Hey Joystiq I just got my first issue of the Games for Windows subscription that you guys gave me. Thanks!

Ha,ha,That`s cool...and cold.....

Hey dirty i have`nt recieve the magazine yet, when did you ge it....?

only on xbox 360!

@ 4
Only on Xbox 360 and PC....

precisely the reason why i don't buy the 360

got it yesterday.

Lost Planet was good not great. Don't care if its going to PC.

Now we are going to have 2 Xbox 360 exclusives Lost Planet and Gears of War and an couples years Halo 3

Theres is one difference Geo. I only have to pay $400 to play Halo 3, Gears, and Lost Planet.

For those games to look half ass good on a PC you will need a supercomputer with DX10.

I've already gotten two issues of that Games for Windows.

I signed up as Reginald Q. Fakename. The address label is the best part of that crummy magazine.

@ 10 Jack of No Trades
Well i dont have to worry because i have a Super Computer with Direxct 10 baby......

HA ha! That cover was SO obvious but SO genius.


-Kimosabae

Is that the little milk carton from the Coffee & TV video?

Cool, this is one of the few XBOX exclusives that I'd like to play.

Does anyone actually take that "Only on Xbox/360" bit seriously? At this point that whole little label pretty much means "Only on systems Microsoft produces games for" (IE Xbox, Xbox 360, PC, and sometimes Mac).

Geo

Thats no fair. Im still have a crappy ass emachine that needs more ram.

At least we can have Xbox 360 exclusives, but what about PC exclusives like Crysis, it is posible to have this game on 360...? Hmmm dont think so, people will have to wait another 5 year to play Direcxt 10 games.....

I think console people will be fine without Crysis. That game will be forgotten within a month.

when will we get Project Gotham Racing on PC?

#1

Same here! Got the April and May issue at the same time.
Thanks Joystiq!

Ha,ha,ha, dont think so, i will wait for the reviews peole and the media will say;
"Crysis the Game of the Year"

I think you have the awards mixed up Geo.

"Halo 3 Game of the Year"
or
"Mass Effect Game of the Year"

"Crysis Prettist Graphics with Crappist Story Game of the Year"

!Hey where is my magazine i`m still waiting.....?

No the award it is for:
"Crysis Game of the Year"

Halo 3 game of the same thing,graphics,gameplay etc.

Mass effet game of the same Gears of War graphics

haha I love it.. The ONLY ON XBOX 360 means NOTHING anymore.

This is just one less reason to invest in a 360 if you already have a capable PC.

It's still a "console exclusive" game, even though it's on the PC. I look at the Xbox 360 as the PCs little brother. They both share certain games the PS3 or Wii never will. And Windows Live will only bring them closer.

Plus, even though it's going to PC, Lost Planet is still only available on Microsoft Gaming platforms (Xbox 360 & Windows PC). This is not a loss to the Xbox 360, it's a gain to the Games for Windows platform.

"Thats no fair. Im still have a crappy ass emachine that needs more ram. "

Better than what I have right now. A dead HP. This si the second one. I swear, the only thing less reliable than HP propriatory motherboards are Xbox 360s... bz zhing!

Seriously though, wish I knew what part it was that's going bad. All signs point to Motherboard (still had issues when it was stripped all the way down to just the processor, hard drive, motherboard, and a stick of RAM, but I lack the spare parts to do more testing) and if that's true, I'll just upgarde the MB/CPU to a dual core with two PCI-E 16x ports and eagerly await a price drop on DX10 cards....

XBOX 360 + PC = AMOR

@sheppy

Shoot me an email with your problems, since I've worked in IT for years I might be able to help you isolate the problem.

urahonky at gmail dot com

I'm a hardcore PC Gamer and I have a 360(I've always had at least one console during any generation), and I can never understand the hostility console only users have towards the PC. It's completely uncalled for. The PC industry plays a major role in pushing the industry forward(Console Hardware anyone? Advanced GPU's? Advanced CPU's? Online Gaming? FPS's?), not to mention, the 360 directly benefits from the PC by having PC dev's on their side, hence all the PC games that have come and will come to the 360.

