It’s astonishing to me that PC gamers are suddenly so focused on the “creative intent” of game visuals.

We’re talking about the crowd who shits on console players because they (usually) cannot install mods for their games. Gamers have been destroying the creative intent of the visuals in games for years with shader mods, changes to models and animations, and adding totally new, completely out of place things.

The DLSS5 examples look like shit, but let’s stop pretending we give a shit about the devs “creative intent” when talking about it.

So let’s have that philosophical discussion again like when we had with elden ring mods and artistic/designer intent.

So the biggest philosophical difference to me is that mods are done with a human artistic intent behind it and in the end it’s up to the individual gamer to seek out and decide if that’s something they want to include in their game. It’s the fact that some guy, one individual decided that yup, I’m going to add big old tit’s to Grace and throw her into thong and pasties while revisiting her mother’s death. At least that gal understood what the intent of the scene/game was but made that conscious decision of “nah, let me change it to what I personally would like to see because I’m just a thirsty bastard.”. And even with these types of mods, yes there is a level of respect and gratitude of the original developers inherit in modding.

It’s something unique based on this one person’s interpretation of the game that they’re sharing with other gamers. On the other end of the spectrum, we as individual games can play the game and then make the decision of if we want to incorporate that transformative artists decision or not and we can decide to completely respect the designers original intent or reject/alter it.

DLSS 5 there is no artistic intent behind it just corporation’s algorithm that’s not agreeing, understanding the tone behind things, saying and whole sale adjusting everything according to a model that normalizes everything to some average model. Plus while you can say that developers can have a say with tools to maximize or minimize the effects, which another article I posted seems to point out that those tools of control may be over blown, there’s been no inkling that the gamer themselves can decide if they want to use it or not. And let’s not be coy with some bullshit about “Well you can turn DLSS off”, no you really can’t because this shit has been used as a crutch for game development to get to a respectable frame rate for reasons so now both developers and gamers are forced to bring in a corporations non-artistic vision into their games.

To me that human artistic factor is one part of the key and the decision to say fuck it I want the game to look like a bad only fans filter and the ultimate choice of the human gamer themselves to decide to use it or not is the other part of it and why to me DLSS 5 is bullshit slop.

This seems completely irrelevant to my point. The problem isn’t that it’s against the developer’s artistic intentions, it’s that it looks like shit.

Who cares what the artist intended?

Irrelevant to you point? Damn, so you don’t even understand your own argument then.

Your first line is literally this:

It’s astonishing to me that PC gamers are suddenly so focused on the “creative intent” of game visuals

and then you’re the one who starts equating mods and how they’ve been altering “creative intent” and implying DLSS 5’s generative AI is no different.

The whole argument about this tech is ALL about creative intent when DLSS is not understanding the game and forcing an algorithmic take on the creative intent not just about how bad it looks.

Fuck man, get your shit in order with a coherent stance and argument.

Clearly not bud.

You are basing your entire argument (pointed at nothing I ever said) to a bunch of speculative statements about a stage presentation of a beta of a product that isn’t won’t be realed for at least 6 months. Somehow you have managed to ignore the fact that not only are current GPU supplies limited, but many users have graphics cards that can’t even utilize the entire suite of DLSS4 features, but you then state that it won’t be possible to disable DLSS? Your entire bandwagoning stance is entirely based on shit you made up.

On top of that, nowhere have I claimed that an AI filter and mod changes are the same. Simply that they have a similar end result, of which we agree changes the original artists intent. Somehow you the think that the modder/mod installer has their own artistic intent that somehow matters but also that it’s different from someone toggling a feature on or off that results in visual changes. What if the user wants this effect? What if this effect was implemented as a mod? Your entire argument is flawed and it’s pointed against a stance I’m not even taking.

Furthermore, instead of making any sort of actual argument why I should care at all, you went straight to a personal attack. So no, you’re no a human, you’re an idiot.