A Plague Of Pathetic PC Ports (The Jimquisition)

[@TheGamer8041]

The people defending those ports by saying "get a better PC" are the absolute worst type of consoomer.

[@giftheck]

The funniest part of that is that Jedi Survivor is apparently more broken on the so-called better PCs 🤣

[@Elwaves2925]

Same goes for the ones that say "they'll fix it eventually." I'm sure they all belong in the same low mentallity group as the "git gud" numpties.

[@peterclarke7240]

"Get a shittier pc, n00b!!!!" 😂

[@kesamek8537]

They are morons who are ignorant about the 'war on general computing'.

[@jamesrule1338]

If my PC is better than the consoles that ran the game without issue, my PC ain't the problem.

[@Dradeeus]

It's beyond parody that this seems to coincide with the normalization of higher prices. This is when they decided they were worth more money.

[@ddjsoyenby]

fact.

[@TalesOfWar]

This doesn't happen in other media. New movies don't cost more because they had a bigger budget. New albums are still the same price even if they cost millions to produce or were made in someones bedroom on their laptop. Why do games have such a massive price just because they were made by a bigger studio with more resources? Maybe if they made a better game that wasn't a buggy pile of ass these AAA studios would make what they spend back and then some without having to price them at what most people make in a full working day.

[@EmeralBookwise]

​@@TalesOfWar: That's not really true. Home video prices have pretty much increased every time there was a new format. Bluerays were priced higher than DVDs, and DVDs were priced higher than VHS (despite DVD actually being cheaper to manufacture). Although admittedly, the shift digital download didn't really see a direct price hike, but then again, it's not a format that has completely obsoleted it predecessor either. Still, if anything, it's surprising video games stayed at a consistent price across multiple generations of console hardware. Note, this is not me defending the recent price hikes, I'm only saying we're lucky it didn't happen sooner and more frequently.

[@jadedheartsz]

@@TalesOfWar this actually isn't new, Nintendo 64 games infamously cost 70-80 bucks brand new back in the day due to Nintendo's bone-headed decision to use cartridges instead of CDs like everyone else which resulted in manufacturing games for it being more costly. This time it feels like overcompensaying due to Sony and MS being unable to ship as many consoles as they wanted to due to supply chain issues with the materials to make the consoles.

[@lubu9209]

They just don't care about consumers.

[@TheNzFox]

remember when they justified the raise of the base price to $70 so they could "keep bringing people high quality products"

[@Bananahammock681]

Make 'em pay more for less, classic capitalist play.

[@killerfugu2659]

Best part is one of the games that didn't do this on Pc was the Resi 4 remake. Was £50 here on Pc and £65 on PS5 and XBS and £60 on PS4, yet the port was glorious and easily the best way to play it.

[@hazukichanx408]

@@Bananahammock681 Or if that doesn't work, put out a quality product at a barely tolerable price, then gradually decrease the quality while keeping the price where it is. Eventually, if people ever catch on and stop buying, restart the cycle with a "new" product, decent quality at first, and then not so much. Ugh, the lengths that these jerkoffs will go to, just to screw us over and scam some cash...

[@TheAssirra]

I still can't believe they dare to ask 80 fucking euro's for Forspoken on Steam. That is daylight robbery right there.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@killerfugu2659 Console games being more expensive always made more sense too because of the license fee they pay to the hardware owner. You don't have that on PC. There's no license fee. That extra few quid to make it in line with the console price is just pure profit and greed on the publishers part.

[@vinnythewebsurfer]

“Any port in a storm unless it’s the PC port of Batman Arkham Knight in which case, better to take you chances” -Yahtzee

[@Secret_Takodachi]

Yahtzee has some fantastic quips ❤

[@Technature7567]

@@Secret_Takodachi I do like Yahtzee's review on the star wars and it having farming for some reason. "Much like a racist wedding planner, I'd argue some things are not meant to mix." Even the picture had to question that one. 10/10.

[@emporioalnino4670]

I played arkham knight a couple months ago and it ran great and looked amazing on my PC. I think it's fixed now

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

​@@emporioalnino4670Better eight years late than never, I guess.

[@JT5ingh]

@@emporioalnino4670 it's not fixed, modern hardware is just brute forcing it

[@TheInfamousOryx]

The reason vampire survivor is the most played game on steam deck is obviously because of the amazingly well written bestiary

[@ayuvir]

You know you've reached the peak when you make an Oni and call it Gav'et Oni, and you're Italian, so it's a double whammy.

