#for example street fighter 6 I would consider fine despite it's realism for it tries to have an artstyle outside of just looking realistic

[shootsmygoots]

I really hate the fact that the gaming industry has reached this point it's so easy to find games without ultra-realistic-ass-shittingly amazing graphics and yet were all pushing towards this dystopia where all media is just an interactive movie. Imagine your favorite game right now, what game is it? was it made recently? was it made by a big studio? are its graphics realistic (not for the time, now)? I heavily doubt that all of these get checked off on anyone's list (except those who's sole purpose for owning a ps5 are EA sports games, COD, etc). Gaming includes some of the most personalized works of all time, and yet again the industry keeps pushing for graphics of a marvel movie (which everyone is already getting sick of)

Why must we expand so much in a direction that leads to a creative death? We should be striving towards making art everyone can firstly experience and secondly attain a unique sense of self in. I don't want to play through a matrix movie, if that were the case I'd just watch the matrix. Let me experience a feeling I haven't before through the mechanics, I want to feel the soul of the game interacting with me as I'm playing.