Originally Posted by
fearless-freak
which one
Well in 2007 they released a PC port of Resident Evil 4. It has since been considered one of the worst ports in the history of game. Graphically it was worse than the Gamecube version. If I recall correctly, the cutscenes played at 240x480. The controls were...the nicest way to say it is that they were fuckmothering abominable. It wouldn't be so bad if you could use a controller, but the QTEs will show only numbers - impossible to understand using a keyboard, and just as impossible using a controller. Prone to crashes, glitches, gamebreaking bugs; It was in all forms, complete and utter garbage.
Well a few days ago they released the HD edition on Steam. They decided that the best way to appeal to PC gamers it to brag that it runs at 60 frames per second and runs up to 1080p resolution. Problem is, that the game will lock itself at that framerate even if the computer can't handle it, and everything will move incredibly slowly. Controls are still complete shit, and the worst ones can't be rebound, but at least the mouse can be used to aim, even though it handles like ass. QTEs are even more difficult, since the button prompts are all over the place: X, E, V, left mouse, right mouse. And at 60fps the game suddenly speeds up and you have even less time than before to complete them, or the game won't register you pressing the rapid-tap QTEs fast enough. The game is unplayable for many, is still prone to bugs and crashes, they're deleting complains and stickying praise on the Steam community forums, tends to break the Field of View in resolutions higher than 1080.
Seriously, how the fuck to you look at the state of a game like this - especially considering this game's already terrible reputation in the PC community, and say, "yeah that's perfect, ship that shit out for twenty bucks!"?
You know, I still have a gamecube version of RE4. I played it last year, and I was on my third runthrough when the console died. I had more fun on a decade-old console version than I did this port. I mean, I beat it in the old PC version. I had the mod the ever-loving fuck out of it to get it to work and not look like ass (and quite frankly my modded version looks significantly better than this HD version), but I had to use an xbox controller and mod the button prompts in. And I just beat this one. Aside from sniper, I never touched my keyboard the entire time. The game's still fun and fresh, but playing it in this state makes me die a little inside.