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[Raging Spaniard]

I love Durante and all but this should be something any engineer in the game industry should be able to do easily.

This is a case of BN being lazy, greedy shits and wanting to make a quick buck instead of doing any work.

 

[Hylian7]

I was wrong about the videos.

That was closer to 8 minutes than 15.

(By the way, if my tag gets changed again, the one wish I have is for it to have correct capitalization. That small "h" at the start combined with the period at the end has been driving me nuts since the last change)

Come on down to Durante's drive-through PC port fixes. 15 minutes or less. Yelp: ★★★★★ Qualifications: Fixed Souls, Deadly Premonition, Lightning Returns, Umihara Kawase, Symphonia, PhD, likes mamosas.

ROFL, mods moved fast on that.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

I saw unedited tag

Come on down to Durante's drive-through PC port fixing service. Yelp: ★★★★★
Qualifications: Fixed Dark Souls, Deadly Premonition, Lightning Returns, Umihara Kawase, Tales of Symphonia, PhD, likes mamosas and long wa

We will never kn

 

[Easy_D]

it was obviously "long walks on the beach"

 

[kenta]

Lol you should seriously consider selling your services to port teams. Minimum fee of 200 dollars plus 100 an hour after the first hour.

Durante's talent is worth way more than $200 dude. I suspect he knows what he's worth, though I can't help but wonder why he doesn't leverage it

 

[Stumpokapow]

I love Durante and all but this should be something any engineer in the game industry should be able to do easily.

Yeah I think the key thing here, and this is not to say that Durante's isn't extremely talented (the TIS-100 leaderboards prove that), is that every game he chooses to fix are games that fundamentally shouldn't have been limited to begin with. They're quick fixes. They come from a place where developers seem to genuinely not know that people care about this stuff. There's something wrong in the feedback loop somewhere that the right people aren't getting the right information. That's why Durante wrote his previous article on what makes a good PC port. Not that publishers can't make good ones, it's that they don't even realize they should.

I saw unedited tag

We will never kn

"lks on beach"

 

[TronLight]

Get somebody to raise the tag's character limits.

 

[Xenus]

Durante's talent is worth way more than $200 dude. I suspect he knows what he's worth, though I can't help but wonder why he doesn't leverage it

Well yes but I was accounting for port teams being cheap which is the problem in the first place and it being side money not his full time job...

 

[Spotty Ren]

Get somebody to raise the tag's character limits.

How many minutes do you think that would take for him?

 

[SuicidalSteve]

Get somebody to raise the tag's character limits.

Durante could do that in 15 minutes xD

 

[Easy_D]

Get somebody to raise the tag's character limits.

Have you *seen* blame space's tag? Or does that use some special code magic for it to get that long?

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

It was all an inside job to raise the tag's character limit!!

 

[CrispyBoar]

I was wrong about the videos.

That was closer to 8 minutes than 15.

Really? Wow. That makes Namco look even worse than they already are!

 

[Kraftwerk]

Have you *seen* blame space's tag? Or does that use some special code magic for it to get that long?

Blame Space in an anomaly. Mods have tried to ban and delete his account from the database...it is not possible.

 

[zerokoolpsx]

Namco being lazy devs and Durante to the rescue again.

 

[Raging Spaniard]

Yeah I think the key thing here, and this is not to say that Durante's isn't extremely talented (the TIS-100 leaderboards prove that), is that every game he chooses to fix are games that fundamentally shouldn't have been limited to begin with. They're quick fixes. They come from a place where developers seem to genuinely not know that people care about this stuff. There's something wrong in the feedback loop somewhere that the right people aren't getting the right information. That's why Durante wrote his previous article on what makes a good PC port. Not that publishers can't make good ones, it's that they don't even realize they should.



"lks on beach"

Yeah one of my "welcome to the games industry" moments in 2006 was when I started working at EA on the 2007 version of Tiger Woods. I found a shitload of bugs, graphical errors, things that would crash the game and I would bring them up to engineers and producers and the answers I would get were

"Well, the same bug was there last year and we shipped the game with it, so its not worth fixing"

"I cant take one day to fix that because Im working on new features"

"It doesnt break the game so its not that important"

So yeah, it all comes down to precedent, budgeting, time and whether somebody with any power actually gives a shit or not. Its sad and disheartening, but it happens all the time.

 

[Oceanwind]

Wow, Bamco sure is lazy. I definitely won't be preordering Tales of Berseria if there's a chance it could turn out like this. At least the Zestiria port was good, but I still don't want to risk it.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

Good job Durante, Fuck you Namco. This is ridiculous and a company as familiar with Steam as then should be absolutely ashamed.

 

[TronLight]

Have you *seen* blame space's tag? Or does that use some special code magic for it to get that long?

He just broke the tag like he broke the TV.

 

[Knurek]

4- In fact call up Bamco, tell them you'll do this port for a respectable sum and then let them update the game with it :V

This.
Not sure how much an hour of programming work is in Austria, but I'd just tweet a scan of invoice in that amount to the Tales and Namco accounts if I were you.

