Terraria Goes to Consoles, PC Gamers Go Nuts

[Shinsei-J]

Thinging about it, that's going to be one tough port. I'm left wondering how they're going to map the controls, because from what I can remember this game was highly dependant on the mouse.

The mouse is used for aiming, and the thumbstick can do that.

Huh, was that all?
My memory fails me.

 

[Hawkeye21]

I own a copy of Terraria on Steam and can't imagine playing it without mods. They add A LOT of free content and make it more challenging and fun. And since mods and consoles don't mix, my feelings as a PC elitist are safe

 

[dangoball]

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Generalizations. Aren't they grand? They let you judge and dismiss an entire group of people based solely on the actions of a few.

In fact, let's make some generalizations of PC games by looking at all of the posts from self-proclaimed PC gamers in this thread, shall we? I'm sure they'll be full of hatred, bad grammar, poor spelling, and at least a few racial slurs.

Let's take a look here...hmm...

Huh. Well how 'bout that? Looks to me that the PC gamers are not only not mad but are actually happy their console gaming brethren are getting a chance to play Terraria.

I guess that means that ALL PC gamers are tempered, well-mannered, easy-going people who don't honestly care how others play their games.

But that can't be right, can it? We all know every PC gamer is an elitist, douche-y dick-bag who hates everything and everyone, right?

I mean, Andy Chalk seems to indicate this to be the case. After all, he said:

...as PC gamers, an inherently insecure bunch to begin with...

And, it's not like he would say something so blatantly inflammatory just to ruffle feathers and start a flame war, right?

Right?

You know what's also a fun fact? The only platform I play my games on is PC

Just because I poke some fun at PC gaming doesn't have to mean I hate all and any PC gamers, just like not liking CoD doesn't automatically make me hate all FPS.

It's like you said: Generalizations, aren't they grand?

 

[Alexnader]

This seems very familiar...

So familiar.

I just can't put my finger on it...

I think it rhymes with Hark Rolls.

Not sure if you're referring to the widely publicised rage of PC gamers learning it was going to be a straight port or the less publicised but no less vitriolic rage console gamers had when they learned that From Software was going to spend some of its precious time working with the PC.

If you get your news from facebook page comments all you're going to get is rage.

 

[Ryan Minns]

"PC gamers are hopping mad that the indie hit Terraria is coming to consoles."

So less than 1% of PC gamers show annoyance or rage and we get that... nice

 

[ExiledPaladin13]

Didn't Jim Sterling say it was a good thing to whine in a situation which isn't in someone's favour? I don't see why whining for the one bit of PC pride is a bad thing. I don't personally play Terraria but I know how it feels to have my favorite *used to be* PC preferred game *cough*skyrim*cough* to be chosen as an xbox preferred thing. It hurts my PC pride and hell, pride is pretty important to me.

I'd say whine away! Whine my PC brethren! Purge the money grabbing sellouts! Just don't go too far...

 

[Olrod]

Dear PC gamers: Please explain (in full detail) why making a game that you like, be available to more people, is A Bad Thing.

Or, conversely, you can just STFU.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Look, I can understand being pissed when content doesn't go to all platforms that a game's on. And I can understand being even more pissed when the game's original platform doesn't get the content, but seriously guys, this is ridiculous.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I'm a PC gamer. And I'm not mad. I think all games that can properly work on other systems should be on other systems.

 

[Nikolaz72]

So consoles can have exclusives and PC's can't? Okay. And yeah, PC's are superior. I own three consoles, and they have a place, but they are inferior. You can prefer consoles, and that's fine, that's your preference; preferences are only opinions though. And superiority is based on facts. And objectively, PCs are better; consoles are objectively worse. As in better processor, better RAM, better GPU, more control options, and finally lower priced games. I can't tell you what your favourite is, but you asked for what was superior, I must answer. Oh and "Playing on the couch is better, I like controllers, and I don't like all the hassle of setting things up are all opinions, not facts. Sure, you can use those points in formulating your own opinion of your PREFERENCE, but they can't be used in proving which is SUPERIOR.... \ But let me reiterate incase you didn't get it through your thick little skull: PC is superior objectively, consoles still have a place, and no one is trying to tell you you have to like PC. But this is all beside the point...

You say I am trying to hog the games for PC.. I do not support this nor did I ever state it. I supported Minecraft Xbox Edition and I even own it. It accomplished what a good port should do: expand the audience to people who would otherwise not get to play the game. But should't that go both ways? I merely stated I can agree with some people not liking Terraia being ported as we PC gamers don't get as fair a share of ports. I never said "Terraria should never, ever be ported and the PC master race should hog all the games!!!" I proved this with a list of many exclusives that I'm sure many PC gamers would love to have, just as many console gamers want Terraia. So, one last time, how is it that you can "HOG ALL THE GAMES" but PC gets shit? Oh, and QQ MOAR about your terrible reading comprehension.

