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owsf2000

Modern Gaming (I think.)

Jun 25, 2015 12:21

I -was- going to rant about how the latest Batman game on PC was apparently so poorly put together and released to the point where the devs have actually stopped selling the game on PC until it's been finished. This is apparently their second PR damage control action. I don't know what their first response to PC gamers being pissed off at them, but ( Read more... )

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kane_magus June 25 2015, 16:23:33 UTC

So Arkham Knight is actually out now? Huh. First I've heard of it, which shows just how out of touch I am with video game news lately (even though I must have at least gotten the Steam announcement email that it was out, I don't recall it or just didn't pay any attention to it if I did). I might pick that up someday, if I ever see the "complete" version with all the inevitable DLC on sale for $5 or so on Steam. Maybe. Assuming they've actually fixed it into a playable state by that point, of course. To be fair, the PC versions of Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Origins were all pretty cool games, especially considering the total of maybe $15 tops I payed for all of them, including all DLC, on Steam not too long ago. (This, though, after I had paid full price for vanilla Asylum and City on 360, several years ago. Ugh. Yeah sure I had fun enough with them at the time and all that good shit, but thinking back on having done that now, though... Ugh. At least I didn't bite on Origins until it was in the $5-$10 range, and I ( ... )

owsf2000 June 25 2015, 17:06:01 UTC

If you plan on getting it for Steam, you'll be waiting til "Fall 2015" apparently. It's been pulled from the store until it actually runs like a PC game. Apparently WB has the frame rate -capped- at 30fps as well. It mentions the minimum and recommended hardware for playing the game on one page and when it gets to "Expected FPS" it says as much. "30 (capped ( ... )

kane_magus June 25 2015, 20:37:36 UTC

"payed" => "paid" of course. Wish I'd seen that before edit lock.

kane_magus June 25 2015, 20:21:08 UTC

Heh. Speaking of Batman and Destiny bullshit...

owsf2000 June 25 2015, 22:31:45 UTC

One of the commenters on the forum I linked went:
"I think it's preposterous, this even occurred. As stated many times, how did this game make it out of QA?"

The answer to that of course is that it was never put IN to QA to begin with. Apparently the PC port was an outsourced job to a small company that has a dozen people AND they were given 2 weeks to port the PS4 version (I believe) over to the PC.

And you can see the result of that.

Another person on there seemed to try to suck up to the devs with "Yes RockSteady only did the console games they let a third party do the pc version probably because they were running out of time. "

ie: "oh no, it's not our precious developers fault at all!" uh, yes, yes it is. If your game isn't ready, you don't let it be sold in the first place.

kane_magus June 25 2015, 22:44:42 UTC

Yeah, I don't get the whole "It's not their fault since they didn't do the port themselves, they let someone else do it, so it's 100% that group's fault instead" bullshit. It's Rocksteady's fault because they were too lazy/rushed/whatever to properly bother with the port themselves.

More importantly, it's WB's fault, since they're the goddamn publisher over the whole thing and should have had more QA devoted to it, one way or another. Then again, it was almost assuredly because WB just had to have the PC version be out at the same time as the console versions and thus foisted the port onto this shitty third party dev that this mess happened in the first place.