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| PLEASE STAND BY: YOUR GAME JUST REFUSES TO WORK YOUR COMPUTER IS NOT THAT GREAT TO BEGIN WITH ANYWAY.
When it comes to video games, I usually prefer console (or handheld) gaming, and when it comes to games released on computer, I get a little nervous.
The reason- my computer is technically stupid. Whatever game I was interested in that could set a challenge for my computer would lead to the same result eight times out of ten: It would laaaaaaaggg terribly. And even if I changed the resolution and/or toned down the graphics, it would only lag less, or lag just the same. From there, I got so tired of it, I only stuck to games that wouldn’t be a hassle with specs, or with less memory to install, or just Telltale Games...games.
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But even with that, I still didn't learn my lesson.
Last year, I got Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for Christmas (Legendary Edition, too!) for my Xbox. I didn’t think it was as praiseworthy as some critics have put it, but I thought it was a good game that kept me playing for quite a time, while I was mostly following a tale attending a college concerning magic. I haven’t played the game in a while sadly, as my mind has an attention span of an adult watching Spongebob. And I mean the older series, not the more recent content with maybe one or two episodes that are decent, and the rest are absolutely stupid.
Anyway, months later, a friend of mine, had signed up for the beta for the latest installment, Elder Scrolls Online. She had recently got an invite for the weekend beta, and had another code for a friend. She told me about it, due to me liking Skyrim, and despite my concerns, and my warnings about my wretched technically mentally gamewise stupid excuse of a computer, I accepted, and got the code, hoping if I got the game up, I could probably get it to a point where I could play it to do something for my blog.
I put the code in on the website on Wednesday, and got the download started.
MAN, was it slow. And it was twenty gigabytes waiting. My friend already got hers installed, and in the next morning, I was only up at 13%.
Then, while at the 28% mark, it stopped flat on its tracks.
The Internet had gone down. I do the usual troubleshooting, disconnecting one thing to make the other work, restarting the computer, so on, and so on, but to no luck. Eventually, it was found to be not just me, but the WHOLE city associated with my type of Internet, went down. Even my friend’s went down. Of course, they gave the whole “trying to fix it as fast as possible” saying, though with me, I think they just stretched it as long as they could, scratching their asses, laughing. It took the whole night, and until finally, when I got home from school, it was back up, and I restarted the download...all...over...again. But with some advice from my friend, cleaning up my computer, and un-installing a few space wasters, it wasn’t as bad, and it got faster.
The next morning, it was past 30%. That made me feel good, hopeful to actually play it, since the beta started the day before, while the Internet was out. Luckily, I had plans that day to attend a new game store’s grand opening, so I went out, leaving the install to go on its own accord.
When I got back, I was happy to see it was up to a healthy high 70’s-80’s. So I just had to wait a bit more. I watched YouTube on my phone, then took a nap.
When I woke up, it was finally done. I was so happy that it took all that to finally finish. I told my friend I was about to test it, and she was ready to play along. (She already played with a different character at the time, since she was already up.)
So, I pressed PLAY, waiting for the game to come up.
Waiting for the game to come up.
Come up...
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Are you kidding me? I was still on the desktop for several minutes, looking at the launcher, which refused to show the game. I told my friend what was going on, and she told me to restart the computer.
Restart. Start up. Get rid of useless stuff. Click on game. Go to launcher. Press PLAY. Wait to come up.
Come up.
COME UP ALREADY.
So, I just decided to just press the PLAY button, and just go off and do something else until it actually came up. It still wouldn’t come up even after at least an hour. Was it my Internet? Was it that the game just refused to load up, and this was a glitch?
Or was it my wretched technically mentally gamewise stupid excuse of a computer just giving up on me...AGAIN? Was the game really that powerful for my computer to not even come up?
Anyway, so now, the beta’s about over. And instead of some sort of first impressions kind of thing… I’m just now telling a sad tale about a beta I WANTED to play, WANTED to preview, and WANTED to put on my blog, and NOW I’m just mad at myself for not learning my lesson otherwise when it comes to my computer, and wasted an entire weekend planning.
Though I can say this as SOME impression:
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| Lesson learned (AGAIN): Some things are too big for your computer. Stick with consoles. |