NonScoop: The Force Unleashed Not Coming To PC

Written by Alec Meer on September 8, 2008 at 10:44 am.

Luke: I am your father's chum

Edit - direct from LucasArts - “I can tell you definitively that there is no PC version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed planned. I would assume Vik was talking about a PC version of Digital Molecular Matter.”

Vik Sohal has also been in touch to say this is all nonsense. Heavy sigh. Apologies for the false alarm. I can promise you our source was absolutely convinced by what he told us, and that we’ve got a recording of the exact quote below (and can provide it to terrifying lawyers if necessary), but guess Vik Sohal just expressed it badly and our source got the wrong end of the stick.

It’s crazy that this isn’t already in the wild, but turns out plans for a PC version of heavily-physicsed Star Wars Sith ‘em up The Force Unleashed were quietly revealed at NVIDIA’s recent NVISION 08 conference. RPS’ super-secret spy at the event has sent us an audio recording of Pixelux Entertainment (the company behind The Force Unleashed’s physics tech) COO Vik Sohal saying this in the middle of his talk about game physics:

“It’s just been released last week on the internet, the Force Unleashed demo on both the PS3 and Xbox 360. We have a PC version as well.”

So there you have it. I’m pretty sure this is an exclusive, but it’s possible I’m just really bad at using Google. Big thanks to RPS’s super-secret spy for this.

He also goes on to detail that “we did rely heavily on GPU acceleration” for the game’s physics (possibly via NVIDIA’s CUDA tech, but as that would leave anyone with an ATI card hanging, it’s perhaps unlikely), making this most likely the first high profile game to implement this much-discussed concept.

Unfortunately, The Force Unleashed isn’t garnering great reviews. But hey, it’s nice that the PC isn’t left in the cold.

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Gravatar Dogun says:

CUDA is teh sexy.

September 8th, 2008 at 10:47 am

Gravatar VIP0R says:

Fingers crossed it comes with some form of Multiplayer! =]

September 8th, 2008 at 10:48 am

Gravatar Optimaximal says:

Better make sure everyone get your $4000 PCs ready!!!

Seriously, why couldn’t the fucktards just say ‘Microsoft/Sony paid us to keep it a console exclusive’ or ‘we just wanted to make most of our money before everyone pirated it’.

September 8th, 2008 at 10:50 am

Gravatar Acosta says:

I will start saving my 4000$, if it needs all that money there is no doubt I will be blown away.

September 8th, 2008 at 11:08 am

Gravatar Optimaximal says:

I will start saving my 4000$, if it needs all that money there is no doubt I will be blown away.

No doubt you missed this article.

September 8th, 2008 at 11:10 am

Gravatar duel says:

i thought that SW-TFU’s physics were ment to be by Natural Motion or am i wrong? was that changed?

September 8th, 2008 at 11:12 am

Gravatar Kalain says:

Phew!! I’m glad my $4000 system only cost me £500 and can run all games in Very high mode..

September 8th, 2008 at 11:15 am

Gravatar derFeef says:

LOL nvidia… again. It runs on the consoles WITHOUT CUDA so it should run on every PC. Regardless nvidia card or not. Its just moneymaking.

September 8th, 2008 at 11:18 am

Gravatar Josh says:

Wonderful! I’m glad LucasArts didn’t fall to the depths of complete idiocy that I thought they did.

September 8th, 2008 at 11:21 am

Gravatar cliffski says:

proper port? or quick hacky one complete with gamepad requirement and references to the ‘a’ button?

September 8th, 2008 at 11:22 am

Gravatar Diogo Ribeiro says:

I like the Official Xbox Mag quote on Metacritic:

Official Xbox Magazine
With its non-branching storyline and no multiplayer, Force Unleashed is certainly less ambitious than the classic “Jedi Knight” games - and ultimately, its design makes it feel more videogame-y and less of an all-engrossing Star Wars experience than Xbox entries like “Jedi Knight II” or “Jedi Academy.”

It’s funny they’d be worried a videogame feels like a videogame, but at least they got it spot on - the Jedi Knight series and Jedi Academy were much better at being Star Wars experiences than any other Star Wars title in recent years.

