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Small, incremental improvements don't make shockwaves like the old massive tech leaps used to.
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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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I’d say there’s more progress on scale than visual fidelity. There’s greater ability to render complexity at scale, whether that’s real actors on screen or physics in motion. I agree that progress in detail still frame has plateaued.
What I don't understand is why games look prettier but things like NPC AI (which is really path-finding and decision trees, not actual AI), interactivity of the game world, destructability of game objects - all those things are objectively worse than they have been in a game of 10-15 years ago (with some exceptions like RDR2).
How can a game like Starfield still have all the Bethesda jank but now the NPCs lack any kind of daily routine?
Most enemies in modern shooters barely know how to flank, compare that to something like F.E.A.R. which came out in 2006!
What big shift do you expect? Even regarding 3D realism we are way past the point of diminishing returns in terms of development costs.
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from the image it seems like you're expecting a fourth dimension in games now? I don't think you'd like the development cycle on that. miegakure is still on the way is it?
NHL 2014 and NHL 2024 are probably the same game, only in NHL 2014 the players don't spit out their mouthguards like they do in 2024.
But I need that level of realism /s
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