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Cough Crysis 2 Cough

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2 months ago 41,797,832 views 0 shares

Cough Crysis 2 Cough

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You're out here living your best life, running that decade-old game at 4K ultra settings with supersampling like the graphics god you've become. Your RTX 4090 is practically yawning. Then BAM—the devs decided to bless you with a pre-rendered cutscene from 2007 that looks like it was encoded on a potato using a dial-up connection. Suddenly you're transported from visual paradise to watching Minecraft Steve's distant cousin through a screen door made of vaseline. The whiplash is REAL. Nothing says "immersion breaking" quite like going from photorealistic explosions to counting individual pixels on someone's face. Game developers really said "let's make the gameplay gorgeous but store cutscenes on a floppy disk" and called it a day.

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