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The original was posted on /r/games by /u/grailly on 2023-06-30 13:52:50+00:00.

It hits me as odd how environmental destruction got going on the PS3/360 generation with hits such as Red Faction Guerrilla, Just Cause 2 or Battlefield Bad Company, which as far as I know sold rather well and reviewed well, but that was kind of the peak. I feel like there was a lot of excitement over the possibilities that the technology brought at the time.

Both Red Faction and Bad Company had one follow up that pulled back on the destruction a bit. Just Cause was able to continue on a bit longer. We got some titles like Fracture and Microsoft tried to get Crackdown 3 going, but that didn’t work out that well. Even driving games heavily pulled back on car destruction. Then over the past generation environmental destruction kind of vanished from the big budget realm.

It seems like only indies play around with it nowadays, which is odd as it seems like it would be cutting edge technology.