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Skyrim lead designer says Bethesda can't just switch engines because the current one is "perfectly tuned" to make the studio's RPGs (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Exactly. As a developer, the complexity of that engine blows me away. It's a miracle they got as solid as they did honestly. If these critics are developers, they're either lacking in empathy or they're the kind of prodigy who cannot even comprehend the inability to think about such insanely complex systems with ease

[–] actually@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Also, having played hundreds of hours of their games, I would be content with the older game engine as long as there was a good story line, and decent mechanics ( not related to the op topic).

They can make bad games with this engine, for sure , but I do not want them switch out to photo realism to paint over problems .

It seems to my old self that games would be better if they were a bit ugly, and dangly, to not hide behind all that newness and flashy stuff

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I get that but as a gamer I'm forced to ask why? They went through all this trouble and now they're unwilling to abandon it while other games are sprinting past them in tech, story, and graphics.