Retroquad's Patreon was launched: It will feature content that is way more in-depth than my Twitter and YouTube accounts. All future Retroquad releases will be done through it. If the minimum goal isn't reached, Retroquad will have to be cancelled.

@FuturtechStudio I also like the Hard Reset vibes I saw in a gameplay video. This looks promising.

@Mattias_G I wonder what people could program for old CPU architectures rebuilt in 5nm chips. How faster could a 5nm Mega Drive or SNES get?

Honestly, I bought MK11 for the RoboCop and Terminator cameos. And it looks like cameos are becoming the sole selling point of this franchise. Street Fighter has also been going downhill. SFV is incredibly bloated, to the point where I won't buy SF6 because I know it'll be the same bloated mess. At least the gameplay hasn't downgraded as much as the modern MK gameplay, and Capcom is smart enough to keep the old timeless classics available for purchase.

I thought Retroquad's texture compiler was inneficient, but UE5 really loooves to compile shaders.

@EliasDaler Beautiful, it's perfect now.

@Colonthreee I think some studios have too many devs idling around, so they start adding useless crap into the games to justify their salaries. Some modern games would be infinitely better if they had LESS features, which is mind boggling.

@EliasDaler Next step, relax the NPC's arms when the player stops in front of him.

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@0x00000008 @DEGMods @Pirat_Nation The way her hair suddenly pops out of nowhere while removing the helmet is comical.

@Tenacious_Diaz I like how the shotgun's sticky bombs in Doom Eternal are pretty much the same as the tek arrows in Turok 2.

@NintendoMetro Why do I always get Uniracers and ClayMates mixed up in my brain?

@motorsep @Pirat_Nation Yes, after a certain stage of graphics evolution, engines tend to just do more and more of the same things. Doom 3 still looks good, but its areas are tiny in comparison to modern Doom titles.

I don't get flattered when people says that Retroquad's dithering "looks like the dithering in the Unreal software renderer." Retroquad's dithering is actually better than that; the one in Unreal is inferior.

@ElonMuskAOC Why is your account here not labelled as a parody account?

I like Mega Man 8, where you fight the 8 Men.

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Visual evolution is not so acute nowadays because the most relevant measure of graphical quality is the elimination of undesirable visual artifacts. The comparison in the original post I replied to shows that more advanced tech doesn't make a difference if there's nothing evidently wrong with the old tech. So, "it's more realistic" is not a measure of visual quality. The real measure is, "what limitations-driven issues does it fix?"