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How video games are going green without turning off gamers | To prevent greenhouse emissions and save gamers money, developers are looking for ways to make video games more energy efficient (wapo.st)
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[–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately, as I talked to more recent gamers, the more I realize that a lot of them cannot fathom why anyone would tolerate anything that’s not hyper-realistic, or if the UI looks “old” (whatever “old” means). I had a friend who said Baldur’s Gate 3 had decent character and environment graphics but “shitty” UI, and it’s apparently cause it’s just something that looks old timey and from the era before they started gaming. There’s another person who will call every game that doesn’t have hyper-realistic graphics and modern, minimal UI “a shitty game that no one would play”. It’s insane to me how narrow their view of gaming culture is, but that is the reality we live in.

Fortunately, we don’t all have to participate in that rat race. Just forget about trying to chase every game out there and be okay with saying no to games that demand the latest and greatest graphics card. This is almost a non-problem if you look into games from indies or smaller studios.