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Originally posted by Zebodog:
Did this game ever get a fair chance or was it doomed from the start?
It's a shame too many people look at the glass as being half empty, and condemn the game for what it's not.
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I have yet to really bash this game. The main problems that I have had with it, or the main problem, is that my system can't run it, and while that is aggravating, it's not wholly the games fault, and I am fully aware of that. I own it, after all. "But you have posted negative things about it", yes, but those things are related to me by somebody that I've been gaming with for four years, and I trust his opinions. He bought a computer specifically to run this game, and he still has issues. It scares me when this system:
er, can't remember the processor, but it's the Dual Core tech
4 gigs of ram
NVidia 7800(can't recall the rest of the designations)
can't run a game smoothly. I believe that this represents problems with the game, and these problems have been admitted by the developers. At any rate, his machine is closer to the max specs than the min specs, and he still has issues both in the toolset, and in the world he's trying to create. Where does the blame for that lie? I would have to say it's a developer's problem, and that problem is that the game was rushed to the shelves, and it wasn't ready. Bad coding has been tossed around a lot, and I have no doubt that that's the truth. When you're running at, or near, the top of the recommended requirements for a game, and still have to turn off all the stuff that caused the requirements to be needed, what's the point?
Note that at the time of this writing, his game has been fully patched, and all his drivers are up to date as well. As I said, he's been at this a while, and knows what's needed to maintain his machine to run games. After all, he's had a server online for 4 years, with very few hitches.