 

[Durante]

I added arbitrary resolution and downsampling support: (previous fix was limited to multiples of 1280x720)

They come from a place where developers seem to genuinely not know that people care about this stuff. There's something wrong in the feedback loop somewhere that the right people aren't getting the right information. That's why Durante wrote his previous article on what makes a good PC port. Not that publishers can't make good ones, it's that they don't even realize they should.

Well said.

The new article will say the same thing. With more emphasis and, admittedly, less goodwill.

 

[Arthea]

I was wrong about the videos.

That was closer to 8 minutes than 15.

(By the way, if my tag gets changed again, the one wish I have is for it to have correct capitalization. That small "h" at the start combined with the period at the end has been driving me nuts since the last change)

congratulations on that new tag, looks hot, cool, no, hot

 

[LiquidMetal14]

8 UNITED STATES MINUTES

 

[GhostTrick]

I love Durante and all but this should be something any engineer in the game industry should be able to do easily.

This is a case of BN being lazy, greedy shits and wanting to make a quick buck instead of doing any work.

This isn't lazy. This isn't greedy. This is sabotage. I mean it.

 

[Easy_D]

Blame Space in an anomaly. Mods have tried to ban and delete his account from the database...it is not possible.

That's just cause he's the true mastermind behind the scenes.

 

[ramoisdead]

Durante probably has the best averaged rating on Yelp currently.

 

[Levyne]

I kinda want this port now if it's going to have a specific gedosato plug in, hehe, that looks really good.

 

[Dr Dogg]

I added arbitrary resolution and downsampling support: (previous fix was limited to multiples of 1280x720)
http://abload.de/img/screenshot_2016-02-02yfujg.png[IMG]

Well said.

The new article will say the same thing. With more emphasis and, admittedly, less goodwill.[/QUOTE]

That plugin comment!

 

[Kraftwerk]

So to fix the translations and FPS, is that something that would requires major rework?

 

[TronLight]

So to fix the translations and FPS, is that something that would requires major rework?

I guess that if the game is reading the text from those .cvs and .txt files it would just need somebody to go through them and fix them.

 

[Xenus]

That plugin comment!

Lol I love it

 

[YianGaruga]

Durante's tag should lead to a PayPal donation page

Thanks for working on this even though you don't really care about the game!

 

[Flandy]

I added arbitrary resolution and downsampling support: (previous fix was limited to multiples of 1280x720)

Well said.

The new article will say the same thing. With more emphasis and, admittedly, less goodwill.

Maybe someone should translate it to Japanese so it can finally get to Japan

 

[Scrub Mcgrubb]

damn... one of those cases where the emulated version is still superior to the official PC port- hope the same doesn't happen for Disgaea

 

[Azar]

Article is on its way, guys.

 

[Chairmanchuck]

Any way to fix the load times and the load-delays?

Article is on its way, guys.

Home Page:
http://www.pcgamer.com

Oh oh oh!

 

[Sinatar]

So Mamosas are the secret to Durante's powers.

Indeed.

 

[AndyMoogle]

Here are what the trading cards and badges look like, for the curious.

Besides the fact that they look kinda bad, there is also this.

They really didn't give a damn, did they?

All of this has to be an elaborate joke. This is beyond embarrassing.

EDIT: Oh, Durante fixed it.

 

[Quenk]

I added arbitrary resolution and downsampling support: (previous fix was limited to multiples of 1280x720)

Well said.

The new article will say the same thing. With more emphasis and, admittedly, less goodwill.

Thank you, Durante.

Also, mamosa/mimosa?

 

[Stumpokapow]

Thank you, Durante.

Also, mamosa/mimosa?

Pretend you didn't see that.

 

[Persona7]

Durante is a god

 

[Easy_D]

Thank you, Durante.

Also, mamosa/mimosa?

Even the mods can't spellcheck properly, seeing as mimosa gives us

Pretend you didn't see that.

You can't hide the truth forever!

 

[prudislav]

This is getting ridiculous. Who was assigned the PC port?

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Oh Scamco, when you gonna learn not to scam?

 

[LiK]

Pretend you didn't see that.

EXPOSED

 

[Easy_D]

EXPOSED

Mods have been in cahoots with Bamco all along. I bet the NeoGAF mod team is responsible for the port. It all adds up, their willingness to pimp out Durante's tag is just to throw away any suspicion!

 

[Hibiki Kurosawa]

Mods have been in cahoots with Bamco all along. I bet the NeoGAF mod team is responsible for the port. It all adds up, their willingness to pimp out Durante's tag is just to throw away any suspicion!

Not a willingness to throw suspicion, but rather a reason to change tags when their bored.

 

[Nibel]

#juiceup publishers

 

[Easy_D]

Not a willingness to throw suspicion, but rather a reason to change tags when their bored.

Makes sense, just like the Greek gods of old , they do it for shits and giggles when they're bored.

 

[BasedKiliK]

It is almost surreal to me just how bad of a port this turned out to. It's like they genuinely did not care about the state of this game upon release, or they even put forth effort to make it this bad. I've never seen something this ridiculous.

I mean, I've seen a lot of bad ports, but God Damn.