id On RAGE "Cluster!@#$" and Lead Platforms [Oct 07, 2011, 8:33 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Kotaku asks the musical question "Why Was The PC Launch of Rage Such A "Cluster!@#$"?," getting answers from id on the topic, who express frustration with problems that were largely caused by driver issues. Along the way they also address how the game being designed for consoles holds back the PC edition. "You can choose to design a game around the specs of a high-end PC and make console versions that fail to hit the design point, or design around the specs of the consoles and have a high-end PC provide incremental quality improvements," John Carmack tells them. "We chose the latter." He also bluntly addresses why this makes sense for id (emphasis Kotaku's):
"We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games," Carmack added. "That statement will enrage some people, but it is hard to characterize it otherwise; both console versions will have larger audiences than the PC version. A high end PC is nearly 10 times as powerful as a console, and we could unquestionably provide a better experience if we chose that as our design point and we were able to expend the same amount of resources on it. Nowadays most of the quality of a game comes from the development effort put into it, not the technology it runs on. A game built with a tenth the resources on a platform 10 times as powerful would be an inferior product in almost all cases."
^Drag0n^ wrote on Oct 9, 2011, 23:26:
The really sad part about all this? With whomever fault lays blame with, the elements of the game that are actually quite unique and would be getting the press are all lost in the controversy surrounding a problem that will probably be fixed in a week or two, long after the attention span of the press has moved on to other things.
Bummer.
I've played it for an hour, which I deem long enough to be able to judge this game on its uniqueness. What I found unique were the details put into the NPCs. That's where the uniqueness starts and ends.
I sincerely hope id Software gets burried because of this clusterfuck. And while its in its grave, I want it to turn around as it curses itself for not respecting the PC platform like CDProjekt does -- a developer that's quite alive.
Playing: Skyrim, World of Warcraft.
Future: Dead Space 3.
Future: Dead Space 3.
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