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Machiavellian said:
Please do not compare a racing game to a full on RPG, its really not the same thing. |
I would think a racing game would be somewhat more demanding. World geometry and texture assets have to be very rapidly pulled in and out of the VRAM due to the high speed of the cars. It's why Starfield still doesn't have in-atmosphere flight and took nearly a year to add ground vehicles, Bethesda really struggled with getting Creation Engine to quickly load and unload assets at high player camera movement speeds.
I'd say the main issue with the comparison is that Forza Horizon 5 and Avowed are on two different engines, Unreal 5 seems to be alot more demanding than Forza Tech. Also Obsidian have never been anywhere near the front of the developer pack in terms of the technical side of game development, pretty much all of their games over the years have had average graphics at best, and many of them had pretty significant framerate issues. Playground by comparison seem to be in the top 5% of game developers in terms of technology and graphics.
