Man, it appears that all Batman PC games are cursed these days. The first episode of Batman – The Telltale Series has just been released and according to a lot of reports, the PC version is a complete mess.
Right now, the game has a “Mostly Negative” reception on Steam, with users complaining about poor optimization, freezes, crashes and bugs.
Steam members claimed that the dialogue is out of sync, that the game runs with 10fps (even on powerful machines, though performance will vary on different PC systems so you miiiiiight be lucky enough to run the game with better framerates), and that they are unable to change the resolution to 1080p. Ouch.
As one of Steam’s members wrote:
“Can’t even put the game in fullscreen or at 1920×1080. You’ll select your resolution only to have nothing to change, and selecting the full screen option doesn’t do anything.
Then when you go back a few menus the game says “settings have been changed. Apply or Restore” and applying does nothing.”
Another member wrote:
“The new engine ruined it all used to have 60 fps now i got 10 and stutters every few seconds.”
And another Steam member wrote:
“Runs like absolute sh*t. Mouse is laggy and slow, keyboard control is unresponsive as f’, and the actual game is basically a slideshow. Normally I’d write this off as a problem with my computer being kinda crap, but there are -no- options to improve performance by sacrificing graphical quality. I can lower the resolution and turn of anti-aliasing. that’s it. In this day and age, that’s frankly unacceptable. Especially for a game that’s literally all about watching cutscenes, running poorly is a f’in’ killer. Zero Time Dilemma ran perfectly on my system with zero need for tweaking the settings, and that this game – made by people used to developing for PC, no less! – does not is kind of telling.”
So yeah, if you are interested in this new Batman game, we strongly suggest waiting before purchasing it!
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HOW CAN YOU MESS UP A TELLTALE GAME!
let’s see how the ps3/360 versions will turn out 😮
wow
I swear I am beginning to think its an Illuminati conspiracy to make PC look bad and force people to buy all superhero games on consoles.
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I’d sell you a Tinfoil Hat, but I can’t trust you to not be a shill working for Warner Bros. that’s really just secretly attempting to make my premium-grade Tinfoil Hats look like nothing more than overpriced, re-packaged die-shrunk versions of “standard” Tinfoil Hats!
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I feel like it should be pointed out that you are in fact getting swindled. Because you aren’t buying tinfoil hats. They don’t make tinfoil anymore, it’s all aluminum foil, which obviously doesn’t actually protect you like tinfoil does.
today pc gaming don’t have any sense….ps4 is the best choise 😉
For you, sir: L
good luck with bad port and no exclusive!
with this telltale games will drop support for PC 🙂 like warner bros
Good luck with that large amount of ignorance. Enjoy your kids toy.
Paid console shill reporting in?
More like butthurt
“no exlusive”
Thats cute pc has more games than all consoles combined.
You even lost no mans sky.
PoorStation 4!
i dont know whats more painful to watch
the fact you think console gaming is superior or the fact im seeing your peasantry through my 144hz monitor
To be fair peasantry does not register anything higher 30 fps. So he cant read your posts.
Lmfao
Noooo a game released with issues on pc, oh noes how i am going to sleep at night , its like this game will never be patched, which propably will happen before the next episode but you get my point.
doesn’t even need a patch people just need to tweak their graphics setting…
for idiots.
Even Arabic language is another mess
Batman games hate the PC!
No…Batman developers hate us.Not Batman.In fact Batman doesn’t give a s***.Because he’s Batman.Cartoon Network graphics and still not running well? Please excuse me.. il go throw up now
I don’t get it their other games were great on PC. WTF happened? Did they release an alpha build by mistake??
Holy Amazeballs! Bruce ‘Half Assed’ Pain strikes again in PC city.
Telltale has gotten lazy and unwilling to break from their tired formula at this point, not interested in their games anymore. This only cements my decision even further.
Runs at 60 fps for me, but I have to put it at 1080p windowed because 1440p full screen won’t let me move my mouse to the bottom of the screen. I’ve also had multiple CTD’s. The game isn’t great anyway, nothing but QTE action sequences as Batman and dialogue choices as Bruce Wayne. Pretty boring.
It’s quite smooth here.
Telltale’s engine was always a mess, to be fair.
Though usually on last gen consoles, on PC it had a tendency to be more ok.
Hmm to be fear the last game they made had performance issues,
Where is the peasant race here? You compare a game that its levels are no bigger than my backyard and if nathan does anything that the director told him not to do, the game stops and restarts from checkpoint, with arma, a large battle simulator with endless possibilities, mods, scenarios, missions that has a military version that is sold for thousands of $$$$ for military training.
Failed again kiddo.
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Why the Gif is not working?!
The Telltale games aren’t QC’d particularly well at the best of times and the lacking post-release support exacerbates things. But until now the quality of releases has at least been stable, even if it wasn’t great.
How do you even mess a port of a game like this up? Is the Batman IP just cursed on the PC or something?
I just finished the 1st episode, no problems with performance at all. Also, the game is good.
Game has been running 60fps on my pc. Fullscreen 2560×1440 as well. Just picked it up from GOG
Yeap, i think only people with really low-end PCs encountered performance issues.
This just reminded me of the newly-revealed Suicide Squad Reviews.
I mean, it’s like, wow, WB-DC just can’t stop with the EPIC FAILS can they?
Oh, no, wait, I forgot…. It’s all a giant conspiracy by Disney-Marvel to crush the WB-DC DCEU, because competition amongst CBM’s is actually, really not healthy!
Or, rather, I suppose in this particular case, it’ll come down to whatever excuse they’ll come up with this time to excuse &/or justify DC’s latest turd blossom.
