Okay first of all the two black people have exact same features and exact same glasses just different color and have exact same haircut

@ Muffins i won't argue with you because the differences between them aren't subtle differences at at. Also, being that this article is garbage where it stands, i have absolutely nothing else to say. However, i will say keep up the good work Rockstar because personally i think GTA V is turning out to be game of the decade.

Pretty sure he has the same t-shirt on 2....ever thought maybe they are main characters.

Edit: where on about different people :( I was on about the guy above...peace.

There is also nowhere near as much stuff going on in Skyrim as in GTA IV. Sure they both have huge open worlds, but that is about where it ends. There are so many more moving objects at any give time, that memory constraints would play a huge part in recycling models in GTA.

Not too hard to understand there.

I love Skyrim, but your comment is pretty silly.

Yes, there is. There really is. Dynamic weather, light, character animations, etc.

Look at the difference in the engines though. Bethesda creates better engines.

some of skyrim's models arent truly that far from recycling , especially for a few dunmer npcs

"Dynamic weather, light, character animations, etc. "

Really ? Oblivion had some rather mediocre animations and sjyrim is just ok so far . While there is a reason the euphoria animation engine , and its dynamic synthesis animation features from gta IV made such a splash .

It's a comparison between apple and oranges anyway ...

its a hard bet to make. hindsight is always 20/20.

After Driveclub's reception, hard to say it would have done well enough to compete. It's easy to dream of such a thing, but to make it happen? It's taken how long for CoD to be dethroned? And it was dethroned by Hogwart's Legacy and has gained it right back just the next year.

Futbol.

Agree that all you just posted are great games. Expedition 33 is one of my favorites. Spent a large chunk of time on BG3 in 2023. Another for my all-time list.

My point though not well articulated in the OG post is that we would get more of the games of the quality you mentioned if so many valuable resources were not allocated to FTP slop and/or heavy monetization schemes. Some of what used to be my favorite franchises have been ruined by them.

To sum it up, I would like to see games like 33 outperform the profits made by games like Fortnite so more resources are allocated to great games. When heavily monetized FTP games are at the top of the list, we end up being stuck with a significant chunk of games that are not good. Or worst case scenario games that spend years in development, but get cancelled due to industry trend chasing.

Perhaps, and I hope you’re right. A shift is needed IMO