I've only tried VR briefly, and I think it's a neat idea, and I'd love to play with it more, but I'm more excited about where it will lead in a few years. I'm excited at the prospect of augmented reality where you have the VR headset to some degree either making the image or overlaying what you see in real life while you're in space you can actually move around in. Imagine next level laser tag in augmented reality. I'm thinning Call of Duty in real life.

My biggest issue with VR was the constant desire to physically walk around and forgetting I'm not really in the place I'm seeing in the goggles.

Very nice! You might want to check your settings. Sometimes a global GPU seeing can override in-game settings. Maybe you're anti-soptric filtering isn't working?

Also, Doom 2016 is super scalable and can run on pretty much anything, and there is barely a discernible difference from Low to High settings. I did copious comparisons trying to get it to look as good as possible while keeping 60 frames per second, and I honestly could barely see any change at all for most any settings.

I don't think that's the problem.  All the settings say they're at max and I have reason to think otherwise.  I knew going in that Rage was notorious for this problem because of the megatextures, but I expected to see a visible benefit to their use when not really close up.  It's supposedly one of the nest looking games of 2011 (long time ago, I know), but that was the year Crysis 2 and Battlefield 3 came out, and they blow Rage out of the water in practically every way.  I finished Crysis 3 on max settings at a constant 60 fps, so there's no reason a less intensive game like Rage should be causing any problems, and the framerate is just as steady. 

I understand that Doom 2016 fixed the megatexture problem and uses them without these ugly texture issues.

I'm not a graphics nut who's unwilling to play games unless they look like x.  I'm happy playing any game from any generation as long as the gameplay is good.  I have N64 games on the virtual console which I enjoy.  But when a game is touted as a technical marvel I expect something more from it.  Doom 3 and Quake 3 still impress me because I know what the standards were when then were released, so in my mind I'm comparing them not to Crysis but to Halo 2 or Perfect Dark.

Definately.  There is a lot to be said for games with good cell-shading like Wind Waker or the amazing visuals of the Ubiart games (Rayman and Child of Light).  Those age much better than games like Call of Duty.  And many people think having realistic looking people in a Mario game is just wrong.

I get your point and agree that art design is important, and power alone won't wow me, but I disagree there are no better looking games than those 2. Doom 2016 for example. I also agree photorealistic graphics are not necessary, but they are very nice sometimes, and while clever art direction can make up for lack of power to a degree, there is only so much it can do. Also, sufficient power can really improve the execution of said art.

Case in point - Breath of the Wild has a great aesthetic, but the lack of power really held back the execution. It would have looked even better in 1080p/4K even, at a solid smooth frame rate, with some anti-aliasing to smooth out those jagged edges. You can tell Nintendo went to a great amount of effort to make this beautiful, breathtaking world, and it's a shame to have these flaws marring it. I still enjoyed it, and it was very pretty, but it could have been dazzling with some more power under the hood.

I made it almost to the end of disc 1 of Final Fantasy 7, and I just couldn't be bothered to finish it. I've never really been able to get into JRPGs. I've tried several times, and it's just not my thing aside from the odd exception (Legend of Legaia!)

That said, I might check out the HD remake they are doing. If they modernize the gameplay along with the graphics I might be able to get into it.

I also forgot Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. I love the Metal Gear series and never get tired of it.