morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Just link Durante's tag to a post we can keep updated with his accomplishments.
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Steam | 02.2016 - Orangeade
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CheesecakeRecipe
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corrosivefrost
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If he fixed the rendering resolution internally (and didn't do anything to the framerate), it's just as playable as it was before. It's just "prettier" now.
Eh, he said 15 minutes. The clock is ticking...
To be fair, I don't know how much Durante actually knows about porting game code and working as a game developer, so your statement might not even be something that could occur even if a company would assign a one man team to do a port.
Your suggestion would be better classed as "hire him to do Q&A" but that's not even really accurate, because he has those guidelines and he wouldn't really be looking for bugs, just "does it run at variable fps?", "does it support arbitrary resolutions?", etc.
What would make the most sense, if someone were to legitimately consider hiring Durante for the sort of work he does as a modder would be to give him early access to the GM code so that he could take a look at providing "unofficial" support for the things the PC community wants/expects/feels entitled to. I think if a game launched and alongside it there was a Durante fix available for those who would be angry about the port "quality", the backlash/outcries would be fewer overall.
Though this does nothing for Durante's desire to get companies who make PC ports into the habit of releasing things that comply with the guidelines he thinks they should have.
Yeah I know, but it makes it harder to buy their games, I mean, every other game is much cheaper! The Division is CLP$ 26,500 (US$ 37.20) while something like Fallout 4 is CLP$ 45,899 (US$ 64,44) or Tomb Raider CLP $37,349 (US$ $52.44 with the 10% discount), so if I had to decide between those games I would choose the first one
Yeah, I get that. But if at the end of the day you only had a passing interest in The Division and you really wanted Fallout 4 or whatever, you'd be better off just pulling a Rhaknar and buying the game you want to play now at the price it is now and actually playing it.
Would be interesting to see what happened to your stance if XSEED put it in the next Trails title released on PC. What would win, your love of Trails, or your supicion that it "looks harmful in more ways than one"? :lol
I've only been using it as my pointing device while wrapped in a blanket and it's great for that. ¯\_(ツ
I don't like BPM though, that's for sure. When I get around to playing video games a bit more regularly again, that's probably what's going to irk me the most.
I don't like BPM either. I really hope they end up getting rid of that requirement for setting up the Steam controller configuration for a game... and ultimately, I'd love an option to disable the thing completely.
lashman
Steam-GAF's Official Ambassador to Gaming-GAF
He said it was close to the limit, not that it was at the limit yet.
And I'm sure they can do a blame space type tag to get around it
edit: lol, beaten
it's very very real
arts&crafts
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Looks cool, I am loving this art trend lately. Firewatch, the Witness, even No Mans Sky if I remember correctly, been a while since I watched footage.
Kaleinc
Banned
Again?
It may take 14 minutes to surgically remove the appendix but you might have to study 14 years before pulling that off.
ps. namco are filthy casuals.
The Red Wizard
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I might get it if there's a GMG coupon and it appears there or just anywhere at a lower price than Steam.
hey now
no shame to be interested
come with here to this corner, lemme tell u more about it..
the big thing here is that durante doesn't have to test much of it and isn't accountable for anything which is kind of a big deal
not to defend bad ports or anything, but i can see how publishers/devs, specially those that are new to a platform would be reluctant to invest much into figuring that shit out if they don't know how good it's gonna sell
but really devs should do it anyways, i'm 100% for devs leaving their fps capped if they don't want to change it cos it's important to how things function, but resolution is really a very basic thing for any 3d game that u just cannot have
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Never attribute to incompetence what can be explained by laziness.
Uuh, $16? Nice
GhostTrick
Banned
They didn't QA at all. If anything, it would've been a 2 minutes job to see the fucked up French accents or the German title screen.
Durante fixed it in 22 minutes for the graphics. If we're talking about a programmer paid 30 an hour, which is generous, it would've been a 15 budget to fix that shit. 15 to repair the terrible reputation the port will get now. How many lost sales for a 15 saving ?
