Mass Effect Docks With PCs This May

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  Well AC never was, but Gears, now this, then I suppose Halo 3 will be next... : Magus
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    Halo 3 in 4+ years, on whatever OS Microsoft releases then. but.. but.. but.... Dx11! : vertdang
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      That's what people said about Mass Effect, though. : Magus
      • true, but that's EXACTLY what happened w/ Halo2 : vertdang
• Sorry what? Assasin's Creed is on the PS3. Also "exclusive" refers to the release window anyway. Technica... : avatar_58
• I don't really think exclusivity applies much to PCs, really. Exclusivity is just a way for MS, Sony, an... : David Craddock
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  Why do people hate having options? : Pneum0
  • E-Penis. : terath
• Exclusives usually are framed around being on a single console and usually don't relate to PC versions. F... : Derek French
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  It may be coming to PC, but have you seen the specs? I might as well not come to PC; you won't be able to... : rustified
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    it being AC, : rustified
    • Ah, sorry, thought you were talking MEPC. : Derek French
  • We haven't announced the system specs for Mass Effect for the PC yet. I can say that it will run under Wi... : Derek French
• welcome to the world where exclusive means a few months with the exception being Sony's titles. : nutcrackr
• Glad I bought a PS3, don't really have a reason to buy an Xbox with all these games coming to PC. : cycopl
• Most of Bioware's xbox games found their way to the PC sooner or later (kotor, jade empire), but I gotta ... : lausai
• lol "exclusive" is just not a good thing to do anymore. : Lukiopimp

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  I wish EA would just accept that steam is better than anything they will come up with and bite the bullet... : avatar_58
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    I don't mind that much - I think that Stardock as a good program for digital distribution. I've not used ... : Jonathan
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      i'd rather a steam monopoly than exclusives. having 2 or 3 different clients to run to play different ga... : dantastic
      • Yeah as much as I bitch about 2K and their wait until the very last minute to confirm a game for steam th... : Jonathan
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    I think it's only a matter of time - EA is partners with Valve on their B&M publishing, so it's a logical... : Schnapple
    • Which will probably happen, though I don't think it will ever fully seperate from Valve. I mean Valve mak... : avatar_58
    • Sadly, you're probably wrong. EA will go to great lengths to control the technology. Given how many times... : node
    • EA & MS publish/distribute other companies' games, I don't see why developers view Valve owning Steam as ... : yAak
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    EA will never sign with Steam as long as Valve runs it. One of the reasons is that Valve, a producer o... : qsylvr
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      That makes a lot of sense, as far as EA is concerned. However, for an "independent" developer looking for... : yAak
      • EA Partners is supposed to be great to the teams that they work with. But they only do big games that wi... : qsylvr
    • :( : Mondo
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  I'll just buy the box. : razlebol
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    Yeah, everyone seems to want things on Steam these days, but personally I prefer the much shorter install... : Kazomir
    • ya.. that 1 time install is SO much better... makes it so worth it, although you have to swap DVD's mult... : ShadowRam
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    Yup, me also. I might even wait until it goes from super ridiculous Australian game price to moderately p... : five_percent
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      Why pay so much more just for a box? Straight out of the gate Steam is $30 cheaper. : aeg1x
      • Steam is cheaper? I live in the UK like, but Steam has always been about £3-4 cheaper than a box ... : Master Tonberry
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  I don't understand why EA don't use Steam as well as EA Downloader, sure they get less money over their d... : nutcrackr
  • When you say "profit goes to one of there devs" you are mistaken. Valve has nothing to do with EA. EA... : qsylvr

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  Hahahahaha, you so funny. : Fred Garvin
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    The problem is most rpgs are huge time sinks. While most can get away with hogging the computer for days ... : baron calamity
    • while I agree with your comment about rpgs on a PC, for most people the couch/computer chair thing is the... : Old_Fart
    • That's you and people with kids. We don't have kids and I have no problem getting screen time on the TV. ... : Fred Garvin
    • You feel MORE comfortable sitting 2ft from an LCD in a chair with your wrist all wrapped around a keyboar... : IHATEDUST

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  what, don't you have the internet? the pr0n clogs the tubes, you know. : vertdang
  • I think most here would disagree with calling it a "clog." : Tawler
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  Finally I get to punch a woman in a game. That's fucking hardcore evil right there. : Kazomir
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    Never played a Grand Theft Auto game I take it? : MH Knights
    • Pick up hooker, drive to alley, rock car and pay her. Then, kick the hoe out, run her over, and steal yo... : IHATEDUST

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  Yeah I think this just killed any interest I had in the DLC. : Jonathan
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    Was there any seriously planned DLC? Its been a while and I've seen no word.... : MacemanInTW
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      Then you haven't been paying particularly good attention. : Gnerma
      • Well, I have been a bit out of the loop. Guess I should look into it. : MacemanInTW
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        One of the downsides to not really looking into much gaming related media other than the shack. Sometime... : MacemanInTW
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          It was covered on the Shack... : Jonathan
          • Ahh, found it. No wonder I didn't see it... I was on vacation till yesterday. :) Looks interesting : MacemanInTW

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• play faster : ezanga
• I feel your pain. I have a massive backlog of games since approximately 2000 maybe longer. Its gone beyon... : samduhman

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  DirectX 9 right now. Windows XP and Vista. : Derek French
  • ossum! : Function Pointer
  • thank you : Old_Fart

