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Ubisoft to Distribute RE4 For PC
Gamasutra has the word that Ubisoft will be distributing Capcom's titles for PC audiences. From the article: "The deal covers North American and European territories; no details on which company would distribute the PC games in Japan, if any, were given. The first of the three titles to hit shelves will be Onimusha 3, the oldest of the games, so presumably the deal has been in the works for some time. Still unclear is whether Capcom is porting the games to PC internally, or whether a third party is handling the console-to-PC conversions. Onimusha 3 will be released in both territories in February 2006."
If Ubi is sticking with Starforce for these releases, I'm giving up on Ubi games. I'd like to keep my CD/DVD burner intact, thankyou. /. article about Starforce disabling/damaging CD/DVD burners here:http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/3 1/1721241)
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How does StarForce protection work?
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Will PC gamers get one of those neat bloody chainsaw controllers to play with?
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no details on which company would distribute the PC games in Japan, if any, were given.
Good one, Gamasutra! Mainstream games on the PC in Japan, what a jest...
Rob
1.) Slow Sales Year
2.) Rehash console games for Windows PC's
3.) ???
4.) Profit!
This has never really worked out if history is to be trusted, but hey, give 'er hell Capcom.
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Why was this modded 'Offtopic'?
PC stands for, say it with me, "Personal Computer." There is no mention of operating system. I have two PCs at home. Only one runs Windows.
I sincerely doubt these ports will run on my Red Hat PC.
How much harder would it have been to write "Ubisoft to Distribute RE4 For Windows"?
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Personally, I'm very pleased to hear this. I spend 95% of my gaming time on a PC. Only recently have I been able to go back to consoles, but that's strictly to appease my five-year-old daughter who loves Mario Kart 64. I'm sorry, but I would rather buy a new video card (sub-$200) than plunk down twice that for a new PS2, accessories, and games. The used console market might help to swing that in the future, though.
There are a number of really cool console games that I'd love to play, but I'm not going to buy an entire console just for a single game. I wouldn't even force myself to upgrade my PC if it was just for a single game. So, to see good console games like Onimusha 3 and (drool) Resident Evil 4 being released for the PC is very welcome.
As to StarForce, Ubi is just the distributor, not the developer. I know that StarForce games like most recent Splinter Cell were developed by Ubi. They had more to lose by piracy of their games. If Capcom is the actual developer, does Ubi have any real say as distributors? Besides, after the crap that has recently happened with Sony's rootkit, I would think that fewer and fewer people would be willing to tolerate suddenly losing devices due to the StarForce protection. Ubi should tread lightly when it comes to that.
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Since when has PC gaming meant anything other than Windows?
Well, besides before the invention of windows, of course.
There's still hope. Wine is not an emulator! Besides, why do you need to play games? You use your computer to do grown up things, like read slashdot.
Marathon - Great PC game. Mac exclusive.
WoW - Playable on a Mac.
Doom 3 - Playable on Linux.
I don't think PC game means what you think it means.
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despite owning both a Gamecube and PS2. Reason? Hopefully will be able to aim with a mouse, rather than the horribly imprecise analog controllers.
I've tried to play RE4 for Gamecube, but ultimately the frustration of trying to use an oversensitive analog stick to do something that requires precision -- aiming -- made me quickly give up the game in frustration, just like most console shooter games. The precision of the mouse for aiming just can't be beat.
And yep, I know bazillions of console fanboys will jump on me and tell me I'm wrong, how aiming with the analog stick is just as good (or better) than the mouse, etc. You do know lying gives you cancer, right? Okay, I'm kidding about the lying giving you cancer. But seriously, I just don't see it. You people must have robot implants that give you superhuman precision or something. Don't think I'm anti-console either, I do own both the Cube and PS2. No games that require your robot-enhanced precision, though.
I (for one) welcome our new robot implant-enhanced overlords.
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My Claim was not a proof that could easily be dismissed by providing a few examples. It was a statement, about the general state of non-windows PC gaming. This state is currently "Goodwill driven" rather than "Profit Driven" like the state of PC gaming. Ignoring Cross-platform designed games (Not dual platform designed games, I will admit that they fall into the "Goodwill driven" category) Stuff like Flash games and the like fall into cross-platform.
