Comments on: Space Marine On PC, Oh Please Oh Please

By: Hug_dealer

Hug_dealer — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:10:17 +0000

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.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:01:52 +0000

“DID ANYONE SEE THE BIT WHERE HE USED HIS GUN AS A FLASHLIGHT”

Excuse me, but I suggest you watch the new trailer, before making an ass of yourself.

By: Adam Whitehead

Adam Whitehead — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:19:32 +0000

I read an interview with the guys at Relic after THQ bought the HOMEWORLD IP and they were asked when they were doing HW3 (because why would THQ spend the money if they weren’t going to do something with the franchise?) and the reply was just soul-destroying. They said that they didn’t think modern gamers could handle HOMEWORLD’s ‘complex’ interface (WTF?) and the use of vertical space would probably be ‘too confusing’ (no, seriously, WTF?), so they’d need to dumb down the game interface (despite HW’s interface being pretty straightforward anyway). I get the impression that’s what they’d been told by market analysts or something anyway and as a result they’d put it on the backburner for now.

Still, it does beg the question: why did THQ buy back the license if there were no plans for a new HOMEWORLD game?

By: snv

snv — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:41:13 +0000

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).

By: Slink

Slink — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:24:39 +0000

That’s not a bad thing. If anyone could just post without registering, you’d have people signing 500 times. Not that these petitions do a lot anyway, but any respect for them would be lost if it was obviously just people padding the numbers.

By: Lagmint

Lagmint — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:43:48 +0000

You’re arguing that one wont work on the platform due to INTEREST, while the other wont work due to TECHNICAL INABILITIES. Seriously, anything that requires AI at all fails with in-order processing.

By: Lagmint

Lagmint — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:42:01 +0000

If it was a side-scrolling fighter, I’d say yes consoles. Or a racing game (wheels generally suck in my opinion).

3D Action game though? Didn’t that genre START on PC?

By: D

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:32:00 +0000

You got it the wrong way around. FPS’s are unfit for consoles because of their controllers. No genre is unfit for PC as you can just buy and plug in a usb controller.

By: D

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:29:25 +0000

This looks abysmal. Cinemaction moments? Disorienting and nonflowing combat? No challenge? DID ANYONE SEE THE BIT WHERE HE USED HIS GUN AS A FLASHLIGHT (twice)? Don’t want at all.

By: Mull

Mull — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:49:29 +0000

Yea, an action-RPG of Inquisitor would be amazing. Go read ‘Eisenhorn’ or ‘Ravenor’ by Dan Abnett to get a taste of the fiction.

By: subedii

subedii — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:19:32 +0000

@ Quests:

This argument. Sense. The two are not sharing each others presence.

By: Hug_dealer

Hug_dealer — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:15:40 +0000

apparently the legacy of kain series didnt deserve to be on the PC?