Saints Row 2 brings PC gaming to shame

[drakenabarion]

In the game, when you use the quick-selection function of weapons, there's an Xbox360 controller D-Pad on the screen:

That's a 360 analog stick too, just to be clear.

Wow. That's just lazy. They say it's not a straight port of the console version? This kind of says otherwise....not that I care, I'm a console ninja! But this is a huge kick in the balls to PC players.

Games with the label Games For Windows are required by MS to provide support for the Xbox360 controllers automatically. Some games use different images for keys for PC and when the Xbox360 controller us connected they use the Xbox buttons. Its not exactly lazy in the conversion.


For those who say that games will never work on PC when they have been on a console: Why not? YOu can even connect console controllers so that there is absolutely no difference in playing the same game.

 

[CyberAkuma]

-epic snip -

Like I said in someone else's bitchfest about SR2 on PC. It will NEVER work on PC, because it simply isn't the kind of game that will transfer over smoothly. Just like if they were to put Age of Empires on a console, it would be the worst disaster second only to Gordon Brown.

Only certain games will transfer over to PC from console well, the COD series being good examples of this.

Your argument is entirely flawed for serveral reasons.

For starters - most Xbox360 games are developed entirely on PC machines to run in a PC-enviroment before coded directly to the Xbox360 (which basically is a machine running PC-hardware.

There have been many PC-oriented RTS-games ported from PC to console flawlessly, the latest Command & Conquer franchaise being one of them but I also remember Red Alert 1 on the original PSOne being pretty good. What limits the experience of RTS games on consoles isn't bad porting; not at all - it is the lack of a keyboard and mouse control that makes micro management a painful expereince. It has absolutely nothing to do with a bad port.

As for console to PC port, there's been a lot of good Third-Person-Shooter ports - including ALL the Grand Theft Auto games! Granted that GTA4 ran terribly bad when released on the PC, the latest patches have given the game a significant preformance boost that surpasses that of the consoles.

So no, the game not porting well to PC just because "it simply isn't the kind of game that will transfer over smoothly" is an entirely flawed statement.

 

[CyberAkuma]

Games with the label Games For Windows are required by MS to provide support for the Xbox360 controllers automatically. Some games use different images for keys for PC and when the Xbox360 controller us connected they use the Xbox buttons. Its not exactly lazy in the conversion.

As far as I know, Saints Row 2 for the PC does not have the "Games for Windows"-logo on the box [http://images.webhallen.com/product/85768/large].
And - I might also add that when that screenshot was taken I had no Xbox360 controller (I do not even own a 360 controller) not any other kind of gamepad or controller in my USB slot.

Just to further strengthen my argument that the game is a terribly half-assed port I can mention this: The menus in the game cannot be controlled with the mouse, the menus have to be scrolled through with the keyboard only.
That's how much thought was put into the port of this game.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

That looks like a half assed port. Too bad because the game IS awesome...

 

[Kelbear]

That's atrocious, such a shame too because it was an awesome game on the xbox360. Liked it much more than GTA4 (which was also good!)

 

[Horticulture]

The patch seems to help; it runs playably on high settings on my PC (i5 750@stock, 4 gigs DDR3, GTX260, Vista x64). Pretty fun game for 5 bucks.

 

[Russian_Assassin]

The PC port is shite and they still have the nerve to sell it for 20 euros in Greece...

I would rant a bit about how the PC users get treated like shit, but I won't, cause I'm tired as fuck. I will say this: anyone saying that we deserve this treatment and that buying a pc for gaming is useless (look it up, someone said that) I have to say this: Some games are better suited for pcs. That is a fact, a law of nature and you can not deny it. Same goes for consoles. It is frustrating to play an fps or a strategy game with anything but mouse and keyboard and it can be tormenting to platform without analog sticks (there are exceptions, don't start assaulting me).

Everyone has something that makes them special.

Damn, I was supposed to be tired.