| LMU Uncle Alfred said: There were a variety of eras of games in that link including more recent games, but you're pigeonholing on a few of the games being 3 decades old. It stands to reason that if port issues for PC games have persisted throughout different eras of games, including more recent ports, then it will continue into newer eras. That's why it's perhaps not the best idea to invest into PC gaming for some; at least not right away. Console issues tend to be more universal and the issues easier to resolve by developers. They still happen yes, and some of them don't even get fixed yes, but it's a step up. Having the correct or best hardware alone may not solve some issues you run into on PC games. Sometimes there are software or setting issues you'll have to research to find the solution to and implement because the developer/publisher doesn't care to fix them. Those things can make it so it's less attractive to purchase PC ports over the console original. That's all I'm saying. |
I literally said 30 years ago, you were better off on console. The topic title is talking about next gen console relevance. And it's not a variety of eras of games. The article was released in 2016, and the most recent example, was fixed so long ago no one remembers it had issues anyway. I've beaten batman start to finish on PC. It's one of the few games I'd finished on PS4 (that number is 2, btw)
And let's not act like the reason why those games were released on PC in the state they were in because of issues with the PC. It was due to the developers being incompetent anyway. I had a PC game back in the day. Well, a non-educational game. Sonic CD. And my first thought when I saw that game was, "I can play sonic on my computer?!" Not, "This is supposed to be on sega, what are they doing?!" Because, guess what. At the time, I knew next to nothing about the CD add-on and didn't know Sonic CD was on PC until I saw it in the store.
Even at 6 years old, I knew how to pop the disc in the PC and get it running on my 1998 PC, and it worked. And that's the original game. I actually avoid the new version of Sonic CD because of a lack of proper key bindings. I have it. It works, but I'd rather deal with it on PS3. But, it's sonic CD. I'm not playing Bioshock on PS3 anymore. Not ever. And let's not try to act like games just run perfectly on console and not bricking consoles. Look at Anthem. You know, a game that came out in the past few weeks? Not 30 years ago.
And yeah, I know. Safe mode. Rebuild database. But it goes against the whole plug&play thing.
Also, don't act like you've never seen this screen before. It's happened to me while playing God of War, Tekken 7, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Uncharted 4, and a few other titles. It's a common error. Games will shut down at random.
Plug & play at its best!.... as long as we ignore the errors.