I love how you treat me like shit because I prefer consoles, when in reality, all I have is a PC.

Thick little skull? Seriously? U mad? It's easy to dismiss everything you say when you say things like that (even more so when under self-administered false pretense).

I'm fully aware that PCs are superior by definition. This fact has nothing to do with this discussion, meaning your little rant did nothing but make you look like a fool.

And you say you didn't support game-hogging, but that's been the underlying message of every single thing you've typed up to this point: "I'm upset because I have to give up previously exclusive titles to the consoles." You try to justify with "But they don't give us anything!" which is bull. Almost everything I want to play is ported to PC, and your long list of games that haven't is dwarfed by those that have. Then, you accuse ME of saying that PCs can't have exclusives.

So consoles can have exclusives and PC's can't? Okay.

After I gave you a list of PC exclusives. Insert generic sarcastic snark here.

You attack MY reading comprehension, but YOU'RE the one projecting into what I write. As I said, I don't even have a console. So... Whoops!

What you're trying to do is justify thousands of PC gamers acting like tantrumming children simply because game companies don't give you enough ports.

Deny it. You can't, because it's what you've been doing.

I, for one, take what I get, and don't support embarrassing *****-fits because I use a product and dislike one of the (few) benefits of a competing product.

Although, I should thank you for the copious mirth I got from your assumptions that I use consoles. Assumptions aren't your friend.

One of the problems with porting total war and starcraft 2 and mmo's and the civilization series. Is that even computers that have 3 times the ram and raw power of the Xbox, tends to lag later in the game (Civ) or in multiplayer (Total War)

As such consoles are simply not powerful enough to run certain PC games (Mostly stradegy games) so I can completely understand why they dont bother with porting them, if they had to cut down units or map or anything in order to make it run on the console, it wouldnt be the same game.

Most games on PC games that would work well with consoles, have been ported.Or will be ported, there are few exceptions. Just look at Elder Scrolls, or heck. Diablo 3 (Which is surely getting a port by the way the damn game is designed) Counter Strike, L4D, TF2..

However, there are plenty of console games that would work well on PC (Every single one of them) that isnt getting ported. Which I think was his point.

TLDR: PC exclusives usually cant even run on consoles, it doesnt work the other way around. The reason that console exclusives exist is because they are paid to keep it exclusive a lot of the time, the other way around is simply because it wouldnt be able to run properly without serious developement in terms of downsizing which would most of the time ruin the game.

 

[The Lunatic]

The developer of Terraria does seem to be a bit of a dick.

"I'm not working on it any more guys! I know I promised free updates, but, you know how things are!"

And then announces he's making new paid for versions of the game.

I don't personally have any issue, Terraria was fun, I got my fun out of it.

But, the guy is just fucking with people at this stage.


The Rage isn't directed at releasing a game on a new format, it's directed at producing a paid for version of the game after announcing you're done with development of free updates and the game completely.

 

[Upbeat Zombie]

Huh Terraria is getting a port to consoles.
As a PC gamer I have to be mad at this then right?

But seriously yeah I think Terraria would work pretty well on consoles. Although they might have to do something with the inventory system.
As for the extra content I'm fairly sure if its anything substantial they'll patch it into the Pc version anyway.

And even if they don't I feel like I already got my moneys worth out of the game. Them adding more content isn't gonna change that.

 

[SoulSalmon]

I can KINDA understand where the rage might be coming from.

I was disappointed to hear that the "big announcement" for one of my favourite games of all time was a console port. Just as I was disappointed to hear that the 6-day countdown to a TWEWY announcement was for a port.
Am I mad? maybe a little. Am I going to complain that the port exists? fuck no, that would be stupid.
I just hope the port can get some peoples attention to making new content again, I want some MP-friendly mods that push back the end of the game further (No, neither Reborn nor Obsidian are really "MP-Friendly").
An official patch would be great too but that's a fair bit less likely...

 

[Dandark]

To be honest I still have yet to play Terraria. A friend bought it for me but I still haven't really played it, I joined my friends once for a few mins and it seemed kinda fun, maybe I should give it a go again.

Also there are elitists in every community, you always get people saying the Xbox or PS3 is the best platform and who get angered by former exclusive games moving onto other platforms. Try not to insult the entire PC community because a some idiots on Facebook are being idiots(It's facebooks for ****s sake, what did you expect?).

 

[Joccaren]

Well shit, I love double standards sometimes.