September 8th, 2008 at 11:23 am

Gravatar rocketman71 says:

What?. I don’t want a “a watered down experience” and having “to turn all the settings down”. I can’t buy a $4000 PC!. You LucasArts bastards!!!

On the other hands, every LucasArts [made] game in the last 10 years has been utter shit, so I don’t really care. I’m just tired of listening to bullshit.

September 8th, 2008 at 11:23 am

Gravatar derFeef says:

@ duel
It runs with 3 physic techniques.
Euphoria, DMM and HAVOC
None of them requiers this CUDA shit - at least on consoles….

September 8th, 2008 at 11:25 am

Gravatar Optimaximal says:

I think that’s the point of this unveiling to be honest…
The current big consoles have 3+ cores - only a small portion of PCs have more than 2, therefore they were waiting on CUDA to give them the magic ‘third’ processor, making a port of the Xbox360 nice and simple without any re-development.

September 8th, 2008 at 11:36 am

Gravatar James G says:

:: Insert yet another $4,000 joke here ::

How silly though, why not just keep silent about the whole thing, rather than making up some ridiculous excuse that not only makes you sound like an idiot, but makes you sound like a lying idiot a few months down the line when you change your mind.

September 8th, 2008 at 11:36 am

Gravatar shinygerbil says:

I tried the demo for 360, and it was horrible. Just another third person game hampered by a poor camera, among other things.

Just go back to online lightsaber dueling in JKII. ;)

September 8th, 2008 at 11:55 am

Gravatar Dolphan says:

The 360 demo was rubbish, unfortunately. It’ll probably sell no more than the automatic sales they get from having star wars on the box. And then they’ll blame piracy.

September 8th, 2008 at 11:56 am

Gravatar Schadenfreude says:

I thought the 360 demo was fun. It did however prompt me to cancel my pre-order add the game to my Rental list. I get the feeling it’s something I’ll breeze through in a weekend.

September 8th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Gravatar Thiefsie says:

hmmm feel like playing rogue trooper now.

September 8th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

Gravatar Heliocentric says:

Eh? Shame about their perspective on the pc indicating they know naff all about the pc market. Meaning we’ll get a thirteenth hour port intended as no more than a cash in.

Eh, lucas don’t know anything these days. Not movies, not games.

September 8th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Gravatar Heliocentric says:

wait? It gets bad reviews and then they port it?

Are they just porting it to pc so they can blame piracy?

September 8th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

Gravatar Optimaximal says:

More than likely… After all, they can’t use the ‘changing market demographics’ line because Sam N Max proved they know fuck all about any of their markets.

September 8th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

Gravatar Dorian Cornelius Jasper says:

Remember to keep an eye on your keyboard’s analog stick, folks.

September 8th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

Gravatar Paul Moloney says:

Lucasarts’ timing is simply amazing; they wait until everyone is disappointed with the game(*) before they announce the PC version. Way to go, guys.

(*) Though as someone has pointed out, it’s been about 10 years since the last good Star Wars game anyway.

P.

September 8th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

Gravatar Taxman says:

The game is pretty mediocre having checked out the PS3 demo only the most ardent kool aid drinking Star Ward fan will probably enjoy it.

I’m guessing they are doing a PC version to sell NVIDIA hardware or at least NVIDIA is paying something to Lucasarts, if the game tanks at retail like it seems its going to I guess they are going to need every dollar they can get.

September 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

Gravatar Radiant says:

So; is this game any good?

September 8th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Gravatar EyeMessiah says:

I just checked and I can confirm that my keyboard actually comes with an “a” button, so I am apparently good to go.

September 8th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

Gravatar The Poisoned Sponge says:

I’ve been watching TFU since it was announced, and I’ve gone from very excited due to Euphoria based force malarky to utterly meh after playing the demo. It couldn’t be less interesting and immersive if it tried. I mean, health orbs when you kill enemies? Now lightsaber dismemberment? Only two force powers? They do realise that Jedi Knight did all these things far far better what, 5 years ago?

September 8th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

Gravatar Cigol says:

Wait a minute. Who are we kidding! Lucasarts revealed the PC isn’t powerful enough to run this game. THEY SAID THAT WAS THE REASON FOR NO PC RELEASE. Are we really going to get our hopes up over this? Have them severely dashed when we find it runs like a pig and resembles the PS2 version? Come on now, lets be realistic. It’s not going to happen; the PC just isn’t capable of such feats. Don’t torture yourself! Star Wars Unleashed is next-gen gaming to the max.

