• BoneALisa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What things would that be? Im trying to think of something that hasnt been replicated / improved in another game, but I am drawing a blank personally.

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      1 year ago

      One example: The way Bethesda games track an enormous number of physics enabled objects across their open worlds. I feel like most games in the last 10 years have made a point of simplifying their physics systems to a point of near-nonexistence.

      Bethesda knows that when I dump 500 wheels of cheese on the floor of my house in Whiterun, I want it all to still be exactly where I left it when I come back 20 hours later.

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        1 year ago

        good point. I still have daggers that refuse to stay in their display boxes and move around the house mysteriously, though 🙃

        I prefer to suspect the radiant engine before Lydia or Ysolda (well, Serana maybe lol).

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        1 year ago

        Fair point. I can’t really think of any games that have done that, either. Interesting that there haven’t been more physics sandbox style open worlds, come to think of it…

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        1 year ago

        Valheim does a really great job with this. I think the closest I’ve seen in a game. The other part of this is that’s part of what makes their VR Ports so good.