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Hi everyone!

I'm sick and tired of lenghtly updates. You know the ones I mean, those massive updates when you first play the game. They take about 2hours, and by the end, you don't feel like playing the game at all! You feel like not living at all!! I'm sitting here now, waiting for my Uncharted 2 to start, and i'm terrribley bored! I've been to Pizza Hut and back, and it's still not done.

So, the thread – How do you pass the time?

Post edited 9:35 pm – December 27, 2009 by freezebug2

A little frustrating with the waiting on an update but with such a superb game as Uncharted2 the expectation and excitement would cancel out any negativity for me but in the meantime play your PSP preferably LBP but if GTA Vice/Liberty city stories is available…..

Yeah, updates are no doubt a major frustration with games you simply can not wait to play. But I guess that is one of the major disadvantages of waiting a while after release date.

teflon said:

@ Dex: ever sit there and cry whilst reading your book?

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Depends what book it is. If it's a Chris Ryan I'm generally too immersed to cry, but if it is something tedious that I started and might as well finish I may start crying.

Thus, the book that I tried so hard to finish is covered in tears and the ink becomes distorted.

My point? Updates are a pain.  

haha, that must be both adorable but also incredibly painful for you. And don't forget the emotional heartbreak of when it goes wrong and you drop one…

Risky business…

like I said before, I go for pizza usually. It generally works well, the update starts, says expected time – 45minutes, so I ruh down to local NISA and grab a pizza. Saves me from juggling kittens, or crying.

and whilst you're lying then in excruciating agony, the tears would freeze on your face… 

In a continuation of my attempts to shock Dex into a mental asylum with how odd I am, I just want to say that I like updates. They're fun.
I also enjoy installing operating systems (though I only do it when a new one comes out really, Im not that weird), and re-installing all the apps, and manually getting everything back to how I had things tweaked with the previous install.. 

matty said:

stingraz said:like I said before, I go for pizza usually. It generally works well, the update starts, says expected time – 45minutes, so I ruh down to local NISA and grab a pizza. Saves me from juggling kittens, or crying.

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You must eat alot of pizza then it seems every game o go on has a new patch   I'm normally on msn at the same time so i just carry on chatting while it downloads, my internet is fairly quick so not too much of a problem.

Can you imagine the amount of Pizza's that would be consumed if the game was Burnout or LBP booted for the first time.

teflon said:

I'd phone up my ISP and cough up for some faster broadband. 2 hours? you running on 56k?

That tickled me in a way only snarky, computer related jokes can.

Fixy-type updates are part of the age old argument about lazy devs. Why would they bother trying to finish and polish a game when they can just throw it out the door, let the day 1 buyers be the unpaid game testers and then patch it a couple of weeks down the line after the complaints have come in? No-one seems to care either. Updates themselves don't worry me (I envy you if game updates are the things you worry about most in your life) but the fact that devs can release half-finished games without reprimand does. I'm looking at you, Bethesda.

Rewind things a generation or two. Sure, we had shitty games released but they were simply shitty games. The good games had oodles of polish and nothing was ever broken and blatantly unfinished. How many times do you remember not being able to finish the story because you got stuck under the map? Or how about seeing if you could count to ten before your game froze again? It just didn't happen.

What's got to change are us, the gamers. Pretty much every PS2 game – bar the sandbox or obscure ones – had a demo released. Only a handful of games have demos released nowadays because sales rely on pre-orders. If everyone was allowed to find out a game (especially a big hitter) was shit before they bought it then it would spell disaster for companies. Coupled with the fact that most reviewers are just too darn scared to score certain titles low it makes for a bad situation. People really need to let the complaints flow if updates are serious. Imagine what could have happened if people just stopped buying Fallout 3 after they realised it was broken. I would never hope that a dev goes bust as that means people lose jobs, but if sales were hurt just enough for people to realise it's not cool then that would be enough.

Obviously, on the flipside, if the updates give me new shizzle like DLC and extra content then bring 'em on. I don't care if it takes all day to download.