I don’t think they want to sell games anymore

Welcome to a short shitpost about the absurd state of system requirements for new PC games. Spoiler: It’s a total farce.

If the Stalker 2 performance mishap was not enough, welcome to the upcoming Indiana Jones game. Here are the requirements, recently released by Bethesda:

There isn’t much to say here, except that I wonder if they truly want to sell games anymore? Also, optimization seems like a complete lost art. Maybe it will be discovered again in a few hundred years. The game in question doesn’t even look that spectacular, so I’m curious what requires this kind of power? I feel that graphics have already hit the peak, everything crammed in on top of that we have will just cause extra performance issues. 

In the case of Stalker 2, it has now been stated that A-life (read about it here), the cool AI system from the first couple of games was scrapped in favor of the visuals. Only to make it run… somewhat. Yes, we are at that low point now. Nothing interesting is being made in physics, or in-game AI. It seems 100% of the focus is on graphics, and we have reached diminishing returns already. At least when it comes to AAA-gaming. It’s looking better when we check out the indie-scene, but it’s AAA where the big money is, where they can actually afford the research and development. Instead, we get slightly better lighting at the cost of having the latest 5000 euro GPU. Oh well.

/Thomas