[@ChissHansen]

Well that's the primary reason. It's also a lot of fun for a reasonable price and time investment and it ACTUALLY FUCKING WORKS WHEN YOU WANT TO PLAY IT WITHOUT ANY GRAPHICS CARD OR CPU BULLSHIT! Ahem... excuse me...

[@ebagentj]

@@ChissHansen Also my favorite part: it's the one game I was told you can play with just one hand that can, in fact, be played with only one hand from the menu to the gameplay to quitting. As someone with a chronic pain condition and disability that has had my right arm rendered nearly useless for over three years, I was happy to actually be playing a video game again, and a fun one at that.

[@hazukichanx408]

@@ebagentj That's awesome and I'm happy for you and everyone else in similar positions who can enjoy it just as much as myself and others lucky enough to not (yet) have such troubles in our lives. This world needs more happiness, and the devs of Vampire Survivors seem more than willing to do their part, for cheap. Honorable developers are always such a treat. ^_^

[@KiAergul]

It’s a shame it has all the interactivity of a fidget spinner.

[@1965917]

I love manta force. Its built by quantum physicists so that, whenever you look at it, roughly half of the 1000 pieces in each set go missing.

[@thyCarrot]

Well, in that case they are missing. But also there

[@MrLFJ7]

Reminds me of my old Lego Star Wars sets

[@Quepis]

Per Wikipedia, the M.A.N.T.A. Force ship's engine is fuelled by a substance called Thorium. Personally, I want to know: why isn't Jonathan's engine fuelled by Thorium?

[@CeHee123]

I've wanted to get a gaming pc, but pretty much everything I want to play on it is either indie games or games that are over a decade old. And these are only further cementing that. Not only that, it adds another point to the argument to never buy anything on launch day.

[@ColdRoland]

The fact that you can buy and play a game decades old is already reason enough for me. Consoles have JUST been introducing backwards-compatibility. Most of it even had you pay for your game of choice again. And these companies are celebrated for it. Like they did you a solid. This is the one obvious advantage the PC has. Yeah, you might have to apply a patch to get things to run smoothly on modern Hardware but you're not locked out of playing something like Lost Planet, Painkiller or Metal Gear Rising, because you just have the wrong box. Like, I just replayed Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. That game was awesome when it came out, and it still is today.

[@eileen1020]

@@ColdRoland PC also has modding which is nice

[@checkmate058]

Then get a gaming PC. Old games and emulators don't require much hardware to run.

[@yotube155]

"either indie games or games that are over a decade old" Honestly if you want to get into PC gaming for these things specifically, Steam Deck is a great option. It struggles with newer AAA stuff, but old games, indie games, and emulation are great on it.

[@yotube155]

@@ColdRoland Also EMULATION. My PC is more backwards compatible with PlayStation games than my PlayStation is. (and I'll second Dark Messiah being awesome. Some parts have aged better than others, but making an ice patch so an orc does a comedy pratfall off a cliff will never get old)

[@TheAdmantArchvile]

Going back to Arkane, the PC port for Dishonored 1 was fantastic. I remember running it on a garbage laptop with an integrated graphics card and I could still get that game to run fine. Makes me wonder what happened with Redfall.

[@freddogrosso9835]

@@oarnuld Or both.

[@devilmikey00]

Deathloop was also very good on PC. Although I've only played the patched version since I got it on sale well after launch. Still, no way it was as bad as redfall since I never heard much about it in regards to bad PC port news.

[@muizzsiddique]

@@oarnuld And something else people tend to forget about, so much of what gives these beloved companies their reputation are the people who now no longer work there.

[@jeveritt8398]

That game can run on a potato these days it's great

[@jeveritt8398]

​@@devilmikey00you can install deathloop 3 times before you reach the file size of redfall. That should tell you there's something seriously wrong because it's not like the game is 3 times bigger. Deathloop is arguably more ambitious despite not always fully reaching those ambitions. But I'd rather take a unique experience with a few hiccups over the sorry excuse of a far cry clone that is redfall.

[@Scyclo]

You know...for games that are PRIMARILY DEVELOPED ON PCS the amount of garbage performance on said platforms is surprising...not for the industries just thought I would mention these are DEVELOPED ON PCs...

[@kleinerprinz99]

I bet they use Macs because its more artistic thing to do. Kappa

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

@@kleinerprinz99 If that were so, you'd think it'd teach them to write more adaptable code.