BTW; based on the demo the game is ass.

September 8th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

Gravatar McKhan says:

“the PC just isn’t capable of such feats” …… Eeerrr…A top PC is better than the PS3 … Just think about it: PS3 = static hardware. PC = Changes every 6 months. Of course if you try to run the game on a pentium 3 it won’t run…

September 8th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

Gravatar sigma83 says:

I was going to come in and be snarky about Lucasarts but all these people have beaten me to it so I’ll leave the sadistic necrophiliac horse bestiality out of it for now.

also, it saddens me to hear negative impressions of TFU. Blah imo.

September 8th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

Gravatar TheLordHimself says:

To all the fools saying its been ten years since a decent Star Wars game, like some people have already said, I thought 2002’s Jedi Knight II was awesome. Particularly towards the end when your powers grew. It did have some really dodgy cut scenes though, like that lovey dovey bit..!

September 8th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

Gravatar Thiefsie says:

People, people… you’re also forgetting Republic Commando… much better than Jedi Knight 2, and much more recent.

September 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

Gravatar Diogo Ribeiro says:

I mean, health orbs when you kill enemies?

Corridor FPS turned corridor slasher with zombie gameplay.

September 8th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

Gravatar soviet_ says:

I thought the 360 demo was awesome fun, looks great too.

Oh and no lightsaber dismemberment because they probably want to keep it rated at Teen, which is a shame

September 8th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

Gravatar Diogo Ribeiro says:

@Thiefsie:

Kinda different in terms of offering what some call a SW experience, but both very good. RC was terribly underrated, though. Would replay it if my gaming PC hadn’t died couple a days ago.

September 8th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

Gravatar Maximum Fish says:

I enjoyed the demo alright. It was a standard God of War-style generic 3d beat-em-up, but one in which you can pick up a dude with the force and hold him in the path of an oncoming tie fighter. I mean, that’s gotta count for something.

September 8th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

Gravatar Optimaximal says:

People, people… you’re also forgetting Republic Commando… much better than Jedi Knight 2, and much more recent.

Get out… NOW!!!

Seriously, Republic Commando was a pants FPS that exacerbated all the things that were wrong with the Jedi Knight FPS games (largely the gunplay, which was both lame and ineffectual) and then went one step further by using Clones by Ash for the credits music.

…bastards…

September 8th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

Gravatar Bobsy says:

Republic Commando was fun. Not Star-Warsy fun, but fun nevertheless.

TIE Fighter, lest we forget, was a 1994 game. X-Wing: Alliance was released in 1999. Just saying.

September 8th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

Gravatar Dave says:

Well, at NVision Epic showed us some Gears of War 2 levels on the PC… and the following week came the announcement that it wouldn’t be released for PC. (Guess which platform UnrealEd works on? Hint: not a console, not Mac and not Linux.)

Honestly I don’t think the existence of consoles does gamers any good at all.

September 8th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

Gravatar Duoae says:

Thiefsie says:

People, people… you’re also forgetting Republic Commando… much better than Jedi Knight 2, and much more recent.

What heresy is this?!! I played the demo of RC and found it solid but nothing special… How is it better than JK2?

September 8th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

Gravatar Optimaximal says:

Well, at NVision Epic showed us some Gears of War 2 levels on the PC… and the following week came the announcement that it wouldn’t be released for PC.

Yeah, but GoW1 wasn’t ever likely to come out on PC either… Go figure :)

That said, it’s almost pathetic reception on the PC might mean they won’t bother with a PC version, not that it will be missed.

September 8th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

Gravatar Diogo Ribeiro says:

RC and JK2 are somewhat on polar opposites. JK is pretty much the only game in my mind to ever “feel” SW for its handling of Force power dynamics and the only combat that’s portrayed lightsaber slice’em up action right (none of that sedated, nilly willy KotOR stuff).

On the other hand, I think RC excels in the shooter aspects.

September 8th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

Gravatar flash says:

I’d buy Gears 2 on PC - I have Gears 1 and definitely prefer it to the console version for single player (mouse control+extra bits), lacking split-screen co-op utterly sucks but I have mates with the console version so for me personally that’s not a big loss.
This I wouldn’t buy on PC. Mostly because the guy holds his lightsaber like he wants to cut his own legs off. I wouldn’t buy it console either.

