Pixels & Chill – When Games Stop Being Fun
I ran into this weird situation where I kept buying all the latest AAA releases because everyone was hyping them up for their visuals, and yeah at first I was impressed, like walking around and just looking at details, lighting, textures.
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That’s actually super relatable, I had a similar phase where I kept upgrading my setup thinking better visuals would automatically mean better experience, but it didn’t really work that way. At some point I started noticing that games I kept returning to weren’t the ones with the best graphics, but the ones that had solid mechanics or gave me freedom to experiment. I remember reading this https://oceantogames.com/graphics-are-dead-long-live-gameplay/ and it kind of helped me organize my thoughts about it, like why I was drifting away from visually impressive titles. It made me realize that graphics have kind of plateaued in terms of impact, like sure they get better, but it doesn’t change how fun something is as much as gameplay does.