My goodness, this is some insane mountain out of a molehill reporting. The article is extrapolating a lot based on some vague and not particularly noteworthy qualifications bulletpoints that should be expected for military shooter VFX work.
So… COD is planning on doing what Battlefield: Bad Company 2 did 14 years ago?
Congrats, I guess
Also red faction: guerrilla. had fantastic building destruction
Remember when CoD bragged about having reactive fish when Mario 64 did it years earlier?
I was watching that during the event and I immediately brought up Super Mario 64. Guess I wasn’t the only one to think that.
Can I ask who cares about this kind of thing? Why don’t they have more jobs for “making the games fun”? There seems to me to be a point where added realism is detrimental to fun, especially when resources are directed away from the fun.
That would be the game designers’ and game director’s job. The listing in the article is for a VFX artist, who is working on the visual side at the direction of the game director.
Just screaming “make the game more fun!” at VFX artists is misplaced. These people are necessary on games, but unless it’s a small/single person team, they don’t have any hand in the game design mechanics aside from implementing what is coming from the director.
Nothing in the job listing seems like it is looking for a revolutionary destruction system. That seems like flourish added by article. It looks like a much more mundane listing, where one point being looked for is destruction VFX experience, which is pretty necessary for a military shooter and really shouldn’t raise eyebrows.