September 8th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

Gravatar RichPowers says:

An armored car is from the bank is delivering the bags of money I’ll need to purchase a PC that can run Force Unleashed

(continue these jokes for 345 more comments)

September 8th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

Gravatar Trousers says:

@McKhan

Sarcasm may be hard to read on the internet, but Cigol’s post was obviously reeking of it.

September 8th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Gravatar Alex says:

(continue these jokes for 345 more comments)

Right! Better get to work, people.

The Force Unleashed..? The Bank Loan Unleashed, more like!

EDIT: SHIT! Stop the jokes!! STOP THE JOKES!!! It’s all OFF!!

September 8th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

Gravatar Diogo Ribeiro says:

Card Wars: The Hog Unleashed.

Well, that was bad.

September 8th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

Gravatar Radiant says:

oooh this uses that molecular pixel malarky.
*downloads xbox demo*

September 8th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

Gravatar Optimaximal says:

Right, it’s been denied by LEC. Move along, nothing to see here… No need to give them any more attention.

September 8th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

Gravatar cyrenic says:

A mediocre overhyped game isn’t actually coming to the PC during an already overcrowded holiday season? I am SHOCKED and OUTRAGED.

September 8th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

Gravatar Nero says:

Ah, good old Lucasarts, never forgetting where it all started. Lucasarts is a joke today, nothing like in the old days. It’s like they hate PC these days.

September 8th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

Gravatar Diogo Ribeiro says:

What? No PC version? But my carefully constructed joke… And the Pullitzer award winning defense of Republic Commando and subtle trashing of a Bioware game! All undone!!

September 8th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

Gravatar aldo says:

Ah, good old Lucasarts, never forgetting where it all started. Lucasarts is a joke today, nothing like in the old days. It’s like they hate PC these days.

It’s like the Pc is Kenny Dalgleish and they’re Paul Dalgleish…

September 8th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

Gravatar Cigol says:

In the end they couldn’t find a PC powerful enough to compile the code on. Typical Lucasarts to pretend RPS were wrong all along when we all know the truth.

September 8th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

Gravatar Heliocentric says:

the mean score of 2008 pc games just went up.

September 8th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

Gravatar Iain says:

I’m getting this on the Wii. As far as I’m concerned, I only want to play a game where you have a lightsaber if you have a control set that lets you flail your arms around like an octopus on ecstasy.

As for the “no decent Star Wars games in the last ten years” debate; KotOR doesn’t count? LEGO Star Wars? Or are they not canon enough?

However, I do have a very soft spot for Jedi Academy and I’m always going to back to blast/slice my way through the single-player campaign. Quite a few of the levels in the middle tier especially are pretty sucky, but I have a lot of fun with it. Though if you ask me, Star Wars games were all downhill after Supremacy (that’s Rebellion to non-Brits)…

September 8th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

Gravatar Heliocentric says:

kotor is a bioware game. Look at any of their titles. Lego? Thats a harder point to argue. They clearly get what made star wars fun.

September 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

Gravatar CitizenErazed says:

Iain: Agreed. Was most disappointed to find out Empire at War was nowhere near as good.

September 8th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

Gravatar Jigglybean says:

Supremacy was incredible! It just had one of the steepest learning curves ever!

Empire at War was decent enough. The space battles were alot of fun. Unfortunately, alot of the good stuff was removed by LucasArts to make the game more ‘accessible’. My friends at Petroglyph did want to include a lot of features that were in Supremacy but it never made the final cut.

As for TFU not coming to PC - I couldn’t give a flying f*** as it doesnt have multiplayer

September 8th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

Gravatar JonFitt says:

I think we need to compile a list of “Games Companies That Have Betrayed the PC and Fallen to the Dark Side”.

Lucasarts would obviously be the top of the list, but who else can be named and shamed?

Epic?

September 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

Gravatar Pew says:

Supremacy/Rebellion was awesome. Hell, I might even dust that off now that Spore has failed me.

Too bad it’s not coming out on PC’s after all, I know enough Star Wars fans without consoles :(

Does anyone know what Laurence Holland is up to these days? We neeeeeeed a new TIE Fighter/X-Wing game. Preferably TIE Fighter.

