They also had and was also one of the first games to have Cutscene depth of Field to allow shaodows/lighting and such in your cutscenes and allow the real game world during a cutscene,ĬD Project, was amazed themselves what they pulled off, and also said that they wouldnt downgrade a port to XBOX/Playstation, and it made a few people upset, a few years later they released a downgraded version at 720p, for the consoles, bearing in mind, that Witcher 2, Shipped with 1080p to PC, when 1080p wasnt a standard among graphics cards and 720p was the go to. The Game back then when released had 16x antiscopic filtering, most graphics cards could handle 8 max, with a few fps drops. When witcher 2, came out, the developerse ven said the graphics cards available today, will not be able to play the game at max, BF3 still looks like it could be a recent title: The graphics in games like Battlefield 3, Red Dead 1 and Chrysis 2 are 10 years old but still look really good. Obviously graphics don't make a good game, but with the jumps in technology over a decade, should we have expected more? If you look in the past decade leaps such as 10, video game graphics on both console and PC took HUGE strides compared to 2010-2020. The graphics in the Witcher 2 are just a small step below even some AAA games now in 2020, and that game came out in 2010.

Was talking to my brother about the Witcher TV series and mentioned the games to him since he's not really a gamer. Overall the answer to the question of why graphics haven't improved as much in the past decade is a multi-faceted one, but I'd say the TLDR is largely because 1) photo-realistic raphics start to plateau at a certain point, 2) we're no longer seeing the exponential boom in development resources that allowed the average dev team size to increase so dramatically from the 90s to the aughts to the 2010s, and 3) not everyone is chasing higher fidelity graphics any more now that the industry as a whole has started to cotton on to the fact that strong artstyles can be just as, if not more appealing than photo-realism along with costing less. At a certain point the money and time investment stops being worth it. Chasing better and better graphics is a large part of why AAA video game development has become so expensive lately. Processing power limited real time rendering significantly in the previous decades, whereas now it's more a case of the work hours required to keep on making models that 1% better each time. Photo-realistic graphics in video games have diminishing returns for the amount of work required to keep on improving them indefinitely.

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