Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today's games suffer from trying 'to be everything for everyone' when they should be learning from '80s games: 'These games were really focused, because they had to be'
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  • Senseless@feddit.orgEnglish
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    7 days ago

    That’s why, e.g. Kingdom Come Deliverance (2) is so much fun. It doesn’t even try to appeal to everyone.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      7 days ago

      To be fair, that game does a lot of stuff.

      But yes, its extremely focused too. It’s so medieval it hurts.

      They also lucked out picking CryEngine, as (for their use case) it works unbelievably well. Many AAAs fall into development hell wrangling engines, and they easily could have done the same.