Batman: Arkham Knight's PC port appears to be a disaster
153 replies, posted
[QUOTE=Coffee;48033181]yes
did you think it was just some paranoid delusion that 4chan users had?[/QUOTE]
it's funny how the seemingly paranoid and delusional stuff 4chan spews usually turns out to be true
It kind of makes sense to me why you could get this game for 40% off (And still can) for the last month, now
They kneeeewwwwww
[QUOTE=proch;48033902]it's funny how the seemingly paranoid and delusional stuff 4chan spews usually turns out to be true[/QUOTE]
A broken clock is right twice a day
Can someone tell me why a £35 game has a £33 season pass?! Why are season passes getting so expensive lately?!
[QUOTE=ZnT00;48033887]If I heard correctly, when you refund a game on steam, valve doesn't pay their cut, the dev has to pay the full price, so they lose some money; if a whole bunch of people refund their copies, WB will lose a whole bunch of [i]money[/i], and that might encourage them to fix the game, no?[/QUOTE]
i'm hoping both wb and rockstady go out of business over this. they're bad game developers and nobody at those companies should ever work in gaming again.
[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;48033150]The people who ported this, Iron Galaxy, are the same horrible people who made the Vita BL2 port.
This is really sad, the last 2 Arkham games were fantastic and some of my favorites but ive heard pretty bad things about this excluding the port and performance.
Like what the fuck happened with this?[/QUOTE]
Different porting company.
I know a dude who's actually calling people who complain "entitled"
How
The point to refunding the game has nothing to do with whether or not the game will be fixed later. It's about sending the message that releasing broken games isn't gonna work anymore and it will actually have an impact on sales right there and then.
People have been waiting forever to send a message to devs and publishers that enlist bad business practices, now's their chance to so of course they're gonna take it.
[QUOTE=Menien Goneld;48033804]Are you guys serious about instantly refunding this because of a bad launch?
I'm certain they'll patch out any problems it has in like a week; it really makes me wonder why you would pay full price to pre-order a game if you're willing to just give up on it so fast. For me at least, I only ever buy things full price on steam if I really care about the series.[/QUOTE]
The days of "works on console, pc is mileage varied" are over. The game is advertized as 100% working on any platform you buy it for, as it should be.
I can tell you right now, if someone had the spare cash, this launch is actionable under California and Texas law as a defective product, because the product does not perform as advertized.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;48033326]This is why you don't out source your ports.[/QUOTE]
Deus Ex Human Revolution and Tomb Raider would like to have a word with you. They were both outsourced to Nixxes.
I think the real lesson here is to only outsource PC ports to competent companies.
Remember when games came on cartridges and couldn't be updated, so they had to be complete and relatively bug free by normal means of playing? Compared to today where it's just Fuck it, release it on this date, and if it isn't finished oh well, we'll just finish it later
Video games are dead, cancel 2015.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;48034188]Remember when games came on cartridges and couldn't be updated, so they had to be complete and relatively bug free by normal means of playing? Compared to today where it's just Fuck it, release it on this date, and if it isn't finished oh well, we'll just finish it later[/QUOTE]
Yeah and the games were ludicrously simplistic in comparison, had a homogeneous hardware set to run through and in comparison to modern games were pretty fucking expensive no matter who you were.
They aren't comparable at fucking all. A modern game is a massive array of systems communicating in a way that has to be abstract to actually run on the massive variety of hardware configurations out there. Shits going on in the background all the time, the rendering of such a thing isn't straightforward, ensuring that all these systems communicate properly also becomes more complex as we expect more and more from games.
Besides, cartridge games did have bugs, some pretty game breaking bugs, that would never be fixed outside of a new version of the cart. Take of the rose tinted glasses friend, you're not making good points when they're based in nostalgia.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;48034188]Remember when games came on cartridges and couldn't be updated, so they had to be complete and relatively bug free by normal means of playing? Compared to today where it's just Fuck it, release it on this date, and if it isn't finished oh well, we'll just finish it later[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it was awful, and often resulted in a lot of last-minute cut content, or that the developers had to provide free physical fixes (Like the gloves for Mario Party, or the expansion pack for Donkey Kong 64) should something serious pop up.
Ok so my specs are a GTX970, i5 4570S, 16gb DDR3 1600 ram, and I'm running the game off a standard harddrive with setting maxed out but the physx stuff is turned off because it requires a restart and I didn't want to sit through the unskippable intro again.
I finally booted the game to see how shitty it runs and it's not unplayable. The 30 fps sucks but it doesn't really drop beyond maybe 25. I haven't experienced the severe fps drops you get from entering a new area because I've only played for 38 minutes but the game is smooth for locked at 30fps
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;48033926]A broken clock is right twice a day[/QUOTE]
it's closer to a working clock with dicks drawn on it
Probably just gonna wait for the inevitable "game of the year edition" with all the DLC.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;48034054]I know a dude who's actually calling people who complain "entitled"
How[/QUOTE]
He's right they are entitled. Entitled to a working product they paid for. Since they haven't received that they should get a refund.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/3rxvaZR.jpg[/t]
There really isn't anything sweeter than tears of people who decided to preorder a fucking video game.
"Better act quick, they will run out of gigabytes soon, and who knows when they will restock them!"
Especially with the Arkham games, which are absolutely riddled (hueh) with minor DLCs, which later get added to the GOTY edition anyways.
[QUOTE=Scot;48034600][t]http://i.imgur.com/3rxvaZR.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I should have known the Riddler was behind this.
[QUOTE=Raptors!;48034823]There really isn't anything sweeter than tears of people who decided to preorder a fucking video game.
"Better act quick, they will run out of gigabytes soon, and who knows when they will restock them!"
Especially with the Arkham games, which are absolutely riddled (hueh) with minor DLCs, which later get added to the GOTY edition anyways.[/QUOTE]
Your morals are superior to us who don't care, oh no! Whatever will people who bought the game with easy access to refunds do?! Please don't whisper "no" to our pleads for a savior!
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;48034857]Your morals are superior to us who don't care, oh no! Whatever will people who bought the game with easy access to refunds do?! Please don't whisper "no" to our pleads for a savior![/QUOTE]
Don't tell me it's not entertaining though.
Video games preorders are an awful practice, if I make even one person reconsider their purchase I will be happy.
Now that I look at it it does look kinda savior-y :v:
Yea is it just me or does the textures look like crap on high settings?
This is on high settings [url]http://i.imgur.com/0FFkdy6.jpg[/url]
[QUOTE=Covalent;48034845]-snip-[/QUOTE]
Yes that was the joke...
[QUOTE=DanielSA10;48034994]Yea is it just me or does the textures look like crap at high settings?
This is on high settings [URL]http://i.imgur.com/0FFkdy6.jpg[/URL][/QUOTE]
Wow I didn't know the new Batman game was built to be Dreamcast compatible.
The game for me personally, has been flawless.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
