[QUOTE=itisjuly;44666676]Neither skyrim nor sims are complicated by any standards. Sims is advertised for kids for fucks sake. Skyrim too for the most part.[/QUOTE]
Nah dude the Sims isn't for kids. Teenagers, maybe, but not kids. MySims is for kids. Skyrim is an adult's game, too.
[QUOTE=Hurricane Sun;44666682]Nah dude the Sims isn't for kids. Teenagers, maybe, but not kids. MySims is for kids. Skyrim is an adult's game, too.[/QUOTE]
As adult as COD. Every kid on the block has played Skyrim
[QUOTE=itisjuly;44666698]As adult as COD. Every kid on the block has played Skyrim[/QUOTE]
Yeah they've PLAYED it but they aren't super far in to it, kids don't have the attention span to play a 100 hour RPG
[QUOTE=itisjuly;44666698]As adult as COD. Every kid on the block has played Skyrim[/QUOTE]
Not my Skyrim, though. My skyrim is rated R all the way.
This might be my second or third worst wasted time or something.
1) Usually caused by bad uninstallers or ones that remove the uninstall exe last so they never remove the folder (I would assume). I agree.
3) Probably a similar issue to DirectX (see 7)
4) Actually My documents is a good folder since you're more likely to back it up than appdata.
5) If I could I would never touch Java again. It's a minefield of security issues.
6) Flash went to shit after version 10.whatever for me. Probably because of the old graphics card. What a mess. But yeah, I don't even know what they're fixing and I'm too lazy to actually check.
7) See this: [url]http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/03/why-steam-makes-you-install-directx-repeatedly/[/url]
9) A lot of tiny things, but that's not very visible until you start checking more complex PDFs like ones with embedded 3D m odels. Wait why is this related to PC games?
12) ???
14) There's an option to notify you but not install updates. Pretty sure it's been there for at least 10 years.
15) There's sort of a lot of combinations, and if your computer has a shitload of shaders but lacking firepower elsewhere, you might end up with a configuration that is completely bonkers. Interesting idea though.
16) That's stupid.
17) Windows 7 has this, "Saved Games" folder in My Documents. The only game I've appearently ever played that uses it was AC: Brotherhood. Good luck convincing everyone to use it.
18) Do you have to run all of them at all times? Besides, most can be hidden at least.
19) I agree, and the quick quit F10 or whatever in Source engine is annoying as well.
20) Depends on the engine and windowed noborder mode is slightly more expensive to render last I checked.
22) Nobody will do that unless they're forced or they already have it pretty much done and supported.
23) I agree tutorials should be optional.
25) Most people play on their own machine so there never was a big push for that. But it's a good idea and shouldn't be too hard to work with.
26) Agree, but I think they're actually contractually obligated to make it unskippable by default. Sometimes games have the developer's intro skippable but not Nvidia/AMD.
27) Yes, but for especially dark games, those should be also settable ingame (but not override anything outside).
28/29) That's sorta a gameplay thing which generally doesn't have much better alternatives.
31) Last I checked both AMD and Nvidia had that, not sure about Intel.
32) Maybe if games were operating system/pc sellers like with console games, but that doesn't happen here. Annoying but this won't leave for a while.
33) Not simple to make and getting something third party generally costs money.
40) It's because of retailers (and sometimes because of laws regarding age ratings and not being done, but that's rarer.)
42) Printers aren't that bad nowadays. If you have Windows 7 I think you can just plug it in and Windows will do all the work without any too horrible proprietary drivers. Depends on company of course.
44) Yeah I miss my legs.
[QUOTE=Hurricane Sun;44666710]Yeah they've PLAYED it but they aren't super far in to it, kids don't have the attention span to play a 100 hour RPG[/QUOTE]
Talk for yourself. It doesn't take much brainpower to play skyrim. This isn't Morrowind where you have to read stuff and actually think to solve quests.
[editline]28th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Ragekipz;44666717]Not my Skyrim, though. My skyrim is rated R all the way.[/QUOTE]
Rating =/= complexity
[QUOTE=itisjuly;44666729]Talk for yourself. It doesn't take much brainpower to play skyrim. This isn't Morrowind where you have to read stuff and actually think to solve quests.
[editline]28th April 2014[/editline]
Rating =/= complexity[/QUOTE]
Yeah but kids aren't going to progress to the point where it would be the end of the world if they lost their save.
Jesus christ this guy doesn't know a single thing about what he is talking about
The reason games download .net framework and Directx redists before they run for the first time is because they almost all use a different splinter version of whatever DX version they use, and so they install their own game's version just to make sure it's compatible, like how is that not common sense
[editline]28th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE]23. Why yes, I HAVE played a videogame before, thank you!
