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The Tales of Symphonia PC-Port is a mess!
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twothunder
Member
Glad I still own the Gamecube version
YianGaruga
Banned
Just selling the GCN ISO through Steam and including a link to Dolphin would have been a better experience for everyone involved.
Suzushiiro
Banned
I'm sure they had someone do QA, just like they had someone (lots of people, most likely!) do QA on Arkham Knight for PC or AC:Unity for all platforms. And then the QA reported the problems, the programmers said "we need X time/resources to fix it," and the suits said "LOL FUCK THAT JUST PUSH IT OUT THE DOOR THEY'LL BUY IT ANYWAY."
Honestly, the fact that a lot of people probably got this game via pre-ordering Zestiria- meaning Bamco had essentially already gotten a lot, possibly the majority, of the money they were going to get out of the port- probably had a lot to do with them rushing it out the door like this.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
As a French speaker, uh...
Wow. I have no words. xD Amazing UTF-8 fail right there.
And I don't understand the translation either. "Rang de combat"? "Titre saynètes"???
From context it appears that it should be Battle Difficulty ("Difficulté des combats") and Subtitles ("Sous-titres"), not... whatever this is.
Wow. I have no words. xD Amazing UTF-8 fail right there.
And I don't understand the translation either. "Rang de combat"? "Titre saynètes"???
From context it appears that it should be Battle Difficulty ("Difficulté des combats") and Subtitles ("Sous-titres"), not... whatever this is.
Hmm so the original refers to "Skit titles". I guess a skit is indeed a "saynète" but I don't know what it refers to in the game. Kind of confusing...At least some people are making it entertaining (via YianGaruga in the Steam thread)
It's so fucking disheartening to see the fanboys/Defence Force defending this awful port.
They're downvoting all the negative Steam reviews too, my review is currently:
Just WOW, i cant believe what a read here.
MrSaturn99
Member
My condolences to whoever preordered Zestiria for this.
Bamco just has no idea what they're doing with this series anymore.
Bamco just has no idea what they're doing with this series anymore.
Linearskillz
Member
What the fuck is that DRM? I mean seriously. What the fuck! A bad port is one thing but that's something they purposefully added that makes it objectively worse.
Why?? Are they pissed that people modded Zestiria or something? Argh.
I also just ran the game, and it's single threaded, which is expected, but it pegs one of your cpu cores at 100% usage. Sigh... probably a naive spin loop waiting for their target frame rate. What a waste of CPU cycles.
Why?? Are they pissed that people modded Zestiria or something? Argh.
I also just ran the game, and it's single threaded, which is expected, but it pegs one of your cpu cores at 100% usage. Sigh... probably a naive spin loop waiting for their target frame rate. What a waste of CPU cycles.
Never played a Tales game? They are literally skits, small interludes where the characters talk about something random.
I did
. And I didn't like Zestiria either and uninstalled it after 21 hours. What a waste of money.Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I played some of the old ones on the PS1 way back then and hated them. xD What would be the "titles" then? Subtitles? If so, why not say that, lol.
Tizoc
Member
Da fuck?
This is the most illogical post ive seen all day
Ur saying people spent $50 to get a copy of symphonia? A copy they got FOR FREE
A copy of a game that was offered with a good port of a game that can run at 60 fps?
Namco probably had no direct say in the DRM thing. The developer for this port is probably a very small group of people that had no idea what they were doing. They probably got asked to add a DRM solution and found the cheapest one they could.
This look like a malware site from 2001 or something
It's just sad because it tarnished Namco's previous effort with Zestiria. If this port gets mentioned on big site it will probably be pulled out.
Tizoc
Member
This is only one poor port smarty pants
Evidently you are unaware of at least 2 good ports that released before it
Inswear threads like this bring out all the silly children @.@
Linearskillz
Member
When there is a skit available a button prompt appears on the screen. The option controls whether or not the title of the skit is included beside the prompt.
MrSaturn99
Member
There are people in the topic that said they did just that, man.
bananafactory
Banned
Ayy lmao
I'm laughing at the absurdity of these mistakes but I feel legitimately sorry for anyone who spent money. I suggest you get refunds ASAP if possible
I'm laughing at the absurdity of these mistakes but I feel legitimately sorry for anyone who spent money. I suggest you get refunds ASAP if possible
GametimeUK
Member
"6. Broken text in French. Wasn't made for France"
Holy shitballs that made me laugh. That guy is obviously an experienced troll. I love it.
As for the port, I don't really care for this game personally, but I want every game and its audience to get treated with respect. It's rather sad these business practices are in use today. Ultimately we decide if we accept such low standards and pull the trigger and don't refund it, but surely we should rather settle for no port at all instead of an extremely lousy one. You shouldn't feel privileged or obliged to get it because it is the only way (Emulators aside) to play it on PC.
