[disclaimer: I am not hating on the game. I'm sure the game itself is great; god knows I'll never find out though. This is just something that really irked me.]
I. Am. Pissed.
I dropped 18 bucks on the season pass preorder for a game I can barely even play.
I'll admit, I should have done my homework. The game runs on the Unreal engine, which I genuinely wasn't expecting. The Unreal Engine positively blows, at least in my experience. True, my laptop isn't exactly a gaming rig, but I can run Starcraft II on medium-high settings with little to no lag, and can run games made with the Source engine (like, oh, say, Portal 2) with the graphics cranked pretty high as well, but games made with UE chug like nothing else. So Quantum Conundrum runs like crap on my laptop, just like everything else built with that horrible goddamned engine.
But you know what? That really doesn't even bug me. I have no qualms about turning down graphics settings to play a game. I've never been able to afford a cutting-edge gaming computer, so I'm used to that.
No big deal, right? Just lower the graphics settings and have fun?
No dice. In what is becoming a really very irritating trend in PC games, there are no graphics settings to be tweaked. Video options are limited to resolution and brightness changes. It runs like ass even at 640x480, because FSAA, anistoropy, and positively nauseating motion-blurring that I don't want/care about cannot be turned off or even reduced. I understand wanting jaw-dropping graphics in PC games; the graphics are one of the biggest advantages the PC has over consoles. But really, why no consideration for those of us who can't drop quadruple digits on a gaming rig or sink the time and energy into building our own? Do we not deserve to enjoy the game as well?
So anyhow. I just wanted to vent, and maybe start a conversation. PC gamers, how do you all feel about this? Anyone have a similar experience with the game? Anyone have a reasonable (read: non-trolling) counterpoint?
I. Am. Pissed.
I dropped 18 bucks on the season pass preorder for a game I can barely even play.
I'll admit, I should have done my homework. The game runs on the Unreal engine, which I genuinely wasn't expecting. The Unreal Engine positively blows, at least in my experience. True, my laptop isn't exactly a gaming rig, but I can run Starcraft II on medium-high settings with little to no lag, and can run games made with the Source engine (like, oh, say, Portal 2) with the graphics cranked pretty high as well, but games made with UE chug like nothing else. So Quantum Conundrum runs like crap on my laptop, just like everything else built with that horrible goddamned engine.
But you know what? That really doesn't even bug me. I have no qualms about turning down graphics settings to play a game. I've never been able to afford a cutting-edge gaming computer, so I'm used to that.
No big deal, right? Just lower the graphics settings and have fun?
No dice. In what is becoming a really very irritating trend in PC games, there are no graphics settings to be tweaked. Video options are limited to resolution and brightness changes. It runs like ass even at 640x480, because FSAA, anistoropy, and positively nauseating motion-blurring that I don't want/care about cannot be turned off or even reduced. I understand wanting jaw-dropping graphics in PC games; the graphics are one of the biggest advantages the PC has over consoles. But really, why no consideration for those of us who can't drop quadruple digits on a gaming rig or sink the time and energy into building our own? Do we not deserve to enjoy the game as well?
So anyhow. I just wanted to vent, and maybe start a conversation. PC gamers, how do you all feel about this? Anyone have a similar experience with the game? Anyone have a reasonable (read: non-trolling) counterpoint?
