Mark Rein: Epic is committed to PC, also making a game 'for mobile and tablet'

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@Kleptomaniac

And dedicated servers. GoW3 can diaf if they dont get them.

@Kleptomaniac

Gears of War is fun and all, but it's a decidedly console experience. It was god awful boring on the PC. I love it on the console because it somehow manages to be the most casual of all Xbox LIVE shooters while presenting this absurdly macho, violent and fanservice filled face. Most certainly a great game, but I'd rather watch paint dry than play it on the PC. There is a reason we have Unreal on the PC and Gears on the console.

@Kleptomaniac And Gears of War 2 also please. Better late than never!

@Anticrawl

gears of war wasn't boring on the PC, at least to me.

maybe it's because my PC could run it (after a lot of hassle, i'll give you that, it was a horrible port, but a good game)

@Kleptomaniac

My PC cuts through Gears of War like a hot knife on butter, but it is a slow, dull game with a keyboard and mouse. TF2 is about the slowest I'll play for gameplay on the PC. I firmly believe certain games are just better suited for a couch and controller while others are meant for a keyboard/mouse and lots of caffeine. I work on games for a living so I like to have hardware up to snuff for the games that we work on, like Crysis 2 as of recent.

@Kleptomaniac

I wholeheartedly agree.

@likedamaster

I also disagree with both of you two. Gears PC was an excellent port besides a few bugs. It played faster and looked a lot sharper/more colorful than 360 version. Sure, it lacked dedicated servers but it was and still is a great experience both off & online. Still play it till this day. My three most played games online for PC... Gears, Left 4 Dead 1, & TF2. ;)

@MowDownJoe

That was id.

Same people who made Doom and Wolfenstein.

@Shadow Hog Knew they made one of the big original PC shooters...

@Anticrawl
" Easily the most hated figurehead in the gaming industry,"

I thought that privilege went to Bobby Kotick.

@CaramelZappa

Ouch, that is a tough call man.

@Anticrawl no way, dude... it's totally kotick

@Anticrawl What about Gaffe - er, I mean Jaffe?

@Loucetios

Its the maps man.

@Anticrawl

That's it! That's it exactly. I hadn't thought about it enough, but I'd wondered why I didn't love UT3 with all my heart like I did 2k4. That's it though, right there.

...Game was hella pretty though, when it came out. Still kinda is =/

@Loucetios I'd say the maps, hover-boards, and at least 1-2 of the vehicles.

From what I played a lot of it seemed to be lacking color and then the hover-boards to me just kind of seemed out of place.

@tendoboy1984 What I'd give for an Unreal title on the 3DS.
There needs to be SOME company out there that will produce an awesome FPS for the 3DS. I know a lot of them suck, but Metroid Prime Hunters was extremely fun (before every person you faced was a hacker).

@tendoboy1984

Epic - outside of my undying love for Unreal Tournament - is a one trick pony. Their engine however is an empowering tool. I say leave Epic out of the 3DS. I don't want to watch brown on grey with blood red highlights in 3D, it sounds painful just reading it aloud.

@Steven4

Well, Microsoft has a publishing deal with Epic for Gears of War series, so that's why it's a 360 exclusive. I imagine that shadow complex is the same story. Other than those 3 games, UT3 was the last main game they've released this gen, so it's not like they're swaying towards one console vs. another. And bulletstorm is a multiplatform game, so again, i find it hard to believe that they're dedicated to the 360. A nice chunk of their cash flow comes from licensing the unreal engine that work on both consoles.

UT3 for the PS3 was probably more of a proof of concept that their engine was up to speed with Sony's hardware, which is why it rushed out first.

@Kyammi
i can

@Kyammi Why the hate for PC?

@RKN :: Because PC users get games at the correct prices (& all for download) and don't have to pay subscription fees when not playing MMOs.

@jackal

You know, I hate to address people like you but here it goes. Gears PC wasn't a shoddy port, despite a few bugs(all games have them), it scaled quite well @1200 res. Its actually the best looking game outside of Crysis, in my opinion. Gears PC was not released 6 months but in fact a whole 12 months(a year) after 360 version. Epic did not do the port, it was "People Can Fly" (not bad).

Epic can do what they want as long as we get our favorite games on time and Gears 3 has dedicated servers.

@jackal

"Gears PC wasn't a shoddy port, despite a few bugs(all games have them)".

I suppose the security certificate expiration that locked legitimate players out of being able to use their software doesn't count as a problem. I suppose extremely inconsistent performance on even enthusiast class hardware (which was, at the time, the Geforce 8800 GTX) isn't a problem and that the massive nosedive the game's performance took when enabling DX10 wasn't a problem either. The keyboard controls were a bit of a mess and the less said of multiplayer the better.

I like Gears. I really do. Having said that, I'm not going to let me affinity for the series blind me to the technical flaws a specific version. I have a certain degree of tolerance for bugs; I thoroughly enjoy Crysis Warhead even though it took Crytek months to release a patch that enabled me to successfully change the game's resolution in the menu when using DX10 rather than resorting to the command line or a config. However, my tolerance ends completely when a flaw interferes with my enjoyment to a degree that I spend more time getting the software I purchased to work the way I want it to instead of actually playing it. If you think I've being overly hard on Epic, you have no idea how much venom I've spat at Rockstar for their GTA IV port.

I digress. Releasing a port with both bugs that were carried over from the console version (day one bugs that were later ironed out on the 360 version, nonetheless) and new CRIPPLING bugs, tying it to an absolutely atrocious matchmaking/DRM solution, and then releasing it with ZERO advertising outside of the blogosphere is not a good way of generating sales. By the time the PC version came out, anyone would wanted to buy Gears already did, played the hell out of it, lost interest in it, and then shelved it in order to move onto other titles. Those who did buy it received a version that, while looking slightly better than it's brother, somehow didn't play anywhere near as well. If you were to pull aside someone in a store and ask them which platform Gears of War came out on, 99% of them will say 360 only.

"Epic can do what they want as long as we get our favorite games on time" They did what they wanted with UT3 and that game sold around 2 million copies across three platforms in two years; doing what you want and doing it extremely well are two completely different things. If Epic had gotten off of its UE3 and GOW high horse and actually listened to what their fans wanted, UT3 online activity wouldn't be a fraction of the size of its predecessor and it might've actually done well.

@FredFredrickson


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