A PC to console port of Terraria is announced, and PC players get upset that they aren't getting bug fixes and updates they were told were coming before the devs said they were taking a break, whilst the PS3 and Xbox versions are getting content that the PC doesn't have yet, with no date set for release for it, and we're called elitists, and told that there's a reason people don't want to be called PC players, even though pretty much every PC player here has said something along the lines of "Good for you consoles, now back to my gaming".

Meanwhilst, a Console to PC port is announced for Dark Souls, and a lot of players are all Doom and Gloom about it, and how PC players will ruin Dark Souls, and how they'll just hack it to make it easier, and how we don't deserve it - and either a few people on this site join in to go along with them, or say "Its just a minority".

Seriously, if there's anyone with a superiority problem on these forums, my experience doesn't show it to be PC players - bar maybe one or two trolls seen from time to time.

I will admit I do not know what platform is used by every person posting in this thread, but after a look down the first page, its appalling. PC players are all saying "I apologies for these idiots, and am ashamed to share this platform with them", or "If the PC doesn't get this content - screw the developers. If it does, forget everything I've said', whilst a significant number label PC gamers in general as just being elitist and entitled. Hell, if the quote's are right, the article itself even did originally.
There are however, and I think this speaks highly of these forums, a larger number of people saying "I doubt this is just about it being a port" and actually using reason in their assessment of the situation rather than pure personal bias and knee jerk emotions. These people also thankfully keep which platform they play on unstated in this thread, so I'm going to choose to believe that they are at least mostly console exclusive players, because I refuse to believe that all console players are limited to reacting in such an entitled and derogatory manner as some have.

 

[PH3NOmenon]

Fueling that rage is the fact that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions will feature extra content, but there's been no indication that the new material, whatever it may be, will be released for the PC.

Did the people who said "I'm fine with it!", not read the above quote?


It makes sense for pc users to be upset. Now, there's no call for swearing or raging, but new content was made for the game, despite his explicitly stated claim to not have the time to create any new content, and PC gamers aren't promised a patch?

That's just... weird.

I'm perfectly fine that it's coming to consoles. I'm rather confused as to why the new stuff isn't going to be released on PC. It'll probably be something small and not even worth pushing an update for, but if it isn't (say, new bosses or similar) then yea, I'd complain too. I wouldn't curse his name and wouldn't wish him or any of his family ill for it, but I would complain. Terraria is a good game, more of a good game is always desired.

 

[Joccaren]

Dear PC gamers: Please explain (in full detail) why making a game that you like, be available to more people, is A Bad Thing.

Or, conversely, you can just STFU.

Ask the console players who whined about the Dark Souls port the same thing. I'm sure they'd love to answer.

As for this issue, the whining isn't so much about "Waah, my games going to consoles" as it is this situation:

Devs: "Hey guys, we've got these patches and bug fixes lined up, and we'll try to get them to you sometime soon"
PC players: "Woohoo, Terraria patches"

-A short time later-

Devs: "Hey guys, we've decided to take a break from making Terraria for a while. Gonna take some time to unwind and recharge my programming and game designing batteries"
PC Players: "But... my patches? Oh well, I'm sure we'll get them when you come back"

-6 months later-

Devs: "Hey guys, we've got big Terraria news!"
PC Players: "Ooh, you're resuming development and giving us those patches at long last?"
Devs: "We're releasing a console version of Terraria that comes with this additional content that is not on the PC and we have no stated schedule for releasing on the PC"
PC Players: "What! My Patches, the console players get these patches that I was promised and I don't? What is this?"
Console Players: "All PC players are such elitist jerks, seriously just STFU, why is it so bad that we get the game!"


Its not so much that console players are getting the game that PC players are up in arms about, its the fact that they're getting the game with additional content we have not been offered, and may end up having to pay for despite the Devs saying that they were going to release more patches and bug fixes before stopping development.

 

[Oskuro]

What the...? What is this flame-baiting piece of crap? How does an article that outright attacks a sector of the audience get past any editorial standards?

And don't get me wrong, it pisses me off when we see the very same type of article poking fun at console players when they get angered about something (Example, the rage over the PC edition of Dark Souls).

This is unacceptable of any publication that expects to be taken seriously. There's a difference between reporting and opinion.


Note: Yahtzee gets away with this flame-baiting attitude because he is a comedy writer, and thus expects to be taken with a massive grain of salt. If the intention of this article is to be fun, lighthearted or ironic, make it clear, instead of pretending to be a serious news report.

 

[Bostur]

Dear PC gamers: Please explain (in full detail) why making a game that you like, be available to more people, is A Bad Thing.

Or, conversely, you can just STFU.

Dear Olrod

I don't know exactly who you are adressing. I don't think it's a bad thing. Judging by the posts here most other PC gamers don't think it's a bad thing either.

Don't believe everything they write in the papers.