Because apparently there’s just no chance in hell that WB-DC is simply, merely run by incompetent half-wits? Hm. I guess not 🙁
Oh well.
Well, it’s partly a hate on DC because marvel had success with their cinematic universe first-thing.
But mostly it’s just DC letting people take too many liberties with their IPs while making the movies while still trying to cram in too many storylines in one movie.
(Wall of text, my bad ^^)
Sure, WB has long prided itself on being the “hands off” studio in Hollywood in regards to leaving a vision as intact as possible as often as possible (largely unlike the rest of them), but in Suicide Squad’s case I’m not so sure if it’s another case of liberties, as it undoubtedly was with BvS, or rather, post-BvS flunking producer over-intrusiveness, of the “Marvel did this, so you’re going to do it too!” nature.
I.E. BvS definitely needed far more oversight than Snyder was actually given (especially in light of the mediocre reception & extensive controversy its predecessor, Man of Steel, had already generated around him), whereas it seems on the other hand, Suicide Squad needed less oversight, & more unhindered vision.
SPOILERS: For example, they seem to have ripped the “pop song” thing from Guardians of the Galaxy & shoe-horned it into Suicide Squad solely because of GotG’s success with it, resulting in the same awkward “music video-style” edits we’ve had to suffer through for the last few months in all the “post-BvS epic fail” Suicide Squad Trailers.
Not to mention the rumours that the first “comedy-oriented” trailer they released allegedly contained all of the actual “fun parts” of the movie, which resulted in WB-DC ordering extensive, extremely costly re-shoots once the “comedy trailer” got an extremely positive reception, which of course means the final version of Suicide Squad, as released to the general audiences now is one that WB-DC has already meddled with in an attempt to “fix” &/or “salvage” it by making it it more “comical” due to the negative reception that “dark & gritty” has accumulated around itself recently.
As such, personally I can’t help but wonder; perhaps if they’d given Snyder better oversight (or just told him to directly adapt The Dark Knight Returns, with a few modifications as-needed to setup the DCEU), & interfered less with Ayer’s original dark & gritty vision of the Suicide Squad (not to mention allowing an R-Rating to happen, especially after Deadpool’s mega-success with it), they would have both fared far better. Instead, they seem to have just made all the wrong choices, yet again.
Not that Disney’s faring any better, apparently, if the latest Rogue One rumours are to be believed.
Although, to be fair, regardless of re-shoots or “tone lightening”, Suicide Squad was always going to have issues. They tried to do an Avengers movie without all the “prequel” setup movies for the characters (which is something they’re also trying to do with Justice League, by-the-by), & of course, that simple decision alone generated an entire host of issues, since that approach means you’re basically forced to spend a certain amount of your screen time individually presenting & explaining every-single member of your team, “because you have to.”
But yeah, good job DC, making all the wrong moves yet again.
I was at a blink of buying a Telltale game. Now I’m glad I didn’t.
Like Hector said, how in the absolute heck can you ruin such a game?
Well of course it is! Now I am genuinely surprised when a game can pull solid frames on PC. Closed console marketplaces cater to publishers and their DLC/MT/SP price gouging, which is why MS has been desperately forcing UWP. They still try to pull this same garbage on PCs, but they really want all gamers on console when there is more to overcome for them on PC. We can see through their “24fps is cinematic” vomit, we have more marketplace choices, more sales (with better discounts), conditional refunds (at least it’s there in some form), free online, more 60+fps games, and the ability to mod games which is the bane of publishers who want to sell us previously in-game cut content in the form of DLC/MT a few months later. The list can go on and on. PUBLISHERS want us to pay for all of that in the form of “features” they can sell us. Smh that this is still happening.
Yet people will still preorder games. Some poeple never learn. Personally I have a wait time of 90 days. I wait until 3 months after release before I consider buying a game. What do I get by preoredering ? A $3 discount is what was offered for this game at Steam and GOG.
Yeah these games made on purpose with bad ports, And if you think not then ok let see , so they make a pc port and what they dont test it ?? What they dont see that it runs like garbage everything is done to make pc look bad and if you think its not then lol
OMG -_- Its like the PC is cursed to get crappy Batman games forever >_>
Scary.
Glad I don’t care. Daedalic Entertainment are PC devs and much better than overrated Telltale.
This is fun, i can run Batman Arkham Knight at 30 fps (lock), but i run THIS game at 15 fps! WTF Telltale! Batman games are cursed!
I really hope they don’t f*ck up TWD S3
batman the pc game detective is the pc GOTY every year, play it guys, all you have to do it is deep dive in the .ini oceans of pc gaming and virus filled forums, good luck pc peasants, o ummm i mean pc master race of course lmaoooooo whoooo
no problems on my PS4, are you guys exited for FFXV?? The Last Guardian??? oh wait…. wrong comment section lmaoooooo
What are those, obviously console exclusives, and the reason I switched from PS2 to PC. They are not games for the platform I chose, so I have no knowledge of them, and no interest in them.
I’m only interested in games released on the platform I use, with the operative word being released. I take no notice of marketing/hype.
So I have no exitement for anything, I’m not actually playing now.
Rarely will that be a recent release, more likely to be the final release, when I can get all the content in one go, moddings better as well, a year or two later.
On console you must use what you are given, where I will make the game run better, as I can change things you will never access, even simple ini settings are hidden from you. Those with PC’s less powerful than your console, can adapt games to their hardware, you never will.
you’re right, pc has no games, and since you don’t play any games that’s the best platform for you
now it has mostly possitive reviews. What happend:? did they fixed it in day?!