Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Seriously. I like that Japanese games are coming to PC at an alarming rate, but it seems like every other one is just busted. Kinda sad.
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The Tales of Symphonia PC-Port is a mess!
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Seriously. I like that Japanese games are coming to PC at an alarming rate, but it seems like every other one is just busted. Kinda sad.
If most multiplats weren't better on PC he would have a more valid point IMO. As it is every platform gets a fair share of crap ports.
Being PC exclusive on the bank of playing PC version makes little sense even today, but this isn't the ideal example considering the best version is on GCN, which not exactly a contemporary platform.
A better example would be something like Arkham Knight.
Not this one. GC version is still by far the best way to play 12 years and counting.
Tizoc
Member
Barring koei tecmo ports, various jp games released on steam in past months have all been good
So far they are few and far between long as we are excluding koei tecmo games
From my observation, a shit console port will also have a shit PC port(maybe comparatively less shit if you have the hardware) and by shit I mean the truly shit ones, not just some frame drops and the like. I'm talking AC:U levels of shit. Both consoles and PC gets their fair share of bad ports but I don't see what's wrong with having a console and PC and buying the console version if the PC port is Arkham Knight tier trash or buying the PC version of a game if the console version is trash as well.
bananafactory
Banned
I agree. It seems like poorly optimized releases on console are also poorly optimized on PC, its just that you can brute force them to run decent if you have the hardware. The same can't be said for buggy releases, those seem to affect all platforms.
Either way this is probably getting a bit off topic. Hopefully they release some massive patches for this
Barrow Roll
Member
Here you go, I just took these screenshots a few minutes ago. 3x Internal Resolution (1080p), 8x MSAA, 16x Anisotropic Filtering, Widescreen fix on (Action Replay code). Dolphin on the left.
Alas, if only they had the "Drunk Power" character trait, that would have made the port BETTER than normal!
You'd be missing out on a ton of games anyways, if you ever went PC-only.
There's never any benefit to limiting yourself to a single platform.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Isn't this Bamco, though?
And a lot of the smaller games have had shitty ports. Stuff like the Umihara Kawase games, Azure Striker Gunvolt, etc. A lot of ports are fine, yes, but I still don't feel like it's nearly as consistent as it should be.
BoosterDuck
Banned
Well that's not fair, the GC version was made competently.Not this one. GC version is still by far the best way to play 12 years and counting.
Well, the company went out of business very quickly after Umihara hit Steam, which is why they were taken down off of Steam. I think they had bigger things to worry about at the time than putting more money and time into the PC port.
Shame how much better the Dolphin screens look besides the font.
Comandr
Member
You get a gold star.
I can't. The worst part of this thread is the replies are almost too good.
IchigoSharingan
Member
without mouseover scripts either
I don't even know how they can treat their game like this, Symphonia seems to be the defining Tales of game, you'd think they'd have more pride in one of the most popular games in the franchise. It'd be kind of understandable if they were porting them all and symphonia was one of the obscure ones that everyone wanted to forget.
There is this. https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-tales-of-symphonia-high-res-textures
Keep in mind it's still very WIP
You can't make this stuff up. It's really all quite astounding isn't it? It's a real shame that we are still experiencing half-assed PC ports, I really thought we had proceeded past that point years ago.
He's VAC banned too.
Even more amusing is that he's been VAC-banned. Granted, it was more than 10 years ago now, but when representing a company it's probably not the best idea to use your own account when it's branded with the Steam equivalent of a scarlet letter.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Man his list of past nicknames ain't all that great either... xD
Lunarwhale
Member
Not to be going full internet detective or anything, but I just noticed that he doesn't own the game on this account either. I kind of expected that to be a prerequisite for being a community representative.
GameCube, PS2 & PS3
ChaoticBlue
Member
pc gets sloppy seconds from console.
GhostTrick
Banned
Professor Beef
Banned
Just wanna add to this, but the PS3 version is based off the PS2 version so it has all the extra stuff added. It does have a very poor translation, however. Hilariously poor, in fact.
Lanrutcon
Member
Oh. My bad, hadn't realised it had been released on so many platforms.
Edit: So avoid everything but the GameCube version. Gotcha.
If I cared about Symphonia I'd look at this.
Actually, that statement doesn't make much sense. 99% of all games games ported to PC are better than the console versions.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
This is really sad. I was looking forward to replaying Symphonia after Zesteria bored me to tears about 20 hours in.
Jawbreaker
Member
He knew better than to own this garbage port.
So now we can say Lazy Devs for real? lol
Zestiria is so much better on every level than Symphonia.
Lanrutcon
Member
We hear ya.
Shittiest bit is that they offered this port as incentive to by Zesteria. That's just mean.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
The combat is interesting but I just can't make myself care about these characters at all. At least Lloyd was somewhat tolerable aside from the hot/cold scene. I'll probably force myself through the main story at some point.
texhnolyze
Banned
PfantzyPantz
Member
I know tension is high here but let's not get crazy now
Professor Beef
Banned
The PS3 version is perfectly fine, don't get me wrong. But if you have the option, then yes go with the GCube version.
They really must have scraped the bottom of the porting "studio" barrel with this one.
(Unlike Zestiria or pretty much any other recent Namco game which were ported by capable studios)
I've been saying that long before all this happened.
I think Symphonia is a perfectly mediocre game rated highly purely due to its history.
Spotty Ren
Member
This is disappointing. Tales of Symphonia has always been a popular game, and people, me included, were looking forward to it, either to play it again or for the first time. It is a good introduction to the series, and it really pains me to see that lots of people could be turned off entirely from the series because of this awful port.
This really wasn't the game to screw up, Bamco.
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This really wasn't the game to screw up, Bamco.
EDIT :
Well, damn, it's over.
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