I was in the PC beta for this game, and I'm going to shun it. Not because of any moral BS, but because I thought the game sucked compared to other offerings out there.
In terms of graphics, FarCry 2 was quite impressive (on PC), however the repetitive gameplay was pretty horrible. IMO, FarCry (The pc verison, not the console "instincts" spin off) was a much better game, however I feel crysis was the true successor to farcry, and farcry 2 should have carries a different name altogether.
Well, 2 main reasons really:
1. Digit distribution is probably the main method of getting PC games now.
2. All PC games run off of hard drive installations, not disks, so even though games come with multiple dvd's, once a game is installed its no long necessary to ever switch disks.
Although many newer pc's do come with blue-ray drives, they aren't necessary for gaming under current methods.
Open dvd tray.
Remove archaic dvd game disk.
Insert another said disk.
Repeat constantly throughout game experience.
Yeah, people really need to calm down about this. You get so many hours of what we now think of as "double xp" then another so many more of regular xp, which slowly tapers off to 0xp over a period of time. You by no means have to stop playing at that point, they are just limiting character progression so powerleveler's don't reach max level in two days. You can still quest/craft/get loot whatever, after this time period, you just don't get more xp till the next week. ...
I really wonder what they spent that 100 million on. The game looks ok, but they didn't have to develop the engine, from what I hear there isn't a ton of content, so what did they actually do to spend that much money?
He said, PC, not windows. Believe it or not, the mac is also a personal computer.
@MorganX
Bungie was by no means an insignificant developer before M$ came along. They had the Marathon and Myth series (both AAA for the time), Oni, as well as several other franchises and published games. Halo already was in a running state cited for MacOS release when M$ swept in and took over the studio. The ONLY thing M$ did was try to sercure their own exclusivity to the game. ...
The best option is to go PC for multiplats/pc exclusives, and have a ps3 on the side for any of its must have exclusives. You could always buy even more systems, but those 2 will pretty much cover your bases.
Why in hell would you use "lag" to describe loading times? They are entirely different systems. Though I guess a lot of dumb people also use lag to define poor frame rates. Sigh.
Its all in perspective. If you mostly play games on 360 it will probably look fine to you. If you mostly play games on PC it will probably look horrid. Some people just have higher standards.
HOLY CRAP! PS3 Jailbreak reduces internet latencey! CONFIRMED!
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because if m$ let the games speak for themselves...
I agree, but I'm not so sure how closely tied the two companies are. From what I've looked into, it seems that Activision doesn't own Blizzard, or vice versa. They are still seperate companies, both owned by Vivendi. Keeping my fingers crossed that Diablo doesn't get DLC'd to hell and back (no pun intended :p) like most Activision games. Seems Vivendi is the big winner in the scheme of things.
Lol, because there aren't games that nobody cares about on consoles too :P
The only problem I see here is that I don't like to sit 6 feet away from my computer screen. Makes it hard to read the text or type :)
Well, i'm assuming thats a sarcastic comment. And for that reason I find it awesome. Its about the only thing Microsoft could do to make people buy Kinect :p
Scared me for a second, when you said Battlefield3 was coming to consoles. I was like NOOOOO!!! So then I researched it. It is still hasn't been officially announced on consoles. Not that I dislike consoles, I play my PS3 all the time, but a TRUE Battlefield2 sequel couldn't be pulled off on a console. They'd have to dumb it down, and then the PC fanboys would OMGWTF RAGE. :)
most newer games have the new patches on the disk, and install them mandatory, so if you're gonna play new games on it, you're gonna get updated.
yeah, i was going to comment too on that...the interviewer was very awkward/uncomfortable.
True, it is a beta. But the beta is for tweaking gameplay, which it did need some of. However, the biggest things that turned me off was the actual engine used for the game, the character and weapon models, the map design, textures, processing effects, etc. It all just looked bad. These are things that won't likely change from the beta to the release. I played the game on PC, and this looked like a low end console game.