LAB NOTES
GUY COCKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor won’t run well enough for me to play it.
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End the bad PC ports
The worst year in history for PC game ports—just five months in!
THERE HAVE BEEN SOME TRULY AWFUL PC game ports—Batman: Arkham Knight, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, and the original Resident Evil 4 all spring to mind. But 2023 will go down as the worst year yet for lousy PC versions of great games—and we’re not even halfway through the year yet.
The Last of Us Part I turned one of the greatest games ever made into a laughing stock on PC, with a shader compilation process that took longer than Steam’s allotted refund time, and bugs that turned the famously serious game into an outright comedy. One month on, and it’s still not fixed. Wild Hearts is similarly unplayable, with the top review on Steam stating: “The price is higher than the FPS you will be able to pull in this game.” Funny, except for those who bought it in good faith.