TotK really makes Switch feel dated

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zeldaring said:

curl-6 said:

More than anything, this whole discourse reminds me that gaming culture has become far too negative.

Here we have a game that's blowing away people who've worked in the industry for decades with its craftmanship, complexity, and stability, and some folks are getting hung up on whether enemies still patrol when you're on the other side of the map or how Link's hair is rendered. Ask yourself, are things this minor really worth getting worked up about? 

"Hardcore" gamers as a community have become so conditioned to find fault with everything, to obsess over the tiniest imperfection, that we're forgetting how to just relax and enjoy games instead of picking them apart.

Most of those guys  were just writers and not even coders so how would they even know what breaks a game. you alos had GOW creator playing the game and saying its ugly. no game is perfect, nothing wrong with criticism. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-26/-the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-dazzles-game-developers

One of those cited is an engineer of twenty years industry experience, calling an example of its physics as “the game programming flex of all time", pretty sure he'd know what he's talking about.

Ultimately, is it really worth letting something like a character's hair hinder one's enjoyment of a game? Does this really benefit us, or anyone?

This is a problem with modern gaming; console wars have created a culture of obsessing over any perceived imperfection, and spending all our time and energy on negativity instead actually enjoying video games.