Huh, this actually sounds like a pretty decent concept, or at least, experiment in narrative flow.
Not really much of a "game" courtesy of the QTEs though.
Not really much of a "game" courtesy of the QTEs though.
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So, having to download and install day-one patches for games is "how consoles work", is it?deadish said:
I was referring to the "inferior PC" part of the comment.LenticularHomicide said:
"Oh the specs are lower therefore it must be 'inferior'", while happily ignoring all the wasted resources due to how PCs function - virtual memory, driver overhead ... etc. (and no VM isn't about the swap file; you can have VM without a swap file).
Well, Yahtzee isn't one of those specification snobs in the first place. He already laid out his reasons for comparing next-gen consoles to gaming PCs in an Extra Punctuation way back in 2013: The Trails and Perils of Returning to PC [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/extra-punctuation/10803-The-Trials-and-Perils-of-Returning-to-PC]deadish said:
In summary, the reasons he sees next-gen consoles as being inferior gaming PCs are because next-gen consoles now have characteristics formerly associated only with PCs (having to download and install patches, a focus on online-only multiplayer). However, unlike a PC, since a console is still nominally a purpose-built dedicated gaming machine, you can't do anything else while the patch is downloading (unlike a PC, where you can always let the update work in the background), and you can't easily replace a malfunctioning component (again, unlike a PC, which is built to a standard industry-wide specification), which makes the user experience overall frustratingly similar to PC gaming and yet inferior at the same time (in his opinion).
Specifications don't have anything to do with it. In fact, in that same article he has this to say about his Alienware gaming PC:
Yahtzee said:
Well ... patching is less a PC thing and more of "have internet access" thing. Patches weren't that common before the Internet even on the PC although it did exist thanks to BBSs. i.e. Patches exist because a convenient mechanism for disseminating them exist.LenticularHomicide said:
Let's be honest here, when your PC is doing "heavy" updating, you can't do crap either. Your hard disk will be at 100% making everything that needs it slow as molasses in January and you can forget about doing anything lasting more than 15 mins if it's Windows that need updating as you will have to restart.
Unlike a PC you don't have to troubleshoot which component is broken. You just consider the whole thing broken and let the manufacturer sort it out if it's still under warranty or replace it if it isn't. Weeks on the phone with the likes of DELL trying to get them to replace what I believe was a fault video card - it was and no they didn't know better - was to put it lightly "very frustrating".
