[citation][nom]Tomfreak[/nom]I am taking BF3 as an example because it is the only few games out there that push things other than graphics. and I am not talking about eye candy only. BF3 is not eye candy only. Blowing up walls are part of the strategy. If I play a fps, and going to kill a room with 5-6 enemy, I would prefer to have option blow up the wall with C4 from sidewall, instead of rushing in the main door with 5-6 guns deployed pointing at me. Air strike from plane should destroy the entire building, thats how the real world work. If a rocket fire upon a plane or Heli, it would kill them, not allow them to continue working flawlessly. And vehicle do not regenerate in real world. the AI is the another story, How many games are there is smarter than ur pet? NONE. The AI are still as stupid as ever. We got 6 cores 3960X now, with 4 cores hitting mainstream. Thats lots of processing power for AI and physics alone.I dont see any reason not to push these 2 area.[/citation]
what i mean by eye candy and actually mattering is this.
a single brick falls, and it can kill you, that matters, and needs to be tracked server side
a single brick falls, and it just interacts with the world, but not damage wise, thats eye candy and can be done pc side.
and the reason ai isnt pushed, is because of multiplayer... where most people spend most of their time. that and the cpu being used to power better graphics and bare minimum everything else.