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Chazore on 11 September 2017
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Johnw1104 said:
bonzobanana said:
Developers with a low skill level that have come up with a good game concept/design. It's not that it even looks that great and still it has a slow frame rate. If they got a different developer to port the game to Switch that could actually be the best version technically because the original developers are so hopeless. That would be so funny to see and annoy so many people. Definitely seems a game best left until it's gone through about 20 update patches and costs peanuts to buy.

I've played a lot of ARK: Survival Evolved with friends on the PC and it can definitely be a lot of fun (especially with access to the modding community). Still, there's so many games I've played that I wish they could just hand to Blizzard for six months to optimize them for weaker hardware lol, there's definitely truth to the usual Steam games featuring great ideas but less than stellar execution.

One thing I've always loved about Blizzard is how great they're able to make games look that can run on remarkably weak hardware, and that balance seems to take a lot of technical skill and experience that the average smaller and new teams lack.

I see it that way as well. The game can definitely be fun at times (when you don't die and randomly spawn near the most dangerous parts of the map), but it sorely needed optimisation to make it run right, in doing so I would have had a lot more fun, without frames dipping horrendously low during parts of the game that I needed stability the most (like getting chased down by a Rex, the frames dip and I can't fight back at the right time, let alone escape).

The good thing about Blizz when it comes to their side of developing their games, is that they manage to meet the middle road for both those with weaker hardware and those with higher end as well. People can play Heroes of the Storm on far weaker hardware and still play it, while people like me can run it at max and enjoy the high quality character models and spell fx, everyone gets what they want.



Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.