Horrible PS experience

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today⁩ to ⁨gaming@beehaw.org⁩

This is a rant!

For the first time in a long long time I went and bought physical games (I don’t game too much and haven’t for over 12months). I wanted to play FPSs, I am in the mood. So I buy a couple CoD games (for better or worse). Holy fk. The worst. Now… I know there’s gonna be a download and an update… But this… Black Ops 3 or whatever 36gb update after the install?! For features I’m not going to use but have to have?! Fuck off. So I skip that with fingers crossed. I pop in MW3. 5hrs worth of install & update time. Okay, Rest Mode. Got it. Finally sit down to try and play and I have to make an Activision ACC?!! Fine, so do that. Now I’m fucking confused because ALL of the COD games are on screen, why? (I feel old) AND FINALLY there’s MW3 and I have to FUCKING DOWNLOAD THE FUCKING GAME?!?! 60 ODD GBs?! ANOTHER 6HRS DOWNLOAD.

FUCK. THESE. GAMES.

TLDR; I feel old and PS CoD games are complicated to install for literally just the campaign. Are all games like this now? Is this modern console gaming? I hate it.

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The F2P BR CoD is super fucking huge and I wonder if it contains files for other CoD games because they all use a single launcher app now. Shit shows up in my Steam library as whatever the newest paid CoD is instead of as just Warfare.

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- porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  In short, yes, I believe it does contain those files; based on my experience. However, after I downloaded the “application” for the game I then had to DL the campaign separately… I couldn’t fucking believe it.
  
  Anyway, thank fuck this is a Bliz-Acti problem. Otherwise, modern gaming would be a thing of the past for me.
  
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ReasonablyStressed@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s modern CoD for ya :)

It’s shit show. Indie FPSs are where it’s at

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- ratzki@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Any recommendations?
  
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  - ReasonablyStressed@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I don’t really play shooters on consoles, but New Blood publishes a lot of good ones (Dusk, Ultrakill, Amid Evil, Don’t Stop GIrlypop)
    
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  - porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Seconded
    
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Toneswirly@beehaw.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There are lots of good FPS games out there, free ones too, that aren’t cancer. I personally love The Finals, but you could literally never pay a dime for another shooter and still not have enough free time to play.

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- porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Cool! I’ll check it out. I guess the point of this particular moment in time was to buy physical. But I’m definitely not against DL games. Gotta get me a HDD.
  
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strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You’re absolutely right, it’s bizarre how Activision handled the updates to these games. They went full Games As a Service and now it’s almost impossible to play CoD MW, and the game sits at over 200GB

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- porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Bizarre is 100% right. Pop disk in (d/l sure) and play. How hard? Too hard. Incredible GB size. Let’s spend some more money on external storage. Something I never had to do with PS3. Again, I feel old.
  
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  - its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I know nothing about game design, but here “poor optimization” often regarding such large games. Is this an instance if that? What exactly is optimizing?
    
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BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
6 hours for 60GB? WTF, which year do you live in?

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- porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s an old PS4 and I live in Australia… Them’s the breaks.
  
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