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

Developed ON PCs, yet not so much FOR PCs. :

[@AshesUndying]

I had a Redfall experience that I clipped where an enemy told me I was in big trouble shortly before burning to death by standing still in fire until he died. The AI is braindead bad.

[@AtPlume]

I know it's not from this episode, but I'm just taking a second to mention that I love the new look and logo! :)

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

SHe's been shedding

[@ninino86]

Its a great look. Although I will always miss that great suit and podium 😉

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

All we need is the Commander in the ring wagging a big foam pink J.

[@CptOfTheWizardPatrol]

All these shitty PC ports makes me miss Totalbiscuit. He would've been shouting from the rooftops about this stuff the whole time, not to mention railing against the industry's rapid descent into anti-consumer bs. Alas, he's gone now and we have one fewer voice. At least Steph is still able to carry that torch.

[@WiseSageBum]

JSS and YongYea have been my go-to folks talking about this stuff these days

[@renaigh]

the industry loves consumers, to be "anti-consumer" they would have made better products instead of jerking off to the thought of profit.

[@jadedheartsz]

@@WiseSageBum YongYea I stopped following when he started spouting bullshit alt-right talking points a few years back.

[@benjscar1540]

The scene of you spawned inside the car with Gary Numan's "Cars" playing in the background was the funniest joke I've seen ❤

[@LorNrocks]

Shout out to the callback with the space lobster.

[@seanblackburn6046]

Always a treat when "Stephanie's Heaving (toy) Chest" makes an appearance 😁 This topic is why I never purchase week one for games. Hell, some of em I wait a month or more just to see if the wheels come off the bus...

[@clearlynotaneldritchhorror8798]

​@@oarnuld True and these companies spent years pushing and normalizing the "need" to get it day one.

[@Chitown-zf4gs]

Total biscuit would’ve had a field day with all these shit ports. We appreciate you Steph!

[@cornflakeshumunculus8373]

I miss that glorious man

[@Chitown-zf4gs]

@@cornflakeshumunculus8373 same, his insight and honesty is so missed

[@jeveritt8398]

It doesn't help that most pcgaming channels outside of the maintream stuff like linus and gamers nexus are mostly reactionary shit heads. There's definitely something missing with TB gone :/

[@IliyaMoroumetz]

While still being a transphobic piece of shit, ordering his acolytes to harass Sterling, Laura K. Dale, and more because they have the gall to be trans in the first place.

[@seanw1783]

Indeed. A man with many faults, but his dedication to pushing for good ports/options is missing these days. Digital Foundry do a decent job now, but they don't really also provide too much commentary/review on games beyond their technical state

[@DYWYPI]

Thankfully, Tears of the Kingdom has a pretty great PC port. It runs even better than on console, and it even launched a couple of weeks earlier, too. Another big W for Nintendo!

[@7rollythingsgames395]

I didn't realize 'til Tears of the Kingdom, but they, too, have started charging $70 for their games, as if they have a new system, too. It's just one more demonstration of how incredibly presumptuous/arrogant they are. No thanks! I'll be checking out that PC port once we are ready to play the new Zelda.

[@carn9507]

@@7rollythingsgames395 Nintendo's older games are silly monies too. £60 for a six year old Zelda?

[@Sonichero151]

Only problem is using a keyboard sucks and switch controllers don't work

[@jamesrule1338]

Can I bring my Legos over? Also: bonus points for alliterative title. Strong super villain energy.

[@lunasophia9002]

Don't worry, Steph, we like you 💜

[@ivanl.1881]

Seconded.

[@MyRegularNameWasTaken]

Thirded.

[@jacobbronsky464]

+1ed.

[@Aramakie98]

In the gradeschool note that asks 'Do you like Steph? □Yes □ No □Maybe' I always check Yes and write in 'absolutely!'

[@Wynntersenk6017]

Truly, honestly she’s so underrated

[@Mene0]

I miss the "skeleton warriors" bit when Steph would say "cunt"

[@Aelesis]

"Lobsters, my best one from animals" is going to be bouncing off the walls of my brain for weeks now.

[@MrOuest]

I would consider playing a demented version of 'Cars' while the player stuck in a car bug occurs is comedic gold.

[@jordanwood3150]

Your videos haven't been recommended to me for ages now. I was glad to see them randomly pop up in my recommended recently. I love watching your videos whilst walking to uni.

[@1IGG]

I suggest subscribing and turning on the bell Rather not rely on KZbin..

