• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Fallout 4 took 7 years to develop and still felt rushed. Exactly how far in advance do you think they knew about the show?

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        1 day ago

        Options:

        • high quality remaster of older game (FO4, FONV, etc)
        • reuse FO76 engine to make a new game, with a few graphical upgrades
        • story DLC releases for older games

        Any of those could’ve been done in the time they’d know about the FO show release target.

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          4 hours ago

          reuse FO76 engine to make a new game, with a few graphical upgrades

          They did do that. It was called Starfield.

        • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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          17 hours ago

          Probably the best we’d get for story DLCs would be for FO4 or 76 because there’s absolutely no way they’d create new content for a game over a decade old that isn’t Skyrim or the latest entry in another series of theirs that is either fallout or fallout or fallout.

        • leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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          1 day ago

          much of a game’s development time is spent creating assets, using a new engine doesn’t mean your existing low fidelity assets suddenly look better, just better lit

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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            Eh, a lot of it also has to do with designing things, not the producing assets. If you’re just doing a remaster and upgrading assets that already exist, it should take a lot less time than building something from scratch.

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              24 hours ago

              that’s just simply not true. if you look at the project lifecycle for a game very little resources are spent in preproduction, the bulk of the time is in production. preproduction usually has all of the core mechanics and ideas implemented by the end, then it’s just about executing on that plan. there’s not a lot of experimentation and iteration once you are in full tilt production mode

    • Omega@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      These Bethesda open world games take a LONG time to make. Even if they knew it was going to be made 7 years from now, there’s no guarantee it will be good or that it won’t be shelved. It’s better to just go at your own pace.

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        1 day ago

        It’s not the open world takes them so long, it’s the expert writing and amazing animations!

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          20 hours ago

          And the amazing variety of points of interests and quests!

          You can have literally dozens of combinations!

          (Still salty about Starfield, don’t mind me.)