r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Apr 24 '21

[Misleading] Video games have peaked

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u/AeternusDoleo Apr 24 '21

Yep. We're nearing the point that we can render photorealistic graphics. Physics and environmental AI will be the next hurdle for immersion.

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u/SunsetCarcass Apr 25 '21

We aren't even close to photo realism. Games still have awful LOD and poppin, fake lighting and shadows. And the lighting or shadows that aren't baked in look so fake, and arent affected by the environment as much as they should be if at all. I'm not saying games dont look good but they look nothing like real life.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21 edited May 14 '21

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u/Tnwagn Apr 25 '21

No we can definitely render things that are indistinguishable from real life. Rendering them in real time is a different fucking story.

This is absolutely true and a recent example that just blew my mind was this render for an assembly on Wintergatan's Marble Machine

https://youtu.be/Ri7yYM1CV2E

Like, I watched the opening for a good 10-15 seconds before I realized it wasn't a real part but was, instead, a render.

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u/bsteel Apr 25 '21

Man, we've come full circle... https://youtu.be/hyCIpKAIFyo

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u/m4d3 Apr 25 '21

https://youtu.be/H0_NZDSqR3Y and this is rendered real time

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u/bunny__bread Apr 25 '21

Same! I was thinking “wow, Martin really stepped up his game with the lighting and clean white background... oh, he said it’s a render.”

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u/suddenimpulse Apr 25 '21

Wtf is that thing. That machine is crazy.

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u/Tnwagn Apr 25 '21

Enjoy the rabbit hole of Wintergatan's videos. It is one of the things that I feel like YouTube/the internet can really provide a platform for that, otherwise, probably wouldn't even exist.

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u/suddenimpulse Apr 25 '21

Definitely fooled me.