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That's basically what Crysis was when it released, so yeah why not?
Because Crysis for its time was breaking barriers in terms of graphics and physics. City skylines 2 doesn't even look that good (graphically). So it just comes down to poor optimization that will get fixed after half a year to a full year of patching. This isn't a great look even though they said "But we said it will perform poorly".
Crysis was the game that got me to stop being lazy and finally build my first PC.
I dont get why people are mad about this. I'm happy that games are coming out that destroy top setups today because that means they will be beautiful (hopefully that's what they are with max settings) with future hardware.
They're ugly looking now, that's the issue. skylines 2 definitely is an improvement over 1, but it's not an astronomical improvement (like the difference you'd notice with some franchises moving from unreal engine 4 to 5)
The amount of raw performance needed to power this game is what's shocking. It's just a lack of optimisation.
The issue is when the game is destroying top setups because its poorly optimized and full of bugs, and I dont think it was their idea to do a game for the future hardware because that would not be comercial viable.