People need to realize that the PC is a whole separate platform, and by no means should be directly compared to any console, as I believe consoles and gaming PC's compliment each other very nicely.

'Nuff with the hatin' yall....

@Ken

I appreciate the offer. Already had the guy who troubleshoots the trainers here at Frasca take a look at it and he was the one that confirmed the issues being isolated to the same places I did. The system itself is an HP a1330n with a 512 GeForce 6800GTX, 2GB Ram, M-Audio 2496 (to play with my MicroKorg) added to the core specs. It's just a simple matter of having the parts lying around to swap out to isolate it 100%. And I'm quite eager to get rid of the HP components of this system. Frankly, this is fucking ridiculous. Before the a1330n, I had an a1130n from them and it was dying every two months before they finally, due to a thinly veiled threat, agreed to send me a replacement system they had done 4 repairs on in so few months. This one has started acting the sameway and from what I've read, HP motherboards are purely solid ass. I think it's ridiculous to have a computer with less than a year lifespan, especially since before the HP, I had a custom built I did myself that lasted 6 years, even as a renderfarm.

So everyone reading, stay the hell away from Pavilions.

XBOX 360 + PC = Together Forever

If they fix the AI and controls I might be picking this up for my PC. One of those ATI R600s which I'll be picking up later this year plus a HDTV equals bliss.

"I think console people will be fine without Crysis. That game will be forgotten within a month."
Right. Just like Far Cry? Oh wait, Far Cry remains one of the best FPS games across all the platform even to this day. Bad analogy I guess. Or maybe it's your statement that is wrong. Wait for the actual game to show up, and THEN say stuff like that please.

Console ports onto PC absolutely suck 95% of the time. With Capcom it's 100% suck. Tried Resident Evil 4 on PC? Crap and it just came out recently. There's no reason these games can't be good on PC but most don't even let you specify the resolution. Unless the Japanese can shape up and get some decent PC coders there is NO hope for this or any other of their ports.

Hold on, so when the PS3 loses exclusives its the end of the world, but when the 360 loses an exclusive its, "I never liked that game that much anyways", or "the 360 and the PC are one in the same"? I love double standards keep 'em coming.

I am glad its coming to PC, I am thinking of getting/building a PC for gaming. That or a 42" LCD. Hmmm… Anyone know if I can put together a high end gaming rig with DirectX 10 for under $2,ooo, then i can do both.

You can build a high-end DX10 PC for $1500 or so. Just make sure you pick the right components.

And don't mind Jack of No Trades, he's probably just bitter that his PC can't even play Half-Life 2.

Shure you can
Monster Rig
PC specifications:$700.00
- AMD ATHLON 4600 X2
- 1 Gig Ram
- 320 Gib Hard Drive
- Windows Vista Home Premiun

Upgrade:$700.00
- 8800 GTS Directx 10
- 500 Watt Power Supply

Total Rig: $1400.00
and you got $600.00 more to buy a HDTV

@34

FarCry is a good game, but hardly "one of the best", IMO. It's highly overrated thanks to its pretty graphics. That's why I'm a bit skeptical of Crysis. It sure looks pretty, but if it's just another FarCry I'm going to likely pass. I'll upgrade for UT3, not Crysis.

Also, why all this debate about PCs and 360s? Don't most of you realize people buy PC games and console games for largely different reasons??

Capcom + heading towards Western development trends = me am cry :(

I buy consoles for a simple reason, anyone can figure it out.

My Sega CDX boots Willy Beamish like a dream and while the loading time can be annoying, it still boots AND works.

My computer (when it was working) cannot boot up my copy of Willy Beamish at all, unless I scour the internets for hacks and patches that may or may not be viruses. Fallout 2 fills the screen with a single color that has to be "scrubed" away with the mouse pointer at random intervals, and 7th Guest won't even install. And no, I'm not running Vista.

