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rdtthoughtpolice t1_ja7hy4l wrote

  1. Nintendo is the brand, Switch is the model you want.
  2. Get the proper switch, not the Lite.
  3. Get two Pro controllers to go with it.
  4. Get a decent travel case
  5. Get a screen protector
  6. There's fun games for little kids on the online store, and the store sometimes has deals where you can get credit vouchers at a discount
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BlueMikeStu t1_ja7gph2 wrote

This. Compare two very drastically different games from the PS2 era: Dragon Quest VIII and Black.

The former still holds up well and looks fantastic for the most part, especially when you dial up the resolution on an emulator. Black... Does not, but was praised at the time for it's graphics.

The same thing is going to happen for games pushing "realism" today, twenty years from now. Between then and now a bunch of new rendering and modelling techniques will be discovered and new technologies will emerge which make the games of today look wooden and plastic. Maybe not in terms of raw polycount, but in numerous little details like fully rendered hair and clothing which moves and shifts realistically, soft textures having appropriate give (i.e. stand on a couch or in a puddle of mud, foot sinks in), rendering liquids as real volumes on the fly (i.e. dynamic rain which forms dynamic puddles and drains according to gravity), etc, etc.

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wyrdafell t1_ja7gbfd wrote

I agree with the more technical problems people are commenting here but I honestly think FW is rather detailed, just looking at the actual textures of cloth / metal. There was already immense improvement in graphics from HFW, notably in Aloy’s model. Hair physics are admittedly a bit wacky sometimes, and there’s a few clipping issues. Never played GOW so I can’t vouch much for that… however, I have played RE7. Great game, though I also think it’s not as detailed as HFW. It is older, after all.

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