September 8th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

Gravatar Nick says:

Wait.. why are we upset that LucasArts aren’t taking a crap on a blank disc and selling it as a PC game?

September 8th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

Gravatar redrain85 says:

Hearing this news is highly amusing, because yesterday I sent an e-mail to RPS with a snapshot of an ad from nVidia, that seemed to imply Force Unleashed was coming to the PC.

http://img399.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nvidiaforcegb5.png

I pretty much wrote it off as wishful thinking, too. But sent it in anyway, for a chuckle. Now, I’m beginning to wonder . . . I mean, Rockstar denied GTA IV on the PC for months, but then finally owned up later.

September 8th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

Gravatar sigma83 says:

I think we need to compile a list of “Games Companies That Have Betrayed the PC and Fallen to the Dark Side”.

Bungie, definitely.

BioWare, purely for Mass Effect (imagine the game it COULD have been if they developed for PC)

Hrm.

Bungie again. AGAIN.

September 8th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

Gravatar O.G.N says:

I don’t suppose this could be a rare case of listening to the consumer?

A few people on the lucasarts forums have expressed a preference for a PC version.

September 8th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

Gravatar Iain says:

@heliocentric: “kotor is a bioware game.”

You say that like it’s a bad thing… BioWare certainly understood the essence of Star Wars a whole lot better than Obsidian did. And don’t forget that Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy were done by Raven, not LucasArts, but no-one seems unwilling to class those as “proper” Star Wars games. I think it’s more to do with iconography than anything else, but personally I think KotOR is more of a Star Wars game than something like Empire At War, which I thought was pants, by the way.

You’re meant to be running A GALAXY. It’s not meant to be streamlined and accessible! And since when did the Imperial Fleet have a unit cap? Rubbish.

September 8th, 2008 at 5:14 pm

Gravatar sigma83 says:

Iain: Heliocentric probably meant the reverse, that kotor being a bioware game was a good thing

September 8th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

Gravatar Josh says:

*sigh*

I guess LucasArts can indeed be that stupid.

I now renew my previous quiet celebration that the game is receiving poor reviews.

September 8th, 2008 at 6:04 pm

Gravatar Heliocentric says:

i love bioware titles, but they do tend tell the same stories in their games. Kotor was mass effect zero in many ways. I just pray dragon age will be baldur’s gate 3.

September 8th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

Gravatar Erlam says:

Who the fuck cares. Mediocre cash in sucks, and won’t taint the PC market. It’s hard to imagine fucking up ‘take guy by the neck with force, toss him around’ but by God, LucasArts managed it.

September 8th, 2008 at 6:13 pm

Gravatar Whiskey Jack says:

Well, as we say in French… POOPY!

September 8th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

Gravatar kadayi says:

Nothing 360 bound is ever coming to the PC, until it eventually does about 6-8 months later. The same BS about PCs can’t handle ‘Teh Console Awesomeness’ abound with every upcoming console release, yet time and again the money train calls into the PC station further down the line. There is a market on PC, and it’s only a fool who turns away from it. Even Halo 3 will turn up on PC once MS have saturated the entire 360 market.

September 8th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

Gravatar RichPowers says:

Microsoft to us: We <3 PC gaming!
Microsoft to devs: Here’s a bag of money to keep you from releasing a PC version of your game until 10 months after the 360 one.

Anyway, if the Metacritic scores are any indication, the game isn’t worth playing in the first place. As a wise man once said: nothing of value is lost.

September 8th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

Gravatar Josh says:

Aw man too bad I don’t have a console to play this awesome game! I only spent $2000 on my PC that I built myself this year, there’s no way it could handle this game. I can’t believe I didn’t realize that a $300 console is just so much better and more powerful than a $4000 PC. LA must really be smart to know these things, they must also make great games because of their vast intelligence. /sarcasm

Also M$ can take their exclusives and shove them where the sun don’t shine, I won’t ever buy one of their consoles for me or anyone I know as long as I live.

September 8th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

Gravatar Diogo Ribeiro says:

@lain:

You say that like it’s a bad thing… BioWare certainly understood the essence of Star Wars a whole lot better than Obsidian did. And don’t forget that Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy were done by Raven, not LucasArts, but no-one seems unwilling to class those as “proper” Star Wars games.

