haxxiy said:
PC ports these days do feel a lot more like the jank of the 2000s rather than the good ones we got in the 2010s. Honestly, last decade was sort of the golden age of PC gaming IMO. Consoles were comparatively underpowered, ports worked well, didn't take too much HDD space, could be, ahem, alternatively acquired if you wanted to, hardware was affordable with Core i5s carrying most builds... |
| Captain_Yuri said: Brutally on point: |
You know what makes all of this kinda a sad reality?.
We actually did have it good back around the mid 2010's, when shit was picking up, and I mean actually picking up.
We had gotten over the jank of the 2000's, the shitty GFWL, and it was a time before console/store exclusivity wars came to the platform (Epic, the company that ironically both left and shat on PC gaming during the 00's).
Today we have:
Game rushed so damn fast, they seemingly take 2yrs to cobble together.
Day 1 patches.
Day 1 motherfucking MT's, because you bet your ass they care more about the MT's than they do optimisation.
Multiple layers of DRM (because that's totally stopped piracy before, right?).
Additional clients/launchers no one in their sane mind asked for (2k/T2/R* launchers for example)
Janky crossplay that renders some of our games into digital placemats (EoS, Epic's "crossplay", because they need to siphon off Steam's userbase, because Xbox scenario all over again).
Drivers that are supposed to be "Game ready", but actually aren't.
STILL seeing ports where Keyboard+Mouse aren't fully supported (in 2023 that's beyond a joke now, it's no longer funny).
Ports that actually cause internal dmg to our hardware (like causing the GPU's to shit themselves or worse).
I know this is mostly AAA shitting the bed, but man, I really do feel like we're headed right back to 2000's era of shittiness (especially with Epic being back and firmly making sure we're to owe something to devs, when it's meant to be about OUR EXPERIENCE, NOT THE DEVS).
I'ma be real, the only "AAA" game I'm actually looking forward to this yr is the new Armored Core, but even that has DRM, and it's FS, so I'm fully expecting jank up the ass. I'm not bothering with bethesda's game, because the gameplay they showed last yr was fully on janky af, and it's beth, so I fully expect a busted game from them, that the modding community has to rush in and salvage.
But you know what really pisses in my cornflakes?, the fact that this MS vs Sony court case bs is going on, big corps fighting for warchest ammo, while we're getting dicked here, and no one in the courts is bothering their sweaty arse to defend consumer's from getting fucked by super bad quality products, that are even asking for more money and holding less trust in the customer (DRM is a huge culprit of not having any trust in the customer, and I will die on that hill with pride).
Also the install file sixes are getting way too fucking abysmal now, fuck that noise. I'm not shelling out for more SSD's because some idiots at a studio can't be arsed to minimize file space.
PC gaming isn't bad, and I wish ppl would stop heralding it's fucking doom every time this list of shit happens. It's not the platform's fault, it's the publishers and their shitty greed that cause all this to happen, mostly all at the same time. This would actually stop if the courts slammed down hard on publishers for releasing faulty products that ask for more than £40 (seriously, any higher than 40 and it better be so fucking good, silky smooth and all that jazz).
Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see
So pay up motherfuckers you belong to "V"
