r/XboxSeriesX • u/Asleep-Sprinkles-760 • Apr 20 '24
This generation has been underwhelming Discussion
I bought a Series X at launch, and can’t think of a single game that has impressed me this gen. I’m a big Halo fan, and Halo Infinite felt like a letdown. I’m a Forza fan, and Forza Motorsport felt like a massive disappointment. I was exited for Starfield, but was underwhelmed after playing it.
It just feels like we’ve had no heavy hitters this gen, even 3rd party AAA games have been average at best. I guess the only hope I have left is with Gears 6, but aside from that, Microsoft needs to get their act together and start releasing some new games. It feels like games are taking way too long to make these days, we used to get bangers every year in the 360 gen. Even the Xbox One had more compelling games than what we have now
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u/RandyArgonianButler Apr 21 '24
Graphical fidelity has had diminishing returns for sure.
A model with 50,000 polygons really doesn’t show an increase in quality over 5,000 in the way 5,000 shows it over 500.
It’s difficult to tell the difference between a 4K texture and a 2K texture.
Ray tracing is amazing technology, but skilled artists had you fooled with baked in lighting over a decade ago.