Funnily enough I always felt the opposite. I’m prone to dedicate more playing time to the Jedi Knight series than KotOR. It may be due to preference alone, but… As a role-playing game, it somewhat stood head and shoulders above the competition, but as a Star Wars game it reminded me the reason why I’ve outgrown the movies - everything is so cardboard cutout and hamfisted that I can’t muster the will to see through it again.

I never really cared for my party members, who suffer from the “I will interrupt you every once in a while to remind you that we need to hurry and stop the evil ones, but will have no problems with suddenly spurt out trivia about my emo past in search of acceptance by my peers and/or trying to find someone to copulate with” syndrome. Jedi Knight is the opposite - to some, in a bad way, as it’s quite minimalistic on character development - but I see it as a triumph of letting people enjoy its gameplay without using artificial elements to have them appreciate it.

Combat was also a big turn off. While it’s arguable just how well each game is actually modelled on SW - none of them actually employs lightsaber abilities such as being able to cut through a wall, for instance - Jedi Knight had those wonderful moments where combat came to how you managed personal shields and reflexes, with well timed and placed blows cutting through the opposition. Whereas Bioware just turned lightsabers from being vorpal swords into pointless magical swords that only required you to stand there and queue actions until the opposition fell lifeless on the floor.

This isn’t meant to take credit away from Bioware, of course; there’s something positive to be said of their rendering of SW and turning it into a fairly vibrant gameworld. But the above complaints, plus the way how certain situations were handled in terms of role-playing (I couldn’t stop laughing when Revan, the eeeeevil destructor, was forced through hoops at the Sith Academy as if he/she were a mundane character), were quite off putting.

By comparison, JK seemed to focus exactly on one of the more endearing elements of SW, and did it well. Less if often more.

September 8th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

Gravatar BibB says:

I’m pretty sure a q6600,geil 4gb and 8800gt would play this easily at max. Thats only about $400 and fine hardware for the money. They’re talking shite because i believe they’re scared of rising piracy on the pc platform.

September 8th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

Gravatar Charlie says:

That is not possible for $400 that’s £200! I’ve noticed a trend with Pc gamers to claim you can buy better PC’s than you can with the money. I’m not saying PC gaming is as expensive as people say but you cannot buy that spec PC for 200 quid. A q6600 is £130 quid so unless you are going to steal the motherboard, hard drive, case, monitor, all the perepherals and gfx card I don’t see how you could do it.

September 8th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

Gravatar Funky Badger says:

70-odd percent on Metacritic isn’t worth playing. Umm, isn’t that around what S.T.A.L.K.E.R.C.L.E.A.R.S.K.Y. has got?

This is a harch new uber-critical world we live in.

September 9th, 2008 at 12:08 am

Gravatar Console_gamer says:

lol saw this linked from a forum, what a sad state this is. PC gamers are apparently so desperate for new titles they misinterpret meanings to the point where a game might be announced for PC. The site managers should really be more conservative in these matters because all it serves to do is get people excited and then lets them down.

Next up, PC gamers go back to their typical sour grapes routine when it turns out the game isn’t coming to PC.

September 9th, 2008 at 12:24 am

Gravatar malkav11 says:

Q6600 = ~$190. 4GB Corsair DDR RAM = ~$80. 8800gt = ~$110. All on newegg.com.

If you’re just upgrading, and you already have a motherboard, power supply, and case capable of dealing with that hardware, then you can indeed do what he mentions for under $400.

Though I think most people would probably at least need a new motherboard. If you’re upgrading your CPU and it’s the same socket type and everything, it’s not generally much of an upgrade.

Also, I suspect those things would be overkill. I ran Assassin’s Creed almost-maxed on just a 2 ghz dual-core Athlon CPU, 2 gigs of Corsair DDR RAM, and SLI-ed 7600GTs. (That’d come in sub $200. If you could still get my model of CPU or 7600GTs.) I can’t imagine why any 360 port would need more specs than Assassin’s Creed.

September 9th, 2008 at 12:34 am

Gravatar Dorian Cornelius Jasper says:

Dear Console_gamer,

Considering how optimistic we RPSers are about our gaming platform of choice, I wonder how or why you’d characterize us as “sour grapes.”