[@ohnosmoarlulcatz]

The funny thing is that Sega was one of the few companies to realize exactly the potential of the PC market when they released Yakuza on Steam. Valkyria Chronicles did amazing on the PC, but then they neglected the PC port of Valkyria Chronicles 4. They luckily got their bearings again when Yakuza Like A Dragon rolled back around. Modders were also the ones to fix the shitty port of Nier Automata. It took Square Enix like four years to get their crap together to fix it

[@roundduckkira]

How was VC4 a bad port? So far it ran better on console to begin with, the main problem was Proton performance in the primordial pre-Steam Deck days was kinda crap on my 1050 Ti when on Windows it was an easy perfect 60 FPS, but that's not to blame against the game.

[@ohnosmoarlulcatz]

@@roundduckkira They fixed most of the game by now. But here are some of the issues that the game had in the past. There's more, but I can't remember all of them off the top of my head. 1) Widescreen was broken. 2) Game couldn't read DLC installs. 3) Missing text/languages. Forced to skip cutscenes because cutscenes wouldn't advance on their own. 4) Stuttering during transitions from selection to movement to shooting (worse than Switch) 5) Turning off controller means turning off inputs. Turning on controller means some buttons don't work outside of battle. 6) Autosave won't work and disables normal saves. Most of these were fixed within a month. Then, came the other issues. 4) PC version of game not being updated. It didn't get some of the DLC until months after the consoles. 5) Game patches had to be downloaded each time the game booted up. 6) Game not detecting driver updates without a full reinstall (this can be hard due to Denuvo).

[@0LoneTech]

Valkyria Chronicles for PC has the most classic of porting bugs: changing difficulty when run on a faster system. When running at higher frame rates, the enemy fire is more frequent.

[@1IGG]

Using a special version of the Gary Numan song "Cars" is very funny and brilliant!

[@Adam-jw3uz]

Remember in the 90s when amazing groundbreaking games would launch exclusively for PC, and then there would be a mad scramble by a dozen third party studios to port those games to consoles with often horrifying results? Those were the days, eh.

[@Mogura87]

To be fair, if we look at gaming historically, just because a port of something exists it's in my opinion silly to expect every game to be perfect on everything, but that's what we've come to expect in the age of multiplat slop. The PC port of FF7 was a joke, but I would never play the PS1 port of Shadowman when I could play the PC or Dreamcast versions. There has always been a mix of superior original versions and inferior ports, with a host of interesting differences, ever since consoles and micros started receiving arcade ports in the 80's (or even the 70's arguably). There were always a ton of quality console exclusives you couldn't experience on a Commodore 64, but on the other hand the micros had their own strengths in their own ways with a ton of creative and varied software. In the 90's and early 2000's, which in my opinion is the golden era of gaming, there was still a major divide in releases between PC and the consoles with tons of exclusives, but people weren't complaining about everything not being on everything, and I much prefer it that way. I mean just sticking to PC there were a lot more interesting games made specifically for PC in that era (CRPGs, RTSes, physics-driven FPSes like Half Life etc.) than the sloppy seconds console ports that is 95% of AAA games on PC today. Unironically the variety of cool games of AA and AAA budget level across all platforms (PC, console, handhelds) was much better because of divergent hardware, incompatibilities and exclusivity, in addition to lower costs of development of course.

[@BwAaS]

When I was a kid my friend had a Colecovision. I told my dad how cool it was, And he took me down the next day and got me a Nintendo and a ton of game's. I was addicted, And begged my parents for every console after that Including Sega, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Turbo Graphics 16, and Playstation. At this point I was a grown ass adult and started purchasing my own console's I got a PS2, And a Nintendo 64. After that I had to buy myself a place to live, And I was pretty broke. At that time Sega released the Sega Dreamcast. I put down my money (and had to eat ramen for about 3 months) For those of you who don't know this console was a total P.O.S. had no game support and quickly after release Sega pulled the plug on support, And then Went bankrupt or something. Anyways I vowed to myself at that moment (while eating my 3rd consecutive bowl of Ramen and crying into the Broth) To never purchase another console! That was in 2001. I have since purchased countless PC's, And to this day I build them for mostly gaming purpose's. The crappy ports really don't bother me as I very rarely purchasing anything at full price! I think maybe Elden Ring was the last game I got at Launch. Older games you get on sale on Steam for 70% off run really great!

[@SBJ_Tube]

Is this a copy pasta? The Dreamcast was very good, and while Sega did have to give up on it, all the good stuff it did was then immediately copied by the Xbox.

