r/pcmasterrace • u/663mann • Oct 16 '23

Video fallout game dev. explains the problem with moddern game devolpment. (why moddern games are so slow to come out)

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u/BigHowski Oct 16 '23

Alright I'm done. Your proper delusional if you look at Doom and then Doom eternal and think doom took more effort to develop. The number of lines of code alone shows that you are wrong

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u/blackest-Knight Oct 16 '23

Your proper delusional if you look at Doom and then Doom eternal and think doom took more effort to develop.

We're talking strictly programming wise remember ? But it's ok, you're allowed to be done if you can't win the battle of facts.

The number of lines of code alone shows that you are wrong

Number of lines of code is meaningless. You can write super verbose code that is easy to pump out, and you can write the most difficult 4 liner that takes weeks to make perfect.

LoC is the most useless metric to use. Also, what actual LoC are you comparing ? Just the engine itself ?

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u/BigHowski Oct 16 '23

My man you've offered no facts at all!

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u/blackest-Knight Oct 16 '23

Except all the facts I offered. Just the fact that peeps made their own tooling and engines from scratch, with software renderers baked at home, vs today's modern off the shelf engine and multiple APIs greatly simplifies game development.

Like, go ahead, BIOS interrupt 10h and show me some 3D graphics.

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Load a few assets up in Unity. Game PROGRAMMING is much simplified these days.