YianGaruga
Banned
hmm I'm pretty sure this is the most illogical post of today
ThatsMytrunks
Member
Here's a bunch of dolphin shots from the beginning of the game, but it's a slightly older build of Dolphin and doesn't have a widescreen hack.
CertifiedFP
Member
texhnolyze
Banned
I personally didn't pre-ordered Zestiria for Symphonia alone, it's just a nice bonus. Zestiria was a good port, and a good game on top of that. It's cheaper than the PS4 version as well. I regret nothing.
As a French speaker, uh...
Wow. I have no words. xD Amazing UTF-8 fail right there.
And I don't understand the translation either. "Rang de combat"? "Titre saynètes"???
From context it appears that it should be Battle Difficulty ("Difficulté des combats") and Subtitles ("Sous-titres"), not... whatever this is.
Hmm so the original refers to "Skit titles". I guess a skit is indeed a "saynète" but I don't know what it refers to in the game. Kind of confusing...
Lol wow. I wonder if who ever did that translation used Google Translate.
In all seriousness, when using english to french (and vice versa) translations in google translate you sometimes get weird and uncommon words that don't belong, or the words are in the wrong order.
Silent Chief
Member
SatelliteOfLove
Member
*glances at GCN copy, then at functioning GCN in the stack by the TV*
Don't anyone go cra...
Well, don't go too...
Oh well.
Don't anyone go cra...
Well, don't go too...
Oh well.
It's so fucking disheartening to see the fanboys/Defence Force defending this awful port.
They're downvoting all the negative Steam reviews too, my review is currently:
My only reaction to this was "BRUH."
J
Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
Thank god Steam has refunds now.
Maybe. The PC version of Zestiria originally included the JP opening (vocal version) in its files for some odd reason. Considering that every other non JP copy of the game had a vocal-less version of the opening for legal reasons, Namco made sure to get rid of the file quickly. However, many people, myself included, just modded the JP opening back in. So yeah, they might be extra cautious about PC ports from now on.
Most people here got this game as a pre-order initiative for a game that came out 4 months ago. Pretty sure refunds won't do much.
I think the newer Dolphin revisions fixes the outline issues so they look a little more accurate, but unsure.
Here's an extra shot to add taken from the Dolphin Wiki
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Tales_of_Symphonia
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Oh wow this is actually worse than I was expecting.
CrispyBoar
Banned
They could've done something very similar to what Capcom did with the Wii version of Resident Evil 4 by using the GameCube version of the game while including the extra content from the PS2 version. That would've been the definitive version of the game right there.
Yeah but that would have required even more work and signs point to not much work being done on this port.
Silent Chief
Member
'As a French speaker, uh...
Wow. I have no words. xD Amazing UTF-8 fail right there.
And I don't understand the translation either. "Rang de combat"? "Titre saynètes"???
From context it appears that it should be Battle Difficulty ("Difficulté des combats") and Subtitles ("Sous-titres"), not... whatever this is.
Hmm so the original refers to "Skit titles". I guess a skit is indeed a "saynète" but I don't know what it refers to in the game. Kind of confusing...
Apparently saynète is the right word.
Rang au combat should have been "niveau de difficulté".
What I don't get is "paramètre volume". If it's just the volume, why a green button with A in it?
That definitely would have been the best. I just wonder what they were thinking because there is a lot of wiggle room to iron out all the issues and even achieve 60fps on the PS3. It's not like the game is incredibly demanding for a PS3 either.
Movalpolos
Banned
Awesome, thanks!
tim_pkmn89
Member
Jawbreaker
Member
Nice little surprise for those who pre-ordered Zestiria. Thanks for your money, now here's the extra we promised. Never said it'd be any good! Enjoy!
I'm all for pointing out the series' issues in a lot of Tales threads, but geez. I don't even know what to say about this.
This sucks for the people who preordered and were looking forward to a decent port of ToS.
I strongly dislike Zestiria, but the PC port seemed to be pretty good. For them to go from that to whatever this crap is is just mind-boggling. Though I agree with other people in the thread who are speculating that Bamco didn't see the need to invest in this port because it was mostly offered to get people to preorder Zestiria.
Tales fans deserve better than this.
This sucks for the people who preordered and were looking forward to a decent port of ToS.
I strongly dislike Zestiria, but the PC port seemed to be pretty good. For them to go from that to whatever this crap is is just mind-boggling. Though I agree with other people in the thread who are speculating that Bamco didn't see the need to invest in this port because it was mostly offered to get people to preorder Zestiria.
Tales fans deserve better than this.
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