[@BwAaS]

@@SBJ_Tube No that's my god damn story!🙂It was the worst purchase of my life a 2 year lifespan.

[@jadedheartsz]

Dreamcast was a good system, just not the most reliable.

[@nevarran]

Well, I'm one of the people who were ready to buy Jedi Survivor on day one. But after hearing how bad the PC port is, are going to wait and buy it when it goes on a solid sale. And more and more I'm just deciding to wait and play games a year or so after release, I get them cheaper and in an actually finished and polished state.

[@freddogrosso9835]

1. More toys, please. 2. I'd love to see you with the Drawfee crew. They need to see your creations.

[@michimatsch5862]

Yes, bring back Steph's heaving toy chest.

[@gamepapa1211]

I wonder why Redfall is so buggy? *Googles* "Published by Bethesda." Well, THERE'S your problem right there!

[@omegasybers1110]

Rushed development, weak idea, less than ideal team behind a "AAA" multipalyer shooter

[@collectedcurios]

A few years back, I set myself some rules. 1. Don't buy AAA games on release. Let the canaries go in first. 2. NEVER buy a game that has a "season pass" or similar BS. 3. Never pay more than £20 for a game. I've been a happy gamer ever since.

[@LeQuack147]

Confusingly enough, I’ve had indie devs do season passes better than big studios lately.

[@l0rf]

Imagine the gaming industry work ethic was adopted by train manufacturers. "We're aware of some minor issues (catastrophic derailing with inexplicable explosions) experienced by a small part of our user base (no less than 66%) and we are hard at work finding solutions to these problems (some intern is looking into it)".

[@ElliWoelfin]

Can't tell if you're joking but, uh, that's literally happening in the US

[@l0rf]

@Elli Wölfin I guess I should have tried even harder, satire is difficult with the world this fucked up.

[@0LoneTech]

​@@l0rf That's a pressing issue as well. I refer you to The Onion's amicus brief to the Supreme Court.

[@AzhreiVep]

I see your Manta Force stuff, and that's nice and all, don't get me wrong, but.... what kind of _Technodromes_ do you have? Now _those_ are impressive.

[@greggles25]

Remember when you just put a game in and it worked? And the patches where cheat codes you unlocked or got from a magazine? I miss video games man I really do.

[@-TriP-]

lol well except for when the game shipped with inherent bugs that could never be fixed or when you had to take swabs of isopropyl alcohol to cartridges and rig your NES to keep the spring down by sticking another cartridge on top of it inside the console.... but yeah I 'member 🙃🙃

[@raven.4815]

@@-TriP- Yeah you're 100% right, but guess what... we moved from that era already, a long time ago; it's fucking pathetic that things are same if not even worse nowadays than back then

[@-TriP-]

@@raven.4815 I agree but I don't agree that the $70 price tag is over the line -- the "live service" model adapted from mobiles is literally some mafia crap, but the price of games has actually DECREASED if you factor in inflation.

[@hellcoreproductions]

Really doesn't help that PC GPU manufacturers have been keeping the average VRAM artificially low. 8GB has been the "standard" for way too long, even given the massive price inflation on PC hardware, they're still too cheap to add more to keep up with the consoles' VRAM advantage. Now that devs are targeting next gen only, it's really showing.

[@amarupsyn]

that version of gary numan's 'cars' was almost somewhat menacing

[@RagAndGrinderMan]

Beautifully done. I really hate how all over Reddit and the steam forums the morons are blaming the consumers for buying the products. It’s nuts how people will jump through hoops to blame the people and not the shitty companies.

[@EinBick]

Well it IS both. If we stop buying shit ports and only buy good ones they WILL stop. If you know someone will shoot you if you run in front of his gun will you run there because of some shiny item on the ground and then complain about being shot?

[@MR-vg7yn]

Well... in all honesty, the people buying those products _are_ part of the problem. As was said in the video, this has been going on for decades and people still _pre-order_ this shit or buy it on release day. So, in the end, it pays off for the companies: Less money spent on QA and development and people still buy their shit. The _only_ way this situation improves is if people finally stop buying these products. That's not "jumping through hoops to blame the people", that's merely stating the sad fact, that, in capitalism, money rules. Stop paying for shit.

[@SnailNick00]

Do you think they will change their behaviour if we just ask nicely while keep buying their trash? I get it, it's not OUR fault that these games get released like that but we let them get away with it every single time by buying them anyways. If you keep buying 70 dollar games first day only to end up with buggy and unfinished messes, after this many years of companies pulling this shit you only have yourself to blame.

