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There are three entries for Alien Isolation, one gives a 30FPS (on a Mac mini), one gives 7-12FPS(on a MacBook Air) and a note of "Very slow and blurry, only 7-

There are three entries for Alien Isolation, one gives a 30FPS (on a Mac mini), one gives 7-12FPS(on a MacBook Air) and a note of "Very slow and blurry, only 7-12 FPS, Effectively unplayable". The third says nothing useful. The game is rated as "playable". So you need to look at the notes and hardware carefully if this is important to you.

LilBytes 6y ago
That's the point. Under absolutely no circumstance would any one (I mean this literally), describe a modern day shooter at 7-12 FPS to be playable. Does playable mean, it starts and loads? Or does it mean playable in the sense that, you feel satisfied and enjoy the experience? It's absolutely the latter when talking in the context of video games. And not the former. Edit: it even says so in the right hand side, Notes column. "Very slow and blurry, only 7-12 FPS, Effectively unplayable" That isn't "effectively", it absolutely _is_ unplayable.
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- simonh 6y ago
  Playable just means it works at an acceptable performance on some hardware, which this game does. Yes there is some other hardware that it wont run acceptably on, but this is true of all games.
  - tosh 6y ago
    Going forward I think I will be able to provide personalized/contextualized views. Imagine: this is the list of games I own/care about: (5 games) this is the list of Macs I own/care about: (2 Macs) this would allow me to add a personalized view where you can compare performance for the games you care about across the Macs you own + the Macs or games you intend to purchase edit: This is part of the initial motivation for creating the spreadsheet people right now are wondering whether their games (and apps) will run at all on the new Macs and if so how that compares to what they see on their current Macs
tosh 6y ago
Thanks for your comment, I think right now having the game table list all the reports might be a bit confusing. As next step I want to group the reports by game and provide a detail view for each game. An added benefit for this is that every game gets a dedicated URL but also allows for a more powerful ui (e.g. sort/filter by distribution platform or Mac specs you are interested in and so on) while staying in the context of the specific game. Thanks for your comment. Appreciate it.

LilBytes 6y ago

That's the point. Under absolutely no circumstance would any one (I mean this literally), describe a modern day shooter at 7-12 FPS to be playable. Does playable mean, it starts and loads? Or does it mean playable in the sense that, you feel satisfied and enjoy the experience? It's absolutely the latter when talking in the context of video games. And not the former. Edit: it even says so in the right hand side, Notes column. "Very slow and blurry, only 7-12 FPS, Effectively unplayable" That isn't "effectively", it absolutely _is_ unplayable.

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simonh 6y ago
Playable just means it works at an acceptable performance on some hardware, which this game does. Yes there is some other hardware that it wont run acceptably on, but this is true of all games.
- tosh 6y ago
  Going forward I think I will be able to provide personalized/contextualized views. Imagine: this is the list of games I own/care about: (5 games) this is the list of Macs I own/care about: (2 Macs) this would allow me to add a personalized view where you can compare performance for the games you care about across the Macs you own + the Macs or games you intend to purchase edit: This is part of the initial motivation for creating the spreadsheet people right now are wondering whether their games (and apps) will run at all on the new Macs and if so how that compares to what they see on their current Macs

tosh 6y ago

Thanks for your comment, I think right now having the game table list all the reports might be a bit confusing. As next step I want to group the reports by game and provide a detail view for each game. An added benefit for this is that every game gets a dedicated URL but also allows for a more powerful ui (e.g. sort/filter by distribution platform or Mac specs you are interested in and so on) while staying in the context of the specific game. Thanks for your comment. Appreciate it.