[acchow]

I don't know anything about game development so maybe someone can explain something to me. If you develop using 2014 technologies and it is now 2019 and you want your game to still look fairly visually modern, how much do you need to rewrite?

[smacktoward]

GPU technology has come a long way over the last 5 years, but most AAA game studios want to cross-sell their titles to both the PC and console markets, so practically speaking they’re constrained to only providing as much graphical pizzazz as the current generation of consoles can support. So game graphics tend to take big leaps forward when a new generation of consoles comes out, and then stagnate for years while those consoles live out their life cycle.

[chmod775]

Many <2015 titles still look modern or even better than popular recent games.

[naikrovek]

They aren't using 2014 technologies, and they've invented quite a few of their own technologies along the way. The game looks amazing.