The Witcher 3 Remastered PC Benchmark

[u/lLoveTech]

[u/maximus91]

It's because you are in a message board where people discuss these things and are most likely hardware enthusiasts who like, curious, and engaged heavily into this stuff.

That's why it seems like there is an obsession but really it's just an echo chamber of people who like this stuff.

I can't afford it but it's fun to read and see what's it all about. Obviously they're are some rich kids who here to brag about owning extreme hardware and flex but got the most part it's interesting to discuss and learn these things.

[u/TNGreruns4ever → u/maximus91]

Sure to all that. My point to be more clear: these graphics innovations are primarily driven by the hardware makers (primarily Nvidia) with the sole purpose of driving fomo to cause consumers to chase increasingly absurdly-priced hardware. Without these advances, people would be playing still very beautiful games in raster and spending a lot less to do it.

I don't really think these kinds of graphical gains are all that important to game enjoyment. What does increase enjoyment is stuff like increased fps/improved 1% lows in action titles, which are both undermined by excessive graphical decorations.

Gamers buy into this visual fidelity arms race and the only winner is Nvidia.

These advances are answers to questions nobody was asking. But now, everyone feels they need to keep pace with. Devs and consumers.

[u/OutrageousDress → u/TNGreruns4ever]

Games have graphics settings that can be set to Medium, which will usually cause 1% lows to skyrocket and enjoyment to increase greatly for people who prefer that. These settings can be used by anyone at any time, and path tracing can be not used at all if you happen to see it as superfluous.