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SvennoJ on 22 August 2017
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DonFerrari said:
SvennoJ said:

Most people aren't interested in playing it competitively, story mode, skirmish work fine with a controller. The big problem I have with it on consoles is that you can't fit enough information on screen when its made to view from a couch. I've played tropico on pc on a projector from my couch and text was still uncomfortable to read, while the console version feels very cramped in layout blocking most of the view all the time. A mini map is too mini viewed and controlled from the couch.

I would like to play it in VR once headsets get a capable resolution. That should provide the best overview. But for the now the resolution is too low to comfortably read menu tex.

Playing Tropico 5 on PS4 I haven't had any issue with excess of information on the screen or being blocked. Sure the controller sometime would be imprecise to select what I wanted, but no issue. And I have played it on 29" (2ft away) up to 65" (6ft away) with no issue reading anything.

It was certainly playable, just not as comfortable as I was used to on pc. RTS is more like a desk game to me so I can easily lean in and precisely place things, keeping the view zoomed out for overview, lean in to check the details. That doesn't work from the couch, unless you have a very long neck :)

Nautilus said:

But then you are not only offering an inferior version, but outright offering a version that offers less and plays much worse than the actual original game.And paying the same ammount, mind you.

 

Not every game needs to release on every single playform, especially the ones that were born and were design with a PC in mind.

True, yet you can play consoles behind a desk as well with kb+mouse. Nothing stopping them nowadays. We had Kinect required games, we have psvr + move required games, we had steering wheel required games (Project cars with controller sucks) so why no kb+mouse required games...