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[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 150 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (26 children)

Thing is, looking at some games, Horizon and Elden Ring being a prime examples, we can have both great games with great graphics.

You don't really want better games with worse graphics, you want better games that don't use great graphics as an excuse to bad gameplay.

[–] blargerer@kbin.social 116 points 6 months ago (20 children)

He wants the resources being spent on graphics to be redirected to engineers and game designers. There is a reasonable top end budget to put towards any given game, so it is at least mostly 0 sum.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 48 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Bethesta has the worst of both worlds.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Big budget of cash; small budget of time and talent.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They take like 10 years to release a game

They have plenty of time, just not the talent or vision to do anything good with it. Their stories are extremely bare bones, the bugs are prolific, and the power creep is more a power slide straight into godhood by level 15 because of the short main quests.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 6 months ago

10 years not enough time for their level of skill. ;)

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It doesn't. You can do so much more in an isometric world than a 3D one. Modern games are more about the game engine than the game itself.

Spruce up some old school MUDs, imo. Make the original Legend of Zelda, but massively upgraded for what you can do with today's tech. (Similar to Bastion, I suppose.) There's a lot of room for a triple A game similar to Albion Online.

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