Thank you for saying that. Too many people used to bleat that “144Hz is the minimum I’ll ever play at!”. They went quiet quicker than the 4K crowd, but it all means jack of the art and game isn’t worth it. Hell I’ll take a 30fps JRPG over some of these twitch shooters.

That's exactly it. I find most "improvements" do nothing but change my definition of what "normal" is, making the new thing feel just as normal as the old thing did, and making the old thing feel worse, without any real change in my level of satisfaction.

I used high resolution high refresh rate display, compared to my own monitor. I do miss high refresh rate, but dont really care about resolution.

4k is better for web browsing and normal desktop use than gaming, IMO. 4k text is beautiful, you actually have enough pixels for fine details to not turn into a blurry mess.

Phrasing

If it was that important as a game mechanic, there were already ways to do that.

If it’s only available if you upgrade to better hardware, it’s DLC that you buy from Nvidia

yeah that's cool, but probably especially in controls case possible with planar reflections

I don’t think they’re spending a lot of time on it because most people won’t use it or can’t. There is definitely some stuff with it you could do much cooler, but that’s a faction of your market. Devs are optimizing for the top of the bell curve of capability

the SNES' resolution is kinda interesting. internally it's 256x224, an 8:7 aspect ratio, then it gets stretched to 4:3. that's why you might've noticed some weirdness with the squareness of pixels sometimes; often the devs would be looking at the "true" resolution while making art. some accounted for it correctly, some had mixes of both

Otherwise you end up with pixelated shadows that look worse than standard lighting

True Unreal Engine 5 experience.

I would take a 60hz game with my 1% lows at like 57hz over a 120hz game with 1% lows at like 10hz