AAA are failing the fuck out and you can STILL rock a 1060 and play a surprising amount of games. I imagine you could have slightly better and just still play everything
If anything, IMO, the retards are gonna kill their entire market once China or another company catch up to their tech and the AI bubble bursts, as they're going to leave a massive hole to be filled, and once it's filled, it's gonna be over for them
The AAA needs to adapt and stop making expensive unoptomized pajeet coded slop if they want to get gamers to buy their games if there are hardware shortages.
That said the PS5 and Xbox Series generation has been a total fucking disaster. Just Shitty UE5 remakes of 20 year old games , package recompilations of older games. The best newest game I played of recent time wasn't even a AAA title and from a AA studio instead Sandfalls Expedition 33 Clair Obscur. Not the best game I ever played but it was really well done and modern studios should look at how to make a game instead of this unoptimized games a service slop and charging top dollar for it.
Xbox's most hyped title Halo: Infinite was an utter fucking disaster and the only good thing that came of it was it was soo bad Microsoft had to get rid of Bonnie Ross to save face.
I still have a 3080-Ti and don't see ever upgrading. Hell, the PS4 Pro hit that golden era of graphics that are more than good enough for most story-telling, puzzles and action. Sure Far Cry 6 might look way better on a 3080 but .. who the fuck cares, the game is shit and the characters all suck ass.
Games have to be fun. Fancy art is a nice touch, but the game still has to be .. a game. Red Dead 2 and Stardew Valley are on totally different levels tech wise, but they're both solid for being fun, interesting games.
Hopefully there will just be a return to games being .. well games, not tech demos with some shit story or god awful art drawn by a team of lesbians who probably can't even finish a visual novel.
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>Hopefully there will just be a return to games being .. well games, not tech demos with some shit story or god awful art drawn by a team of lesbians who probably can't even finish a visual novel.
Even if games stopped prioritizing graphics or physics, it still won't matter as long as developers keep relying on bloated engines. Just look at all the 2D indie games running on fucking Unity or Unreal when they can easily just use SDL instead.
The whole "buying a high-end gaming PC to play Minecraft" meme exists for a reason and it's because of incompetent devs.
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@xianc78 @djsumdog @merchantHelios @berkberkman @coolboymew @ooignignoktoo that's not what the meme is lol, you buy a high end pc but then only play Minecraft because that's what you really like to play above all else. For me it used to be only playing games on dolphin lmao. Minecraft could run on library computers from 2012, but it doesn't exactly have great scaling because Java sucks. Bedrock is coded in I believe c++ and is way more performant, it just sucks because it is way more locked down. Thankfully mods help out the performance and visuals on Java a lot.
Also Unity doesn't actually have that many issues tbh, as long as the dev knows what they are doing the games run pretty well. Unreal has some pretty deep-seated issues with the engine itself that you can actually work around, but it takes a lot of effort.
I think if someone is making a 2D game they should probably just stick to Godot though. Even for simplistic 3D games. If you're trying to do anything seriously crazy though, pretty much your only two options are Unreal and Unity and Unreal is kind of easier at this point, imo.
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>I think if someone is making a 2D game they should probably just stick to Godot though.
I think Love2D is a better choice as it is more lightweight. Sure it may lack conveniences like a level editor or pathfinding, but it's simple enough for a middle schooler to pickup as Lua is one of the easiest programming languages to learn. There is also Pygame which is basically the same thing, but for Python. I see kids programming with these tools all the time, so they are easy for anyone to pickup.
I don't think a full-blown engine is needed for writing 2D games. You just need a basic grasp on geometry and trigonometry in order to work with 2D.
