Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good
caut_R@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And I don‘t think games have to look that good either… I‘m currently playing MGSV and that game‘s 8 years old, runs at 60 fps on the Deck, and looks amazing. It feels like hundreds of millions are being burned on deminishing returns nowadays…
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s bullshit accounting, they’re not spending it on the devs or the games, they’re spending it on advertising and the c levels Paydays. There are a ton of really good looking games, that had what would be considered shoestring budgets, but these companies bitching about it aren’t actually in it for the games anymore, its just for the money.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What are the good looking games with shoestring budgets?
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
vg247.com/hellblades-budget-required-ninja-theory….
10mil for Hellblade
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Kingdom_Come:_Deliverance#:~….
36mil for KC:D one of the prettiest games of the time…which includes marketing.
The cost of some of these “AAAA” titles is a complete joke.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Alright, not like for like exactly, and at 34M, we’re stretching the definition of shoestring. I’ll bet KC:D’s sequel spent far more, for one. I’m with you that more of these studios ought to be aiming for reasonable fidelity in a game that can be made cheaply, but when each of those studios took more than 5 years to build their sequels, that becomes more and more unlikely.