Just look at any modern day game.

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.

Please give examples of both.

Compromised gameplay and lack of imagination interpretation.

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

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

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.

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PS2 like I said.

Precisely, I don't disagree with that.

Two words. Imagination interpretation.

The orange tint is a start

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

It should have new graphics but a PS2 era vibe

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.

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

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

Hopefully an indie developer will do it.

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

It'll never happen

Imo get an Xbox series S and put doom on it - Xbox game pass has most Doom titles included and he can play Forza Horizon 5 which is a nice blend of realism and arcade with adjustability such as difficulty, Traction control ABS etc plus tons of customisation on the car itself.

You can also purchase some of the splinter cell titles for cheap as well including blacklist which is the most recent.

This method is a lot cheaper than a PS5 and games

PS5

Pick up;

DOOM PS4

Gran Turismo

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My brother has xboxx, and my mate has ps5. Both disc versions and both having issues. My cheap series s has no issues. It must be a CD drive problem. Wonder if anyone agrees? Are the higher price systems to powerful for their current hardware?

Yes that my my first zelda on the snes back in the day great game.

If he likes card games at all, he could like Slay the Spire. Totally chill game and definitely relieves boredom.

Also I have to agree with the Xbox Series comment. For someone who hasn’t been gaming recently and doesn’t know what they like, Game Pass is amazing for letting you try lots of stuff and Forza Horizon sounds right up his alley.

He is talking about xbox one s and one s does have disc reader