According to EA, Mass Effect has undergone a slight makeover for its PC debut, with new PC-centric "fully customizable" controls, the ability to assign hot keys for "run and gun control," an enhanced inventory system, and a new decryption minigame. The publisher also boasts of the version's new "highly detailed" visuals, though we're curious to see if the console version's horrendous texture pop-in will be checked at the door before boarding the painfully slow rising elevator leading to Mass Effect's spring release.
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Mass Effect 2 for PS3. Confirmed!
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and even it there was, Microsoft would never let its studios' games on other consoles. Just like Nintendo would not let Mario on Xbox or PS. :P
BioWare has already previously said they intend to make a trilogy.
lol it was confirmed as a trilogy many times for the last few years, and it sold over a million copies in a month or so. There's going to be sequels.
So was Shenmue.
Shenmue suffered from excessive overhead, and abysmal sales. Something which clearly doesn't afflict Mass Effect. So long as it remains so, the trilogy will be made.
but seems like devs surely like "trilogies" for sequels.. except for CoD4. :)
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Besides Not everyone that has a console has a Gaming PC.
Hey buddy, ever think that there are people out there that don't use their PCs to play video games? Maybe because they've been glued to a mouse and keyboard for 40+ hours a week, sitting a foot and a half away from a monitor and the last thing in the world they want to do when they get home is look at another damned computer? Cause these people exist, and they're the reason that consoles are pretty much murdering PCs in terms of game sales these days. One might even say, we are legion.
I for one am pissed ¬_¬ I bought my PS3 for exclusive games, I have my Wii for exclusive games, I have my Xbox 360, and apart from Halo, I often question why I have it to be honest, all the games I wanted are on PC -_- Would have saved me £300 had I just blimming bought the games for PC instead.
Sigh, I hope this doesn't keep up, I love my 360, but I can't have everything I bought it for porting to PC, that just won't do!
'the last thing in the world they want to do when they get home is look at another damned computer?'
So they come home and sit in front of a TV screen? I don't think so. Come up with another story.
Regardless, I'll continue using my PC for Photoshop, spreadsheets, and internets and my gaming systems for...oh, I dunno, gaming. On my 42" HDTV. From my couch.
Best 360 games that aren't fighters? Go to PC.
Best Wii games that aren't multiplatform? Wii only.
So instead of spending $500 for a 360 and accessories, spent the money on upgrading a computer I already had to be able to play everything except Crysis. Plus, my Internets work faster!
Maverick, I'd like to thank you personally for proving the irony of the internets; You tell someone nobody cares about why they would or wouldn't buy something, but then rattle off your own whiny post on the same subject.
As for the "I work and don't like to look at computer screens", I watch an obscene amount of TV, that doesn't stop me from playing console games.
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And as an aside, I'm with other people here on gaming. I can't afford to keep upgrading my PC, and working 40 hours a week, it's great to come home, kick back on the couch, and game with the wireless controller on a 100" image from the projector.
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though if there was, a co-op would be quite fun.
Now I can put my rig to other usage besides making it groan with Crysis. But yea, there need to be a LOT of technical improvements to the games' engine before it hits the PC or else hardcore PC gamers are going to flip. Texture pop-in absolutely, I hate that crap. Framerate issues need to be fixed too. I don't care if the game runs at only 30fps, but as long as it does that consistently I'll be happy. Unreal Tech 3 is very scalable, so there's no reason why it shouldn't be able to run on older machines at that. When they say "improved inventory system" I wonder what they mean. Maybe the ability to sell multiple items at once and/or reduce multiple items at once to omni-gel?
Either way, EA better not fuck this up. This game is too good to fuck up with a bad PC port.
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Good luck with that.
@Chrono: Don't scoff, it's very possible to do with the right setup. Ask Jeff, or any other long-time PC gamer. If I can get TF2 to run maxed out playing 2Fort with a full pack of 24 and CoD4 running at a pinned 60fps, I don't see Mass Effect being that big of a problem.
True, but sarcasm. I maintain 60 FPS almost 100% constant in almost every game I play.
I see what you did there...
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Sounds good, i'm waiting for a "Lukewarm Tea" Patch, allowing even more digitally orgasmic digital sex scenes of an orgasmic nature...
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especially the one on Normandy. Makes me dont wanna go down there :P
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Now all PS3 Fanboys are going to download this through a torrent site, play it and then bash it, say that this game is overrated and that it sucks and so on and so on.
I know this because they all secretly wish to play teh awesomeness that Mass Effect is.
I think Microsoft should seriously consider keeping at least a couple of Console exclusive games. I mean dammit.
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Oh, wait, no. Thats right. There isn't anything. You rely on RROD attacks because everything else is practically perfect, especially compared to the George Foreman grill.
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Hopefully this won't another attempt to cram Vista down the throat of PC gamers.
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And wait... there was an inventory system? XD I wouldn't call it that.
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