Skyrim 2 and Microslop

Last year I played The Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered and something felt off.

The game was great

Just a thought here. The game is awesome, Oblivion is a great game. So is Morrowind. And the remastering of Oblivion had amazing graphics, and it was great going through the Hero of Kvatch's journey again.

It was strange, though

It was the first game I've played that featured AI generated frames or something like that. I don't know what it is called preciselly. This frame generation technology makes the game feel smooth at times, but there were those situations that the game felt a way and then suddenly it felt uncanny. Also, my gaming rig is sturdy enough, I tought at the time, to play the game without the AI Frame Generation walking cane.

Then I turned off the AI generated frame assistance and the game was unplayable. Suddenly it felt like playing something like cloud gaming with severe lag, stuttering, something I would never imagine for my desktop's Radeon 6700XT.

Why would a game that looked great - but not as great as The Witcher 3 or Red Dead Redemption 2 - be so broken without frame gen AI walking cane?

Then I realised

It could be because of vibe coding, or severe use of AI in games - which require efficient, low-level code, to command hardware and coordinate graphics effectively - that it was making the game so sluggish. And the RAM usage, don't even get me started with RAM usage.

Yesterday, my fiancée told me that her Microslop Teams App was consuming something like 6 or 7 Gb or RAM.

(Why people use this app is a mistery to me. In her case it was because of an enterprise she does consulting to that uses it)

I don't know much about Microslop Teams, but for a Google Meet or Discord-like app to consume an operating system's order of magnitude of RAM was just absurd.

Is that where we're headed?

Lazy coding, sluggish AI coding, poor and inefficient computing resource use?

I mean, I get that today we have so much computing power accessible to most people, but a Microslop Teams that consumes 8 Gb of RAM, and a game that looks like RD2 and The Witcher 3 but runs like a potato, it's just depressing. It is depressing to see what AAA gaming has become, and also what Microslop has become.

Skyrim 2

So what should we expect from Skyrim 2?

There's this whole issue with sluggish programming, and in the case of Skyrim 2 you combine sluggish programming trend in AAA games with Microslop. Bethesda was bought by Microslop, right?

It's a game-killer combo. I believe it will be worst than what we saw with Starfield. And if that's the case, I would live my days pretending that Skyrim 2 will be released one day, but not yet, and I'd never bother to look it up and disgust myself with the ruining of a would be great game.

LeonardoDCAlves: gaming on Linux since the release of Windows 11.