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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?

I bought it. I compared it to emulated games, and it's interface to those found in emulators. I complained about the lack of manuals in the box and on the CD. I CALLED IT AN OFFICIAL COPY.

Did I not make it clear enough that this was a totally legal version of the game?

this a real game? or just a ROM?

I need it, otherwise I can't express myself clearly. People kept getting confused about whether or not I was being serious etc.

Idiots.

Heh, they're really that stupid that they left "searching for memory card" in?
Ha.
:-D

And BEARDS., you enjoy using italics now, don't you.
Grrr.

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?