Don't think Xbox360 Exclusive. Think exclusive to Microsoft. Games that are exclusive Xbox run on xbox360. I know this isn't emulation. But it's not like the game is coming to Mac or Linux, it's coming to a Microsoft Operating System from a Microsoft gaming console. As for sucky ports, usually yes, there are plenty sucky PC ports. But this is "Games for Windows" and a game can't have the "Games for Windows" logo on it unless it's okay'd by Microsoft. Virtua Tennis 3 for PC is a really good port though. So there is hope.

Umm, ShortFuse, you realize "Games For Windows" just means it's certified to work on a Windows platform, right? Just because it works doesn't mean it's good. And likewise, MS as been allowing some real shit on their consoles in the past. Seriously, Quality Assurance has been a joke on gaming consoles from the first time Nintendo put an official logo on an NES box. And even before then, suckass games dropped every other day.

That's what made Nintendos little "Quality over Quantity" speech even funnier. Sure, you had less games but that doesn't mean shit like Superman 64 or Clayfighter 63 1/3 didn't suck.

And that's what Games For Windows is. Just a logo to try and convince consumers of PCs as a viable gaming platform.

@ 39
FarCry is a good game, but hardly "one of the best", IMO. It's highly overrated thanks to its pretty graphics.That's why I'm a bit skeptical of Crysis

Far Cry was the first game developer Crytek
made and to be the first game this people made a very but very good job i know they made some mistakes
but they will fix all those issues from Far Cry in Crysis, expect something amazing on the gameplay...

"36. Hold on, so when the PS3 loses exclusives its the end of the world, but when the 360 loses an exclusive its, "I never liked that game that much anyways", or "the 360 and the PC are one in the same"? I love double standards keep 'em coming."

It's not a double standard. Think of it as if a game was ported from the PS3 to the PSP. That might not be the perfect analogy, but either way Lost Planet is still exclusive to the "Microsoft Universe".

Also, the PC and the Xbox 360 are not "one in the smae", but they are pretty close. And if you don't think so, ask yourself this question:

How many games are PC & PS3 only?........

There is a reason many games are PC & Xbox 360 only.
Huxley, Alan Wake, BioShock, Command & Conquer 3 and ShadowRun are a few. Lets not forget about Microsoft's golden boys: Halo & Halo 2. And I'm sure Gears & Halo 3 will be on their way as well.

For all the people saying "this is just another reason why I won't buy a 360"... that's fine. Go out and spend anywhere from $100 to $400 on a copy of Vista for Direct X 10 to play these games... then spend the same amount of cash for the game rather you buy it for PC or 360. Microsoft doesn't care, they get your money either way.

Blah blah blah... X-box PC something or other...

LITTLE LOST 'COFFEE & TV' MILK CARTON! AW!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4007844314718696640&q=coffee+%26+tv

Bobby S.
http://www.kitsunenoir.com

I'm with Sheppy and Jack here

When i actually tried to get an adequate graphics card in my PC (has the adequate CPU), something went wrong, and now while the PC's graphics look better, it takes significantly longer to load them, especially 3D graphics, so i had to give up any PC gaming dreams until i get my college computer

What i need is a GPU that operates independently of the CPU and doesn't need to execute commands in the same pipeline

like a console, lol...

And i believe that Microsoft is releasing all their best 360 stuff and PC stuff on the alternate platform is because their plan long-term is still convergence. Live for Windows is the first step, next Xbox will be more like the original, off-the-shelf PC parts, but retain the more streamlined 360 architecture, and WILL be a PC that comes ready for gaming out of the box

Some comments here make it sound as if Microsoft got license fees from PC games just as they do from Xbox games, which isn't the case at all. "Microsoft exclusive" is meaningless.

Microsoft may not recieve licensing fees from PC games but, in order to play Lost planet you either need a Microsoft Xbox 360 or Microsoft Windows.

Either way, Microsoft has to be in the equation or you cannot play the game.

That's how Microsoft wins.