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Martin Plays Oct 15, 2020 @ 8:44am

Why no fully rendered and animated gameplay ?

It's 2020 and most PC's are powerful enough to play fully rendered and animated games. And all we get with these games is a slideshow ?

Last edited by Martin Plays; Oct 15, 2020 @ 9:21am

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Corridian

Oct 15, 2020 @ 10:43am

with the top end machine, the animations and renders can tax most machines. Some can take multiple hours even with I-9 processors. Making an animated "movie" to play through would be insanely time consuming. Many are still not able to afford the I-9 processors and 128 gigs of ram plus graphics engine, so it can take days to do the renders. I am editing/proofing some works and just using Atom and reviewing the text and function calls is very long, as a single episode or chapter (not the half of game we have in COBD) but a fraction of that, has you reviewing 5-10k lines of code. It isn't fast.
Sure a lot of computers can play them.. Making them is a whole separate matter. Oh and these are mostly not large gaming companies, but single person or small group efforts. I think PhillyGames is solo with a bunch of test folks and some proof readers. Dr. Pink Cake also and Super Duper Writer as well. The couple of folks I am working with are solo ops as well. These are not Bioware operations

Last edited by Corridian; Oct 15, 2020 @ 10:46am

Fomin

Nov 3, 2020 @ 8:05am

Originally posted by Martin Plays:
It's 2020 and most PC's are powerful enough to play fully rendered and animated games. And all we get with these games is a slideshow ?

I don't think you understand the medium of visual novels. If this game were third-person shooter or an AARPG or a soulslike, it would be in an entirely different genre.

Perhaps you also don't understand how games are developed. Developers, especially indie developers make what they can with the resources available to them. They don't start with the most amazing game that your PC can run and then work backwards.

You may as well ask why there isn't voice acting when your machine definitely has enough memory to handle the audio files (the answer of course being that adding voice acting would require hiring a number of professional voice actors, most of whom would need to do multiple takes over a period of weeks or even months.)

Last edited by Fomin; Nov 16, 2020 @ 4:59am