games

lol

they double down on their characters being 10/10

do you think this is enough to push devs/pubs away from woke games

like enough to convince the market isn't there at all

i feel like there hasn't been a big enough woke "flop"

for them to care

I say this a lot, the entire industry is going to crash

yeah, this probably reduces the over-the-top woke influence on stuff

but the number of AAA games flopping rn is unheard of

The new Star Wars Ubi game that came out this week also lost millions

games are far too expensive now for the wrong reasons

i genuinely dont even know where the costs are coming from

motion capture?

development has gotten so slow imo

i blame 4k assets

when you stretch out those staffing costs, from 2-3 years to 6+

and the amount of textures people believe they need

that + forcing people to learn new engines constantly with shifting actual dev staff over and over

^

I hate that everything is going UE5

i keep saying this but UE5 is AWFUL

every single developer cries about how hard and shit UE5 is to use

"devs love to work with it" No they fucking don't

bad devs like it

the ONLY people that can use UE5 are people that have used it for YEARS

aka fortnite devs

because it lets them lean on it as a crutch

that's literally it

notice how much better fortnite runs than any other ue5 game

which 10x the detail

because they actually know how to use ue5

literally no one else knows how to use it

UE5 is genuinely better for movie CGI

than it is for standard use for most game studios

it's being used for that gundam show

lol

The Game of Thrones dragon show uses UE5

im sure in like 5 years we'll have college classes and people that grow up using ue5 and it'll get better as a standard

It's the first major one to do it, and now suddenly all of Hollywood is picking it up

but because pubs want to push it so hard

i mean there's not many other options anyways because apparently no one can make their own engines anymore

i doubt you'd even able to budget it since that'd take time but it's not like making 10000 useless high res assets is taking any less time

there was a period of time where studios were complimented or commented on about the engines they used

stalkers engine, idtech

etc.

being tied with a good publisher to be able to USE their engine

Fox Engine

had the best ads

like how dishonored 2 took idtech6 and made void engine/id6.5 or whatever

and it was noticably shit compared to ids next version

(lol)

and im sure they're still using their void fork

There are just a lack of capable people wanting to get into AA or AAA gamedev, so salaries have gone to shit and to compensate you have these huge marching armies of slavedevs and support studios, everything is outsourced and that drives up cost and dev time, product is inferior overall, and it's often stuff no one wants

i think publisher engines are an interesting concept because it gave more of a reason for a studio to be under a publisher

I want games to look different too, I know that's not all the engine

but when they're all using the same assets and sharing them around

everything just feels like slop

everything needs nanite now

sorry spooky

i think I've mentioned it before but we're entering a replication of the seventh gen of consoles

where back then big performance boost so everything was realistic and gritty and dark

this time now it's just everything is uber realistic photo realism

nanite rayrracing super embelished godrays

I think you're right

back then that's what gave borderlands 1 its difference between everything else with its cell shaded style, (notice how even windwaker went to tp gritty dark realism)

i think we'll be in this storm a while of the this trend before people start balancing out again

it takes one game that looks really different to pop off

I think what annoys me most is how they handle animation mapping on player movement

idk how to describe it, other than I feel like modern games just feel off when you're moving around

because everything has to look realistic

the thing that bothers me the most is when you get on stairs

I can ignore it sure, but that's more distracting that the world itself looking however

and your movement speed slows down

because they thought itd be epic to map your movement to each step

ngl I don't give a shit about walking up stairs properly

it just ends up coming off as jarring and rather than feeling realistic takes me out of the game

a lot of modern games sacrifice snappinrss and good movement and controls for stuff like this or between animations

because everything has to be uber realistic and in order

let me animation cancel let me just walk down stairs etc

games don't give jump buttons anymore because people will complain about invisible walls