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I really dislike the pricing on the Extended edition. £15 for the theatrical release on Blu-Ray or £55 for the Extended. It is not £40 longer. (also I hear the extras are on DVD/DVD quality so not like they're worth the £40 extra much anyway). The WETA stuff would be a nice bonus, but I'd gladly pick up a £20-£25 extended edition missing that if it'll knock the price down.

No it's kind of new to me. I know a fair few of the supporting cast are based on IRL people, never crossed my mind that the customisable character would be built off someone too. Just seemed a tad pointless imo.

As the comments said that lass is going to get annoying.

So what you're saying is that it's only a 7/10?

PS3 = 50million 360 = 55 million Wii = 86 million. Steam alone has 30million+ users(this figure is from a while ago though, wouldn't be surprised if it's getting close to 40million given it's rate of growth) (oh and that's active accounts). And not everyone on PC is on Steam. If PC is considered niche then where does PS3 and 360 stack up to the Wii? Minecraft alone has 10million users and 2.6million sold. WoW has 11(12?)million active users. I think Black Ops is the only current-gen game to top that. The audience and market size for PC is hardly small. I think one of the main reasons for decreased sales and such is that PC games are pretty damn diverse. You can look at the top 10 on 360 and apart from Kinect Adventures (bundled), Fable III and GTAIV(ish) they're all shooters. You'll probably find that the people with Halo also have Gears and COD too. Whereas on PC people don't tend to hop around so much. If you've got WoW you're not so likely to have a ton of other MMOs. Or with FPS titles you tend to find a nice community and hole up there. Dedicated servers kind of reward that. (PS3 does kind of throw a spanner in this with mainly racers with a dash of FFXIII amongst the shooters, though it's sales are lower across the board to 360's shooters, so maybe not too big a spanner). AAA sales of PC titles are lower. (few exceptions to the rule) But I'd wager the sales of indies and the lower priced £20($30) or so games are higher than the console counterparts. If you are going to buy a game and you have the option of one for $50 or one for $25, both providing dozens of hours of play, the cheaper one probably having a better suited PC experience too, then which are you going to pick up? (oh and PC sales I'd wager have a much longer tail. CS:S has been floating around the Top 10 marker for 7 years. Console games however tend to have a 2 week window of high sales then relatively nothing after that) edit: @Yante: Not really. Most retailers don't really stock PC games. Most of them tend to mainly stock Sims and WoW (which WoW has no sales numbers) if they do. And the Digital dudes tend to keep their sales figures locked up like Fort Knox. And I didn't say the manual (note digital games = no manual) the tutorial. The in-game one. Last Remnant has 360 controls defaulted from get go, but there was something I was playing a few weeks back that had 360 controls everywhere for instructions so you're just having to mash around to work out what goes with what. Dedicated servers are better. It's pretty much a fact. So yeah we'd be pissed if they leave them out. And mega fucking pissed if they then close down their MP. Mod support is mainly on games with engines that should support it. When I first got Mass Effect I was kind of expecting to be able to go and grab a few mods. Not really the case. Batman AA oddly had limited mod support of sorts in the Demo/beta(one of the two) where you could make custom skins but when the full game hit you were stuck with Batman. Which that mega stings cos the demo/beta showed it was possible. Mods, dedicated servers etc are a long time staple of PC gaming. It would be like if next gen you could only use one controller, so no more local play or something.

Yeah it's pretty sweet. Shame on only having two maps and the fair amount of bugs (for one round we all got kicked for T/King, then on another I couldn't pick up anything (triangle) I do like the buddy system though, and the "taunts" you get to do with that. The customisation stuff they've added in seems to be to both keep people on more and to make it a tad more personal. I like that the maps are a bit more cinematic, opening sequences n such. I don't get the treasure and medal thingy on death though and how much that affects the game.

Well then that's not really an issue with PC gaming, just a particular taste you have. I think most would call it a plus of PC gaming that a single machine can do the job of a dozen consoles.

Basing of VGchartz, which are regularly missing huge amounts of PC data to the point that most PC version apparently don't sell a single copy, is a bit silly It's not crappy, it's lazy. My point was they don't have to make sure it's up to snuff because there's not MS/Sony/Nintendo equivalent there to make sure it is. If the PCGA was worth a damn they'd have some kind of Gold Seal scheme in place where PC titles have to hit a certain amount of criteria and you can get your stamp of approval. Then the gamer knows it's up to snuff and things like press start, instructions given using 360 buttons, or a lack of customisability are absent. If a console title came out with the tutorial giving kb/m controls it wouldn't go down well. I'm sure the people who couldn't play their Ubisoft games while PSN was down won't have been happy.

