Mayhaps because games these days are FN humunguous! and require daunting, powerful engines -- but games of old, that fit on a disk, CD, DVD even might all be wi

Mayhaps because games these days are FN humunguous! and require daunting, powerful engines -- but games of old, that fit on a disk, CD, DVD even might all be within the scope of an individuals ability to tinker. Also - OG games that built their own engines provide some insight to incredible methods of wizards -- like when people pick apart something Carmack did with what appears to be two characters to create a whole [thing] - as opposed to a UE4 engine game is going to have a f-ton of opaque mechanics?