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It’s been a big year for PC gaming.
But it’s also an incredibly frustrating time, it feels.
Can we have proper testing on all three graphics card platforms, PLEASE?
(I swear, I’m not out here just to rant.)
I wasso closeto springing for the Starfield premium upgrade to use alongsidePC Game Passto play early.
Because I wouldn’t have had a good time at all.
Can we have proper testing on all three graphics card platforms, PLEASE?
I, for one, will not be parting with cash to play games early anymore.
So what was wrong with Starfield?
That is unless you have an Intel Arc graphics card inside your desktop PC, which I do.
Remnant 2 also had a shaky launch, with performance issues for many.
For those people, admittedly a minority, Starfield was an unplayable hot mess.
If you had an Intel Arc graphics card, you had to suck it up or get a refund.
Imagine the uproar if Starfield had been so broken on NVIDIA GPUs.
The Last of Us was a fun launch, wasn’t it?
Why should it be a lottery?
For $100, you want your game ready and playable.
But the implied process employed to test these things seems to be falling short at the very least.
Console gaming keeps looking better.
Take my own experience recently withRemnant 2.
I had to pass the review to a colleague because it was completely broken and unplayable on my PC.
But, again, it’s an issue present in an early access period for a premium-priced game.
Lest we also forgetThe Last of Us Part 1 PC port?
What a horrendous mess that was.
I don’t know the process, but I know it needs to be improved.
And increasingly, it isn’t.
But it’s also an ancillary gear.
The console experience as a whole is just less frustrating when you want to just play a game.
Maybe that’s where I need to refocus my playing time.
