[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;44666522][quote]28. Audio diaries.
29. [highlight]Regular diaries.[/highlight][/quote]
What the hell?
What does this have to do with PC gaming? And what if I want to know more about the characters or game world?[/QUOTE]
oh my god was that a gone home jab
3. Why does .NET framework need more updating?
The .NET Framework step (4 of 4) of Steam installation is the Waiting for Godot of modern PC gaming. In the long pauses before this ambiguous process resolves (or doesn’t), we are forced to confront the shrieking emptiness of our lives, the oceans of regret that lap against the shore of consciousness, and the inevitability of our decline and death. Basically, .NET Framework amplifies everything that makes PC gaming necessary.
Awesomenauts on steam tried this.
They didn't install the .net framework since 'everyone already has it'.
The result was that a few people ( < 100 ) could not play the game without manually installing it.
Now it's packed with the game, even if you already have it.
Honestly this is a steam problem that steam should detect and fix instead of laying it at the feet of the game devs.
This is some buzzfeed-tier garbage, here. This is the kind of quality where people start copying to pastebin to avoid giving you revenue.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;44666854]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]
what are you talking about my radeon HD 6800 series graphics card totally need to render 16 times as many pixels I'm sure that will go great for me
I know this is probably a joke, but it's just stupid.
[QUOTE=01271;44667112]3. Why does .NET framework need more updating?
The .NET Framework step (4 of 4) of Steam installation is the Waiting for Godot of modern PC gaming. In the long pauses before this ambiguous process resolves (or doesn’t), we are forced to confront the shrieking emptiness of our lives, the oceans of regret that lap against the shore of consciousness, and the inevitability of our decline and death. Basically, .NET Framework amplifies everything that makes PC gaming necessary.
Awesomenauts on steam tried this.
They didn't install the .net framework since 'everyone already has it'.
The result was that a few people ( < 100 ) could not play the game without manually installing it.
Now it's packed with the game, even if you already have it.
Honestly this is a steam problem that steam should detect and fix instead of laying it at the feet of the game devs.[/QUOTE]The one-time dependency install for a game is nonissue at all. You seriously can't wait two more minutes?
[QUOTE=psychojake;44666408]Yeah, jumping from 1920x1080 to 7680x4320? Better upgrade to a few more Titans, buddy.
Besides, what's wrong with 1080p? It's perfectly crisp to me.[/QUOTE]
4K (when referring to monitors) is 3840x2160 actually, the proper term being Ultra HD. 7680x4320 is Full Ultra HD. Yes that is really what it's called.
I'm calling shenanigans, there is no way even a PCGamesN 'journalist' can be this fucking stupid
Christ, a lot of what is wrong with this article has probably already been mentioned but it is filled with just ignorant shit. Most games install dependancies even if you might have them for a reason, even if you think you have the "latest" version of DirectX the game might be linked against a different version of the DirectX SDK than the one you have installed dependencies for, similar story with .NET.
For Java, Flash and Acrobat Reader, is this just a thing in general? All three of those are constantly targeted for malware and actually installing security updates for those is pretty strongly recommended. The same goes for Windows Update which nags you for days and in Windows 8(.1) it gives you plenty of time to save your work and reboot. Windows Updates don't come out every other day either and are usually released on the first Tuesday of the month.
There are plenty of reasons that graphics drivers don't update themselves. How would you like working on something and in the middle of it your screen goes black for 10 seconds out of nowhere. Does he want it to patch like Windows Update that he was bitching about in the article?
Am I the only one who has never accidentally hit their Windows key playing a game?
this was running through my mind the entire time i read that article
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/5tJ9ZZP.png[/IMG]
I personally like pre-rendered cutscenes. It's a chance to sit back and absorb some story after some gameplay.
is this guy a windows xp user or something
[QUOTE=Jazer;44667315]I personally like pre-rendered cutscenes. It's a chance to sit back and absorb some story after some gameplay.[/QUOTE]
This has nothing to do with pre-rendered ones.
[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]
This happened plenty of times to me before, I leave Windows updating and the restart confirmation dialog pops up right as I'm typing (and of course it defaults to yes), closing all my shit and making me lose all of it.
Nice one Microsoft.
[QUOTE=psychojake;44666408]Yeah, jumping from 1920x1080 to 7680x4320? Better upgrade to a few more Titans, buddy.
Besides, what's wrong with 1080p? It's perfectly crisp to me.[/QUOTE]
I'd say 1080p is perfect for PC gaming. 4K is really designed for a giant screen, which people are unlikely to have at a high enough rate to be standard.
