I hope I’m not the only one who seems to think this is blown out of all proportion and lacking in common sense. It is blindingly obvious that if you shake a device, be it a 360, PS3 or your DVD player, it will scratch the disc! Sounds like someone got their favourite game scratched, wanted someone to blame and took things a little too far. Why is this even in the news?!
And it is not physically possible for the disc to get scratched without the 360 being moved.
Just the other day my house caught fire and my copy of Far Cry 2 got melted down, while INSIDE my Xbox360! I am now involved in a lawsuit with Microsoft AND Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. Microsoft did not let me know that their product was not fire-proof. Turns out my cat wasn’t fire-proof either.
Imagine you went to see a film at the cinema, a long-awaited blockbuster. Let’s say it’s Quantum of Solace. Imagine if in one of the dramatic, explosive scenes a microphone strayed into the shot. Or you could plainly see that the guy leaping across rooftops clearly isn’t Daniel Craig. What if one of the explosions pixellated suddenly and then vanished entirely revealing, for a second, a green screen?
I am assuming most people would be a little disappointed and the movie would (deservedly) become a bit of a laughing stock. Cue double pages in The Sun pinpointing each glaring error. Now, this never happens in film, at least not in Hollywood. Film is a serious industry, capable of delivering incredible amounts of money, not to mention the occasional film that will make you think, reconsider your approach to life or inspire optimism, pessimism.
Now I am happy to accept that computer gaming is an industry still in its childhood years. Much like I am not expecting a serious conversation about the meaning of life from my 4 year old son, I am not expecting games to provide the same level narrative or emotion. Yet.
But in the meantime how is it that some of the biggest, richest developers and publishers get away with releasing games technically sub-par games, littered with texture pop-in, AI glitches and all sorts of other short-comings? Surely these can’t just be ignored? They aren’t artistic shortcomings (which the film industry is rife with), they are basic, technical ones.
This may not be a new gripe but it is concerning that more and more games are released with these problems and people seem to be accepting them as normal. Far Cry 2 and Fable II were what brought this rant on – after running into a (lirerally) blank landscapes with alarming regularity and witnessing shonky texture popping I felt the need to vent.
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Poor buggers... The game is going to be middle-of-the-road. Relying on Halo fans to buy into an RTS game is a suspect strategy.
I used to work for Phones 4 U a while ago and if their games section becomes as dodgy as the phone selling is, well, at least it will be interesting…
I hope I’m not the only one who seems to think this is blown out of all proportion and lacking in common sense. It is blindingly obvious that if you shake a device, be it a 360, PS3 or your DVD player, it will scratch the disc! Sounds like someone got their favourite game scratched, wanted someone to blame and took things a little too far. Why is this even in the news?!
And it is not physically possible for the disc to get scratched without the 360 being moved.
Just the other day my house caught fire and my copy of Far Cry 2 got melted down, while INSIDE my Xbox360! I am now involved in a lawsuit with Microsoft AND Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. Microsoft did not let me know that their product was not fire-proof. Turns out my cat wasn’t fire-proof either.
Imagine you went to see a film at the cinema, a long-awaited blockbuster. Let’s say it’s Quantum of Solace. Imagine if in one of the dramatic, explosive scenes a microphone strayed into the shot. Or you could plainly see that the guy leaping across rooftops clearly isn’t Daniel Craig. What if one of the explosions pixellated suddenly and then vanished entirely revealing, for a second, a green screen?
I am assuming most people would be a little disappointed and the movie would (deservedly) become a bit of a laughing stock. Cue double pages in The Sun pinpointing each glaring error. Now, this never happens in film, at least not in Hollywood. Film is a serious industry, capable of delivering incredible amounts of money, not to mention the occasional film that will make you think, reconsider your approach to life or inspire optimism, pessimism.
Now I am happy to accept that computer gaming is an industry still in its childhood years. Much like I am not expecting a serious conversation about the meaning of life from my 4 year old son, I am not expecting games to provide the same level narrative or emotion. Yet.
But in the meantime how is it that some of the biggest, richest developers and publishers get away with releasing games technically sub-par games, littered with texture pop-in, AI glitches and all sorts of other short-comings? Surely these can’t just be ignored? They aren’t artistic shortcomings (which the film industry is rife with), they are basic, technical ones.
This may not be a new gripe but it is concerning that more and more games are released with these problems and people seem to be accepting them as normal. Far Cry 2 and Fable II were what brought this rant on – after running into a (lirerally) blank landscapes with alarming regularity and witnessing shonky texture popping I felt the need to vent.
Rant over.
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