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?

  • RamRabbit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    18 days ago

    Assuming you aren’t just talking FPSes (as all your examples are shooters). If not:

    • ABRISS
    • Besiege
    • Hardspace: Shipbreaker
    • Space Engineers
    • Kerbal Space Program (the first one) (half the fun of this game is blowing your shit up by accident)
    • Forts

    If you want to stretch the term a little:

    • DCS (an combat aircraft simulator that simulates physics and flying so well that even the USAF uses it for A-10 pilot training)
    • Avorion
    • Empyrion - Galactic Survival
    • 7101334@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      18 days ago

      I used to play KSP all the time but my shit crashes every time, quickly, since they updated it to be more realistic. I am apparently not very good at rocket appliances.

      I’ll check out all the rest though, I actually havent heard of any except maybe Space Engineers. On another website, people recommended Crimson Dawn and The Finals. Crimson Dawn especially looks like it has insane destruction physics.

      • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        18 days ago

        Besiege is great. Its fun and really accessable even on potato hardware. Its also nice because they are small bite style levels. You can really easily pop in and out.

    • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      17 days ago

      Hardspace Shipbreaker is fantastic. Such a unique concept, cutting up old spaceships for company store money to pay off abysmal debt for accepting the job, with fun and relevant developments along the way.

    • egregiousRac@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      18 days ago

      Another good one is Instruments of Destruction. The dev was lead tech designer on Redfaction: Guerilla. It takes a similar approach to making structures have satisfying interior detail.