How many updates and bug fixes did it have on PlayStation? Many I assume?
What are the worst “console” practices that have crept into PC gaming?
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Most PC launches get that in their first few months, port or not
Point taken, just saying, that playing it on PC, never had a single issue with it.
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I completed both on the ps4, and have been playing the first on the pc port... Seems decent? No issues and obviously better graphics/fps, no crashes... Win win?
Yes the whole interface on Starfield is horrible. Large buttons, clumsy, slow. It's clearly made for a console pad.
It needs a complete redo, which hopefully a modder will sort out once the tools are available.
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Soldato
I remember when games challenged you. It's a rare thing nowadays.
Now all gamers are treated like the thickest plebs on the planet. Go here, do this, do that, chat to them, grab this. You all have Xray vision, everything soaks bullets. Mashing a button passes as skill. You can sneak past the enemy with zero effort, or the opposite they have x-ray vision and can unrealistically see you through walls 80 miles away. Etc etc. Sigh.
Elden Ring was the first game in years that didn't bore me. It didn't hold my hand, I could go where I wanted. It lets you discover stuff even if that was to your doom. Enemies kicked your but if you weren't good enough. It didn't cheat to make things a challenge, which meant the satisfaction of progression was fantastic...Just how games used to be.
Perhaps I'm too old, and the shiny flashing colours are all the kids want today.
Bah Humbug
At the moment I'm trying my hardest not to be bored with Starfield....
Now all gamers are treated like the thickest plebs on the planet. Go here, do this, do that, chat to them, grab this. You all have Xray vision, everything soaks bullets. Mashing a button passes as skill. You can sneak past the enemy with zero effort, or the opposite they have x-ray vision and can unrealistically see you through walls 80 miles away. Etc etc. Sigh.
Elden Ring was the first game in years that didn't bore me. It didn't hold my hand, I could go where I wanted. It lets you discover stuff even if that was to your doom. Enemies kicked your but if you weren't good enough. It didn't cheat to make things a challenge, which meant the satisfaction of progression was fantastic...Just how games used to be.
Perhaps I'm too old, and the shiny flashing colours are all the kids want today.
Bah Humbug
At the moment I'm trying my hardest not to be bored with Starfield....
The worst bit about the pre-decided save points is how terribly they're often planned.
There's a big boss. Fairly good chance you're going to die fighting him. Maybe multiple times. So we'll put in save point. Just before him? Nah. Let's have an unskippable cut scene full of exposition after the save point and before the boss.
There's a big boss. Fairly good chance you're going to die fighting him. Maybe multiple times. So we'll put in save point. Just before him? Nah. Let's have an unskippable cut scene full of exposition after the save point and before the boss.
I remember when games challenged you. It's a rare thing nowadays.
Now all gamers are treated like the thickest plebs on the planet. Go here, do this, do that, chat to them, grab this. You all have Xray vision, everything soaks bullets. Mashing a button passes as skill. You can sneak past the enemy with zero effort, or the opposite they have x-ray vision and can unrealistically see you through walls 80 miles away. Etc etc. Sigh.
Elden Ring was the first game in years that didn't bore me. It didn't hold my hand, I could go where I wanted. It lets you discover stuff even if that was to your doom. Enemies kicked your but if you weren't good enough. It didn't cheat to make things a challenge, which meant the satisfaction of progression was fantastic...Just how games used to be.
Perhaps I'm too old, and the shiny flashing colours are all the kids want today.
Bah Humbug
At the moment I'm trying my hardest not to be bored with Starfield....
Agreed. All part of the move from player skill and practice to player grind to acquire whatever is important in the game (eg skills in Starfield, power ups in many games).
That’s one reason I love DCS, and it just doesn’t hold your hand. You either learn real world procedures or don’t fly.
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Massive ******* icons all over the ******* screen showing you where to go, what to do and what to interact with. Whatever happened to allowing people to just explore and figure **** out for themselves?
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I think the basic and uninteresting AI in many games is partly to blame on consoles as well - I can make something more interesting and involving to play against without touching pathfinding, learning behaviour, avoidance, etc. let alone putting those kind of features into use :s
When players have a 30 second attention span and forums are littered with 'I didn't know where to go or what to do so I turned it off. Trash game.' developers will as good as put giant flashing arrows that say 'go here!'
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The worst practice is acceptance that a game can be ported and not enhanced and be ok
I really want to see what dice do next after that pos, by far the worst game in the series. I love how they claimed it had more developers working on it than any other Battlefield and look what they churned out, a big hunk of ****. Realistically the dev pile on was probably due to them scrambling to make a release date.
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Iirc the game was made by a bunch of interns.
Basically what this vids says from 21 mins on, and also that it was half assed from something else that they abandoned and rejigged into 2042.
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Reading some of the games sub forum and realised one that i think was imported over. Graphics boners.
It might just be how i perceived the general gaming industry, but the emphasis on graphics over all else really has decreased gameplay quality. Even that chap from Worthabuy goes on about graphics
It might just be how i perceived the general gaming industry, but the emphasis on graphics over all else really has decreased gameplay quality. Even that chap from Worthabuy goes on about graphics
Aim Assist in Multiplayer games... Need help with aim? Tough *** we had to learn with a mouse and keyboard!
Lack of essential PC features such as a FOV, not everyone sits 40 foot away from a TV
No server browser because the poor console peasants need instant server access
Lack of essential PC features such as a FOV, not everyone sits 40 foot away from a TV
No server browser because the poor console peasants need instant server access
Oh lord, as someone who's lived on PC FPS for years, aim assist does my head in