Tutorials should not be designed for people who have never seen a game before. Seriously, is there a camera configuration you’re using that nobody has ever seen before? Does moving the mouse to the edge of the screen cause it to move, or cause my character to rotate? Does “R” reload, and does right clicking cause a unit to move to point on a map? Then cut the crap and let me cut your tutorial.[/QUOTE]
So I guess people who don't play video games for a living all the time can just go fuck themselves then
what a stupid petulant article
[QUOTE=Doomish;44666738]Jesus christ this guy doesn't know a single thing about what he is talking about
The reason games download .net framework and Directx redists before they run for the first time is because they almost all use a different splinter version of whatever DX version they use, and so they install their own game's version just to make sure it's compatible, like how is that not common sense
[editline]28th April 2014[/editline]
So I guess people who don't play video games for a living all the time can just go fuck themselves then
what a stupid petulant article[/QUOTE]
I don't think anyone really casually games on PC. If you game on the PC there's a high chance that you know how most games work
[QUOTE]
14. Windows updates forcing my PC to restart every other day, with dialogue boxes that pop up as you're typing and accept any keypress as confirmation that you'd like to shut everything down immediately without saving.[/QUOTE]
[I]You can literally tell it exactly what to do and when to do that you fucking idiot holy shit[/I]
[QUOTE=Hurricane Sun;44666735]Yeah but kids aren't going to progress to the point where it would be the end of the world if they lost their save.[/QUOTE]
How can you know that? I had over a hundred hours of Morrowind and I didn't even know computers had folders back then.
[QUOTE=Hurricane Sun;44666754]I don't think anyone really casually games on PC. If you game on the PC there's a high chance that you know how most games work[/QUOTE]
tutorials should still be standardized for video games just out of principle; if the game doesn't explain its mechanics by default people will complain about that instead, it's a lose/lose situation
[QUOTE=Doomish;44666760][I]You can literally tell it exactly what to do and when to do that you fucking idiot holy shit[/I][/QUOTE]On win7. On win8 it will pop up a message "14 minutes until restart, please close your shit" and as far as I know you can't turn that off without registry edit.
Maybe this is satire???? that's seriously the only thing I can think of
Like maybe this is a joke, maybe this is what being trolled is like, I'm just so bewildered by the fact that this man talks about windows update and adobe in his fucking article about PC games
Why is Microtransactions only #41? It's in the top 10 easily.
Backfired hard
I can at least agree with 3, 7, 10, 15, 18, 26, 30, 37, 47, and 48. I don't get what's so terrifying about updating Java or Flash, and what does this guy have against printers? Did a printer murder his whole family or something?
[QUOTE=Hurricane Sun;44666754]I don't think anyone really casually games on PC. If you game on the PC there's a high chance that you know how most games work[/QUOTE]
My mother plays mahjong on the PC all the time. I didn't realize she was such an adept at the computer.
[QUOTE=Doomish;44666769]tutorials should still be standardized for video games just out of principle; if the game doesn't explain its mechanics by default people will complain about that instead, it's a lose/lose situation[/QUOTE]
Some games only give full 'Press WASD to move!' tutorials if you pick easy as difficulty. Can't remember where I saw it tho.
I seriously don't see any reason to go higher than 1080p right now.
It's a great standard. All Blu-rays and HDTV are in 1080p. Dedicating more support to downsampling would be far more beneficial.
What's the point in getting a 2 or 4k monitor when all HD content is in 1080p? All you're doing is making even the highest available HD look like shit and having to run your games at insane resolutions while getting awful aliasing still - you're much better running it at 1080p and downsampling it from 2 or 4k rather than actually running it like that. But actually running a res that large is completely pointless and if anything detrimental to what's currently available.
If 4k film and tv was actually a standard then it would be a different story. But we've got a little while to go until that happens - which is why I don't understand why our display capabilities are jumping way ahead of what we can actually show on them. It makes a lot more sense to start standardizing 4k when it's actually feasible to make consumable. (AKA, when they can fit it on a blu-ray disc).
[QUOTE=itisjuly;44666729]Rating =/= complexity[/QUOTE]
It's very complex to mod this game to become R rated.
On sony 4K TV's, they have to actually ROCK UP TO YOUR HOUSE to give you a 4K movie, on a movie by movie basis. There is literally no reason for 4K to exist until we can deliver the content better.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;44666888]On sony 4K TV's, they have to actually ROCK UP TO YOUR HOUSE to give you a 4K movie, on a movie by movie basis. There is literally no reason for 4K to exist until we can deliver the content better.[/QUOTE]
Most console games aren't even 1080p.
[QUOTE=Ragekipz;44666902]Most console games aren't even 1080p.[/QUOTE]
And the ones that can pull it off never see more than 30FPS at any given time.
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;44666469]
Updating DirectX is necessary if the game uses features that aren't included in the current installed version of DirectX.[/QUOTE]
Then include the specific libraries that are not included in [INSERT OS MINIMUM REQUIREMENT HERE]
[QUOTE]Number 10 is kinda odd, I've only had really bad ports or very old games not allow you to go to the native resolution, but it shouldn't be forced because it's one of the graphical options that can give you a big boost in fps if lowered.[/QUOTE]
This is much more common than you think. When I open up Titanfall and it defaults to 1280x720, or ANY OTHER AAA GAME, the only thought i have is that its 201X and this should have been a universal DONT FUCKING DO THIS as of 1999. It is *not* hard to default to the same resolution that the monitor is already set at.
