Do you hate game programmers as i do?

Any one ask for a Game programmer? :P

1) Go on to study programming.

2) Make a game.

3) Play it all you want.

Really... i don´t think that you have the capacity to do any of these 3 steps.

Just because you're doing this question.

Someone who criticizes something without having the slightest idea ...

You sir, disgusts me

The games you cited are indie games, and as independent, they have less resources available to them than developers backed by mainstream publishers. Thus they usually choose to allocate more programmers to work on gameplay than technology.

Using middlewares or free API's generally allow faster prototyping and shorter production time. However, this may also cause problems to the development team whom might not be experts in using these 'tools'. They might misuse some third-party API or middleware and won't ever have the required resources to track these bugs. And submitting your game for testing on a wide range of consumer level equipments cost money, which most indie developers cannot afford.

For example, there are some excellent Flash games on steam, but they are very CPU dependent (such as The Binding of Isaac), but the indie devs can't do much about it, it's the technology they chose to use. Where maybe Epic or Crytek would have developed a brand new engine or collaborated with Adobe to develop an improved version of the Flash technology.

It is common to have only 1 or 2 programmers working on an indie game, where at Rockstar, Crytek, and whatnot, they usually have 20 or more programmers, and each specialist in their respective domain.

Since I'm a web developer I'll give a analogy of what this is.

I make a site supporting HTML5, CSS3, RoR for backend and w/e and test with modern browsers as well as an older version of IE (let's say 7). You come to my site with IE6 and complain that it doesn't render right and tell me to go die or something.

The point is here is that you shouldn't be using IE6 and should upgrade. It applies the same with your laptop. Upgrade or don't expect everything to work.

PC System Requirements
OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP with SP2 / Vista / 7
Processor: Intel® Pentium™ 4 2.4 GHz or better
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 250 MB
Video Card: Any OpenGL 2.0 graphics card with 256MB+ video RAM
DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c
Additional: One keyboard, controller, or mouse required per player. Supports multiple mice and/or keyboards. 3-buttons required for mouse play.

Also, Minecraft looks worse than games from the early and mid 90s, but it can use at least 512mb of ram. Even more if you use a texture pack. And its one of the most casual games out there.

Programmers don't have the time to optimize something for every fucking platform you little shit. Why don't you write a few lines of code, I'd love to see you come back with the same attitude after that.

toki tori doesn't even use xna

The hell is this all about? O_o

I'm out of here...

You sir deserve a punch in the face. You seem to have NO idea how much time/effort it takes to make these games or any program at all. If you bought a game and didn't read/understand its system requirements then you are the one to be blamed. I guess people could also buy a gaming chair that says: "Only for people under 100 Kgs (220 pounds), otherwise breaks." then sit on it with 150 Kgs and blame the creators, possibly even sue them and later that day make a topic at steamgifts.com to whine about it. Geez, rly..

You're complaining that games wont run well on your older-than-dinosaurs laptop. I lold.

Just because a game uses retro graphics doesn't mean it uses as little resources as an NES game. You better get that through your head ASAP before continuing to make a dick of yourself.

Someone should just napalm this entire thread.

Yeah, me too!
That's why I don't have games on my Steam account! Fuck game programmers!

The word of a developer:

"The games which won't run have modern dependencies. The modern dependencies make game development in some ways much easier than it was
years ago but the modern dependencies also add to the system requirements even if the nature of the game would not require more advanced hardware by looks alone. But my system doesn't meet minimum requirements that's the problem."

Pkeod (1 hour ago)

Source

You can be angry all you want with the developers but the thing is like this.

If you want to play that particular game you must have the required pc, things are like this ...

Developers will be losing a purchase and you cann´t play the game unless you get the right PC.

Tl;dr

They make games. Even if you can't run them, there are people who can.
That's reason to love them, not hate.

I have laptop for general internet serfing and quite powerfull desktop PC for gaming, so I'm not sure if I'll ever understand op. But I still do hate this day game developers. Because they are idiots. Lazy, lame, shortsighted, naive, unexpirienced idiots. Everytime I see a new game, I'm almost forced to remember games from 10 years ago, when devs squished out everything computers of that time could do and even more. Now this lazy bums do nothing but construct (not create) some pile of crap around one not so bright idea, or worse - do a remake of some old idea. And there are problems like numerous bugs and complete lack of logic in most games. Gameplay slowly degradates into simpler, linear, 1-button, movie-like crap that doesn't even worth half the price most of the time.

Veidali, stop trolling

This thread should be killed by fire.

Run at a wall, its just the program that was used to make the application/game has a high requirement and thus making the game have higher system req's, lolwoot.

It's almost 2012 and "1.4GHz laptop"...
Maybe if it had been 2004... but sorry man, your hardware is ancient, soon even internet browsers won't be usable on that...

thread poster is a derp

Well its easier to make a shittier programed in less time to run on some computers than it is to take the time to make it work on a LOT fo computers. EA and big publishers have hundreds of test machines to check compatibility, Indies do not.

agreed with op. Why other stupid people with good computer can't see the problem here?
It's not complaining because "my computer is bad i what to play new games". It's because the games in case SHOULD WORK with bad and old computers because they are like snes games.