Dear game developers: could you make it easier to save game progress, please?
I’ve gone from loving Resident Evil 4 on the Wii to loathing it, the people who wrote it, and anybody who’s met anybody who knows the people who wrote it. The culprit is a section where you’re inside a house as the zombies attack, and to date I reckon I’ve been killed a few hundred times there. Restarting that section every time is annoying enough, but when I’ve had enough and turn off the Wii it means when I come back, the save point is so far back it may well be in Resident Evil 3.
This is one of my pet hates with games, particularly console ones: the combination of a slightly too difficult set-piece and inconsiderate save points sucks all the fun out of a game very quickly.
And my other pet hate: console pricing. Bioshock’s out on the 24th, and it’s £29.99 on PC or £44.99 for Xbox 360. I can only assume the difference is the razor blade model of the console business: sell the kit at a loss and make up the difference in licensing fees from the games. But a 33% price difference between PC and console is taking the piss.
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If you hate console game pricing and the lack of save points, try getting the game for PC. As you have already said, the games are usually cheaper and 99% of games allow you to save ANYWHERE, including in the middle of trying to take down a particularly annoying goblin/zombie/[insert enemy here].
Most online folks are £39.99 so its not quite as bad.
Yeah, but you still get the £15 price difference. So it’s even worse.
> try getting the game for PC
PC gaming isn’t an option for me at the moment – my gaming needs to be downstairs with wireless headphones on a couch. That’s partly because Mrs Bigmouth goes to bed wayyy before I do (the PC’s in the office, a few feet away from the bedroom), partly because my back’s goosed and I can’t sit in front of a computer any longer than I *need* to, and partly because my gaming PC is a bloody monster that would completely dominate the front room :)
>>Yeah, but you still get the £15 price difference. So it’s even worse.
But you get a free faceplate. Which is shit is you’ve got a core as all faceplates look rubbish.
Just played the Bioshock demo btw (1.35GB!). Amazing.
once passed that bit you’ll be ok. i ended up checking a walkthrough for tips. the game is excellent and my wii-claw seems to have gone away (sorry about the ‘all lower case’ reply, holding my video ipod for my niece in my other hand)