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Hi!

Is anyone else waiting for this game to come out on PC when they could be playing it on Xbox/PS3? I was converted to playing RPGs on the PC a long time ago and I would be loath to sacrifice access to the modding community for games such as GTA, Fallout, Mass Effect, Dragon Age etc. I could just play it on the 360, warts and all. Anyone else in a similar situation?

Chances are its just going to be a 360 port over to the PC, and those are never up to the same quality as a game specifically made for the PC.

With that being said, it is a really good game, and the way it is done makes it very easy to play on a console.

But the same game with mods can be a thousand times better. Imagine the same game not only with all the obvious glitches removed, not only with all the bad design decisions reversed but also with huge tracts of extra stuff you never even thought of. Dragon age and fallout3 are examples of games that were very similar to the consoles and that lacked the subtlety of pc games older by years but which were taken to the next level by the mods. That said, the top three or four most downloaded are always tit-mods. :(

Soup and a roll wrote:But the same game with mods can be a thousand times better. Imagine the same game not only with all the obvious glitches removed, not only with all the bad design decisions reversed but also with huge tracts of extra stuff you never even thought of. Dragon age and fallout3 are examples of games that were very similar to the consoles and that lacked the subtlety of pc games older by years but which were taken to the next level by the mods. That said, the top three or four most downloaded are always tit-mods. :(

That about sums up the war between consoles and PCs. Console games can't be patched (or at least it's more difficult or more expensive to do so). PC games can. Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead are huge examples of this - the PC version seems to be far superior because of sheer content available.

...and dude, you're complaining about tit-mods?

I'm not saying that I like Console gaming better PC gaming, I prefer PC gaming I find you can do more with a mouse and keyboard then you can do with even the best controller. However I am not a fan of console to PC ports, the graphic quality is never there. You can turn a PC game into a console game, but very rarely does it work well the other way.

Catyrpelius wrote:However I am not a fan of console to PC ports, the graphic quality is never there. You can turn a PC game into a console game, but very rarely does it work well the other way.

That's because Console games will generally operate at lower graphics settings than those available to a PC game. It's far easier to simply tone down the graphics and port the game to a console than it is to spend hours rendering new higher-def graphics for a console to PC port.

That said, if the -gameplay- is good enough, graphics aren't as important. If the game is little more than digital diarrhea, then top-notch graphics are really all that stand out. That's why the difference is so noticable on a lot of console-to-PC ports. Many times, they're bad games with bad graphics. Meanwhile, a game like Halo, which was slightly behind on graphics after it was finally ported, still sold huge amounts because people find the gameplay to be very well set up (please note, I'm not a "Halo R best and Master Cheef are not scared of anything!" fan, it was just an appropriate example )