probably not, the thing about gaming is that it allows for indies to thrive and the current situation at the time of writing is the whole indie darlin FOTM phenomenon, AAA industries are too big to try for that shit so they always miss the mark and end up looking retarded, see asscreed's attack on titan DLC as example, the india menace infecting the studios won't help either since jeets are like muslims, once they are in power it's their extremely retarded way or the highway and in the tech sector no jeet in senior position would ever consider a competent person to challenge his authority and make him lose izzat by showing he is a incompetent subhuman.
don't promise me a good time, nigga.
Unreal and Quake ran like ass on current machines of the time, and that was in the era of supposed "optimization." Quake ran so badly on my P100, which I'd gotten the year before, that I uninstalled it and never played it through until I got a PIII in 1999. It was extremely common to not play PC games until years after they came out in the "optimization" era. "Eh, it runs like ass, but gamers will have better PCs next year" has always been the M.O. of PC game developers. 20 years ago PC Master Race supremacists with their fancy Geforce 2s and console kiddies with their PS2 were arguing about this exact thing. I could probably find forum posts from 2002 about how PS2 games are better because console devs have to optimize, while PC games are shit because this year's games will run like ass until next year's GPUs come out, so the PC gamer can't have a good experience unless he buys a new $400 GPU every year.
Morrowind's dungeons are functional but I don't find many of them particularly interesting or engaging outside of maybe a dozen or so highlights. I suspect they are the way they are because of the game's ethos when it comes to quests incorporating dungeons: the mini adventure of actually finding the correct dungeon is part of the quest/overall experience. It's a shame the game didn't make better use of scout npcs. That image of Arkngthand's map linked earlier is kind of deceptive as 95% of Morrowind's dungeons aren't anywhere near as complex. The way I've taken to playing Morrowind over the last few years is to purposely stay out of dungeons unless its for a quest or a specific item I want to rush. Which is to say I don't mind the dungeons, just that playing the game as a dungeon crawler a la Oblivion makes the experience worse imo.
I liked them at first. There was a sense of mystery. Then, as I got deeper into the game, I realized there was nothing to discover, as they were all the same 3-5 layouts with doors in different spots and no interesting lore or artifacts to uncover.
It's most likely true. Epic Nate does have connections at Bethesda and we've known it was going to be set in Niggerfell for a few years now.
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The Elder Scrolls North Sentinel Island confirmed so.
Game Devs not compressing files and a good number of PC users being cheap and fucking retarded with their builds both can and are true at the same time.
Add to this the dissolution of the disk and the advent of digital downloads. Skyrim was 6GB because it had to fit on 6GB disks. Before the 2010s, devs HAD to use every trick in the book to optimise and cram a lot into very little (relatively, anyway) file sizes.
Those were all made long before 2020.
No, it's that PC devs had screaming high-end rigs and developed games for themselves. John Carmack outright said as much. The fact that Unreal ran like shit even on a Pentium with a Voodoo card wasn't a "config complexity" issue. It was dead simple, actually. You had a single-core x86 CPU, and either you had a Voodoo or you didn't. There weren't 25 different graphics cards to choose from. They just figured, fuck you, either plop down a few hundos on SLI or wait a couple years.
It's because games are designed to look good at 4K now. AAA PS3 exclusives were designed to look good at 720p and took up >20 GB on a Blu-Ray disc. 720p to 4K is a 9x increase in visual resolution, so it's not really shocking at all that games with assets targeting 4K are 10x bigger than they were 20 years ago. It would be shocking if they were the same size.
you forget that dunner can live for like 300 years (without magic to extend their lives unnaturally)
I mean those areas I was talking about in ESO weren't even made by Bethesda.
i mean, i know the khajiit definitely don't
