What you on about, there’s always been crappy game releases. There’s a reason “can it run crisis” became a meme. That game is a lot older than 10 years old and it was a unoptimized mess when it was released.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Remember how like… 5-10 years ago, games just… Kinda worked?
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
To be fair, Crytek said it wasn’t unoptimized, but graphically over tuned on purpose, so that even years after release new hardware could finally play the game to its full potential and keep it a relevant graphical benchmark.
If that was a stupid idea in hind sight is another matter 👀.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
I heard nothing in CryEngine 2 was multithreaded because they bet on processors getting better single core performance instead of getting more cores (which is what happened). Not sure about the gpu load though
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ooooo, that’s a nice fun fact, ty!
otp@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There was probably some peak, but I don’t think games as a whole every “just worked”.
If it wasn’t a problem with the game, it was a problem with your hardware.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They did not.
alehel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Isn’t 10 - 15 more accurate at this point? I think we’re older than we think.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I feel like there have always been buggy releases. But I do feel they have gotten more frequent and have become the actual norm, with people being impressed when AAA releases don’t have deal breaking bugs on release
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Or when they didn’t have zero day patches because it was a cartridge.
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I remember, it was in the lands of make believe I think.
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, I don’t remember that at all.
Some did. Some didn’t.