Joey

Joshua I mean sure but other games have had actual wind and rain in their games for years. With the seasons (also well established game mechanic) of shadows stripped then what's so impressive?

Sadly I'm expecting the more realistic wind to just turn down the gameplay fun. I mean sure could be realistic if there are enemy ships coming and you're basically kinda stuck, but probably people wouldn't find that much fun.

I mean the reuse of assets by a big company just sucks. They gonna make the price of the game cheaper because they saved on asset creation? No. Will it benefit gamers in any way? No. Will developers actually have freed up time to work on other stuff? No, they take the reduced time needed for assets simply into account when making deadlines.

And then next year you can hear them cry about game creation being that more expensive, while they cut developers and replace them an many other team members by AI. Simply reuse assets.

And lets be real having a team of hundreds of developers, throwing whatever amount of money into a game does not guarantee success at all. Sure you can call the failed pirate game a AAAA game because of the budget and big ass developer team. If that is all a game is build on, no passion, no interest, just the guidelines of "you have 500 million to make the next big hit before 2030" yeah the game is doomed as proven again and again

game hit after game hit? Yeah small studios actually making passion projects