• @Zalack@startrek.website
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    102 years ago

    I could not disagree harder. Bethesda puts a ton of work into making their games as extensible as possible and I think that’s not a deficiency at all.

    • macniel
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      32 years ago

      Given that its the same engine over and over and over again; I don’t think they put that much work into making it extensible anymore. “It just works.”

      • conciselyverbose
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        32 years ago

        Everyone uses the same engine over and over. Starting from scratch instead of iterating on your previous engine is the exception, not the norm.

        • macniel
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          12 years ago

          Sure but I wouldn’t call

          making their games as extensible as possible

          hard work since it has always been like that.

          • conciselyverbose
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            42 years ago

            It absolutely is.

            If you don’t make extensibility a core philosophy every step of the way, it disappears very quickly.

            • macniel
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              12 years ago

              Bethesda would need to completely rework their tooling and engine to block out this core philosophy.

              • conciselyverbose
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                2 years ago

                They are reworking their tooling and engine constantly.

                If they weren’t making a deliberate point of making extensibility a priority, it would disappear on its own as development that didn’t make it a focus left it behind. It doesn’t just magically happen. It’s because of good process.

                • macniel
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                  12 years ago

                  We shall see with CreationEngine 2 if they would removed that facette. But I doubt it since its the essential core of that engine to be extensible.

                  • conciselyverbose
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                    12 years ago

                    It’s the core because they spend a sizable portion of their resources on making it that way. Every line of code that doesn’t explicitly keep interoperability in mind is a line of code with the potential to catastrophically break it.

                    It’s not something you can do, then you have it. It’s like exercise. The day you stop it starts to fall away.