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Why horses are so hard for video games to get right

If a horse is in a video game, that means someone busted their butt to get it there.

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If a horse is in a video game, that means someone busted their butt to get it there.

The short version

  • Horses are WEIRD — they're massive animals with weird bendy joints and many, many gaits.
  • It's no wonder why so many games choose to simply treat them as transportation.
  • Even so, some games go the extra mile to make horses unique and meaningful to the gameplay — and they benefit from it massively.

What happened

Here's why horses are so difficult to get into games, and what we're missing out on when horses aren't given their due.#breathofthewild #eldenring. For NNN readers, the useful bit is how why horses are so hard for video games to get right changes the immediate story in this beat.

Why it matters

Polygon says why horses are so hard for video games to get right is the central development readers should understand.

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