| Captain_Yuri said: 13 Ways To End Lousy PC Ports in 2023 - Improved Settings, Smoother Gameplay, Essential Features It's too bad TB is gone as he not only ha the influence but also the aggressiveness to get things done. While Alex does his best, they lack the aggressiveness that TB had and generally try to sugar coat it. With that being said tho, this is a good list. From reddit:
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You can tell Alex has had enough of pubs flip flopping PC ports over the rys when he makes a video like this and also looks defeated and frustrated at the same time.
Sadly he's no TB, he doesn't have the gusto and "oi fucker, listen to me now", that TB had (mostly because Alex comes off as a huuuuuge nerd who also happens to be polite and chooses his words carefully).
If TB were still here, I'd imagine he'd be able to kick up way more of a fuss a lot earlier on, but without him being here with us, we're just on our own, and gonna be honest, I think we're semi-doomed for a few reasons:
- Hardly many gave a shit about EGS showing up and flipping the table (won't somebody pls think of the billionaire who collects rocks in his back garden and rallies kids to fight his battles!).
- SE and other publishers have made so many deals since TB's passing, that PC didn't collectively stand up and go "knock it off with that shit".
- People over time just stopped kicking up much of a fuss whenever we get a bad port or simply buy into the bad port, this also applies to exclusivity deals.
See, whenever TB kicked up a fuss, ppl tended to follow his word, I know I did at the time, because I shared his mindset. I was fed up of us having to deal with crap from bad ports to exclusivity deals, to lacking proper features.
Without him we've got not much, I honestly do not trust our collective community across the net, like at all, not in this lifetime nor any other, simply because not many truly care, they just need that dopamine fix (look at the die hard weebs for JRPG's for example, they easily settle for whatever lands on PC in whatever state it's in, and I know this from Steam forum examples of me having to deal with G0Sync and weebs going "it doesn't matter, it's an RPG".
I just don't trust us to get improved results, unless we start to unify more and actually put our foot down. Alex is getting frustrated and I can see this and I agree, it sucks, we should be seeing great stride in PC ports, not good for a few yrs, then bad for 5-6 more yrs, then exclusivity deals, then pubs going back to forgetting we exist, then blaming piracy on why we don't buy from them often, etc.
Steam reviews are now an utter joke, and that is mostly both a consumer and Valve based problem(Valve related, because they nerfed the effectiveness of review bombing to draw attention, and consumer based, because meme reviews and user reviews tend to go from mixed to positive, then to overly positive in no time, unless your game is on Aliens Colonial Marines levels of garbage).
Alex needs to grow a bit of muscle, and by that I don't mean physically, I mean mentally speaking, he needs to step on up and take that mantle, because Jim sure as fuck gave up on that torch years ago (I actually hate Jim for semi taking the mantle and then tossing it aside completely for his own politics bs and wrestling, it all felt like an insult to what TB had built up and both of them were supposedly besties at the time). DF are quite prominent in the gaming scene, they absolutely have some form of power to make a show of force, but DF needs to lend Alex more power and Alex himself needs to be more brutal in his critique.
That being said I pretty much agree and want all those points to be addressed for future ports, and I want it done within 5 yrs, not another decade of waiting for Japanese devs and some Western ones to play the insanely slow catch-up game, while indie devs run around them in circles.
| hinch said: 1 and 6 for me. Especially for console ports and/or interchangably. Compilation stutters should be a thing of the past with UE 5 (5.1) taking over from UE 4. |
I am still baffled as to why we still even have games today without an FoV slider, like just looking at FF VIIR's lacking menu for PC options was enough to make me sick, and that's coming from a highly profitable and notable AAA publisher.
Also can we please, PLEASSSSE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, stop using CA in gaming, it doesn't at all belong in that spectrum. CA makes me feel sickly and fucks with my eyes, and since I have to wear glasses, it really fucks with my mind and vision, pls stop using it devs, you're actually mucking me up.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