That's actually a really good question
Oh I know you didn't mean it to be answered in any way, but that won't stop me.
You see, I live in some sort of increased probability of bad things happening to hardware bubble, I also tend to encounter any bug in any given software. So my case is kinda special, I'm aware how fragile our technology is much more than your average person, I'm also awaiting everything to go kaboom every moment of my life, I sometimes complain about it, but as it changes nothing I have to take that into account when making decisions like that.
Would I dare to play Trails if it had any harmful DRM? Probably I would, and then I'll have to pay for it
Good gravy what the fuck have Blizzard done to the mouse cursor in D3? I though something had gone wrong with High DPI scaling for a while until I realised 'no this is intentional'. I guess tonight's fun and games are trying to track down legacy .ani/.cur files and remember how you replace them again. Urggghhhhh.
Well that and a helping of ignorance sometimes. Though that does also sometimes extend both ways.
Well that and a helping of ignorance sometimes. Though that does also sometimes extend both ways.
lashman
Steam-GAF's Official Ambassador to Gaming-GAF
I only trust you with our Steam community. Please don't get a poopy mod. :3
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
well durante fixed the video issue with ToS too.
Some shameful shit from Bamco yet again.
his tag is also ridiculous now lol
Some shameful shit from Bamco yet again.
his tag is also ridiculous now lol
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
You make that sound like you're leaving us
Hah, no, I'm still around and not retiring or anything. Just would like to pass off a little bit of my procedural responsibilities to young bushy-tailed bright-eyed newmods.
lemme put it this way
imagine if durante's hack (which i don't mean in like a derogative way, it's just that it's really kind of that, a hack) for some reason doesn't work on intel videocards he has 100% the right not to care
he can just be like "not my problem" and carry on with his life. i'm sure his personality being as it is he'd make his darnest effort to fix it but nobody payed him any money so he doesn't owe anyone anything
bamco or whoever's the publisher for that game kinda does, cos you're buying a license and you're kind of entitled to a working thing for that. i'm not talking legal stuff cos i don't know much about that, but bamco doesn't want ppl refunding their games or hating on them for their games not working on intel videocards or whatever, so they do the math.
and if it's better for them to not add these features because of the q&a costs involved in adding them vs the bad rep they get for doing a shoddy port they'll go for it
so idk if they're lazy or incompetent or what, the one thing i can be sure of is that money is what drives companies and that's what makes sense for them, even if it doesn't make any fucking sense at all
imagine if durante's hack (which i don't mean in like a derogative way, it's just that it's really kind of that, a hack) for some reason doesn't work on intel videocards he has 100% the right not to care
he can just be like "not my problem" and carry on with his life. i'm sure his personality being as it is he'd make his darnest effort to fix it but nobody payed him any money so he doesn't owe anyone anything
bamco or whoever's the publisher for that game kinda does, cos you're buying a license and you're kind of entitled to a working thing for that. i'm not talking legal stuff cos i don't know much about that, but bamco doesn't want ppl refunding their games or hating on them for their games not working on intel videocards or whatever, so they do the math.
and if it's better for them to not add these features because of the q&a costs involved in adding them vs the bad rep they get for doing a shoddy port they'll go for it
so idk if they're lazy or incompetent or what, the one thing i can be sure of is that money is what drives companies and that's what makes sense for them, even if it doesn't make any fucking sense at all
The Red Wizard
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If it comes out on the same day add the console versions, I'll buy it day one.
Love his new tag lol
Nyteshade517
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got an Abe's Oddysee booster pack...could have sold it and got back 15 cents...took the risk and opened it and now I'll make an astonishing 18 cents (as soon as the last card sells)
I'm rich
I'm rich
Yeah. If you just own the base game, then all you're getting is the gameplay update, with access to additional content requiring an upgrade to the Enhanced Edition (or the Season Pass is it's left available, but that doesn't seem to be the intention). I suppose the closest parallel would be Super Street Fighter 4 -> Ultra Street Fighter 4.
