system
A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
&gt; designed a game for future specs

this game doesn't have anything revolutionary in terms of graphics, unlike crysis or oblivion back then. This isn't by design, it's just plain laziness, or a way to save money or something. 

Assuming they didn't overestimate the specs.
gpt
IN 1993 my computer science teacher docked us points for lazy coding. "When computers first came out, you had to be economical with your code. It's less important today (1993!) because computers have so much processing power and ram that you don't have to be as careful, but it's still a good habit."