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Saints Row developer Volition permanently shuts down (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 121 points 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.

[-] SilverFlame@lemmy.world 18 points 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.

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 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.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 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.

[-] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Dark Souls 1 had the stupid 30 fps cap and rendered at 720p and then stretched it. But otherwise it was very stable and bug free, totally playable from beginning to end. Dark Souls 2, Scholar, 3, Sekiro, and Elden Ring were all fantastic ports, rock solid 60 fps, all the settings that you could ask for, and ran great. If I was picking on a Japanese dev that did shitty ports, wouldn't really have picked From.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I mean just looking at Elden Ring here:

The engine was apparently optimized for stutters on PC, not the actual game.
Keybinds were incomplete, and you couldn't even rebind the ones that were doable properly because of the fixed nature of some keys. (An incredibly common problem for so many games)
Lots of auto-combo keys (where one key does a lot of things instead of using all the buttons available), too.
Mouse acceleration completely broken, and they never fixed that. Mods can somewhat rectify it, granted.
The re-auth to the online server makes sense from the way a console handles launching/closing games, but not for a PC. Makes going back out for settings (since at launch a lot could not be changed mid-game) really fun. 😑
The UI makes no use of the keyboard or mouse, and in fact seems to actively hate them.

All of these would be trivial except maybe the stuttering if they had developers that regularly do PC games. They're just part of basic development or basic UX evaluation.

[-] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Apart from your first point, I think this just indicates that they hate m+kb users. There is a reason people say that people that use m+kb in a souls game are masochists!