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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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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

I've largely moved on from gaming, but some of the things that turned me off were the focus on hyper-realistic graphics, requiring unobtainium / expensive graphics cards, and focusing more on visuals than story.

Optimizing games so they're not rendering content when the game is paused or reducing quality at certain points is nice and all, but do we really need all these hyper-realistic games?

As I said, I don't have much of a horse in this race these days, but if games didn't require expensive (to own and operate) graphics cards and focused more on gameplay mechanics and story (e.g. Portal), I'd probably consider getting back into gaming.

[–] henfredemars 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are games that focus more on story and actual content, but a problem is for many gamers is that seeing the pretty graphics is buying. I for one want games to be fun before being pretty.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

I have lots of games in my library largely because they are beautiful. None of them have realistic graphics.

Fi is one of the most beautiful games (visually and as an overall art piece) I've played, and I don't think it even has textures

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