"It seems rather churlish" is all it takes for you to determine a discussion has become abusive and to wash your hands of it?
Is this Tenacious D posting under Imari's name now? Is "churlish" slang in Australia for "your mother is a whore"? Because I'm pretty sure it's usually just a variation for "rude"; just like I'm pretty sure you've seen me post enough to know when I'm actually going after people.
Google the meaning of churlish instead of assuming that it is a quasi affectionate slight. It's a solid term of abuse, so yeah, it's abusive. I don't see how you're actually trying to argue that.
If you want to use terms of abuse, I'm happy to take you at face value. If you want to have a civil conversation, choose your words better. And that means not calling me things like Tenacious D either.
I mentioned nine games that at one point or another suffered from the issue (or a closely related one) fairly specific to PC gaming; some of which seemed to be specific to my setup, some of which were infamous for it. All but one of them are currently sold on Steam or some other digital distribution service. I have to imagine as a Battle.net user you are potentially personally acquainted with one of them. Combined with the things I said in my post that you actually bothered to respond to, use your imagination for which ones are which.
Let's go to your list of nine.
Sim City 5
Diablo 3
San Andreas
LA Noire
Arkham Knight
GTA IV
Guitar Hero III
Sniper Elite III
Disgaea
You know why I asked about
current gen games? Because I don't argue that in the past console has been significantly more user friendly than a PC. I don't argue that in the past there have been a lot of terrible ports of console games to PC. These things are true.
The difference is that now consoles are not weird hybrid contraptions of hardware that are very different to PCs. The consoles are basically PCs with an extremely lightweight operating system that allows programs a lot of freedom at the cost of limiting the freedoms of the user. The programs seem to port between the two fairly well, obvious examples like Arkham Knight aside. The current generation of consoles has made a big difference to how interchangeable PCs and consoles are.
I'm not sure what point you're making with Sim City 5. The game was never released on a console as far as I'm aware. Diablo 3 was just a straight up bad game at launch. It didn't come to consoles until much later, so it's actually an example of a bad port from PC to console.
The rest of the games are previous gen with the exception of AK and Sniper 3. AK is unquestionably an awful port. Sniper 3 ran fine for me when I downloaded it on a free weekend. I played it for half an hour or so, but it just wasn't a very good game. I wouldn't say it wasn't ported well, just that the actual game itself wasn't very fun. Maybe it was patched before I got to it, but that's my experience.
As far as current gen, I honestly can't think of very many bad ports on PC that weren't just outright bad games regardless of hardware. That's why I asked you to give me some examples.
Would you like to try again? Or would you like to reconsider your opinion if we're talking about games from the last three years instead of the last ten?