Meanies, perhaps, but that’s the nature of the internet.

Hugs and Kisses,
The Indispensably Superfluous Mr. Jasper

P.S. We also play consoles, too. Not like anyone’s stopping us.

September 9th, 2008 at 12:36 am

Gravatar Erlam says:

“lol saw this linked from a forum, what a sad state this is. PC gamers are apparently so desperate for new titles they misinterpret meanings to the point where a game might be announced for PC.”

Did… did you just say that the PC library is smaller than the current console one?

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

September 9th, 2008 at 12:46 am

Gravatar Dorian Cornelius Jasper says:

Erlam, be nice, he’s the sort of person who needs our pity and support. A donation of just one dollar a day can feed him, and help give him an education.

September 9th, 2008 at 1:20 am

Gravatar Charlie says:

Wow 190 dollars is a bargain. It’s 130 quid on UK sites. For that price I would be upgrading! Though the spec you said is very similar to mine. e6600, 8800gts and 2 gigs of ram. Was thinking about upgrading recently but nothing really stretches it that far yet. A few games I can’t max out but still high, and most things maxed run real smooth.

When will PC’s make a big jump ahead of consoles? I thought it was usually about nowish.

September 9th, 2008 at 3:22 am

Gravatar Jeff says:

To Lucasarts,
Thats for nothing Shvina!
From a pc gamer with a damn good rig at about $1400.
shvina(piggy in slavic).

September 9th, 2008 at 4:53 am

Gravatar dan says:

k i no the jokes have slowed but i would like to remind all u uneducated dic* sucking console players that all of the games you have ever played on a console have been made on a pc, without pcs your consoles would have no games to run and no firmware to boot up! theyd be a usless pile of metal and plastic, so go play ur games with ur thumbs till u get blisters and realise that pcs are always and have always been ahead of the game, it just happens to be that consoles are becoming alot more like pcs enabling them to close the gap a bit between the performance lead! spin on it dick heads!

September 9th, 2008 at 10:54 pm

Gravatar Max says:

Hi my name is maksud i wayting game Star Wars Froce Unleashed from PC
I from in Uzbekistan i love Star Wars way all new games create for Xbox PsP way not create for PC version

September 22nd, 2008 at 7:47 am

Gravatar Real Horrorshow says:

At least now that they’re killing off their internal studios and going to use third parties to develop titles, perhaps it won’t be just their say when it comes to what get’s released on which platform.

September 22nd, 2008 at 8:33 am

Gravatar Darth Cuddles says:

Firstly console_gamer I think you have justified what Yahtzee Crosshaw meant by PC gaming master race vs. Console pesantry. Now that thats out of the way I want to say &%*$£& to lucasfarce for abandoning the platform that made them. I’m not complaining as the missus has a 360 and was gracious enough to let me play on it (so she gets to play spore^^) and I found the game fun. However by principle I think I shall avoid lucas games in the future as this has really taken the cake. The only good game they released recently was Republic Commando which was epic to say the least. I mean I used to look at how jedi’s cut up super battle droids and think ‘Why would they make them so weak?’ lol never again. Furthermore it wasnt just raven who did JK2 and Jedi academy, luca$art$ had a hand in them too. Also I would like to apply my opinion on KOTOR 1 and 2 with regards to bioware, they are not games that would give a good SW experience but then they arent supposed to. The SW experience is to be able to run around like a god and dismember things with a laser sword, whereas Bioware is a roleplaying game producer. I am a big rpg fan and I often use tabletop (or analogue^^) as a benchmark for roleplaying aspect and seeing as bioware is at the top for actual roleplaying content I think its a bit of an oxymoron saying a bioware SW experience but thats just my handle on the subject. Getting back to the point I dont think this game is a PC game, fps games belong with a keyboard and mouse, platforms belong on the console. It’s a nice arrangement and after playing through TFU I think it would become boring and tedious given the high standard of both content and general playability that PC gamers expect. Its a good console game but alas it is not good enough to grace the PC. We have had some crap in the past that started on a console and it never sold. If you want to play it that badly get a console.

September 28th, 2008 at 3:03 am

Gravatar 33Speedy says:

I just hope there will be a PC version…I’ve seen some videos and i guess it’s a great game.

October 14th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

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