Why there used to be many games with interaction and mirror reflexions before?

[Ikagura]

I feel like many old game allowed that kind of thing (like being able to destroy or move many things in FPS) while current ones are almost struggling to make a simple mirror? RAM management is harder.

 

[Zerohour2k12]

Like in the Red Faction series? I could be wrong but I think it's the capabilities of the game engine. maybe it's more expensive to implement those now so some studios aren't going all in like they used to.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

Many old games didn't actually have working mirrors as one would think, what they often did was to make a copy of the room with another player model moving around with your commands to simulate a mirror, sometimes just the player model.

Having an actual working mirror without using the trick I mentioned, used to be flex worthy, but now since graphics have become very resource intensive it would be too much work.

Unless its an immersive sim, I kinda don't care if it has working mirrors or not.

 

[Sheepy765]

I've noticed that too. My only guess would be mirrors needing to reflect more and more as games get more and more graphically intensive.