[@kitestar]

Steph is the…QORAX, she speaks for the QA DEPT Also we like you even if you didn’t have obscure toys from the 80’s/90’s

[@jadedheartsz]

they could by they/them

[@TheNinjaLamb]

It is so wild to me how graphically similar some of these games when running them on "medium" settings are compared to something like L4D2 on its highest settings, a going on 14 year old game. And yet, they are so freaking poorly optimized they hardly run on PCs that could probably get into the hundreds of FPS on L4D2. I know there are other factors but feel like the death of physically owning games has totally demolished any drive for these companies to do any sort of proper optimization. I know size doesn't really have anything to do with quality these days (hehe) but I still get nervous when I start to see games that take up 10x more gigs of hard drive space than they have in gameplay hours.

[@screamingcactus1753]

It's just wildly inconvenient. I have a two terabyte hard drive dedicated solely to playing games and I still can't keep more than a handful of AAA games on it at any given time. Even my five terabyte storage drive is rapidly filling up

[@thomasgiles2876]

Yay! Stephanie is uploading in the American morning! These ports are entirely a QA problem, and Steph is the Lorax of QAs. Edit: to clarify the problem is QA is treated like a cost to be cut, not an expenditure to long term save money.

[@hibiscusman]

Randomly watched one of your videos from a few years ago today. The content was excellent, the writing and presentation were really good, and the video was quite entertaining. But you didn't seem all that happy. Watching it alongside one of your newer videos, the bubbly exuberance you absolutely ooze these days is just so unexpectedly nice a change. Not to say your old content was dour, not at all; just to say that you personally seem so much happier and more content in your more recent videos. It's great to see

[@dondoesdoodles9726]

My friends and I booted it up when it poop up on game pass. All 4 of us groaned when we saw the "Bethesda" logo. Our mood shifted from fun-vampire-game to entertainment-by-bugs. It was still fun but only 'cause we all could joke about the new f%ck-ups each of us could find.

[@rorynorris4248]

The Lobsterquisition! You totally need to get the lobster a hat of its own like yours!

[@lauraeleven7417]

That intro made me realize that this show has always had that vibe of a toddler that keeps running off and coming back with their toys to show you. We get pauses of precise criticism of the game industry and thenthe real star of the show: Steph's cool toys.

[@JacobSprenger]

"Bury me, Bury me, Bury me, With all my plastic sh*t! Where is it all gonna fit?" - Grimbeard

[@CelticUchuu]

Keep up the good work Steph. Be careful with those old toys. The plastic can damage easily.

[@lightninglj]

My wife's boyfriend said we can all play mantaforce and tonka trucks at my place but we have to stay outside

[@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs]

Steph mentioned Boneraiser Minions again. As such, I would like to inform people that Boneraiser Minions got a new content update today, including new spells, a new Ultimate Minion, new relics, new powers, reworked talents for a few different characters-Most noteably the Gangly Grafted and Sprout Brotato- and so forth. Be careful with the new Ultimate Giant Minion though. Unlike EVERY OTHER MINION in the game he can actually harm and kill you. Edit: A mere 12 hours after this comment the dev already 'fixed' the fact that the Magma Giant can kill you due to feedback. Way to go, dev!

[@Herrikias]

At least when you wait and buy games at bargain bin discounts, you minimize your disappointment when it takes you more than two hours to realize how poorly the game runs. Even then, you're likely to take comfort that modders did the best they could to fix it. Modders are the real heroes of the gaming industry. It truly takes amazing, considerate people to weed through janky games to iron out the flaws. Or make the game look good. Or add new content at all.

[@blacksailsinthesun]

Ahhh Steph, when I have one of the bad days. crying my eyes out load KZbin up and there you are with your new Monday video 😊 thanks for cheering me up you beautiful voice of truth 🤗 much love xxxx

[@haileysato]

if you did a series of toy commercials and then showing off the sets that you have and how they compare to how they're advertised in the commercials, it'd be really interesting! Love your videos!

[@benbarnes8273]

Id love to see steph cover the disparity between the previews of redfall by the games media compared to their actual reviews. The lies they told in previews cost people money when they knew the game was garbage

[@brandtreppond2167]

Name your lobster Sheldon Pinchmebum. I dare you

[@lymdrenntelvanni8054]

What I learned here about Redfall: In a distopian future the Redfall came in the form of a rain of Lobsters to usher in the new crustacean Utopia.

