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[–] 80 points 2 months ago* (21 children)

This game has absolutely horrendous performance problems.

It baffles me that people are rating this higher than games like KOTOR and Republic Commando.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I guess because it’s new? Xcom has s big fan base too

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Well the gameplay is very different, and maybe people like the way star wars feels when applied to XCOM type strategy games?

    People are not looking at the performance in isolation when rating games.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I would still say it's worth buying at least from my personal experience. I'm still really enjoying the game despite the performance but it's probably heavily dependent on your system.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Games having dodgy performance on release is effectively normal now.

    It makes more sense to rate based on the gameplay otherwise 99% of releases would be 1 star.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    But how likely is any optimisation going to be forthcoming if there's no-one working on it?

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Now?

    The first video game I ever l played was Pong.

    Dodgy performance on release has always been the case. Would like to hear the tale of the Atari ET game?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Can't remember any particular performance problems with ET - it's no more flickery than any other 2600 game, sound plays fine, screen changes when you fall in a hole are prompt, all that kind of thing. Now, utterly bizarre and unintuitive gameplay, yes; it has that in spades. Also quite unfinished, but Howard Scott Warshaw only got five weeks to develop it so I'm prepared to point the blame at Atari for that.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    That's not really detrimental to a game this like though. Some pop in and occasional hitching isn't going to cause a character death or a missed shot, it's just mildly annoying. It's definitely no kotor, but it's fun as hell.

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