Far too late to go back now, and also too successful

It'll never happen

Hopefully an indie developer will do it.

Ahh, people interpreting nostalgia for old games meaning looking like an old game is automatically an improvement.

What nostalgia? I've played games released decades ago that I have never played before and still prefer them over most games released today.

So how would making it have ps2 graphics change anything? Is it not still a modern game? If you like older games why do you think this would help anything. Modern rockstar is still modern rockstar. Regardless of why you like ps2 games my comment also asks how this changes anything. I personally prefer classic 16 bit genesis era games, but I can’t just ask a major developer to go back to that style and expect a product I’ll enjoy. There’s more to game making than just that.

It should have new graphics but a PS2 era vibe

Are you talking about just using worse graphics or the Birds Eye view style game?

The orange tint is a start

Two words. Imagination interpretation.

Precisely, I don't disagree with that.

PS2 like I said.

What? You’re asking for a graphics change because you like that era of games. Is the reason you like it really just because of the graphics? I could somewhat understand that if you didn’t pick gta as the game. The old ps2 gta graphics are basically the same as modern, just less detail. Or do you prefer to imagine detail??? I don’t understand what you mean.

High tier graphics has a tendency to compromise gameplay focused level design.

How does the graphics being better make a game any worse?

Compromised gameplay and lack of imagination interpretation.

Please give examples of both.

I strongly disagree with this. There’s good and bad level design for all eras of games. In fact, you could argue limited graphical possibilities limits some things in games like gta, which in each era it comes out prides itself on looking more and more like irl. It’s part of the fun if the game. You get to do insane stuff in a mirror of the real world. It also aids immersion. It’s harder to feel like you’re in the world when everything looks like play dough. Games like red dead are a lot better when the graphics make you feel you’re standing right there.

And just having lower graphics doesn’t mean better level design. You do realize it’s not the same people working on graphics and levels, especially for large game development companies. If a modern game is worse it’s just because it’s worse.

Personally I’m not huge in graphics and I’ll play anything if it’s fun, but if you’re capable of it why not have everything look a little nicer? I’ll pick ps2 era games like metal gear solid 2 over most modern games, but that doesn’t mean they should just stop improving graphics. I absolutely love the old mortal kombats and I’ve found the modern ones to be extremely lacking, but one thing I do enjoy is how nice everything looks. It just adds a little flavour.

Just look at any modern day game.

That didn't answer my question.

The first video games you play when you're young are always the ones you'll have the fondest memories of. I think you're just talking about nostalgia.

I've played several games in the past five years from the 90s that were significantly better than games recently released so that can not be it.

OP things he’s the main character

I'm not Will Smith.

Hang on - your post title specifically refers to “PS2 era graphics”.

So what do you want? New graphics or PS2 era graphics?

Both

… Right. Good luck with that.

unlimited games but no games

IKR?

Toilet seat IQ

IKR?

Ok.

Their talking about you

IKR?

I want older graphics because I can't run anything for shit

videogames in general were higher quality back then.

I agree with you. The graphics became the crutch for poor game design.

When you have limitations it forces creative innovation. Old game development meetings were full of people being told what they couldn’t do. Having isolated departments sounds good, but has that actually made games better or worse? I do agree that there is junk games in every generation. However, there is generational shifts in those percentages. Even console-specific shifts in those percentages. When I think back to the Atari 2600 , severe limitations, massive creativity, and large amount of good games. Even the Super Nintendo library is massively packed with top top notch titles, better than the Nintendo Switch with better graphics.

They are slowly starting to. Even if they didn’t you have to remember that there has already been so many amazing games made across the retro video game era that you could spend the rest of your life and never touch anything but top-tier games. So therefore it would be a relevant because you could spend the rest of your gaming life only playing amazing games by walking backwards in time instead of forwards. Once you co-op 2 player play an Atari 2600, single player on SNES, single player on PlayStation, or 4-player co-op play N64, those are memorable impressions that are hard to find equal to in modern gaming. Some of those games and programming skills were downright genius even by todays standards. To produce a game on an Atari 2600 was an exercise in insanity.

Overimersion is worse feeling on better graphics if gameplay is bad. If gameplay is bad I want worse graphics.

Not necessarily. I played 1970s Atari 2600 after 1980s NES. The Atari 2600 stands out more.

The OP has funny comments regardless.

Birds eye was more a PlayStation thing right?

Was that from the CRT tube television or the game?

The game itself

I have no idea what this means.

That’s barely a problem anymore. Any game 5 years or more old will run In 2k on high graphic detail at 60 fps, so this is a moot issue today.

Can’t argue with that

there was a schlatt (?) stream iirc where he was asked if he would rather have unlimited bacon but no games or unlimited games but no games

I have a small laptop that runs assassins creed 2 at 30 FPS And I'd prefer to buy stuff for my quest instead of dumping £1000

But there’s also top notch titles now. What you’re saying would only be true if modern games were bad, which they’re not. Game devs today still have limitations. Rockstar doesn’t, but that’s because they’re top in triple a titles. But if you really want limitations play some modern indie games.

What you’re describing isn’t even the same limitations anyways. The main trial faced was power, not graphics. Even if they make a game that looks like it’s ps2 era they haven’t actually added any limitations to truly effect game play.

Precisely

Exactly, thank you.

Yea but with good graphics also. Perfect mix 👌🏻

I agree.