VIP0R says:

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

September 8th, 2008 at 10:48 am

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Radiant says:

So; is this game any good?

September 8th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Diogo Ribeiro says:

Card Wars: The Hog Unleashed.

Well, that was bad.

September 8th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

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

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

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

Heliocentric says:

the mean score of 2008 pc games just went up.

September 8th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whiskey Jack says:

Well, as we say in French… POOPY!

September 8th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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