Comments on: Assassin’s Greed

By: ISIS

ISIS — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:55:23 +0000

Game is great, but the ending leaves a whole lot to be desired.

By: Me

Me — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:55:59 +0000

Could have been a big hit and leap bravely off of the rooftops, but instead it fell short of the mark and dropped into the alley somewhere among the bins and last week’s kebabs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:10:44 +0000

Hah, the most demanding? You joking right? This game runs smoothly with maxium quality for me when Crysis works well only with medium settings. Anyway, I think this is the best game ever made (and I have played hundreds), only real problem is crashing and minor bugs like with camera.

By: endorphine

endorphine — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:34:18 +0000

Maximum ram a 32 interface can old is 2.5G, 80% of people are fucked!

By: Chis

Chis — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:19:26 +0000

And I’d consider myself a serious gamer and don’t have a 360.

Because, as I’m sure Malkav is already aware, owning an Xbox 360 is not like owning any other console where you can just put the disc/cart in the console and it plays. No, there are strings attached. A huge caveat. Remember, this is a Microsoft console. And unlike their typically excellent mice and keyboards, 360′s aren’t manufactured by Logitech.

It will work like that for a few months until overheating brings on the Red Ring Of Death. So when you’re not hoping the bastard thing will stay alive long enough to finish that next level/mission/whatever, it’s off to MS to be “repaired”. For the 357th time.

It’ll be a cold day in hell before I buy a 360.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:10:32 +0000

Re: all the comments about “How can the 360 run that, if it requires that?” Well, some of that smacks of poor optimization, obviously, but it is as ever necessary to recall that console specs do not stack exactly against PC specs even now, because they are built and optimized specifically for running games. And because developers have a single fixed hardware target that they aren’t ever going to be able to get with a PC.

And I’d consider myself a serious gamer and don’t have a 360. Funds haven’t been sufficient to spring for the obscene prices all the consoles this generation launched at, except for the Wii, and the Wii, quite apart from the shortages, has yet to convince me I want one. I think I may get an Arcade in a bit, but the “360-but-not-for-PC” listing of games I want is still quite small, so it’s not seeming all that pressing. And I speak as someone who owns a PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, Dreamcast, GBA SP, DS, and PSP. I’m not against consoles, I just don’t find any of this gen worth their asking prices so far.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:23:26 +0000

Geesh! What a crock! Don’t they read valve’s statistics? Hardly anyone meets those requirements. I’m going to call this phenomenon the “Crysis crisis”. Why the hell can the 360 run it, if it needs something that beefy? The 360 isn’t even close to that. Oh wait… the 360 doesn’t run vista.

It’s pretty funny to hear microsoft talk about how they are going to revive the pc gaming market. Vista is having the opposite effect. It’s such a pity linux can’t compete in gaming, if we could run these games on linux natively, we’d be creating the cleanest, fastest, most minimal linux distro just for it, then run them on half the hardware windows needs (not that “half” really makes any sense, but I know what I mean). Ohhhh one day!

Ideally though, developers would make their games much more scalable for different hardware. I know AC and Crysis look more super awesome and all, but valve does a great job of making the HL2 episodes automatically detect it’s settings and run on just about anything. Ubisoft isn’t even trying here.

I really like the approach EA took with the Sims Episodes series. They’ve made it to run on just about any newish laptop, knowing that the market for that is enormous. AC isn’t the game for that of course, but I’d like to see more developers make games for the pc that minimise their footprint.

By: Dan Forever

Dan Forever — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:31:26 +0000

I’ve just noticed the game is another “Vista Exclusive”, which will go some way to explaining the excessive system requirements and why, unfortunately I will have to get the game on 360 :(

Don’t get me wrong, the PC is my primary gaming system, and it’s beefy enough to handle those ridiculous requirements, but it’ll be a cold day in hell before I install Vista. Partly due to how lacklustre it is in performance, but mostly due to it’s ridiculous price

By: Chis

Chis — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:44:01 +0000

The half-assed nature of console->PC ports suggests that the developers think similarly.

And yet it’s console ports I’ve often had the most luck with. Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4 all had very solid PC ports. AND… deep breath in they support Nvidia dual view! Why is it “proper” PC games don’t even let you select your graphics driver? All three mentioned SH games, GTA San Andreas, and a few Japanese games I’ve tried (such as the utterly sublime Ys: Oath In Felghana) allowed me to use the TV connected to the second DVI simply by selecting Nvidia Dualview as the output. End result: video goes to secondary monitor, instead of the primary.

Sorry for this somewhat off-topic little rant, chaps, but there ARE good console->PC ports out there. And with a good Logitech gamepad or a PS2-USB converter, they can be superior to playing their original console counterparts. Now I just wish Rockstar would port Bully to PC…

By: ɹǝʌo llǝɟ ı poƃ ʎɯ ɥo

ɹǝʌo llǝɟ ı poƃ ʎɯ ɥo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:15:03 +0000

As I said, to me being a serious gamer means taking gaming seriously, i.e. treating it as art worthy of study, rather than just a fun way to waste time.

By: FaceOmeter

FaceOmeter — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:03:58 +0000

@John P; ɹǝʌo llǝɟ ı poƃ ʎɯ ɥo

I think the attempt to locate a “serious” gamer is a misplaced one. But if you REALLY want to find one you should go to Korea, where it’s all about PCs. The 360, “the frat boy of consoles”, doesn’t get a look in.

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:45:48 +0000

The term “serious gamer” should never be predisposed toward owning a certain platform. It seems more apt to use it when describing the number of hours one spends playing games, regardless if they’re mashing a gamepad or a mouse. Sort of like a ‘petrol-head’ who spends more hours tinkering with his one and only car then most people do in a life time.

I really do hope that AC is utterly magnificent on a PC, and warrants the massive increase in required horsepower over consoles (by almost twice? three times?). The likely truth though is still lazy developer syndrome, and failing to optimize all the bang for the buck like they did for the consoles.