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Space Marine On PC, Oh Please Oh Please

Posted by Alec Meer on October 28th, 2009 at 6:20 pm.

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Online petitions! I love the way they don’t ever change anything. But still, let’s give it a shot. There’s an online effort to convince THQ/Relic to release their upcoming Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine shooter on PC as well as on console. It makes sense, given I’d guesstimate there’s a bit more commonality between PC gamers and Games Workshop players than between console gamers and the latter, but then that is an entirely baseless sweeping generalisation.

And, as it turns out, Relic aren’t dismissing the idea of a PC version out of hand.

Bit-tech tapped ‘em up about it, and the Dawn of War devs proferred this: “we’re always looking at feedback on forums and know there are lots of people who are interested in a PC version. If we continue to see a strong desire for a PC version of Space Marine, who knows what might happen.” There was an exclamation mark at the end of that, but I took it out because I hate joy. “Who knows” is better than a “no” – so go sign, just in case.

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  1. Hug_dealer says:

    Anonymous Coward said:
    I have never seen a good port. I think its fundamentally impossibile because the interfaces differ too much. PC has a broad interface, where you can use shallow decision trees, whereby consoles only have a few buttons. It’s not just about the depth of submenues, being able to click on things and stuff, this difference leads to gameplay design differences (like camera positioning, turn/movement speeds, targeting & aiming and therefore difficulty and so on).

    For this reason you can always tell the ports, they just feel different (or as i would tend to say: inferior).

    so rather than have a port, you would rather pc people not be able to play a game at all? That is the worst thing a gamer could ever say. Regardless of my, or anyone elses dislike of consoles. we are all gamers in the end.

    A good game is a good game, regardless on system it was created for.

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