Game ports...

Yesterday Final Fantasy XIII was released for PC, a game that came a long time ago... I never played that one because I didn't have a last generation console, but being a fan of Final Fantasy since I was little I wanted to play it. Though... I suspected it wouldn't be a good port... for some reason Japanese games don't tend to have good ports... and according to what I have read it's because there isn't a market of PC gaming like in the rest of the world. It is completely dominated by console and mobile gaming.

Even though I suspected that it was going to be a bad port, I didn't care, Dark Souls was a complete mess when it came out too and thanks to modders it turned ok...

Yesterday at launch, Final Fantasy XIII had some problems that as of 2014 shouldn't exist, at least not for big publishers/developers... but still they exist.

The first of those problems is the game being locked at certain resolution... in this case it is locked at 720p, luckily it can go up to 60fps (Dark Souls was capped at 30fps), but it doesn't offer any kind of configuration... and I'm no talking of things like anisotropic filtering, antialiasing, depth of field or things like that... it offers nothing... it doesn't have mouse support... keys aren't configurable and the worst thing I found... the game closes completely when you press escape... and I read that if you press alt+f4 it will ask you if  you want to close the game...

The cool part is that it didn't take long for some of these problems to get sorted out... like an hour after the release of the game one guy (the same that made the mods for Dark Souls) was able to unlock the resolution and the game is playable at higher resolutions (I think that up to 4k), and some other are being addressed.

This is one of the main reasons why I prefer PC gaming over console :P

....and things like this... watch at your own risk :P