This is really trivial, and the game runs really well actually. You want to talk about games with problems that “weren’t finished” and you need to talk about AC Unity or Batman Arkham Knight (PC). 1 bug that effects a narrow list of players isn’t extreme. It’s a small oversight.

While I certainly am a PC advocate, it’s also important to note that going forward we are going to see diminishing returns on the detail of video games. While the jump from ps2-ps3 was quite extreme, the ps3-ps4 jump hasn’t been as dramatic because the detail of ps3 was already substantial. As graphical fidelity in…

Sea dogs was one, but it was more of a sandbox sailing game. Think of it like Mount and Blade at sea. You could either side with a country, or go pirate, and engage in trade and combat. There was also a really crappy melee combat aspect of the game, but the ship sailing was great.

Days of future past effectively let the writers reboot the entire x-men timeline. Even Jean Grey is alive.

What happened in Seattle?

The reality is that the PC community is much more reactive to things like bad ports and a company failing to deliver on it’s promises. However, when a game is released that meets or exceeds base expectations, the PC community tends to reward that. Think about Skyrim. They released that and gave it mod support, and as…

Go to Scandinavia, or the UK circa the 1300’s, and see how many colored people you find. In medieval times, there wasn’t much diversity in the northern countries.

If only the media would keep their stupid mouths shut. If not for articles like this, this would silently have released and then with it out in the world there would be naught they could do about it.

What is this? Is this something trying to see what is in the image? There’s some weird faced dogs, what appears to be a pig snout in the bottom left corner, and far too many legs.

Everyone knows valve doesn’t make games anymore. This is their way of trolling us. Hey look we made a game you can play. Wait, nevermind.

If Rocksteady and WB want to get those who already refunded the game to come back and buy it again at full price when they inevitably re-release it, they’ll have to do more than just get it working. Right now they seem to be scrambling to get the game back out on shelves. What they should do is say “hey pc gamers. We…

Except in the past consoles had unique hardware architectures that were very different from PC’s. The most recent console generation is extremely close to PC hardware, more so than any previous console. Optimization means a lot less now for consoles. In the past with xbox360 or ps3, the architecture was unique, so…

This can be fixed. This is a case of poor optimization. If the current gen consoles can run it, then so should middle spec pc’s.

Been a while since we had a Disaster Watch on this scale. This brings me back to the Sim City launch. Apparently the development team that ported this game was composed of 12 people, and I imagine they had to port the game after everyone else got done with QA on it. Why companies think they can launch broken products…

Huh. i thought shenmue 2 was only on Xbox outside of Japan.

At the time it was one of the first games to attempt lip syncing with more than simply having a characters mouth open and close. It was also a game where every npc was actually a part of the world, where everyone had a schedule and a role. While they may have reused some character models, every npc had a purpose in…

DAO? Dragon Age Origins? I think you mean DOA.

I’m curious how much of the lighting is real time lighting, and how much is baked into the texture maps. It seems likely that a lot of the lighting is baked into texture maps, since nothing in this environment is moving. Still, it allows for cool demos like there where everything looks near photo realistic.

This. I don’t mind if the enhance it a bit, but it better stay true to its roots with a turn based system. They wonder why Bravely Default was one of their best received RPG’s in years. Not every game has to completely revolutionize rpg combat, and moving to real time combat isn’t necessarily superior.

Well in it’s opening day it’s nearing half it’s funding goal. It will probably succeed.