Lmao I just finished the series. Need to watch El Camino, and Better Call Saul now

And for any unaware

SA can mean Sexual Assault

CP is sometimes used as an acronym for Child Rape Media but I don't think its very fitting, personally.

Another Acronym thats better is CSAM but honestly why are we even abbreviating it at all?

Thank you, that gave me a pause and I couldn't get past that to figure out what games those were

Godot and Unreal are both improving in different directions but honestly I don't think small crews will be any less limited by their time needed to create than they are now.

I would like to think a lot. Just because some are going this route doesn't mean all of them are. I have played a lot of games with some new game mechanics that werent around and it will continue to happen.

Depends where you're looking and how you define "Revolution"; even in those earlier eras, they were just advancements of techniques that had previously been invented but were impractical til that point.

So I'd say VR hardware has had a revolution during the that time.
Environmental destruction (real and virtual lol)
Real time ray tracing

It's hard to really discuss without knowing the kinds of things you found revolutionising in those eras.

These years are revolutionary in the boom of indie game development in my opinion

It takes a little over 10 years to recognize that a game (or anything really) was revolutionary. You have to wait until all of the chaff has been forgotten, leaving only the revolutionary games behind.

Here are some of my top picks for what folks will look back on when they right the 2025-2035 had no good games version of your post.

Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Vampire survivors. Hades. Elden Ring. Disco Elysium.

And one which will probably be a cult classic/sleeper hit: Return of the Obra Dinn.

Just for a start.

One could argue that ray tracing is the current item, but unfortunately no one has been able to truly maximize the quality or performance…

Cp2077 with the godlike ray tracing does look really good, but requires a ridiculous setup to see it.

I would also suggest frame gen or scaling as another new improvement. Being able to basically realtime render a lower resolution and scale it (non-ML based) is an incredible engineering feat.

Frame gen does have a (small) place as well. There are legitimate reasons to use it to improve performance. With dedicated hardware it becomes an easy way to improve FPS (some) on lower end hardware.

2015-present may not have had such tectonic shifts, but in a lot of ways, we can now do more with less and fine tune an experience we enjoy.

dont forget the advent of horse armor

I'd say the last big "revolutionizing" thing in gaming was the release of the Nintendo Switch in 2017. All of the current handhelds owe their success to the Switch.

I think it's more so because it took a long time to figure out the basics, and now we have them to build further upon. Take cars, for example. Can you think of any revolutionary cars from recent years? The first ever cars were revolutionary. The Ford model T was revolutionary because of its assembly and availability to the masses. The first few hybrids and EVs could also be seen as such. But other than that? Nah.

Perhaps a car enthusiast would like to correct me, that's fine. I admit I know very little when it comes to cars. But this is my perception at least.

Major things for me are the rise of kernel anti cheat (revolutions don't have to be good), and the rise of linux gaming--both the steam deck and linux gaming in general (the solution to both MS and a passive prevention of kernel level bs). Around 2015, barely any games ran on linux, but today most do unless they have that kernel level anti-cheat or the makers specifically wanted to exclude linux users.

Moore's law ended. Stuff done in 15 couldn't be done in 5. But there's not much we can do now that we couldn't do 15.

Its pretty good, just that it's not affordable to the peasants like us who cant run stuff in 8k. And even if we could, we can't expect devs to optimize for 8k hardware pathtracing ai assisted npc interactions with a splash of god's very own jizz.

I am impatient however for vr to catch up it doesnt make sense to make such immersive worlds to just project it on a flat screen with the tech we have now.

the "revolutionary" breakthroughs, which i experienced (so it's subjective) we're hl1 for graphics and hl2 for it's physics engine. everything else felt like gradual improvements of those.

Going from Mario Bros. to Unreal within a childhood was a bigger jump!

Go back another 20 years and you'll find Manic Miner & Horace goes skiing...wait that's a little early... Donkey Kong Jr & Chopper Command were released in 1982. 80s to 90s probably had the biggest step up, no doubt due to the introduction of consoles.