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Woah! The AI and physics in Far Cry 2 is an order of magnitude better. It makes me wonder how the games regressed to be so bad (maybe devs just don't care as much anymore?), given that Dunia Engine is used by both games. 'the game's director, Clint Hocking, noted that internally, much of the design of Far Cry 2 was haphazard'

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> It makes me wonder how the games regressed to be so bad (maybe devs just don't care as much anymore?)

Console limitations might be one reason. Apparently everything has to run on every platform under the sun or you might die impoverished in a dark alley, a mindset that has inflicted other horrors, like Electron, upon us.

I remember I liked Electron on first glance, but then realized it was a drag how slow it was. I really hope this doesn't get worse to the point where we need to consider x platform x proprietary GPU architecture. It will make centralized engines like Unreal the only commercially viable options for big projects with less money or exclusivity than say BOTW.

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