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Mummelmann on 29 March 2012
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JazzyJeez said:
Mummelmann said:

I still remember a few choice words from console gamers that made me laugh last night. "PC gaming is so complicated and its nothing but patches and fixes and internet stuff going wrong. Consoles are easy, you pop in the game and play."

Well, I was going to play Gran Turismo 5 on my PS3 last night, I hadn't played it for several months. Here's what happened step-by step;

1: Start the game, it tells me of updates being required to start up. Fair enough, I'm used to that by now.

2: It actually starts downloading the updates, there are six of them and one of them is 1190MB... There are six updates... Six!

3: After about two hours the updates were downloaded and installed (I have a 25Mbit line so that's not an issue, PSN network seems awfully slow, my PC downloads and work go at about 3.1-3.2MB per second steadily).

4: Start the game; "Do you want to log into the PSN network?" Yes.

5: You can't you silly bitch, you need a system update.

6: FINE! Exit game, update system, new version found, downloading and installing.

7: 35 minutes later and its done.

8: Start the game. "Do you want to log into the PSN network?" Yes.

9: Too bad, your password is no longer valid after we fudged up the security last year. Go fix it.

10: Exit game, log onto PSN. "Enter new password." I do.

11: Confirm. You need to accept the terms of use again. Despite being the very same account and man. FINE DAMMIT! Accept!

12: You may now log in. Didn't I just log in when they made me sign the terms and showed me the login screen and I pressed "login"?!?!

13: No, log in again, it actually worked.

14: Start game and actually play.

15: Great times.

Add to the list; unfinished games that don't work at all (Skyrim), lousy ports and crossplatform development, steep pricing, poor online, horribly long development times, cancelled projects left and right, shitty action games and ruining of entire genres to please adolescent kids, expensive games and accessories and an interface that wants to make your hair gray and you have yourself a merry time indeed.

If next generation goes anything like this one, I might actually do something I have never done before; sit the entire console generation out and stick to PC only.


Play GT5 tomorrow and give us a run down of how many steps it takes to play it then, just because you haven't logged onto your PS3 for the last 4 months at least, isn't exactly a fair example of how you have to download patch after patch to play a game.

It would be like me saying the exact same thing about my 360 which hasn't been turned on for nearly a year and then complaining that the numereous patches are taking the piss.


My main complaint is with the structure, interface and unbearably slow servers as well as fidgety online. The amount it took me to finally get to play was a lot longer than it takes me to wipe the drive, re-install windows, drivers and my games on most PC's and its unacceptable. The fact that I haven't played the game for some months is irrelevant, the update system is silly, especially since you can't even perform it as a background action and do other things on your console while you wait.

Consoles are "put in game and play" at heart, they are moving farther and farther away from this and are essentially becoming PC's. PC's with bad controllers, poor hardware, clunky interface and a slew of mindless action games (which are expensive). And don't get me started on DLC...

Do you honestly believe that any action performed on your console should take hours (save for playing games or watching an entire movie, that is)? Can you honestly defend that?