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I still havent cleared 2 yet, and still enjoy it so much I dont want to

GTA: Vice City remains king of my sandbox.

Let me tell you I am so fuckin' SICK of 'preloading shaders' If I have to keep doing that shit next gen I am just giving up. Publishers love it though, I bet. Literally punish a player with abysmal start times or lag when they dare play anything else

I see

Wasn't 7th gen crunch awful?

Unfortunately gamers encourage this when they see Pokémon and ask why it doesn't look like GTA V. The answer is: because in the name of broad appeal (and particularly to children) it's boldly stylised to look like a manga given motion, or an "anim may" style as us true Japan heads call it.

Two characters *per week* is craaaaazzzyyyy 😵

i kinda care 😥

I dunno, I think muscle sims and deformers are pretty cool on more muscular characters and monsters and make a pretty big impact. And in third person games, hair rendering does have a huge effect considering the head takes up like 10% of your screen at all times

When I started at my new studio I straight up asked "so do we have a rock library that we re-use between games" and they sorta laughed at me. Someone said the normal maps from the previous project wouldn't be good enough. I was trying to think of why on earth any players would care.

The tools to make incredible things are here now and we're wasting hours every day making perfect, shiny corporate art We could be making lots of different beautiful things that please us, make our lives richer and more interesting, and also run at 60fps on a Compaq from 2004

True! The OG Wind Waker still looks amazing after all these years, and is still a joy to play.

I just want more fun games. I dont care how it looks. It could have pong or game and watch style graphics. As long as its fun. It feels like companies today think that the looks of a game is more important than the gameplay itself and its so exhausting