Immediately upon release, red flags were going up across the board due to a serious error that gamers encountered when the game went live on monday night. The game wouldn't start. Buyers of the digital version of the game were greeted with a five minute loading screen, despite the fact that there were no patches or extra data to install, and a series of logos that would constantly freeze up only to get to a main menu screen that didn't work. Some users who managed to keep their sanity through the hair pullingly long process of restarting multiple times and were able to get into a game found themselves faced with several more issues. Crashes, extremely low frame rates [something many of Telltale's own games are known for], freezing and in some cases being unable to movie, helpless to watch as nearby enemies took notice of their presence and tore them apart.
While most people were able to fix the loading times and some of the frame rate issues by either rebuilding their database or reinstalling the game, many of these issues still persist and some of them are likely here to stay, such as the plethora of performance issues that seem to be unhelped by the game's astonishingly low draw distance which make it look more akin to an early silent hill game than one about zombies and survival. I refuse to believe that systems capable of running games like Fallout 4 and Metal Gear Solid 5 should run a game like 7 Days To Die so horribly, especially with the already lite graphics being watered down significantly from it's PC counterpart. The worst part about all of this is that, in the moments when the game was actually somewhat playable, me and my friends were genuinely enjoying ourselves; holding up in an abandoned military camp, coming across new areas, fortifying a home to hide from the seventh day feral hordes, etcetera. 7 Days To Die was brought to consoles in a sorry state, but it is not the game's fault, the issue lays with Telltale. A much better job could have been done porting this game to current gen systems, but Telltale Games were not right ones for the task. Thanks for viewing Dark Corners Of The Earth, and remember, if you enjoyed this blog then please follow us on twitter and check back regularily for new posts!
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