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Originally Posted by Seefer
I suspect very little has been done to improve much on core gameplay features. From what I recall, all the chatter about this game when it was first announced revolved largely around fancy eye-candy. Too much emphasis is placed on graphics at huge expense of evolving and greatly improving on gameplay  |
That has unfortunately been a long term trend. I remember that I first stated that about 7-8 years back. It is simply that eye-candy is easily discernible, and attractive to one who walks by the shelf and looks at the boxes of games lined up. Only few people are capable and have the experience with series of similar games to judge how well a particular title is modeled, realistic, historic or much effort was put in the AI. Particularly the latter has attracted less and less development time/funds in the past decade since multiplayer has become a feasible alternative that can serve as an easy excuse to avoid investing heavily into something that people only see after they bought the thing. I guess it just adds little to the sales potential for "casual customers", but is quite challenging to program well.