MILO1985 on 14/11/2010 at 05:16
Hey guys,
Just wondering will Thi4f be a PC exclusive like the first two games, or one of those games they make for consoles with 3d person view?
ZylonBane on 14/11/2010 at 05:31
Of course not.
lost_soul on 14/11/2010 at 19:00
Not to be rude, but... This is 2010. Almost nobody makes PC exclusive games anymore. The only exceptions to this rule are the indie developers like Frictional games and the small-budget point-and-click game developers.
I'm just hoping that it at least feels like a PC game. Think: not requiring quad-core and a top-end video card to get comparable performance to a console from 2005.
Dia on 15/11/2010 at 01:24
Wasn't it implied in one of the earlier articles about T4 that it would be released for both Xbox & PC? Or am I halucinating again? (Damn 'shrooms & those flashbacks!)
fett on 15/11/2010 at 02:53
What games are made just for PC these days? Company of Heroes, Stalker, Crysis, Penumbra, the Battlefield games? What am I forgetting (that's significant)?
Ungoliant on 15/11/2010 at 03:11
Starcraft II?
Ostriig on 15/11/2010 at 15:02
Quote Posted by fett
What games are made just for PC these days? Company of Heroes, Stalker, Crysis, Penumbra, the Battlefield games? What am I forgetting (that's significant)?
The next iterations of (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132983) STALKER and (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis_2) Crysis will be be multi-platform, and (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123325&p=2017363&viewfull=1#post2017363) Frictional are as well considering deploying their next game on consoles too.
As for Company of Heroes and Starcraft, I don't think they really apply to the debate here since strategy games, as far as I can tell at least, don't seem to have picked up as a major market on consoles, it's not an instance of developers choosing to deploy exclusively on PC for controls quality and features considerations.
Fafhrd on 17/11/2010 at 02:45
And Battlefield has been on console since the first Bad Company (and BF:1943 has thus far ONLY been on console). Only the free-to-play versions are going to be PC exclusive from here on in.
Stan_The_Thief on 19/11/2010 at 00:55
For a Thief game, cross-platform usually means unholy bullshet. At least historically that's been the case. (Unless, of course, they make a proper Thief game for the PC and then dumb it down for console. Which is not at all how they go about it.)
lost_soul on 19/11/2010 at 04:58
I have never seen a cross-platform game that can blow my mind. You always have to play to the lowest common denominator. If that means you only get 256 megs of ram for your levels, then so be it. If that means the GPU can only do 512x512 textures, then that's too bad.
I'm no rocket scientist, but it should be possible to create higher resolution assets and textures for the superior platform and then blur them for the console versions. Likewise with the levels, can't you just merge two small levels into one big one?