[QUOTE=TheCombine;44667358]This happened plenty of times to me before, I leave Windows updating and the restart confirmation dialog pops up right as I'm typing (and of course it defaults to yes), closing all my shit and making me lose all of it.
Nice one Microsoft.[/QUOTE]Not only that, if it pops up while gaming often enough you won't know it's there until the time runs out.
[QUOTE=darth-veger;44666956]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]
Christ, that thing must've cost a small fortune back then.
[QUOTE=TheCombine;44667358]This happened plenty of times to me before, I leave Windows updating and the restart confirmation dialog pops up right as I'm typing (and of course it defaults to yes), closing all my shit and making me lose all of it.
Nice one Microsoft.[/QUOTE]
So just set it to download the updates, but not install until you decide.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;44667440]So just set it to download the updates, but not install until you decide.[/QUOTE]
I had to reinstall Win7 due to a dead hard drive; I had forgotten to set that option last time it happened to me.
How about we all agree to have our savegames in the root folder of the game they're for? Like, say, FalloutNV/Saves? HL2/Saves?(OWAIT) Bioshock/Saves? MassErect2/Saves?
OWAIT that would be simple, logical and not require users to go digging around in their fucking documents for files that have no business being there.
Also, default updating to off. Games in particular are prone to being broken by updates, give us the choice of installing or not installing an update rather than defaulting it to 'install' and leaving us all with broken games when bad updates come up.
[editline]28th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=wraithcat;44667440]So just set it to download the updates, but not install until you decide.[/QUOTE]
Or, optionally, you can turn automatic updating off entirely and manually check it when you're not doing anything.
To be honest, 13 is the most totally valid complaint on there that's not just applicable to PC games.
[QUOTE=Gubbinz96;44667619]To be honest, 13 is the most totally valid complaint on there that's not just applicable to PC games.[/QUOTE]
which is shortly followed by the complaint that there's no standardized directory for 'savegames' in my documents, which there [i]totally is[/i]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/yvTUYrB.png[/t]
however #13 is further validated by the fact that tons of big-name games still ignore it completely
[t]http://i.imgur.com/nqQjcnd.png[/t]
oh damn I forgot I had Knight Game II though time for some speedruns
Holy fuck, PCGamesN is retarded.
[quote]9. Updating Adobe Reader. What possible new developments have been made in the field of opening and viewing PDFs?[/quote]
ive never had this, ive installed hundreds of games, and never have had to update adobe reader or flash, only minecraft subbornly requires me to have JDK but thats because the game is stupidly built on java
[quote]1. Leaving folders behind after uninstalling, like dirty regret confetti.[/quote]
this is just a problem with all windows programs in general
[quote]24. Way back in the 2000s, presumably before some lawyers got involved, you could point a game towards a folder of MP3s and listen to your own music while playing, through in-car radios and the like. Can we have that back, please?[/quote]
the only game ive seen this in is GTA... and thats about the only game that makes sense in...
[editline]28th April 2014[/editline]
[quote]13. Please uninstall, I beg of you
After I decide to delete a game, absolutely everything needs to be gone, except perhaps a few small save files somewhere sensible. Like in a folder called “Savegames”. I don’t want to update before I can uninstall. I don’t want to discover that the game has vanished from the desktop or quick-launch row, but has left behind several GB of data. [/quote]
only steam does this, and you should know better.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;44667239]The one-time dependency install for a game is nonissue at all. You seriously can't wait two more minutes?[/QUOTE]
It's not a one-time dependency install. It's a "Let's install this and make you think Steam has crashed EVERY BLOODY TIME YOU INSTALL A GAME" install.
It shouldn't even be a thing.
This is just awful
[QUOTE=The golden;44667948]Do you intentionally post that terribly, or....?[/QUOTE]
...or i fucked it up or confused it with a terrible ripoff of it we got in France
This article is shit and the author should be banned from using the English language for at least a week as penance.
[quote]Tutorials should not be designed for people who have never seen a game before[/quote]
Then who the fuck are they for??
[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]
Actually if you postpone Windows 8 updates enough times eventually it will prompt that you have 15 minutes to save everything because it is going to restart whether you like it or not.
[QUOTE=Rika-chan;44668182]Actually if you postpone Windows 8 updates enough times eventually it will prompt that you have 15 minutes to save everything because it is going to restart whether you like it or not.[/QUOTE]
It's like a week, too. If you can't find time in a week to reboot your PC for updates, you probably either play way too many games to be healthy or you have another problem.
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