Which seems more than a little sad to me and what I was getting at. Is it really the end of complex sims like CloD as we all drift back to simpler but unsatisfying games?
But has anyone any thoughts on solutions? Maybe rather than every team of game developers building their own complete world from the ground up some form of universal standard environment could be developed that contained all the physics and effects needed and which could accept third party plugins like Speed Tree or the lighting used in CloD. That way a developer could just concentrate on the models and game play needed for their own particular scenario. More of a collaboration of the whole games industry and even hardware manufacturers.
What is the point of powerfull computers if there is nothing to use them for. I am sure games are the major reason for home users wanting to upgrade. Everything else can be run on an ipad these days.
Not sure if the vested interests of competing developers would ever allow that to happen though.
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