video games develop more and more over the years, companies have been making them more and more realistic-looking. I can guess this is related to expectations, but am I the only one who doesn't care about graphics? We could be using the same processing power to store worlds that have as much exploration potential as the Earth itself if we weren't afraid to save on processing power by going back to 8-bit.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I've never been particularly wowed by good graphics. I'm perfectly happy to play a game with crunchy graphics from decades ago if the gameplay is fun, or a modern indie title with low poly or pixel art graphics. There are plenty of great games out there where the graphics are nothing special.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you use an emulator or do you do it the old fashioned way?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Both, but mainly I play PC games bought on Steam, not emulated console games.