сплинтер селл и упрощение

"There's a good reason Splinter Cell dropped analog shadows and move speed. It's because they only added redundant complexity rather than actual, meaningful depth. I've played all of the Thief and Splinter Cell games and analog shadows are pointless because you will always choose the darkest shadow you can find. Same goes for move speed. You will always use the fastest silent move speed. There's no reason to use anything else. Offering a spectrum of choices serves no purpose when one of those choices is objectively better than all the rest.

Also, the old SC games definitely do not control better than the new ones. The movement and traversal in SC 1-4 were relatively clunky compared to Conviction and Blacklist. In the new games, you can navigate the environments more quickly and with fewer inputs.

As for UI, that's also highly debatable. Old RPGs had pretty awful UI (Fallout 1&2, Infinity Engine games, etc). Modern RPGs (Pillars of Eternity, Divinity: Original Sin, etc) have made significant improvements. And DX:HR/MD have better UI than IW. They actually have a drag and drop, grid-based inventory and a proper hotbar"

"Features like manual leaning were nice but contextual leaning has worked fine in the games I've played. It's undoubtedly true that games have been greatly simplified in terms of UI and input complexity but a lot of that was just stripping away redundant information or features. Having 10 options is kind of pointless if only 3 of those options really matter 99% of the time."

"This all applies to stealth games too. Take the light meter from Thief and Splinter Cell, for example. Let's say I'm 70% hidden. What does that even mean? As a player, how does that information inform my strategy? Same goes for sound meters (in the very few games that actually have them). SC: Chaos Theory is my favorite SC but I had no idea what metrics the light or sound meters used. All I knew was that I wanted to keep them as low as possible at all times."​

отсюда
Do games actually "age"?

А что думают эксперты? Про вот это вот "убрали функционал старых частей потому что никто не юзал"