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Re: Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

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Post by jes5199 » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 1:16 AM UTC

Filligree wrote: post #25

slantyyz wrote: post #5

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>> The PC version often ends up being much better than the console version. Assuming there is a PC version of the game in question. In the age since the first XBox, consoles have brought a lot of PC-style gaming to the masses (mainly FPS games), but there are also a ton of non-FPS gaming genres that don't have a very large presence on PC. I used to be a big console guy and would love to move to a PC-centric gaming en…

I feel your pain, re. decent rhythm games. Have you tried Sequence, though? I enjoyed that, and the story is nothing to sneeze at either.

Have you guys seen this demo? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samanthazero/sentris-unl...

Re: Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

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Post by krapp » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 1:18 AM UTC

TylerE wrote: post #30

gagege wrote: post #29

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>Fixing broken game ideas is easy. Tell that to anyone who has actually tried to implement a fix for a broken game design. I'm not even talking about programmers. Game design is not trivial. That's why so many games these days are either Mario clones or Doom clones. We know those are a safe bet.

Where are the Mario clones? I'd love some good Mario clones. Instead they all seem to be Double Dragon/Castlevania/Metroid clones

Funny enough, when I was playing around with Game Maker ages ago, almost everything that got submitted to the forums was a Mario clone. Gameplay mechanics-wise I suppose it's as simple as you can get for a platformer.

Re: Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

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Post by platz » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 1:56 AM UTC

PetitPrince wrote: post #45

beloch wrote: post #37

I am routinely amazed at the improvements the modding community makes even for games that are designed to be unfriendly to mods. Take Mass Effect 3 for example. The game ships with Origin, which is EA's wannabe Steam online-store/community/DRM. The me3 executable is validated when origin starts up in an attempt to ensure that there's no way to play a modified version of the executable. Modders found a way around this…

> Every once in a while, a botched and buggy game with tremendous potential will be buffed and polished by an obsessed modding community, revealing a classic that the developers were never given time to realize. Games like Troika's Vampire: Bloodlines or Obsidian Entertainment's KOTOR2 are still evolving online. I've been holding off replaying KOTOR2 for years because I know it just keeps getting closer to the game i…

I was addicted to falcon 4 only a few years ago. Its a wonderful sim that even ran great on my laptop. Learning all the radar modes really increases the feeling of realism.

Also there's a strange online community. The everyone is middle aged and some real pilots too.

Re: Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

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Post by vacri » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 3:23 AM UTC

I remember his fix from the Dark Souls PC release. The creators, From Software, basically announced "we have no experience in PC, this will be a direct port, and the quality is an unknown". They were quite up-front about it.

This bloke had a prediction about what was needed to fix the issue, and said he did a few hours prep work. Dark Souls was released, he confirmed that his prediction was correct, and it was only half an hour (from memory) between DS being released and Durante posting the first version of his fix. He continued to roll updates for a few weeks afterwards.

One bizarre thing was that all the art in the game was already hi-res. Nothing suffered for turning on the hi-res ability. It seems odd to me that art for console-locked resolutions would be made in hi-res and then displayed in low-res, rather than being designed for the target resolution in the first place.

Re: Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

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Post by groovy2shoes » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 3:50 AM UTC

beloch wrote: post #37

I am routinely amazed at the improvements the modding community makes even for games that are designed to be unfriendly to mods. Take Mass Effect 3 for example. The game ships with Origin, which is EA's wannabe Steam online-store/community/DRM. The me3 executable is validated when origin starts up in an attempt to ensure that there's no way to play a modified version of the executable. Modders found a way around this…

Has anyone released an me3 mod that fixes the ending? (No, I didn't like the official "fixed" ending, either).

Re: Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

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Post by Houshalter » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 4:07 AM UTC

I don't play games much and when I do it's on a really shitty 14" standard def TV, so is 720p really that bad? I usually watch videos at that and it looks just fine.

Re: Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

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Post by kshay » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 4:32 AM UTC

I thought this would be about a fan (mechanical air-blowing device)... like, so effective that you could wildly overclock your machine or something. Disappointed.

Re: Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

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Post by wetmore » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 4:39 AM UTC

rlx0x wrote: post #43

ZoFreX wrote: post #8

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Not only does GTA IV run perfectly smoothly, but there are community patches to make it look jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Very similar story there to this one, actually.

bs. in case anyone wondered, GTA4 is the prime example of a shitty console port.

Definitely when it first came out, but didn't it get patched? I remember a friend of mine getting it when it first came out and it ran terribly. He tried it a year or so later and it was improved.

Re: Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

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Post by xerophtye » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 5:42 AM UTC

Groxx wrote: post #46

CodeMage wrote: post #42

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Yes, consoles are plug and play, but they're not backwards compatible. There are several PS2 games I love, that will never be remade for PS3 or PS4. Meanwhile, I can still play "Crusader: No Remorse" or "The Longest Journey" on my PC.

Or even Zork.

or even Legend of Zelda! or Bomeberman!!

Re: Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

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Post by ics » Thu, Nov 21, 2013, 5:50 AM UTC

Houshalter wrote: post #56

I don't play games much and when I do it's on a really shitty 14" standard def TV, so is 720p really that bad? I usually watch videos at that and it looks just fine.

Compared to 14" standard resolution no, it will not look any worse. You would definitely notice on a larger, higher resolution screen the minute you had something to compare it to though.