Anyone up for some in 20-50 minutes?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/28/flora-davis-cat-fur-jewellery

Since I just did it in the Half Life thread, and since I only found out about this the other day: I present Mark Vanderloo, Model. Here's a better shot:

Am I doing it right?

I get more "Yorkshire" sounding when I got off for more than a day at a time to my parents.

I just read "not much happens in July" as "not much games come out to fill our backlog up"

I like my body unmutated thank you

The first Crysis was pretty unoptimized, even admitted by Crytek. Hence Warhead and the Cry Engine 2.5 it runs on. It's still generally highly regarded for it's visuals and such. Crysis 2 was pretty heavily consolized too. Another thing that Crytek have admitted too, and admitted it didn't quite work out for them. (Also you yourself have said that the DX11 patch doesn't run too well) I don't really see what's wrong with wanting a game that actually runs at the recommended specs or isn't littered with signs of a crappy console port. It's a very "put up and shut up" attitude. "like what your given" etc. I don't see why it should have to be that way. The "Press Start" on Crysis 2 was admitted to being due to the fact that the console manufacturers would kill you if you submit a game to QA and it has "Press Enter". Which pretty much reads as "we don't make sure to polish up a game to the standards of the PC platform, because there's no Sony/MS equivalent telling us we have to" It's the way of PC gaming that anyone who can do basic coding can put out a game. But that also means that even AAA studios can shit out a port with no one to answer to. Console gamers have MS, Sony and Nintendo bitching for them on their behalf, PC gamers have to do it for ourselves.

Aha! it's back up. Excellent news.

Oh if we're talking old engines don't forget Modern Warfare 3 is still using the original Modern Warfare IW Engine*. And most games still running on Unreal Engine 3 and that's as old as Source. (of course what you're missing with Source and Unreal is that they are upgraded. Unreal just had the recent "Samaritan" upgrade and Source to Source 2011 with the release of Portal 2. You may notice that when Portal 2 came out that regardless of owning the game your other Source engine games updated too. They had a new one with Orange Box and L4D too) Still a new engine would be nice and it has been hinted at. *which itself is built off the id Tech 3 engine which powered the older COD games, Quake III and a bunch of other earl 2000's games. id Tech 4 came out in '04, 3 years before Modern Warfare. IW engine is trash.

http://board.pressxordie.com/topic/24-game-news/

Since when do the ESRB and EMA have Shareholders? And since when do they make they make much money? Even if we were to go under the assumption that the current prices of rating a game have been consistent and all games rated were AAA then over it's 17 year history the ESRB would still have only made $80million tops. It's not exactly a massive money spinner, especially when you take into account not every game is a AAA title going for the full rating fee. The $80million is the theoretical maximum. This will end up wildly off topic but: And the companies just govern themselves? (I don't even know why I put a question mark on it)

You replying to me or Battra?

http://board.pressxordie.com/topic/534-fucking-kotaku/page__st__620__p__55598#entry55598

You know what bugs me about console gaming? When you need to keep around the old console to play the games. I can just install a few dozen emulators on a PC and run stuff from the 70's to now. I just don't have room or the desire to keep a NES or PS2 around just so I can play old games. I'm sure it's becoming more and more of an issue, and it's definitely something about console gaming that's an issue. It's also one of the reasons new generations piss me of because someday you won't be able to get hold of any of these consoles when they break. I'm so sorry but that's such an easy one to turn around. Currently there are only 4 consoles sold of the several dozen that have come out in the past few decades. You can hunt around and pick up some used, though maybe not always in working order. The games are even hard er to come by. And once they break you're screwed. It's always one of the biggest failings I think of the games industry and the one thing that the games industry should want to be matching the film industry to and that's just how long you can get hold of old classics. Picking up films from 1985 is easy, but games from that period are a bit of a pain. The online stores are helping a little bit but still not much. Also the DRM isn't much of an issue if you pirate it

Well I have my Backlog: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2066351/Documents/Backlog.txt My main aim is to do FFXIII (though currently not in my possession), Witcher 2, Witcher 1, Bioshock 2, and Last Remnant. Of course the issue is to not be playing MAG n Civ V as much