[bob1029]

> So the heresy of moving from 2D was instead a conscious artistic choice, strictly linked to the then-modern technologies.

This is how it should have been all along. The only reason modern GPUs are in such demand is because we forgot to apply art before shiny tech. I don't know why things like polygon count and texture resolution turned into a metric for fun.

To this day I can have way more fun in older games like Minecraft than super polished AAA titles like RDR2 or Cyberpunk 2077. The graphics used to get me interested back when we thought photorealism was going to make shit way more fun, but the reality of artistic expression turned out to be much more complex than this...

[dale_glass]

Plenty games went the other way. For every stylish Grim Fandango there's been dozen of Superman 64 and Bubsy 3D, where the developers spent so much time trying to get graphics to work that they had no time left for gameplay or story.

Shiny tech means there's much less fighting with the technology that's needed. You can take advantage of that today you don't need to optimize every clock cycle and spend the time polishing up the gameplay.

Also, some stories require a fair amount of tech. Superman 64 should have happened in a bustling Metropolis, just like Cyberpunk 2077 does. But it was impossible with the technology of the time.