[@hotfishdev]

The thing that pisses me off the most about the “it’s a spectrum” argument about PC hardware is that you don’t have to treat it like that. You can find what the average Steam user is running using Steam’s reports, get one, and then use that as your test box. Mobile devs (especially those targeting Android) have been doing something similar for literally over a decade. On mobile, “we’re sorry, but the platform is a spectrum which is why our app runs terribly” does not fly.

[@greed-1914]

I think one reason I never fully committed to PC gaming is that there is always a chance that despite being capable of having an improved version of a game, it wil be significantly worse.

[@Bananahammock681]

Unless someone is totally tech literate (not an easy thing for some of us smooth brains) and has the cash to continuously pump in to maintain and update their rig, it really is a crapshot on the game being better or worse on PC. It's why consoles are so popular, they are plug in and play... after hours of downloading.

[@carn9507]

@@Bananahammock681 that's exactly it for me. I do own a PC but it's kinda old now and I just couldn't get on with constant upgrades and costs. I like to just buy a game and know it's designed for the exact hardware I want to run it on with no hassles and no extra costs. It might not always be the absolute most stunning version available but eh, I'm also a retro gamer who plays old stuff on a big TV, even Gameboy on a 50" screen. I'm fine losing a bit of resolution and such in exchange for things just working well.

[@OctopusGrift]

I think people assumed that the PC market has evolved more from the 90s than it has. In the 90s PC gaming was a secondary use of the PC. Its job was to do computer first and to play games second. I think a lot of players are still in a similar position. They have their school laptop and want to play games with it. That makes the small scale indies the right level of intensity for their lower power systems.

[@Destide]

I remember getting the Manta-Force base and loads of other stuff for helping my Grandmas friend with their stall. Got a pair of those arm mounted quasar laser guns too profitable afternoon really

[@yutro213]

4:39 Small correction: You are actually referring to Bethesda *Softworks* since Bethesda Game Studios is only a *developer* studio, not publisher. Todd Howard is innocent, this time.

[@Timewarpiaman]

Yeah it's a joke what the PC Crowd has had to put up with in regards to PC Ports.

[@valiroime]

Funnily enough, I’m not amused.

[@ddjsoyenby]

yup i feel bad for pc only players.

[@michimatsch5862]

Meh, I am fine. Games just come out a year later for me.

[@CornishCreamtea07]

I understand why ports used to be an issue back when systems had very different hardware, DMC 4 was on both the PS3 and 360 so its engine was made with both systems in mind, so a PC port was difficult. But now hardware is very uniform across systems, so it can't be hard to port games from one system to another.

[@Chris-yz7cs]

I had that Black Barracuda Manta Force, do you still have the figs? They are pretty rare these days

[@murfeel1173]

"A studio that's better than this....and a publisher that isn't." 💀💀💀💀💀

[@aeloswindrunner]

Feels like we go though phases of this. Maybe there's just always shit PC ports, but the high profile ones cluster together

[@playwow2670]

Genuine question what do you do with all your collectable toys? Do you have display cases or are they all in boxes like that? Any advice on how to store these things while still being able to enjoy looking at them?

[@Saitken]

This episode really did remind me how tired I am of seeing people commenting “sure Redfall was terrible but I got it ‘fReE’ from Gamepass so I can’t complain” like that makes it okay and not yet another excuse for game developers to make boring, barely functional software

[@bificommander7472]

With all the lobster references, and a Bethesda product, I was hoping for a return of the Bethetic clip with the lobster gloves

[@station240]

This is why I love Indy game developers, as too broke to port anything to console in the first place. Downside of some are too cheap/lazy to actually finish the game either.

[@sizergeorge210]

"it's a compulsive obsession? it's a sort of disorder, i don't know what it's called" story of my life until i got diagnosed with ocd at 11

[@pmtoner9852]

I appreciate the intelligence and humor you put into every video

[@TDawgBR]

"...and telling them Duke boys to floor it." Congratulations Stephanie - you make me choke on my morning yogurt with laughter.

[@EmmaDelamare]

Makes me wish I had a £2000 gaming pc so I could run these cutting edge AAA releases.

[@TonyWa1ker]

Even the best pcs cant run recent awful ports it’s pointless to spend money

[@Novoxis]

How could you mistreat that lovely Red Venom? It, at least, has it's detachable modules right? Right......

[@Iymarra]

Thank god for you, Jim Stephanie Sterling, and the power of MANTA FORCE

[@Farzlepot]

You've got no idea how long I've been trying to remember what that base was called. I also had one of those red fighter planes. I used to take that everywhere.

