• Whitebrow@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I still remember playing StarCraft 2 shortly after release on a 300$ laptop and it running perfectly well on medium settings.

    Looked amazing. Felt incredibly responsive. Polished. Optimized.

    Nowadays it’s RTX this, framegen that, need SSD or loading times are abysmal, oh and don’t forget that you need 40gb of storage and 32gb of ram for a 3 hour long walking simulator, how about you optimize your goddamn game instead? Don’t even get me started on price tags for these things.

    Software and game development is definitely a spectrum though, but holy shit is the ratio of sloppy releases so disproportionate that it’s hard to see it at times.

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      2 months ago

      Then factorio dev blog comes in and spend months optimizing the tok of one broken gear in the conveyor belt to slightly improve efficiency.

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      2 months ago

      Absolutely. Every time I play a game from before 2016 or so it runs butter smooth and looks even better than modern games in many cases. I don’t know what we’re doing nowadays.