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Small, incremental improvements don't make shockwaves like the old massive tech leaps used to. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

My guess is a lot of convergence to a smaller set of known game engines. Godot, unreal, unity, plus a few others and some in-house like valves source.

I could be wrong but I presume in the past almost every game was made with its own custom engine. Now a lot of them have the "unreal engine" look.

But I'm not complaining. Looks great to me and leads to better performance and fewer bugs in the long run. Of course there are some caveats

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Oh yeah this isn't a complaint, because I think it looks good. It's just I notice it, and it probably is from almost everything being made on UE5 these days. However, I think MGSV was one of the first games to have this particular look to it, and that's on its own in-house engine (FOX Engine). It could just be how the lighting and shadowing are done. Those two things are getting so close to photorealism that it's the texturing and modeling work that puts things (usually human characters) into the uncanny valley. A scene of a forest can look so real... And then you put a person walking through it and the illusion is lost. lol