The Last Of Us Part I Has Gotten Off To A (Literally) Terrible Start On PC Platforms
The Last Of Us Part I Has Gotten Off To A (Literally) Terrible Start On PC Platforms
It’s not just riddled with bugs, some players literally can’t start the game properly in the first place.
The latest PlayStation title to land on PC platforms is the critically-acclaimed The Last of Us Part I – however it has been plagued with many major, game-breaking bugs and extremely long loading times, plus crashes, memory leaks, display glitches and severe performance issues.
Gamers has not been kind to this broken game, handing it a ‘Mostly Negative‘ rating on average on Steam, with two-thirds of reviews giving it the thumbs down. The general theme of the negative reviews pretty much boils down to technical issues of the PC port, including initial first-time setup that require shader compiling which took over 70 minutes to complete (a normal game should only take just a few).
A more worrying prospect however, is the fact that some players has spotted Iron Galaxy as the one that may be responsible for this PC port according to the PC specs requirements image published earlier. The studio has received notoriety many years back, with a “seriously broken” port of Batman: Arkham Knight in 2015 that led to mass refunds and delisting on Steam, and issues has been somewhat persisting for months ever since with various technical bugs in the game.
That is in contrast with another studio specializing in PC ports, Nixxes, which was acquired by Sony back in 2021. The titles it was responsible for, including Spider-Man and Horizon: Zero Dawn has seen better fanfare with their respective PC ports.
Naughty Dog, in response, has acknowledged the issues. “The Last of Us Part I PC players: we’ve heard your concerns, and our team is actively investigating multiple issues you’ve reported. We will continue to update you, but our team is prioritizing updates and will address issues in upcoming patches.” as they wrote in the tweet.
Source: Ars Technica
Pokdepinion: That’s rough. Having 2/3 of reviews saying the game is broken meant it’s really a poorly ported game (and we’ve seen some cases before this).