While hardware is a lot more performant now, game devs are still pushing the boundaries, I'd say even more than back then. Modern triple A games like red dead redemption 2 are a giant collection of such tricks.
>Modern triple A games like red dead redemption 2 are a giant collection of such tricks.
It's just too bad somewhere along the way they forgot games were supposed to be fun as they were slapping eachother's backs over how ingenious they were to be able to render every flea and tick on a horse's asshole while you clean it out and feed them a carrot.