I think that limiting the majority of big budget game titles to one strict operating system is a good thing, as it creates better tools based on a mostly predictable specification. Let windows handle resources, you just scale to those resources so you can concentrate on gameplay and story.
Now I could be off base, but thats my 2 cents.
Although a good game, I've been playing the pc version for about a month and I have to say they are lazy as hell when they do these ports. The characters and in-game manuals refer to playstation controls, while the config settings for the controls are on a per-action database. So there are definatly times of confusion when playing the game trying to figure out the right keys to press.
The game is fun with an x-arcade though, and it runs at insanely high resolutions and looks great on a pc, high res textures and all.
as long as they use the GameCube port as a basis. SFA2 was ported to PC, but for whatever reason they used the playstation as the basis. Had they used the arcade with every animation frame intact it would have been pretty impressive at the time.
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God, I despise when people try to compare the dollar values!!
If my PC did only games, then I would have no excuse at balking when there is the discussion of buying a console and your comparison would be complete valid. But you know very well that $$$ for consoles cannot be compared to $$$ for PCs because different people have different percieved values out of each!
My PC does a ton of other things: video editing, audio editing, web surfing, helping me to maintain my web pages, filing my tax returns, printing off coloring pages for the kids, graphics manipulation, pr0n -- whoops! -- word processing, desktop publishing, buying and selling on eBay, ripping CDs, DVD authoring, and so on and so on. The VALUE that I get out of my PC far exceeds anything that a console can do! This is why I'm pleased to hear that titles that are normally reserved for consoles are coming out for PCs. That increases my PC's value to me.
Now, conversely, if you spend more time with your console and you get more enjoyment from your console, then the value that you get out of it probably exceeds the value that you get out of your PC. In that case I would expect you to be willing to put more money into consoles than into your PC.
But until such time as people can get the SAME functions and values out of both consoles and PC so that both are on a more level playing field (no pun intended), comparing dollars between the two is blindy arrogant and worst and ludicrous at best!
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I wonder how this is going to turn out? The game has always been best on console, ever since the first release on the Sega Saturn... but for PC? In a way, I like this idea, but I really don't know. I'm just hoping they don't start putting the game on the PC with every release. That's one of the console's bragging rights -- the exclusive titles such as Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid (even though they released the orignal on PC after about three years), etc.
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Starforce is a seriously threatening piece of malware.
Whoever modded the parent as off-topic is an ignorant moron.
Want a couple of examples? I don't mind my son playing Tomb Raider, but I don't want him applying the nude patch so he can watch Lara Croft's titties bouncing around on the screen.
... and working properly at that.
And exactly how does that have anything to do with giving me examples of getting the game "to work properly"? The game is working exactly like the patch told it to work. It's not what you wanted it to do, but it is without question working
And by the way, it's called "parenting". If you give your kid a computer in a room where you can't see what he's doing *and* he has the administrative rights to modify files that you don't want him to modify, that's not the PC's fault.
Oh, and you might want to look around and read about how people are getting fed up with the cheats that are happening through XBox Live. You know, a console? One that you are implying is invulnerable to hacks because it's a console?
Sounds more like you simply took advantage of any excuse to do a bit of PC bashing.
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Windows means a lot of things too. Is the game for Windows 3.1? Windows Mobile?
It's quite likely the game won't even run on Win95 or Server 2003...
So, we can either all be pointless specific, or just leave it as what anyone interested in playing these ports will understand it to mean.
And DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE claim to be interested in playing them if you don't have a windows PC. Not having a windows gaming PC means you aren't interested enough, and there's nothing stopping you dual booting.
Article showing the hidden cd drivers installed and describes the "protection" method.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30/anticopying_
I'm use a console to read Slashdot., you insensitive clod :-)
Truly.
And that's a good thing :-)
I can't play games on my PC. Sitting down in front of it immediately puts me into work mode...
The Cube is cheap, less then 99 bucks, starts up in a few seconds, needs no installation, has no problem with stupid copy protection destroying your drives, will still work with your games in 5 or 10 years. Try playing a 10 years old game on your current PC :-)
I have a Windows PC. I just don't like the current thought that "if it's a PC, it must run Windows" because that's simply not true.
I admit, there is little gaming on Linux, but I'm sure there are gamers out there that use a Mac primarily.
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