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Xbox button prompts on tales from borderlands episode 4 on ps4 version
- Thread starter madmackem
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family_guy
Member
And as usual it will go nowhere story wise.
Bluekaveli
Member
Wait what's the joke?
When you make a choice it says such and such character will remember what you said.
RPGCrazied
Member
Its basically in every telltale game.
not_so_special
Banned
why telltale needs to be better at the tech side? if we have things like this http://kotaku.com/the-facial-animations-in-tales-from-the-borderlands-are-1725479098
the gaming press love affair with telltale is still on track
the gaming press love affair with telltale is still on track
Dead Prince
Banned
i'm sure they were just using the ps4 build to show off the xbox version.
lol! accurate.
Yes, this was a TRC oversight (lazy testers).
I just want to know what sku is the OP playing, just to see if this a miss from SCEA or from my old co-workers at SCEE
I'm in uk so would fall under scee Id guess.
stuminus3
Member
Perfect.
I've played all 4 episodes of Tales of Borderlands without a single bug or crash. Guess I was lucky? Or are these bugs mostly on consoles(playing PC here)?
ODDI
Member
TellTale forgot that
Bluekaveli
Member
Ah okay, I've never played any of their games lolExample:
Try playing their games on console. The run at 10fps at times, stutter to a halt for seconds at a time repeatedly the further you get into the episodes, saves corrupt or a glitch erases your saves, etc. It's insane how shoddy their games are.
TWD's story was phenomenal, though.
jackissocool
Member
I don't think their games even go through cert. Sony doesn't bother cause they're always messes and they always make bank.
Ah ok, so basically the few TRC guys that still remain in Liverpool don't give a fuck any more. Not like most of them ever did anyway.
The other possibility is that it was tested in India, and those guys there certainly care even less.
MaximumSpider
Banned
Oh god lololol
That's bizarre. I'm trying to think how this can happen - because by far the logical way to implement button prompts is to embed a whole different graphic on different platforms. Why does the Xbox button prompt graphic exist on the PS4 version at all?
Is it that specific string that's showing the Xbox button prompts consistently?
Could it be for PC, to map button prompts to the current controller? Does the PC version support the PS4 controller natively to that extent?
The way the games I worked on implemented button prompts is that we'd implement a special control code that the game would internally replace with the given prompt. Since we developed on PS2 first and foremost, they'd be named after the PS controls, but remapped logically to other systems, so [CROSS] would display a cross on the PS but the green 'A' button on the Xbox platform; the Xbox platform never had access to the PS buttons images and vice-versa.
If it is the case that it's always that string, that suggests that Telltale's control code specifically refers to the Xbox buttons or PS4 buttons, which in turn would imply that the Xbox string slipped into the PS4 version. And that's just a Really Bad Way to do things.
It's just, ultimately, such a weird occurrence. The only way I can explain it is to imagine that Telltale have a really bizarre implementation for button prompts that I'm struggling to comprehend.
Is it that specific string that's showing the Xbox button prompts consistently?
Could it be for PC, to map button prompts to the current controller? Does the PC version support the PS4 controller natively to that extent?
The way the games I worked on implemented button prompts is that we'd implement a special control code that the game would internally replace with the given prompt. Since we developed on PS2 first and foremost, they'd be named after the PS controls, but remapped logically to other systems, so [CROSS] would display a cross on the PS but the green 'A' button on the Xbox platform; the Xbox platform never had access to the PS buttons images and vice-versa.
If it is the case that it's always that string, that suggests that Telltale's control code specifically refers to the Xbox buttons or PS4 buttons, which in turn would imply that the Xbox string slipped into the PS4 version. And that's just a Really Bad Way to do things.
It's just, ultimately, such a weird occurrence. The only way I can explain it is to imagine that Telltale have a really bizarre implementation for button prompts that I'm struggling to comprehend.
speedomodel
Member
Given the consistent quality of games they put out, I sincerely doubt that.
Spider_Jerusalem
Member
Telltale is an embarassment as a developer. I'm glad Dontnod and The Odd Gentlemen are showing them how it's done.
TWD S1 had the worst bug I've encountered in their games, erasing my entire progress for the first 4 chapters. If it hadn't been for my PS plus back-up save I never would've touched one of their games again.
hydrophilic attack
Member
ya, i have predicted this for a while
ps4 is losing mindshare, not sure how they will recover
ps4 is losing mindshare, not sure how they will recover
lol
Drac84
Member
This should have been first post.
off duty ninja
Member
"BREAKING: Sony says fuck BC, we're just going to put an entire fucking xbone up in this bitch!"
2 Slice Toaster
Member
Just do a search for TellTale games and neogaf, I'm sure one of the dozen threads where the same joke is made has it as the first post.
superNESjoe
Member
I failed Cert on Xbox because my game said "Press Start" instead of "Press Menu". Yeah, this should have never made it through cert.
thesurfshop19
Member
Nailed it!!
Very close to the end when youve made it to the office.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Telltale continue to show why they are on the same garbage level as High Voltage.
Gillian Seed
Banned
Lol! The Wolf Among Us was the best product they have put out by a landslide!
Miles Quaritch
Member
Yeah, who doesn't enjoy quick time events in a game that struggles to stay above 10fps and doesn't register your button presses properly.
Garbage developer. They've done nothing to improve the performance of their games since the first TWD.
Complete and utter contempt for the end user.