Hilarious!

[SinanDira]

The system requirements of this game are hilarious.. I just couldn't pass posting a comment! They're a pretty good joke!! xD

[sukach]

System Requirements
Minimum:

OS: Windows XP Sp3, Windows Vista Sp2, Windows 7
Processor: 2 Ghz multicore or higher
Memory: 2 GB or more
Graphics: 512 MB, Shader model 3.0 or higher, NVIDIA 7800, ATI X1800 or better
DirectX®: DirectX®: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 800 MB available
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible soundcard
Most people have a better computer then that anyways. Or are cheapskates.

[WaZzUp115]

For a title like this those system requirements are indeed quite funny..
Say goodbye to playing with laptops or old PCs.

Sukach, remember this is an indie title not some AAA next-gen game, people don't upgrade their computers to play games like this.
It's also a side-scroller which could as well just have been 2D since the 3D doesn't add a new dimension, just prettier graphics.

These requirements are for PCs bought within the last 3-4 years, anything older will be below the minimum requirements.

[A. James]

I'd be laughing too if this was 4-5 years ago!

[WaZzUp115]

I'd be laughing too if this was 4-5 years ago!

You need to consider the target audience, people playing indie games are most likely not going to have the latest hardware, some people get this game just to play on their laptops or old PCs.

[blix2006]

they compensated for bad coding im assuming...its all about optimizing which apparently they weren't that good at.

[Redboy]

?????????????

[KDR_11k]

It's also a side-scroller which could as well just have been 2D since the 3D doesn't add a new dimension, just prettier graphics.

If we're arguing like that it should run in 320x200, 256 colors on a 486 using DOS because that's what Abuse did.

[WaZzUp115]

If we're arguing like that it should run in 320x200, 256 colors on a 486 using DOS because that's what Abuse did.

Maybe you misunderstood but I just pointed out that the 3D in this case is just eye-candy and probably the sole reason of the high system requirements..

They could probably optimize it a lot more though, compare these requirements to those of Bionic Commando: Re-armed:

System Requirements
Supported OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2 Ghz/AMD XP 2200+
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 128 MB DirectX 9c compatible card / nVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT / or ATI equivalent
Sound: DirectX 9 compatible sound card
DirectX®: DirectX 9c

[SinanDira]

Why don't you compare to Half-Life 2? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

Minimum: 1.2 GHz Processor, 256MB RAM, DirectX 7 level graphics card, Windows 2000/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

Recommended: 2.4 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX 9 level graphics card, Windows 2000/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

My brother has walkthroughed it on his 32 MBs VRAM Acer laptop the first time, it was okay.

EDIT: Oh sorry! They were 64 MBs.