Saints Row 2 brings PC gaming to shame

[sneakypenguin]

I don't see why people buy PCs for gaming anyway. They are more expensive than buying all of the consoles you would need to play games across the board, and PCs outdate a lot faster. Only games I play on my laptop are retro. For my other gaming needs, I spent roughly 600 on a PS3 and roughly 300 on my 360. It rounds to 900 and my laptop, not a gaming system but relatively good when I bought it, was 1100. You do the math. Oh wait, I already did. Sorry for the loss on Saints Row 2. It's pretty good on Xbox

You spent too much on your laptop.

But even then, your laptop provides you with infinitely more utility than all of your underpowered consoles. So the question you should really be asking yourself is: Why are consoles so expensive when they do so little and are inherently designed to be obsolete in a couple years?

I don't know for me 220 bucks for a arcade with the 20 GB harddrive fills my gaming and movie watching need wonderfully. Well worth the money for me anyways.

I don't know that he spent too much on his laptop, maybe in todays market but if he bought it a few years ago that was pretty much the norm.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

Try and port Crysis to a PS3 and then tell me PC gaming has been "brought to shame".

Well considering that their machines cost a lot more than ours it would seem they would have a right to cry out against being ignored.
PS3: $600.
CHEAPEST PC in a gaming magazine: $699
MOST EXPENSIVE PC in a gaming magazine: $1539

So you can see here with the money they usually spend to make their systems bad asses that they have a right to complain when they were just insulted by lazy developers who tried to make a quick dollar off of a port.

What gaming magazine do you read? In the one I read, they have a number of system suggestions, from the meek, which works out to be between $550 - $600 to "The Beast" which is usually in excess of $15000 (Australian dollars).

Um... The EGM one about the Watchmen game is where I got it from. So considering that's basically a console magazine then I would assume that they could get away with far fetched prices.

 

[LewsTherin]

I don't see why people buy PCs for gaming anyway. They are more expensive than buying all of the consoles you would need to play games across the board, and PCs outdate a lot faster. Only games I play on my laptop are retro. For my other gaming needs, I spent roughly 600 on a PS3 and roughly 300 on my 360. It rounds to 900 and my laptop, not a gaming system but relatively good when I bought it, was 1100. You do the math. Oh wait, I already did. Sorry for the loss on Saints Row 2. It's pretty good on Xbox

You spent too much on your laptop.

But even then, your laptop provides you with infinitely more utility than all of your underpowered consoles. So the question you should really be asking yourself is: Why are consoles so expensive when they do so little and are inherently designed to be obsolete in a couple years?

It's a money grab. If they made a console up to snuff with PC gaming, it wouldn't be made obsolete for at least twice as long as they regularly forecast consoles. But then again, consoles would just be PC's without the other functions, so they would be made obsolete anyway. It's lose-lose for the console-peasants.

 

[jamesworkshop]

PC's hardly ever get old you just get new organs (hardware) in the same body (case)
besides if saints row 2 looks that bad its hardly a good exsample of the 360's quality
its a real shame about the game I thought ports were going to get better after I played Devil may cry 4 and before anyone says otherwise needing a gamepad does not make it a bad port.

 

[runtheplacered]

GTA IV ran like a champ completely maxed out for me. Not once did I even get a hint of video lag or anything of the sort.

Saints Row 2, on the other hand, ran like crap and looked like crap. I couldn't even be bothered to play it.

 

[FURY_007]

Wow another example of console fanboys I'd like to pay only once to play online, thanks. And also my PC cost under 900 and runs crysis on full, thanks to good friends chucking parts and finding good deals on a graphics card.

And combined steam and blizzard, I'm sure the numbers are greater than live, plus you don't have to deal with annoying kids.

And why the FUCK would you blame the PC gamer on why SR2 had such a crappy port, that absolutely makes no sense and you are the reason PC gamers think console gamers are stupid, I personally don't but you are making mestsrt to think that.

Rant over.

To get on the topic, yea I was very dissappointed, in fact I have a trip to go shooting coming up, so that might find itself on the bad end of the barrel

 

[Ronwue]

More and more games are thought out to fit on the console and it's sort of irritating. I wish times were back when developers had one sort of thing to focus on. Do you think Quake, DOOM, StarCraft, Diablo and other classics would be as they were if they were thought to fit on consoles? PC gaming is here for a reason. It should stay PC gaming.

 

[sunami88]

Yep, I can confirm this. I just got done playing the game (15 minutes was about all I could take).

The game defaulted to 800x600, which I promptly changed... no widescreen. Why the HELL would it default to 800x600?
The sound did seem to be mono, but my speaker set up kinda sucks so I won't say specifically.
I got an fps between 15-25, I'd say the average was ~17.

My PC:
Proc: Core2Quad Q9400 (2.66Ghz, FSB: 1333 mhz)
Ram: 4 gigs Corsair Dominator (5-5-5-18, running at 1111 mhz)
GPU: EVGA GTX 260 Superclocked (and overclocked from there)

Thats pretty damned unacceptable.

 

[Honkifyoulovepeaceandquiet]

To Eggo- Yeah, it was a lot of money. However, it was top of the line when I got it, and I was able to write it of of my taxes as a college expense. So in the end I probably spent closer to 700 on it. Still a lot, but there ya go.

 

[VTNC]

Here's a fun fact for everyone that says PC gamers pirate more than console gamers:

If you're outside the u.s., canada, japan, u.k. or australia odds are that you will never, ever see a non-modded console

(with the possible exception of the PS3 which barely holds any market share in those countries anyway)

In fact, thanks to PC online gaming and PC gamers having money, there's less piracy on the PC than on consoles (in those countries)

 

[david27]

thats a good thing i didnt buy saints row 2 since i have to play on custom mode in graphics which i regret buying gta 4 since it completely didnt work on my pc and those who say why not just buy a system you are correct problems would be solved for pc gamers to switch to a ps3 or xbox ( i would if my parents let me buy one) the gay part of saints row 2 is playing in very low graphics. the games graphics looks like the simpsons hit and run ( i dont know bout you guys )

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

Look, game's really brilliant. Just play console version, PC port is screwed, even graphically.

 

[drakenabarion]

I want to buy it for 5 Euro. I mean I wouldn't pay full price for a game that is poorly ported and I wont buy the console version because they NEED to learn that PC is as valid a gaming system as a console.

Unfortunately, this will probably mean that they blame the lack of sales on Piracy. (I am still annoyed at Ubisoft blaming piracy for not releasing DLC for Prince of Persia. Thats simply unfair and really unjustified.)

Here is a suggestion:
Is there a patch to improve the game issues?

For Oblivion, there was a patch that allowed it to run on lower spec systems. Apparently the game was coded poorly and some fans fixed it and allowed it to run on system with a lot lower specs than the recommended minimum.

 

[Zersy]

Well most developers just prefer to work on a console rather then a PC.

for so many obvious reasons.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

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.

 

[teutonicman]

Wow looks like they didn't give a shit when saints 2 was brought over to the PC.

 

[Nimbus]

Look, game's really brilliant. Just play console version, PC port is screwed, even graphically.

Why bump a half year old topic?

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

Look, game's really brilliant. Just play console version, PC port is screwed, even graphically.

Why bump a half year old topic?

There's a new thread here, basically same as this topic.

 

[KaiRai]

-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.