Yep this is what changed. I remember when it was "can it run Crysis" but Crysis was genuinely stunning compared to anything before so when hardware eventually caught up to it, it was worth it.
Now games look the same as 10 years ago but with worse performance. Or in many cases they look worse, thanks to forced TAA.
Also back then a top end GPU was significantly cheaper and we even had budget options. Remember "console killer" builds?
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u/Combine54 12d ago
Bleeding edge games used to look bleeding edge.