| IcaroRibeiro said:
The error in your theory is that is infinite water too. While theoretically you indeed can start playing a game with the intention of breaking it (I.e. spamming assets to overload the game engine and physics) for a standard player this will never happen. You don't need infinite RAM, you just need enough RAM (and of course a chip and processor that can make use of this RAM) to prevent the game to break its boundaries I think maybe you don't get there is absolutely no difference between loading a construction the devs made and loading a construction the players made. Think about Minecraft. The maps are procedurally generated ? So for all intents and purposes, they are built while you are playing and interacting with the world and have a boundaries of a few millions of blocks, I Googled it and it would take 140 days to reach the games boundaries. In a game like Zelda the boundaries os the map, both in area and in height. You only need enough RAM to fill this map with assets. So it's not impossible, let alone impractical I disagree with Svenno this is a limitation on Switch, although he can be right. The reason I think it was not done is because the engine was likely not made with this kind of support in mind and reworking the very complex engine only to save the builds would be too troublesome to very few gains. Other possibility is they tried it and saw some routines were starting to get negatively effected by the changed the player could made (imagine building cages towards the placed the minions can spawn) I think this all discussion is all very pointless tbh, I don't think I agree with either side and I don't think this negatively impact the game to any degree. Sure I would be much more happy building bridges or fixed platforming sections to climb hills faster, but not to a degree of being gaming changing. Maybe if this was a game with tighter level design where you need to solve puzzles in order to traverse the world, in this case I would understand the appeal, but TOTK? Don't think it matters much |
The water doesn’t have to be infinite it just has to be enough for example a large water tank isn't infinite but is way bigger than any bathtub, the more complex games become the more you need even more memory and so on this is why in practice it can only be solved with the current solution because the solution on paper would just lead to a never ending chase for more RAM etc...