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  Bioware generally does a great job with their PC ports. Jade Empire(PC) and KotOR(PC) both turned out ama... : f4lln
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    oblivion was pretty good :\ : dantastic
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      Huh? Oblivion is Bethesda. : doc.solo
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        His point remains! : David Craddock
        • Not really, since it was developed on the PC from the beginning. : Vincent Grayson
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      Oblivion was crap on the PC till the mod community got a hold of it. Made that cludgy, consolized interfa... : carbontree
      • I actually preferred the default interface. My gaming PC is connected to my TV so the big text was perfec... : terath
      • It was more than fine on PC. They made it better though. : razlebol
      • Oblivion's interface wasn't crap because of consoles, they just don't have good UI design (the same was t... : derelict515
    • Oblivion doesn't really count since it was developed for both PC and 360 at the same time. Of course, Mas... : Schnapple
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  Not really, but I'm sure you've had bad experiences in order to believe this. : Sylvanus
  • Yeah, I never really had much trouble with 360-PC ports, now, when you had PS2-PC mods... : Autocrawler
  • I agree I have rarely seen poor "ports", the Xbox 360 is just a PC for all intensive purposes most Xbox 3... : orangesq
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  just buy a 360 already : Enigme
  • ...and ask for a coffin when you do. : Pneum0
• I highly doubt this is a "port". It was likely developed alongside the 360 version, with a freeze a few m... : Gnerma
• 90% of statistics used in internet forums are anally extracted. : Magus
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  The KOTOR port was rather good. : deject
  • I agree! : Mondo

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  Microsoft EA : Maarten Goldstein
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    Is it official then that EA will publish Mass Effect from now on? I missed that one. : Jonathan
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      yes, i mentioned that in the last paragraph : Maarten Goldstein
      • Ah my reading fails me again. : Jonathan
• Unless it becomes commonplace for the exclusive window to be so short, so that people can predict that th... : nudel
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  Yeah, having close to 2 million in sales must really suck. I have a feeling that this is being done to re... : Fred Garvin
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    The point I was making is that of those two million, there's going to be a reasonable, maybe even a large... : Jonathan
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      I doubt it. There's probably plenty of people who would've liked to get the PC version but didn't want to... : derelict515
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        It's the "didn't want to wait for it" market I'm referring to. 6-7 Months isn't that long to hold out for... : Jonathan
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          Its a long time if you already own a 360 and you want to play the game. Plus achievements are an incentiv... : derelict515
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            Achievements might also be on the PC version though. We also don't know if future mass effect games will ... : razlebol
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              Well if it's supposed to be a trilogy, I think we can count on the next two making it to PC. If they didn... : Kazomir
              • ah i misread. we can count on it eventually : Kazomir
            • I think we all know 360 achievements are much more alluring than game specific or Steam ones. WIthout the... : derelict515
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      The texture popping was Bios fault. They loaded the scenes too soon. I am sure it was a decision made bec... : Fred Garvin
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        I understand that... I'm assuming they'll still face that issue with the next Mass Effect. : Jonathan
        • Or they'll get better and also use the latest UE3 code. : Fred Garvin
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  I was going to hold out for the PC version but got the x360 one instead since KotOR took so long compared... : ttyRazor
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    KotOR Xbox and KotOR PC were released 4 months apart. : Derek French
    • Oh the time! I think he meant Jade Empire. : Jonathan
• I don't think there are many true exlcusives left nowadays. "Exclusive" just means that systems gets it ... : Gwyndion

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• Yeah that, plus better grafix. Just sell your x360 copy if you aren't gonna get to it in a month or two. : 69gooch69
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  I'm in the same boat. I'm a huge Mass Effect fan, and have played it through twice on the 360 so far. My ... : thetangent
  • I already have it on the 360 but haven't gotten around to playing it yet... but I think I'd still rather ... : Gwyndion

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  framerate and texture drawing issues : dantastic
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    framerate never bothered me and texture pop-in wasn't much of a issue (I think it's worse for some people... : OrkO
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      Not really sure what you mean, by "sub-par dvd drives" as i don't keep up with the latest in the 360 hard... : f4lln
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        poor dvd drive performance probably would have no effect on the framerate at all, think he's referring to... : pyide
        • A Bioware dev actually said once on Mass Effect forums they don't use the Xbox HD at all for caching whic... : orangesq
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          Well the texture pop-in is a UE3 issue. Do other UE3 games on the PC have this problem? That will probabl... : Evil Benius
          • On my compy Bioshock, GoW, R6: Vegas and RoboBlitz all ran smooth as buttered silk - and it's not the fas... : jreid
          • I noticed it on Unreal Tournament 3 on PC. When the map first loads you have to wait a second for all of ... : kodt
• Finished the game and never noticed the framerate issues. Maybe it's because I didn't have a biotics heav... : Porkasaurus

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• I was pretty sure they'd bring it over like their past games, but I have to admit there was a sliver of d... : Dr_Tran

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• I'm in the same boat (minus the wii) all good 360 games come to the PC anyway so I dont' worry about it! : baronzemo78

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  The complaints about crappy driving sections, combat difficulty spikes and boring sidequests/planets didn... : nudel
  • all those plus the terrible AI for your squad and enemies. i'd say most of the complaints have nothin... : pyide

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  Unreal 3 engine. If you can play any other game of that engine, it should probably be fine. : razlebol
  • Unreal Engine 3 you mean, there was no Unreal 3. (yes, I'm a semantics jerk) : Schnapple

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• Pipedream : Sailor of Fortune

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• My thoughts too! Too bad we won't see this on Steam probably, however. : Autocrawler

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• and that the rest of the trilogy is ensured! : dantastic

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• it's an awesome game. i think i'm getting close to the end with 40hrs clocked in. probably have at the ... : dantastic