• CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Great, so no more Saints Row 2 fix for PC I’m guessing, just great.

    There was this guy working on the patch and he was basically the only person in Volition that cared about it, guy got cancer and instead of spending his last days with his family he worked on it until he died. His dying wish was to get this patch out. Soon after they diverted all their resources to that garbage game, it failed and now we’re here.

    Both insulting to his memory and for everyone waiting for this patch for damn years. Fuck Volition and fuck Embracer.

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      1 year ago

      Years ago when I played SR2 on PC I needed to download a reverse speed hack (a slow hack) because my processor clock speed was faster than the console the game was designed for. Would that patch have fixed that? If so, very sad indeed.

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        1 year ago

        And here I thought that tying game speed to CPU speed was a concept that died in the early 90s…

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          1 year ago

          Pfft-- Japanese devs are still doing this stupid shit nowadays. It’s no wonder their in-house PC ports are usually hit or miss.

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            1 year ago

            I mean with From Software in particular I am surprised they do PC ports at all. They clearly loathe the platform, and they seem to refuse to even have a single programmer that knows anything about PCs that isn’t from Wikipedia, nevermind owns one. Their ports are always so laughably bad in all technical aspects, they feel like comedy.

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        1 year ago

        I recall a few games where I’ve had to limit the processor speed.

        The weirdest one was an old adventure point and click. It was either “The 11th Hour” or “The 7th Guest”. It had a puzzle where you need to beat the CPU in a board game.

        At the time it was released, it was possible. On a modern PC, not so much. The more powerful your processor, the more skilled the CPU was in the board game. Made it impossible.