Tales of Symphonia has just been released on the PC and… it’s a mess. According to various reports, the game’s internal resolution is locked at 720p and its framerate is locked at 30fps. Moreover, there are lots of typos in the PC version; typos that weren’t present in the PS3 version (from which the PC version was ported).
It’s really disappointing witnessing a game releasing in this form on Steam, as the team responsible for the PC version did not put any real effort at all.
What’s also ironic is that the game uses a DRM called VMProtect, that creates a new *.exe everytime the game starts. Hilarious stuff.
And as you may have guessed, the game still shows the PS3 buttons on screen, thus making it really frustrating when you are using the keyboard or a different controller.
In short, the PC version of Tales of Symphonia is really, really, really disappointing in most aspects.
Here is hoping that either Bandai Namco fixes those issues via a post-launch patch, or modders fix this mess.
Until then, stay away from it!
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PS3 button prompts is a plus for some of us who use dualshocks.
pc gaming suck,only indie and console port 🙁
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Nice m8
#pcmasterrace.. oh wait.. lol
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That’s a shame; I enjoyed my first Tales game with Zestiria and was looking forward to this.
The sooner Weeaboos stop supporting sh*tty Japanese console ports, the faster we’ll get more effort on their part. Capcom has shown that not all Japanese companies are like this, and some will deliver great ports as shown with the recent Dragon’s Dogma.
Dragon dogma pc version was done by QLOC not capcom. Since 2011 most pc version of capcom games are done by QLOC that is a small Polish comapny that why they are so good
That explains why their ports are so…polished.
LOL, your comment goes right with your avatar.
Yep. They’re likely a more expensive option too. Whatever the case, CAPCOM made the correct decision on how to port their games.
Where are people getting this notion that bad Japanese ports are getting supported? As far as I know all of the terrible ports have gotten plenty of backlash.
There’s a community of corporate slave weebs on the Steam Community forum that’s there solely for the purpose of hyping up the game, and combatting anyone who dares bringing up something “bad” like framerate, resolution and other technical affairs. This tends to start from the moment a game’s board goes up, so months before the actual game launches to begin with.
To them, the mere act of these games appearing on Steam means they’re worthy of white knighting against the evil PC gamers with standards!
So imagine you’re with the company responsible for this product, and you see fanboys not only accepting but even defending your technical issues… would you really still give a fuck about delivering a solid product, or just lazily give the apologists exactly what they seem to want?
“combatting anyone who dares bringing up something “bad” like framerate”
it’s like 20 people and they are everywhere. you can see them in every forum post and or in every negative review comments. it’s like a job or something i guess.
yesterday square banned a guy on steam who says tomb raider optimization is terrible and he shared some videos and stuff but they didn’t banned these shill who insulted whom ever they want on that same thread.
Still those are a minority, you can check steamspy and see the tecmo koei number sales, most of their games doesnt even reach 10k sales. Tecmo Koei has been of the worst porters ever and still some fanboys has been defending the lack of effort on their ports, they are noisy on the forums but not good enough to convince others to buy those games.
…lol
And nothing of value was lost.
Tales of Symphonia is really good so yes, value was lost. Good thing we have emulators.
Serious question: Why does everyone expect the port to have features that the game is being ported from does not have?
The PS3 version is 720p/30fps so if this is a PORT (basically just making the thing run in another platform) and was never advertised as an enhanced edition, so why is it “a mess”?
Are you able to play the game start to finish without crashing, save corruption or some other weird crap then the port is just that, a port so you can play the game on your PC.
Not defending anyone here, but I’ve always been curious as to why PC ports have to be better than their source. Why do developers need to make the game better and sell it at a lower price?
Because playing a 720p locked game in a monitor with a higher res makes the game looks arsey. And I won’t even bring the framerate into the discussion u.u
Oh and the fact that is a port isnt even a good excuse to that.
As Gaben once said: piracy is a service issue.
And this game already had a “free” version around with Dolphin, one that runs at 60fps (50 for the PAL version) and where you can up the internal rendering resolution to whatever you them to be. Oh, and those cool outlines that make the characters looks more anime/cartooney aren’t removed there either.
So why pay for an inferior version instead? It’s not like the official one will run any better on older PCs or anything either…
Post battle screens:
http://i.imgur.com/yTJoSUX.jpg
http://s21.postimg.org/x494q09ad/image.png
First save point:
http://puu.sh/mSAIj/701c2bb2af.jpg
http://puu.sh/mSAhM/8b454b28f7.png
Don’t even need to tell which pic is which.
My only problem with the GC version that the skits aren’t voiced :
Well, they still aren’t voiced in the PS3 or PC releases, unless you play in Japanese.
I like how console folk parrot how PC is bad because of some bad ports instead of actually pointing the finger at the real and only culprit, the devs themselves. Though of course they won’t ever do that because why would they bite the loyal hand that feeds them?.
Also wasn’t this game the one you had to pre-order another Tales game just to make it so they would eventually release this title onto PC?.
“DRM called VMProtect”
i bet it was more expensive than the port itself.
LOL, the game doesnt work if you dont have a C: drive
It took Durante 14 minutes to unlock the resolution. You can find the fix on his blog.
The worst Tales game in the franchise to me, the one I regret to have played. Anyway what a poor port, using Dolphin we can render it at 1080p and get 60fps, this is rubbish.
just bring it to console so you can make money…no pc gamer will buy it if its lock unless a mod unlocks it which has already happened.just put it on console to make money..lol
Why has this website been invaded by so many conslol fantards?. I come to this site to get away from console fantards like HVD, yet here he is making three different accounts to troll
Say “NO” to framerate locked ports.