Titles? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

[Cherie]

God why do people keep touting that line. The reduction in graphical quality wasn't JUST the PS3, it was also on PC's end. In Japan not everyone runs ex-NASA servers. Heck, when I jumped into 1.0 I had bought an Asus G53SX laptop and not even that could run 1.0 at anything above medium settings. If you're going to release a game, it has to run on more than 1~5% of home computers. Especially more than 1~5% of your home market's computers! The PS3 also has a vastly larger install-base than 1~5% of home computers.

Sounds like the game did run on your laptop, if not on high settings. High settings are not for everyone, otherwise they'd be called "average" settings... lol
Even brand new computers have issues with a lot of games on high settings, unless someone buys a 5,000$++ computer. I don't want to diminish game companies having "high" settings for games though. Someday when I do have money, I want to build a awesome computer so I can enjoy them like that. Something to look forward to at least, even if that is the 1-5%, it can be a goal to shoot for (even though I probably won't be able to ever afford it).

That's the whole point of having a graphical quality slider on a PC. Only a portion of people are going to be able to push it to "High" and rightfully so. It's just not worth several thousand more dollars to the average person, just so their game looks prettier. It runs perfectly fine at "medium/average".

[Gilraen]

Sounds like the game did run on your laptop, if not on high settings. High settings are not for everyone, otherwise they'd be called "average" settings... lol
Even brand new computers have issues with a lot of games on high settings, unless someone buys a 5,000$++ computer. I don't want to diminish game companies having "high" settings for games though. Someday when I do have money, I want to build a awesome computer so I can enjoy them like that. Something to look forward to at least, even if that is the 1-5%, it can be a goal to shoot for (even though I probably won't be able to ever afford it).

Yes, it could run the game but mind you, at the time the G53SX was one of the best gaming laptops available for it's price. Yet, despite this or perhaps in spite of this, I couldn't get play on much better than medium settings. Given that, imagine how badly 1.0 ran on your average home computer.

[Cherie]

Yes, it could run the game but mind you, at the time the G53SX was one of the best gaming laptops available for it's price. Yet, despite this or perhaps in spite of this, I couldn't get play on much better than medium settings. Given that, imagine how badly 1.0 ran on your average home computer.

1.0 ran great on my home computer actually. I never tried to run it on a laptop so you got me there. But on my cheapie, best buy computer, 1.0 ran really nice and smooth. I don't deny that some computers could have trouble, just speaking from my experience. My computer that the time was nothing fancy, just a off the shelf store bought one, i think maybe i spent 1k for it, if even that. So, you know that it wouldn't have a high end graphics card.

[Aegis]

Yet, despite this or perhaps in spite of this.

Not too get al gramer nazzy, but those do both mean the same thing.