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"Lazy conversions"

I was playing an official copy of Breath of Fire 4 (originally for the PS) on my PC yesterday (what can I say, I found a copy dead cheap and had to buy it) and found something really irritating: The control configuration was less thought out than that of the average emulator. In fact, the button configuration could have been ripped straight out of a SNES emu that I... once saw running.

Now Capcom - the company who made the game - are one who I have great respect for, but the game came with no manual, not even a .pdf one hidden on the disc, no mouse support whatsoever, and one of the least intuitive default keyboard set ups I've ever encountered. When you save the game I'm quite certain it even flashes up "searching for memory card" for a fraction of a second.

To be frank, I'm disenheartened. How could they port a title without making any effort whatsoever to blend it into its new surroundings, and still call themselves a quality company?

Bust-a-move 4 on the Dreamcast slows down under intense load, despite the fact a Gameboy Advance is easily capable of throwing that quantity of sprite-age about. If it as smooth as silk on a Playstation, why does it crunch on a Dreamcast?!

Syphonical wrote:
> You know, when i saw this topic i felt sure it was called 'Lazy
> CONVERSATIONS', i was looking forward to a nice litle chat and a cup
> of tea, damn you!

Heh, I thought that as well. In fact, had I not seen your post there, I was about to ask what this has to do with conversations. Silly me.
I should pay more attention to topic titles.

I WANT MY TEA!!

You know, when i saw this topic i felt sure it was called 'Lazy CONVERSATIONS', i was looking forward to a nice litle chat and a cup of tea, damn you!

So it's kinda like the original GTA3 on PS2.
Decent enough idea and game, just shoddily made.
Hmmm.

I'm still on your desk.

Damnit, it's a good game, it's just been shoddily done. I actually had to resort to an online walkthrough to work out a few of the control specifics.

When I see something cheap I just buy it and end up leaving it onmy desk and never using it and when someone asks o use it I say no. Hmm. Must be something in the water.

See, that is an easy 2 minute conversion and yet people still spend money on it and the companys wealth still grows, and at what expense? the expense of BEARDS happieness, poor BEARDS...

BEARDS. wrote:
> Did I not make it clear enough that this was a totally legal version
> of the game?


im an idiot...
If you dont say it perfectly clear, i wont pick it up. But now youve told me i can reply with something (slightly) intelligent.





lazy buggers