[belugacat]

I agree about the siren song aspect, and how full system simulation is very non correlated to fun, but I think it’s one of those things where we haven’t seen the full potential yet - we’re still maybe a few computational leaps away from it.

Kind of like ray tracing, or voxel worlds; for the latter, Minecraft was a great example of a first game meeting that “computation required” vs “fun” slope intercept; Teardown is a more recent game that uses its voxel engine to enable novel gameplay that would be totally infeasible without it.