[QUOTE]11 is just plain stupid.[/QUOTE]
Agreed
[QUOTE]14 isn't anything to do with games, but it is however very important to keep Windows updated, there's a reason it forces you to restart.[/QUOTE]
True, but it needs to be significantly less invasive *by default*. A daily nag would probably be the best way do handle it. As a sysadmin, I would much rather have my employees have even less time to reboot than what is default in windows 8 (2 days), but for my gaming machine I would really rather not have a forced 10 minute reboot when I'm half an hour into a match of dota 2.
[QUOTE]For 15, I think most games auto detect graphics, and if you have a Nvidia card you can use Geforce Experience for that too.[/QUOTE]
While most games attempt to, this often doesnt work with newer cards. These are normally handled by graphics profiles that are written for individual video cards, and blatently ignore things such as processor type, frequency, total ram, etc. Also, see #10
[QUOTE]16. Games can be ran in 4K if you want to (and have the hardware) but mainly this sounds like he's just trying to shit on console gamers.[/QUOTE]
Agreed, this is just plain dumb
[QUOTE]18. I only have Steam, on the occasion that I have an origin only game, I will start Origin, I don't keep it always open though. My system tray is very clean. [/QUOTE]
Ubisoft is a big player in this. UPlay is required on the steam distributions of their games, requiring both steam AND Uplay to be running to play them
[QUOTE]21. Mouse acceleration is very useful outside of games, believe it or not a lot of people use computers for [I]other things[/I] than games[/QUOTE]
Irellevant, this can be turned off by the game engine and use raw mouse input, even when mouse acceleration is enabled for the OS. This is unexcusable.
[QUOTE]24. Is this guy still stuck in the year 2000? Just open a media player then open your game[/QUOTE]
I think this is more of an immersion thing. GTA is a big example, there was a channel called freedom radio or something and it would play wav files that you stuck in directory when you were in the car. It was neat, thats about it.
Overall I agree with most of this list, but there were filler points that were there just to get the number of points up to 50. My main agreements are that developers should include the specific .dlls they need directly, instead of installing the entirity of the directx 9.0c library every fucking time I want to run a game made before 2007, or the .net 3.5 redistributable like 30 times. Realize that these are just the public redistributables and every single time you see it installed, it is the [b]same package of libraries.[/b] If this needs to continue, just check to see if its already fucking installed.
1080p was introduced quite some years ago, i mean John Carmack was coding on a 1080p screen back in 1995.
[IMG]http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/john_Carmack_working.jpg[/IMG]
4k right now is all the hype but we haven't even fleshed out decent 1080p support for consoles yet.
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;44666819]I can at least agree with 3, 7, 10, 15, 18, 26, 30, 37, 47, and 48. I don't get what's so terrifying about updating Java or Flash, and what does this guy have against printers? Did a printer murder his whole family or something?[/QUOTE]
Printers are just way too much hassle for their purpose. Drivers work half the time, any time a wireless implementation goes into one, it has like 50% uptime because of shitty radios they include for them, the mechanics are completely unreliable (paperjams, clogged print heads, etc), and every applications implemantion of the actual print services is terrible. It is 2014, Humans have been doing the same thing for thousands of years. [b]Put ink on paper.[/b] We should have machines that do it reliably by now.
Also, this gripe is specifically targeted at consumer grade inkjet hardware. SOHO/enterprise laser equipment is extremely reliable and people need to stop buying inkjet equipment. You are wasting a ton of money on buying ink.
[QUOTE]4. Using My Documents as a filthy dumping ground for your mucky save games, making it marginally more difficult to find more important things like my in-progress teen vampire romance novel.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, let's better throw it in whatever folder we find useful! Like AppData! [B]*cough[I]REN'PY[/I]cough*[/B]
This isn't an article
it's an amateur blog
who let this in?
[QUOTE=ArcticRevrus;44666992]Printers are just way too much hassle for their purpose. Drivers work half the time, any time a wireless implementation goes into one, it has like 50% uptime because of shitty radios they include for them, the mechanics are completely unreliable (paperjams, clogged print heads, etc), and every applications implemantion of the actual print services is terrible. It is 2014, Humans have been doing the same thing for thousands of years. [b]Put ink on paper.[/b] We should have machines that do it reliably by now.[/QUOTE]
Paper is going to go the way of the dinosaurs sooner or later. Hell, tablet computers are already starting to resemble those datapads you see on Star Trek or Mass Effect all the time. Work and resources being used in schools are becoming more and more of an online thing too. As soon as we reach that apex in another decade or two, printers are going to become as obsolete as paper.
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