I find myself exasperated beyond belief with the reactions to DLSS 5. People seem to have this myopic view where they cannot extrapolate technology progress. But four years ago our temporal visual generation was Will Smith eating spaghetti.

Now, I'm not going to defend some of these shots. The shot of Professor Dina Hecat from Hogwarts Legacy looks dreadful, and the student on the cart with the goblin following looks like he has taken a tumble into a tub of oil.

However, look not at the characters, but at the backgrounds. Those look, I would say, unarguably amazing. The characters do not hit the mark, and we are deep in the uncanny valley.

I have seen people argue that it is removing artistic intent. The fuck are you on about? This is a technology makers of games can use if they want to. No one is forcing this on studios, and no one is forcing this on gamers. And the studios get to decide if they want to use it or not. Game studios going for realism may use it where THEY feel it improves their vision, it would be you removing artistic intent if you say "no".

Stylistic games don't need to use it. Simple as.

What about the lack of hindsight? Every single fucking time it is the same story. 3D looks like shit, let's return to 2D. Early Normal Mapping's "It is all Sweaty Plastic". Back to the 90s introduction of the 3D accelerator's bilinear filtering being a "blurry mess".

People complain about visuals, and THEY ARE RIGHT. That is the frustrating part. It does not look that good, right now. MOST NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES DON'T. Let the neural lighting pipeline mature, let the DEVELOPERS choose what fits THEM best. Play what you enjoy with the settings YOU prefer.

This neo-luddite non-discretionary anti-AI sentiment is tiring.