I'd prefer you to stick around, you know how newbies are bullied here, I'm afraid for steamgaf if they'll try to pull that on a new energetic mod.
BTW, what happened to Zeliard?
I might pick it up, even though I've beaten it already on my PSTV (the replay value in this game is pretty low, mind you), and also vastly prefer Danganronpa 2. That said, i really wanna show NISA some support for doing such a great job on localizing these awesome games.
Large Professor
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The vast majority of 'cheap' booster packs are worth opening.
Hey admin duties are probably way more important. Plus I guess you could have an apprentice right? More in the Sorcerer's kind not the Trump kind of course.
Kiru
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Did that with Guardians of Middle-Earth today. Booster would have sold for 18 cents, got a foil worth 51 cents out if it. Ka-Ching!
Nyteshade517
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Considering that a) the issues the game has in Windows 7 and b) The localizations like the french one are completely fucking broken that argument doesn't make much sense.
But you're missing a vital part for your argumentation. Bamco did not care at all what state they released the game in. You make it sound like they didn't add certain features because they might feared that they fuck up the port in the process. But what happened is, that they ultimately fucked up the port regardless.
Did you take a look at the respective thread? There was either zero Q&A done or nobody listened to their feedback anyways.
Large Professor
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God dammit not another ubi bundle.
(edit) Actually the 1$ tier is kind of/almost legit.
(edit) Actually the 1$ tier is kind of/almost legit.
crazyrabbits
Banned
Never change, Ubi.
Hey there's (some) Steam keys now and ya'll should be in for the $1 for Gunslinger and Grow Home.
Hmm Square Enix started adding South Eastern Europe countries in RU region for CD keys on Steam. Rise of the Tomb Raider was first game and now they did it with Hitman too. I saw on one local forum that people were able to buy cheap RotTR keys from Russia and activate them without issues. And i mean really cheap around 12$. This is interesting.
derExperte
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Fuck, bought The Crew last year for $10. Okay, including Wild Run but the $15 tier would've been mine otherwise.
ramoisdead
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$1 for Gunslinger and Grow Home is at least solid. Too bad I have Gunslinger.
PLASTICA-MAN
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Need For Speed Most Wanted is free on Origin.
Black Soma
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And here I thought we'd get an actual indie games bundle this time.
Loved Hot Pursuit but had huge problems with microstuttering on Most Wanted (had hd4870). I'll give it another shot now.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
No this totally makes sense and I agree 100%. I encounter this often with my own work on Enhanced Steam - it's a free program, so if it doesn't work for your particular instance then I'm under 0 obligation to fix it. If a particular bug affects a large percentage of users, I try to fix it if possible. I obviously realize that if I were doing official work for Valve then fixes and changes I would propose would need a very high level of QA because if something doesn't work for even a small percentage of users, that's a problem. But that's also the difference between me doing ES in my spare time for free and potentially taking a salaried position at Valve.
The real kicker here is that they felt the need to add a third party DRM solution on top of Steam, and specifically one that borders on "anti-tamper" as if they thought that would prevent fixes like Durante's from happening. That's the part I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around, because implementing said DRM (and, subsequently, doing all the QA involved in it's implementation) couldn't have taken less time than actually fixing the game, right? Right?
Like you said, it all comes down to money and money drives the priorities of the "higher ups" on these sorts of projects. I'm sure some shareholder or board member somewhere is going "Excellent work on implementing that DRM Johnson-san, now we won't have as many lost sales to pirates with this release."
EDIT: And yeah, like others have said - the game is an incompetent mess otherwise ie. Windows 7 bugs and translation issues.
Baron_Calamity
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The $1 level is rather hot.
Large Professor
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Haha. That's what the monthly is for now.
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