So my birthday was a couple days ago, and after filling my gas tank and getting new wipers which I desperately needed, I had a nice $30. So after checking my second-hand store dutifully, I had to go next door to the wretched Gamestop, where it was actually pretty nice and soothing. But nonetheless, I was able to acquire what I had been looking for! Sniper Elite III Afrika!
So I get home, pop it into ye olden PS3, and it boots like a charm. I don't actually recall feeling happy, but I must have felt something close at least, I was kinda tired. Now I had seen gameplay footage here and there, and had personally played 2 and enjoyed the hell out of it, so I knew what I was getting into like when I normally buy a game. But my gosh. The low textures I can deal with, it's fine, I know the console is old and has limitations. But the lag in single player when I pull the trigger (nine headshots turned into misses or bodyshots this way), the constant need to continuously load the giant areas, and the terrible animation work. I'm pretty disappointed. Not to mention the X-ray cams look worse than the second one, which is mostly why I bought 3.
My point is, if you know the hardware of the last gen won't be able to run it without these annoying hiccups, should you release the game on that platform? Maybe it was a piss-poor port, but I could hear Serenity chugging every time I looked into the scope. I feel like I'd rather not be able to play it than play it in this condition.
What do you guys think? I was a bit young, and entirely too ignorant, to recognize if the PS2 and Xbox had problems during the end of their life-cycle. But the performance seems like it's just taking too much of a toll for it to perform well, and I'm not sure you should release the product on a platform that will obviously have problems with it.
So I get home, pop it into ye olden PS3, and it boots like a charm. I don't actually recall feeling happy, but I must have felt something close at least, I was kinda tired. Now I had seen gameplay footage here and there, and had personally played 2 and enjoyed the hell out of it, so I knew what I was getting into like when I normally buy a game. But my gosh. The low textures I can deal with, it's fine, I know the console is old and has limitations. But the lag in single player when I pull the trigger (nine headshots turned into misses or bodyshots this way), the constant need to continuously load the giant areas, and the terrible animation work. I'm pretty disappointed. Not to mention the X-ray cams look worse than the second one, which is mostly why I bought 3.
My point is, if you know the hardware of the last gen won't be able to run it without these annoying hiccups, should you release the game on that platform? Maybe it was a piss-poor port, but I could hear Serenity chugging every time I looked into the scope. I feel like I'd rather not be able to play it than play it in this condition.
What do you guys think? I was a bit young, and entirely too ignorant, to recognize if the PS2 and Xbox had problems during the end of their life-cycle. But the performance seems like it's just taking too much of a toll for it to perform well, and I'm not sure you should release the product on a platform that will obviously have problems with it.