[@SunDancerGE]

Best way to enjoy video games: buy them when they get discounted or in a sale. By that time most bugs are fixed and you don't shell out that huge amount of money. Works like a charm for me :)

[@krisjorstif]

The Star Wars thing pissed me off. It wasn’t just the game being unfinished. It was all the simps and game journalists defending it that really drove me insane. Sold it to cex and made most of money back.

[@Ragnarakk]

thank god SOMEONE finally addressed this... the "PC later" mentality fucking sucks.. ive especially seen this with Wild hearts myself.. thankfully gamepass meant i didnt have to pay to see how badly it ran...

[@M_M_ODonnell]

"Auntie Alias Sings!" is the nerdy cabaret act I'm now seriously considering. Thanks for that.

[@skotdude]

You have the coolest cool toys.

[@Malisteen]

As bad as pc ports often are, I just can't play games without dick tracing.

[@EdyGlockenspiel]

Love you, Steph! Keep being you!

[@killer12480]

Anyone know the song used in the outro? The little fiddle tune? I really like it, but Shazam and a few others can't seem to identify it.

[@rusteddamsel5848]

You are adorable and wonderful. Your joy over your collection pleases me. XD

[@Stormbolter]

Since I got burned hard with the deluxe version of NeverWinter Nights 2 I decided to counter the "release now, fix later" attitude of shitty publishers with the "wait for now, buy later (when the game has dropped the price to a third and/or the bugs are fixed). Saved me a lot of grief.

[@birdbride1504]

as soon as i saw redfall on steam i was hoping you'd do a vid on it

[@dvanderm101]

That was without a doubt the best deployment of Gary Numan's "Cars" I have ever witnessed. Bust a gut laughing when I realized that's what it was.

[@renaigh]

it feels so liberating having not felt a single 10th of excitement for these new interactive softwares. Not even the new zelda game got me moist enough to care.

[@williammoore1030]

Ever since 2006 I can’t see a lobster without thinking of the Normandy and I can’t see the Normandy without seeing a lobster.

[@Oroku_Sensei]

Just saw your name in the credits of Vampire Survivors as the Lorekeeper, and that's just the coolest fucking thing!

[@TomLehockySVK]

Dakar Desert Rally is a racing game that released last year in November and it took them extra 6 MONTHS to relatively fix the performance. It was pretty much unplayable for half a year, stutters, freezes, crashes, it had it all.

[@51909relapseminem]

I like you Steph, and appreciate all the hard work you and your team put in!

[@self-absorbed5269]

I love how the Manta Force was so strong it almost changed the show to "Manta Force." It's so fun to say that it functions like a brain washing chant. MANTA FORCE!

[@Znewts]

I don't feel bad for anyone who paid $70 for a video game and got burnt.

[@TheAlmightyAss]

Bit weird that innit?

[@Tclans]

“Corporate apology” Good one 👍🏼 Effin’ sad 😢

[@keithadams7619]

They used to say "any port in a storm...unless it's the Windows port of Arkham Knight, in which case, put on a waterproof hat and take your fucking chances". - Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

[@dankyei]

Since the last patch of Jedi Survivor on PS5 it fixed some screen tearing issues but now my UI doesn't fit on the screen properly 🙄

[@dannolte5384]

I avoid EA games, because I don't want to get yet another login ID just to play a game I already pay for. I'm also worried about Diablo 4 for a few reasons. Notably would be the corporate HR issues and how it seems to need to be online at all times. I didn't look, but I was never offered an option to play offline. I'm on Comcast internet, so I might as well have dial up. And I pay for the "gig-speed" option. That is bullshit.

[@Aramakie98]

"Squirt out a clanger " See, I will never be as artistic with my vitriol as our Sterling is. They literally took and made a Van Gogh... also, Lobster Force is the real winner here, lol.

[@NickPiers]

Help. I'm dying. I didn't expect the sudden "LOBSTER FORCE!" attack at 4:45 and now I'm laughing so hard, I had to pause the video.

[@SamDavies94]

In 2017 got into PC gaming, built a fairly good pc for £1500 and use it for video editing alongside gaming. Nowadays, I play CSGO and League on PC, every other game I have a PS5 and Switch for, they run games reliably, and well in 4K and look great, and the exclusives are good. The gaming PC industry continues to be very expensive to keep up with. Even if you buy top of the range, it will become outdated very quickly. And despite the consoles hardware already being less, they are far more reliable than the ports and performance PCs can get.