I’m not paying full price for a 12 years old game you fucker

  • KoboldKomrade [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    10 days ago

    Like half a year ago I got into the mood for some Total war. Went to play Rome 1, on steam. Game was busted, wouldn’t load. They don’t even sell it anymore, they ‘patched’ it and now sell a “remake” that is dogbutt phone slop. Somehow it looks and plays worse then the original. Despite it “running the same game logic underneath”.

    I thought maybe W10 finally broke a 20 year old game, but I put my trust into a russian site hosting the original exe and it worked. Crashed once coming back from a battle, but worked more then the ‘patch’.

    Drove me up the wall because I had played it for the first time in like 21 or 22 and it worked fine. Same basic PC (I think I replaced the gpu?).

    Companies need to be forced to open source any code after 20 years. Fuck your “IP”, you made millions already. I work on legacy code. Almost none of it has gone 30 years unchanged. I JUST changed some code that might not even run anymore, and it can vote in 2026. Because tech has changed from 2008 (last mark I saw on the file, maybe was updated later but I didn’t care to look at the diff tree). No shot any of the code CA has for Rome, or medieval, or shogun 2, or rome 2, is relevant to their “trade secrets”.

    There are literal MMOs from the mid 90s that have been put back online because the guys open sourced it after they closed shop (Meridan 59 for example, some real classic fantasy pixel art in that game). But one of the “greatest games ever” is no longer legally available and nearly impossible to run. Denuvo/DRM, the mess that the “software stack” has become, and the “live service” model is gonna kill any “good” games from this era. Throwaway culture to the extreme.

    Feel like I’m going to turn into a boomer about tech, despite being born during Clinton.

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      I think it’s playable. Like 10 months ago I played one of the first accessible versions and it had tech issues but I beat up to Father Gascoigne before deciding to come back later when the FPS was more stable and it didn’t crash during cutscenes. Looking up some videos of gameplay, people seem to have it at a smooth 60fps now.

      • mrfugu [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        10 days ago

        It could be a nationality/currency thing. If you want and we remember I could gift it to you when the winter sale comes up. I got DS3 + DLCs for $40 usd in the fall sale, SOTFS is definitely cheaper than that during sale times. The remaster of DS1 usually gets down to $20 but there’s very little reason to get it when you have PTDE (unless you really want to play pvp/co op)

        • RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          5·
          10 days ago

          Thanks for the offer but I don’t wanna risk getting a ban and losing my library with dozens of games I’ve never played nor will ever. Nor the three steam contacts I’ve never interacted with

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      I actually just watched a video with a side by side that kinda convinced me the OG crash looked nicer outside of cutscenes. Although that was the switch version tbf.

    • machinya [it/its, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      n sane trilogy was more like a graphical remake than an hd remaster tho. even if they aimed for fidelity on original gameplay, they redid most assets and tried to add quality of life features to it. regular hd remasters tend to just tune the rendering params and maybe updating the textures but games look almost the same

  • ThunderComplex@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    Do you want to play MGS3 on Steam?
    “Yea”
    Ok, we remade it from scratch, $80 pls

    (The infuriating part is that this strategy works)