Obviously.
Fair enough - care to shed some light on the specifics?
New 'The Force Unleashed' Trailer
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Obviously.
Fair enough - care to shed some light on the specifics?
Starcraft II
Spore
Subversion
Battlefield Heroes / Quake Live*
Empire: Total War
Project Offset**
*I imagine I'll end up playing either one or the other, not both.
**Not announced as PC exclusive, but following Intel's acquisition of Offset Software, Remi Arnaud's comments on the game, and the subsequent removal of the supported platforms section on the website, I think it's a reasonable assumption.
That list just reinforces to me that it was a really good idea to jump ship. It's all RTS and FPS, two genres which I largely have no interest in. In the case of the latter, purely because it's become a stagnant mess of tedious, generic nonsense.
Can a decent rig from 5 years ago run all of those at reasonably high settings? I doubt it.
Can a decent rig from 5 years ago run all of those at reasonably high settings? I doubt it.
About the only PC exclusive I'm really interested in is Diablo 3, and even then, it's only because I wanted it back when I played Diablo 2 way back when.
Speaking as a PC owner as well as an owner of a Xbox 360, a PS3, a PSP and a DS, I've yet to see a console game as good as Half-Life 2.
Despite all the noise they make, though, the most popular PC games are indeed not games like Crysis. They're games like The Sims and World of Warcraft which have relatively low system requirements.
I'm almost glad EA Sports are not concentrating to heavily on the PC versions of their sports games anymore, though. The PC version of FIFA is a bad port of the Playstation 2 version. The 360 and PS3 versions are far superior.
The Wii version will have an actual Lightsaber duel section. When you're character is fighting with the lightsaber you're the one doing to moves.
Speaking as a PC owner, as well as a 360, Wii and a PSP, I think Half Life 2 is the very best game of its kind by a significant margin.
But I've moved on.
I want to play the latest triple-A titles (Fable 2, Fallout 3, Force Unleashed, etc) and I don't want to bankrupt myself doing it. Those games *will* have high system requirements, and they're best enjoyed on a console with a minimum of fuss and faffing about as far as I'm concerned.
If the best argument for the PC as a gaming platform vs a current gen console is "most people play shitty old games" then it's no wonder developers are jumping ship.
Just to clarify, because I'm starting to sound like a ph4nbo1, I don't dislike the PC at all. In fact, I've spent most of the last ten years being a PC gamer exclusively. It's just that this generation of consoles offers me something better, and the PC gaming market has become stagnant. At the end of the day I enjoy playing the games I like, whichever platform allows me to do that gets my money. Simple as. If it had more decent RPGs and open-world actioners, and less generic-as-fuck FPSs, I will happily dust off my GPU.
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As I've already said, I pretty much agree with everything you're saying. I always saw my self primarily as a PC gamer, although I have had consoles ranging back to the Atari and the NES, I also had C64, Speccy games. But to me, PC games always had the edge of being easier to control, and being more innovative. But recently that's all stagnated, I find the Xbox controls to be very comfortable, and PC games don't really do anything new, that captures my interest.
Sure I find Spore interesting, but isn't that multiplatform? Diablo 3, again I'm interested, but we know it'll be nothing but the same old game play we've had for year.
I'm not saying consoles are more innovative, but at least I don't have to upgrade when some company does a poorly optimised port, that needs double the specification it has on the console version.
Between Bioshock and Portal, also to a lesser STALKER and TF2, I think 2007 was the best year for the FPS genre in a long while, however in general I'd agree that it's fallen on hard times since the turn of the millenium. Of course I also file HL2 under the "stagnant mess of tedious, generic nonsense" category. Mirror's Edge and Project Offset are the only FPS games I'm really looking forward to, Quake Live being essentially a re-release of Quake III.
I'd love to see a modern 6DOF FPS like Descent, Forsaken, etc.
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I have been following this game for awhile. I cannot wait until it comes out. The new trailer just makes the wait more difficult.
Definitely looks like the story element is going to be very intense in this game and add in the missing lore between episode 3 and 4. The trailer shows a young Princess Leia.
Definitely looks like the story element is going to be very intense in this game and add in the missing lore between episode 3 and 4. The trailer shows a young Princess Leia.
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...want.
Will sell furniture to own.
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Will sell furniture to own.
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I knew you'd like it, J.
Yeah. What do you get a guy who loves Star Wars, unlimited power and the ability to choose the ever so delicious dark side?
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Apparently Nintendo wont allow a lightsaber wiimote because of health and safety concerns. but i found these 3rd party kits for the normal wii remotes which look sweet.
Apparently Nintendo wont allow a lightsaber wiimote because of health and safety concerns. but i found these 3rd party kits for the normal wii remotes which look sweet.
Really cute but I'm not gonna suffer through last gen tech to swing a plastic stick around.
But that's just me.
I have never, ever understood why some people think it's a good idea to attach worthless lumps of plastic to wiimotes.
What, does it enhance gameplay? No.
Does it change the fact that Nintendo sold you a Gamecube again?
Nah.
What, does it enhance gameplay? No.
Does it change the fact that Nintendo sold you a Gamecube again?
Nah.
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