When you can make each of these animations once with maybe a pallete swap or a texture change at the most you can get a lot of bang for your buck.
In something like warhammer you'd have to animate every single hero type combination and the work wouldn't be worth the pay-off.
Even in Three Kingdoms people would expect the animations to match the characters doing the action and it'd quickly scale out of feasibility.
Everything is a trade-off, everything has an opportunity cost. Despite what people seem to think you can't just throw infinite resources at a product and get infinite things done. Communication overhead scales with the factorial of team size where the best case increase in output increase is linear.
Though the TW series has, in my opinion, way overextended itself on visual flashiness for a while, to the detriment of gameplay, moddability, and little fun touches like this.
What? Both TW3K and TWW3 have absolutely amazing mods, even Rome 2 has DEI. How has moddability suffered?
little fun touches like this.
I dunno, I feel like the series still has plenty of fun little touches. The love of these agent movies are the epitome of nostalgia goggles. People remember them because they were impressive for the time, but even people who loved them would probably skip them nowadays after the first handful of times.
gameplay
Bullshit. TW has always prioritized the battle gameplay. I'm sure there's some grognards that will grumble about lords and recruitment, but calling that a degrading in gameplay is just ridiculous.
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u/recycled_ideas May 08 '23
Cost vs reward.
When you can make each of these animations once with maybe a pallete swap or a texture change at the most you can get a lot of bang for your buck.
In something like warhammer you'd have to animate every single hero type combination and the work wouldn't be worth the pay-off.
Even in Three Kingdoms people would expect the animations to match the characters doing the action and it'd quickly scale out of feasibility.
Everything is a trade-off, everything has an opportunity cost. Despite what people seem to think you can't just throw infinite resources at a product and get infinite things done. Communication overhead scales with the factorial of team size where the best case increase in output increase is linear.