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What happened to good destruction-physics focused games? (lemmy.world)
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I'll preface this by saying I am 100% not aware of every game in existence, but:

What happened to all the good games with a focus on destruction physics?

Red Faction: Guerrilla was one of my favorite games ever. It had its buggy moments, but overall its destruction physics system was fun and satisfying.

Then Red Faction: Armageddon was so terrible it killed the entire studio (that's probably not exactly what happened but I'm going with it), so now Red Faction is in some weird legal limbo or owned by a company with no plans for it or something like that.

The next choice seems to be Just Cause. The cables in Just Cause are great fun, but the structures all feel like they're made of cardboard and mostly are not destructible. Not very satisfying and not very fun long-term.

The best option I've played for current-or-previous-gen (yeah sorry still a console peasant, working on that) was Battlefield 6, which does destruction very well but it's hardly the main focus of the game like it was for RF:G.

So... what happened to good destruction-physics focused games? Are there any out there that I don't know about?

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Embracer just announced that they want to use Red Faction again amongst other franchises. That could mean anything from shitty mobile cash grab to proper full price video game cash grab.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please post your source. After them killing Deus Ex 3 I have no reason to think they are seriously about anything

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh FUCK DEUS EX MENTIONED

💯🚨 This is not a drill

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

ALSO SAINTS ROW

Granted it was pretty ass towards the end (though the final one was kinda okay almost), but Saints Row 2 was great

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

HUGE NEWS

Maybe hugely exciting and maybe hugely disappointing, but definitely one of those