I truly do not understand this weird obsession with photorealism in games at any cost.

Fucking seriously I remember seeing a screenshot of Horizon Zero Dawn, close-up on main character's face as she's holding a drawn bow, incredibly detailed and photorealistic With the bowstring clipping right through her fingers, because fuck good collisions, just throw more triangles on the screen

also, like, this idea that your local machine decides how a game looks/feels using these nondeterministic AI models? sounds like it'd be an absolute hellscape for devs to navigate when these AI models malfunction.

In two layers: 1: graphics card sales porn. Increasing degrees of realism is the simplest way to make you buy increasingly needlessly powerful cards. 2: generally speaking internalized propaganda. It much speaks of a wish to supplant reality.