Season 2 - Vista and DirectX 10
I have a request for season 2.
Whatever you do, telltalegames, please don't release it with Vista only or DirectX 10 only support. I am planning to stick with my XP for at least some more years, and I bet there are others here who are planning to do the same, so please give me a chance to buy and play the next season
Thanks.
Whatever you do, telltalegames, please don't release it with Vista only or DirectX 10 only support. I am planning to stick with my XP for at least some more years, and I bet there are others here who are planning to do the same, so please give me a chance to buy and play the next season
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Could someone explain what they would need that for?
That's good news.
Good question
Sometimes, it also seems like game developers feel they must use the latest and hottest in technology to be seen in the marked(or to even get founded for what they are doing). "If there is no explosions, I ain't playing it!" as my invisible friend who loves console games said.
Any sentient programmer knows that jumping on the "New stuff from Microsoft! Let's use it!" bandwagon can be problematic. In a few years, maybe. Not till then.
telltale's main intrest is to make games that are fun, affordable, and look good while not requireing a five grand gaming computer to run
telltales buissness practices are rare for any entertainment company, they care more about product than profit (this is most likely because all the executive staff are all game designers themselves) ............... because they know that a good game is an easy sell and reputation precedes all, personally telltale is one of the few gaming companies that i will buy a game from them without first playing a demo or reading a few reviews
so i do not think that they will make any game "exclusive" to any one operating system, game console, or hardware type.............. simply because they want their products to fall into as many hands as possible
why everyone is worrying about telltale getting to far ahead of the curve in terms of technology and operating system formatting................. even tough i already have windows vista and DirectX 10 i do not want to be one of the few that is able to play a game just because i have fat pockets and a complete overkill gaming pc.....
Oh, yeah, and the $250 price tag. Not to mention Vista will check to see if any video you run is authentic, and even if it is authentic and it messes up and blurs the video anyway (anti-piracy measure errr "feature"), then you're screwed.
Did I mention Vista uses about 256Mb of memory for just the Auro interface, and it's always loaded, even if you turn it off? I wouldn't use Vista if I was PAID $250! Or even $2,500.
same here. Even though I rarely play games anymore(or, in other words, most games I play got a few years on their neck already) I want the few games that I am playing and waiting for to keep supporting XP. It kind of sucks to have to check every game I buy to see if they still support XP, so might as well check up front
It's just a matter of time now.
Once XP is obsolete, I reckon very few people will want to use Windows operating systems then. I can't picture my college using Vista in the near future, even to run the new software Microsoft will impose on everyone.
With any luck, Microsoft will eventually go down in the OS department, and a multi-OS alternative to DirectX will show up.
lol
I'm already looking forward to it. To say it with Arthur from The Journeyman Project 3:
"Oh, this'll be more exciting than a pair of pants full of geckos! "
and
"God, I wish I had a body!"
Lemme guess. LucasArts is publishing.
DirectX 10 can't run games for older versions of DirectX, it's not backwards compatible anymore. That's why the fully backwards compatible DirectX9 is -also- installed on Vista. So no problem running games for older DX versions.
I love how this is exactly the same thing people said when waiting for Windows 95 and 98 to become obsolete. "Nobody is ever going to run that awful Windows XP!"
You know where I am heading, right? There was a reason to switch to XP. There were improvements. But all the improvements I have heard about Vista so far I have either found on Linux or Mac as well, or are "improvements"(and I use the term loosely) I don't really need or want on my PC. It just seems to me like the improvements in Vista are just excuses to force me to invest my money into something I don't really need. I know the argument about "Eventually Microsoft will force you to switch to Vista" but I don't really believe it this time. The situation has changed.
I don't hold a grudge against people running Vista, and I am sure you are quite happy with Vista. Still, not all of us thinks Vista is the OS for us. We consider other operating systems, and many of us have already found something we want to switch to if XP goes rancid.
Last, I just want to say that I don't really want to turn this into a flame war. I only want to point out that the situation has changed, and I don't need or want Vista on my PC. I am sure others do, though, and I respect their decision. And yes, I do hope the next season will be supported on Vista. The difference between XP and Vista, is that XP doesn't have DX10, but Vista has DX9. Which puts us XP users in an unfair disadvantage since we are forced out of a market that uses DX10.
Thanks for reading!
Things are different now, and the stakes are higher. Viva la resistance! :mad:
Windows XP didn't require 8 times the previous OS's minimum RAM requirement, automatically decrease quality of HD video (or prevent it from playing entirely), totally disable itself when it's DRM tool goofs, have a more stable kernel than the previous OS's, have a resources-intensive GUI, or cost $260 for an UPGRADE to the higher-end OS, either.
I predict Vista acts pretty much the same way as Windows ME did.
Edit: goddamn qwertz keyboard.
I'm one of the few people in Telltale running Vista full time on my work machine (because I got a new PC and it came with it), and I'm not exactly enamored with it, but on the other hand, it's hardly the doomsday OS that some people seem to make it out to be. It actually feels just like XP with a bunch of modifications to the sort of B-level UI stuff, to make its feature bullet-point list more on par with MacOS X's. A service pack or two from now I think it'll be pretty great, actually. I haven't tried playing any licensed HD content on it or whatever it is that makes people start tearing their hair out, but for regular everyday stuff, it's just like every other new Microsoft OS in its first six months on shelves.
Which is why I don't really understand why this OS require so much more than XP. Even when one disables aero and all that stuff, it still uses a lot more memory than XP, which I find rather sucky since I hold my meory rather precious
I think they could have waited until it was done with releasing it. When they must annonce service packs even before the product is on the market, something is not right.
Also, I find it rather scary the new DRM stuff in Vista. It seems to me like we are coming to a point where the programs and operating system(not to mention new Trusted Computing hardware) on our PC has more control over the PC than we can ever have.
[TONGUEINCHEEK]Do I smell a plot brewing for season 2?[/TONGEINCHEEK]
I can tell you why it still uses so much memory even when Aero is disabled:
Aero's still loaded in memory whether or not it's being used. :eek:
And Aero also loads a bunch of other stuff into memory all the time, like DirectX, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, etc. :eek: :eek:
That's because even if you disable Aero, it's still in memory. Why, I don't know. Micron or Crucial probably slipped Microsoft a couple million under the table and asked them to make it as uneffecient with memory allocation as possible so we would buy more memory. Hey, it's possible.
Yeah, you're right, Microsoft could have waited 4 more months or so before they released Vista. But that would've made them look bad. It was already starting to become a joke. So they tossed it out the door. Do they care if it's not finished? Obviously not. It's not like they care about you, as long as you paid that $200 for your wonderful new OS.
Good!!! You should. Microsoft will keep taking more and more freedom out of their operating systems with each new release. They're not going to take them all away, right away, or you wouldn't buy it. No, they're going to whittle every knook and cranny down little by little until you can't breath, just like governments. Are you going to let them get away with it, or are you going to never buy another Microsoft OS again?
Viva la resistance!!! :mad:
Yes, the first 6 episodes are Season 1. We're talking about when Season 2 comes out.