Broken Sega Games

[RedYellowBlueCR]

This is a plea to Sega,

Please, stop selling us broken games here on Steam. It seems that Sega as a whole has a notorious track record for releasing sub-par and broken PC games. If your going to release a game for PC, do it right. Most of your paying customers are extremely frustrated.

Now, I am one of those who purchased Sonic 4 and Sonic CD as soon as it launched on Steam. I am fortunate enough that they launched flawlessly with no problems at all. But as I have read through the forums, there are MANY people who are experiencing issues with these games and various other titles. Its sad to see, really. I had massive problems with the Sonic DX port myself and I wasn't too thrilled about that.

Now, I realize that a lot of problems can spawn from inadequate hardware or bad configurations, but the issues I am seeing exceed the bounds of the user's fault. There is just a lot of sloppy programming and a user should not have to deal with that, especially when they have paid for the material.

I use to expect great things from Sega. And now all I get is disappointments time and time again. What's the deal? If anyone agrees, let's hear it. I really hope Sega is paying attention to this.

[mikeyinlove]

I agree as well. Sega used to be much better in the past. Whether its new employees, or whatever. But the PC isn't getting much love in terms of sales. because people can torrent. i suppose it might make the workers less motivated on the porting. so. i dont know. just a thought.

anyways. i do hope that Sega goes back to how it used to be again. maybe make another console like they did in the past. i think they would make something interesting.

[Zvenalot]

If they don't want people to torrent they need to release games that work properly for pc, stop making ♥♥♥♥ty ports and make em pc worthy, then people will buy those games rather then encouraging ♥♥♥♥ty consoles and ♥♥♥♥ty ports.

[Emmy]

Agreed Zven.
No one wants to pay for these half-assed ports.

The recent release of Sonic 4 EP2 had improper resolution support.
A fan made a patch consisting of a whole one line of code that fixed the problem.

The patch made the resolution properly change as well as support anti-aliasing whereas the default game did none of that.

Which one seems right?
http://i.imgur.com/yQAxM.jpg

Sega are supposed to be professionals but guess what was coming in the default game?
The first.

Here's my own personal comparison of the default game, the patched, and then the patched with AA.
http://i.imgur.com/rb7Az.jpg

There was some big threads on it over at the Sega forums.

Since then, they have finally made the game support other resolutions but you still can't use anti-aliasing unless on 16:9 which the fan-patch made it possible to on any resolution.


It's things like this that are terrible.
However not all games suffer as much. Sonic Generations looks great and even had some built-in AA. There was one problem with non-360 gamepads though, but it was an easy fix. :\

[Zlexpro]

Hmm, yeah this must be a Sonic-Steam games only problem, since I still have my Sonic DX cd, and I've never had any problems with that at all. I'll try to buy those sonic games on steam, and I'll see if I can figure out a fix to all these mad problems! :)