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The Problems With Porting Games
mr_sifter writes "There's a large lexicon of monosyllabic, four-letter words for describing something you don't like — but only PC gamers use the word 'port' with such a fervent degree of repulsion. Common complaints about console ports include meager graphics options, dodgy third-person camera angles, poorly-thought-out controls and sparsely distributed save points. In this feature, Bit-tech talks to developers of games such as Dead Space, Red Faction and Tales of Monkey Island to find out why porting games between the three major consoles and the PC is so difficult. Radically different CPU, graphics and memory architectures play their part, as do the differences in control methods and the rules Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo set about how games should work on their systems."
Ported game,
Crying shame.
Like lesser lather,
Endless flame.
Burma Shave
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Well I'm a PC gamer and PC's are the far superior platform, as any real gamer like me knows. Anyone who doesn't use a mouse and keyboard is clearly inferior to me and lacks my intelligence and superior taste in gaming. If you want to know more on the subject, just come to the videogame store where I work sometime. I regularly spend hours there snobbishly berating console game buying customers and informing them of my superiority.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play the pompous villain in an 80's teen flick. Ferrari is the ONLY car to drive, you know.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
...RTFA?
We want a game that doesn't run again, like Crysis did the first time we subjected our poor socket 939 rigs to it.
I think you're pretty much alone on that one.
It's tough porting articles from the back of a napkin into HTML, clearly.
neither one is an emulator?
Anyhow, the box and disc looked like a legitimate, licensed wii game not some homebrew game.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
But I thought that once software was exposed to the healing rays of Steve it would "Just Work".
How can anything that runs on The Holy Mac be bad?
Isn't Mac OS X based on BSD?
Chicken achtung Gertrude coriander buffalo 0xfe30 had had had had had had had had had had had had off in whose tool shed they were whacking. And I think we all know what that means!
The problems with porting games really come down to getting through customs. If they would just declare everything, and not try to sneak in those exotic fruits, everything would be okay. Maybe next time they should just fly in, instead of sea passage...
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